Wise Quotes - Page 36

• Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

  Mary Astell

  Fit, Enough, Form

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

  Theodore White

  Men, Democracy, President

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• Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Horse, Writing, Men

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1868). “The Canterbury Tales: To Which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Together with Notes and a Glossary, in three volumes”, p.81

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• To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

  Alec Waugh

  Men, Ideas, Heaven

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• The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

  Sean O'Casey

  Gay, Men, Way To Live

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• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  Adam Clarke

  Men, Promise, Holiness

  Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.48

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• I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

  Gregory Corso

  Hair, White, Age

  Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday”

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• One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.

  Israel Shenker

  Wisdom, Children, Men

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

  Vaclav Havel

  Confusing, Language, Nonsensical

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• Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Men, Enemy, Greater

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• The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.

  Shang Yang

  Stupid, Long Ago, Understanding

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• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  Quintus Ennius

  Helping, Being Wise

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• I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

  John Malkovich

  Hate, Film, Failing

  "Malkovich: I don't always play the bad guy". Interview with Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2010.

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• Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

  James Alan Gardner

  Beautiful, Strong, Clever

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• It does not always help to analyze and think about problems with your rational mind. Sometimes it is far more effective to turn to your inner self, to ask the universe for help. Simply sit quietly. Take a few deep breaths and focus your awareness within. Ask your wise inner self, either silently or aloud, for guidance or help in understanding the message. As you get a sense of what feels right, act on this feeling.

  Shakti Gawain

  Thinking, Self, Focus

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• While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Views, People, Judging

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• No Matter what you do there will be critics.

  Woody Allen

  Matter, No Matter What, Critics

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• There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Suffering, Dignity

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• Never write a letter while you are angry.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Writing, Letters, Angry

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• May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Dream, Past, Reality

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• Genealogists live in the past lane.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Past, Lanes

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• I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Past, Thinking, Honor

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• A road to a friend's house is never long.

  Ann Richards

  Friendship, Long, House

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• Count your age with friends but not with years.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Years, Age

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