Top 100 And Wise Sayings
#1. the people grew tired of this little gossip. Fathers looked at their children and thought: "They are not learning much. What will make them brave and wise? What will teach them to love their country and old Norway? Will not the stories of battles, of brave deeds, of mighty men, do this?
Jennie Hall
#2. He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race.
Alice Hoffman
#3. It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
Robert Burns
#4. The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Clarence Day
#5. Phillip hardened his grip on Totka's. "For all our manipulations, God always manages to get His way."
"A beautiful woman once told me our Jesus Creator is a good and wise chief, worthy of obedience without question. His plan is perfect. Wait, and you will see.
April W. Gardner
#6. It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.
Frank Herbert
#7. The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle
#8. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.
John Of Kronstadt
#9. In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
Benjamin Franklin
#10. I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
George Grosz
#11. I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.
Byron Katie
#12. They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
[Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte.
Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]
Torquato Tasso
#13. Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Francis Bacon
#14. Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.
Confucius
#15. Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
Winston Churchill
#16. I think the American people are sophisticated enough and wise enough to make judgments about the candidates and wade through the charges and countercharges that come with the election 2004 campaign.
Colin Powell
#17. I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.
Jim Crace
#18. Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
Isaac Newton
#19. 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.
Plato
#20. That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
Solomon Burke
#21. Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.
Anne Lamott
#22. A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.
J.D. Robb
#24. His face looked shrewd and wise, as if he knew many things, many of them not worth knowing.
E.B. White
#25. I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.
Richard Gere
#26. I've learned things from the sheep, and I've learned things from crystal, he thought. I can learn something from the desert, too. It seems old and wise
Anonymous
#27. The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
William Henry Chase
#28. This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
Omar Sharif
#29. We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.
Emile Coue
#30. If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.
Gretchen Rubin
#32. Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.
Hesiod
#33. If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
Alice Walker
#35. He used to think that he wanted to be goos, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#36. A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.
Michael Bassey
#37. The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management for the long term. It is only these firm foundations that we can raise Britain's underlying economic performance.
Gordon Brown
#38. It is sometimes braver to run. She who runs from her enemies until she has the strength to do otherwise is both brave and wise.
Frank Beddor
#39. When we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth. But when we become old and wise, we become willing to sacrifice every bit of our wealth for just a day of good health.
Robin S. Sharma
#40. I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.
Roger Zelazny
#41. First of all, nobody can be innocent and wise at the same time. That's another one of those impossible combinations.
Amy Schumer
#42. Leverage is a term that makes us sound very sophisticated and wise when we use it. Let's analyze what it really means.
Celso Cukierkorn
#43. I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#44. Alright, listen up. I'm supposed to give you some fatherly and wise advice at this time in your life. Listen up, if you're wondering if a boy's thinking about you, he's not. He's thinking about sex, or he's hungry: those are the only two options.
Eric Taylor
#45. Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
Lydia M. Child
#46. Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
Chogyam Trungpa
#48. Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.
Sean Wilsey
#49. He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.
Andrew Peterson
#50. Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.
Henry Ward Beecher
#51. Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.
Edna O'Brien
#52. It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
Gottfried Leibniz
#53. We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato
#54. He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed ...
T.E. Lawrence
#55. Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#56. The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.
Isaac D'Israeli
#57. The good and wise lead quite lives
Euripides
#58. The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.
Hannah Woolley
#59. It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
Luc De Clapiers
#60. A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
Gautama Buddha
#61. You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.
Michael Ende
#62. One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.
Deborah Moggach
#63. I want to be good for the world - pure and true and wise and somehow saintly, somehow illuminated. I want to have experienced something that has changed me, and so I act changed.
Hilary T. Smith
#64. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor
#65. What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.
Nora Roberts
#66. This is for those of you who have made mistakes, and who are brave enough to correct them, and wise enough to learn from them.
P.C. Cast
#67. By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don't look shocked - I wasn't the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T'Pau as my walk-on music.
Miranda Hart
#68. Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.
N. T. Wright
#69. The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!
Matthew Arnold
#70. If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
James G. Frazer
#71. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring for them in a flexible and wise way. In meditation, we pay attention to our body with care and respect.
Jack Kornfield
#72. Archer has arrows to shoot; Sun has lights to shoot and Wise Man has thoughts to shoot!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce
#74. Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
Charles Baudelaire
#75. Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.
Ludacris
#76. To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake ...
Jean-Paul Marat
#77. Questions upon points wherein Scripture is silent; upon mysteries which belong to God alone; upon prophecies of doubtful interpretation; and upon mere modes of observing human ceremonials, are all foolish, and wise men avoid them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#78. There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.
Deb Caletti
#79. Boys don't always make the right decisions. It takes years before they become men and wise up.
Abbi Glines
#80. He had the eyes of a man that had seen things. Eyes that were soulful and wise, yet vibrant and sultry. Eyes that made me want to run away, yet urged me to stay.
S.L. Jennings
#81. And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.
Abraham Lincoln
#82. Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.
Richard Bowes
#83. The good and wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides
#84. Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.
Nawang Khechog
#85. I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.
Steven Strogatz
#86. If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
The one's for use, the other useth it.
William Shakespeare
#87. She asked me when I had started feeling a need to grant people's wishes, and whether I felt a desperate need to please. She asked about my mother, and I told her that she could not judge me as she would judge mortals, for I was a djinn, powerful and wise, magical and mysterious.
Neil Gaiman
#88. Stupid king sees himself as a giant, wise man sees himself as a dwarf, because stupid king's universe is his little golden throne and wise man's golden throne is this whole universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
#90. By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
Santosh Kalwar
#91. Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which if held before the eyes
Gave him counsel at a glance
Fit for every change and chance.
Solemn words, and these are they:
"Even this shall pass away."
Theodore Tilton
#92. Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity
Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.
Mark Twain
#93. Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise - which showed how young she was.
L.M. Montgomery
#94. A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. A man shall not boast of his keenness of mind, But keep it close in his breast; To the silent and wise does ill come seldom
Anonymous
#97. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. The river was beautiful and wise. There were the two of them being happy in a new way. For here, there was no man, no woman, no master, no yellow, no black, no white. We, we who were, we are the same no longer.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#100. When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
Monica Crowley
