Wise Man Once Said Quotes - Page 13

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

  Mike Brady

  Wise, Men, Said

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• Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

  Abu Dawood

  Wisdom, Religious, Peace

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• A friend to all is a friend to none.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Wisdom

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• Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

  Isocrates

  Freedom, Equality, Rights

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• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

  Michael Jackson

  Wise, Men, Said

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• If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

  John E. Lewis

  Inspirational, Motivation, Transformation

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• A company is known by the people it keeps.

  Will Rogers

  People, Funny Business, Company

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

  Lee Child

  Wise, Fighting, Men

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• Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Travel, Memories

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• A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Wise, Party, Men

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• 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

  Wise, Men, Long

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• The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

  Michael Lewis

  Wise, Men, Said

  Michael Lewis (2010). “Liar's Poker”, p.93, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

  Michael Stipe

  Wise, Party, Men

  "Mike Mills on why R.E.M. are calling it quits" by David Fricke, www.cnn.com. September 26, 2011.

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

  Halldór Laxness

  Wise, Mother, Children

  "The Fish Can Sing". Book by Halldór Laxness, transl. by Magnus Magnusson, 2008.

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• 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

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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