Diogenes Quotes
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Quotes to Explore
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
Dan Brown
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
Valerie Plame
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
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Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
Halima Aden
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Xenophanes
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This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
Aaron Allston
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt
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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
Famke Janssen
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
Imogen Poots
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
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Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
Zoe Kazan
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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver
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Being at a club that supported me meant a lot.
David Beckham
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We have to demonstrate to the public that our commitment is protecting public services in the face of a spending contraction which is inevitable.
Philip Hammond
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I am not so wonderful but that in the hour of my triumph I am frightened by my own littleness. Look you, Niafer, I had thought I would be changed when I had become a famous champion, but for all that I stand posturing here with this long sword, and am master of the hour and of the future, I remain the boy that last Thursday was tending pigs.
James Branch Cabell
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The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.
Phylicia Rashad
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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes