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Quotes About Wise

he had decided to record with the pint-sized but perfectly formed Scottish belter, Lulu. Lulu had been seriously hitless for more than a wee while (in fact, since 1969, when she was advocating the joys of 'Boom Bang-A-Bang'), and her career had slipped into the variety twilight zone of guest slots on the Morecambe and Wise Show and suchlike.
~ David Buckley
God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
~ John Wilmot
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
~ George Washington
God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
~ David Hume
Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Trust in God, the only wise God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.
~ Natalie Dormer
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
~ R. H. Tawney
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
~ William Wordsworth
I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
~ James Gibbons
Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?
~ George Carlin
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
~ Sam Levenson
Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.
~ Stefan Emunds
Always along the way we have been able to meet the challenge of unfamiliar situations with confidence and the wise and patient guidance of parents and teachers,
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
Every reporter who sets off across the borders of class and culture should find such kind, candid, and wise guides.
~ Jason DeParle
Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear. Otherwise you will be wise historically, a fool in practice.
~ Edmund Burke
And it was the part of a wise man to forget inevitable calamities of human life in the enjoyment of the fleeting hour.
~ Edward Gibbon
Wolf most decidedly was not a show dog. Handsome and wise and fearless he was. But none of those things count in a dog show.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.
~ Alethea Kontis
You've got me hypnotized. I'm certainly mesmerized. I thought I was wise; Till I gazed in your beautiful eyes.
~ Alex Flinn Bewitching
I love her fairy-wise mind.
~ Alexander Blok
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
~ Alexander Pope
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refin'd to please;With too much spirit to be e'er at ease;With too much quickness ever to be taught;With too much thinking to have common thought.You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live.
~ Alexander Pope
I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.
~ John Corabi