Wise Quotes

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
Stockwell Day

Government, Society, Legal

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
George Mason

Life, Happiness, Away

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.
Tim Robbins

Long, Idea, Growth

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Single, Few, Action

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Alcuin

Men, Fools, Propose

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.
Guy Pearce

Wish, Getting, While

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti

Ignorance, Begins, Depth

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Walter Savage Landor

Power, Same, Become

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D'Israeli

Experience, Wisdom, May

My mother was a very wise and strong person.
Jennifer Hudson

Mother, Strong, Person

He that is rich is wise.
Daniel Defoe

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.
George C. Williams

Good, God, Powerful

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Men, May, Earth

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
George Grenville

Government, Knows, Temper

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.
Jonah Hill

Love, Time, Important

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
Albert Brooks

Life, Marriage, Person

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes

Life, Same, Though

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
Mary Astell

Love, Women, Enough

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Leon Kass

May, Enough, Talking

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
Andrew Johnson

Single, Interest, Nor

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin

Food, Saying, Less

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
Bai Ling

Sad, Crazy, Living

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Edward Everett Hale

Great, Anger, Fire

People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
Nancy Reagan

Time, God, Saying

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Give, Questions, Answers

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
George Byron

Laughter, Nothing, Confound

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
Todd Gitlin

Patriotism, Able, Since

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

Work, Good, May

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Money, Said, Write

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson

Forward, Old, Growing

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