Evan Esar Quotes

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • May
  • Technology
  • Wisdom

• The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. 'Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'' Businessweek (5 July 1999)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• Silence is a fence around wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Fence

• With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Wisdom

• ...Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Art
  • Strong
  • Joy

• I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Peace

• Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Writing
  • Art
  • America

• Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

  

  James Newman
  • Children
  • Words
  • Wisdom

• I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

  

  Buddha
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

  

  Pietro Aretino
  • Friends
  • Wisdom
  • Friendship

• We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.

  

  James Dobson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Job

• All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • Wisdom
  • Grief

• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Conscience

• If a person a) is poorly, b) receives treatment intended to make him better, and c) gets better, no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.

  

  Peter Medawar
  • May
  • Power
  • Science

• I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great in that way. It's as close to theater as you can get.

  

  David Anders
  • Great
  • Waiting

• It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Wisdom
  • Affairs
  • Surprising