Quotes About Wise

He had insinuated himself into Nina's life in a gentle, measured way, through small gifts and intelligent, respectful notes. His attention was never overbearing, nor disturbingly selfless, but wise and reserved.

Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious, Thy great Name we praise.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

I still have an overwhelming wish to see him the way that I first saw him: as the wise old man who appeared to me out of nowhere on a desolate strip of road, with a bewitching offer to make all my dreams come true.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

He said, 'I take your for granted as much as it is prudent for any person to do so. I trust you as far as is sensible. I enjoy your company as far as it is allowable. I will banter with you and expect you to banter with me just so far and no further. I have confided in you, by accident, more than was wise but probably not enough to make any difference. I shall not do it again.

Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them.

But me, I am old-fashioned. I use the old methods. I work only with the little grey cells.

and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

**(C)(P)- EVIL MEN GET MORE UGLY WITH AGE, WHILE WOMEN WHO ARE EVIL GET MORE TACTFUL, CUNNING, DEMURE,STUNNINGLY SOPHISTICATED, PRETTIER, AND WISE. WHO CAN DENY? JUST LOOK AROUND YOU.

I'm a Capricorn.

I'm careful with money.

I'm very careful with my money.

She didn't look hard, but she looked as if she had heard all the answers and remembered the ones she thought she might be able to use sometime.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.