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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.
The wise Jewish Israeli must work with the moderate Muslim and the Christian leader of the free world against the crazy Muslims.
Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.
A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.
Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.
Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!
It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.
You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore.
He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.
If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.
If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.
When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.