A Wise Man Once Said Nothing At All Who Quotes

#1. The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.

Michael Lewis

#2. Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.

Arun Gandhi

#3. For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

Isaac Asimov

#4. I remeber asking a wise man, once ... 'Why do Men fear the dark?' ... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things
all things!
but only so long as it remains invisible.

R. Scott Bakker

#5. A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

John Charles Polanyi

#6. A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like

Daniel Gottlieb

#7. A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.

K.J. Parker

#8. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!

Tanya Masse

#9. A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.

Daina Chaviano

#10. The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.

Lee Child

#11. A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

Halldor Laxness

#12. Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Tragedies can contain some of life's greatest rewards and valuable lessons. Struggle makes you stronger. Pain makes you alert. Clouds bring forth the rain. As a wise man once said, 'You seek problems because you need their gifts.' Why would you rob someone of these benefits?

Brownell Landrum

#14. As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

Mike Brady

#15. A wise man once said that a person is known by
the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
at the strategic decision making level.

Anuj

#16. A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God's sake, don't be boring !

Cameron Jace

#17. Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. A wise man once said the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he was someone else ...

Cameron Jace

#19. A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.

Cameron Jace

#20. A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,'

Michael Stipe

#21. Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said.

Eddie Lenihan

#22. A wise man (or the first comedian in history) once said, "If you wish to make God laugh, tell him your plans." This is why during praying, I occasionally slip in my business plans. If there were an internet of somekind in heaven, my story would've been forwarded to everyone even before lunch break.

Isman H. Suryaman

#23. A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once.

Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson

#24. A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

Frank Zappa

#25. Love is not control, Logan. Love is partnership. Friendship. A wise man once said, 'If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Jessica Clare

#26. We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.

Mario Draghi

#27. You know, it's amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. The wise man once said invest young

Warren Buffett

#29. As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."

Al Yankovic

#30. A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.

Jonathan Maberry