Wise Quotes

It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

Joanne Rowling
- World
- Men
- History
Where is he, the champion and the childOf all that's great or little, wise or wild;Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;Whose table earth - whose dice were human bones?

Lord Byron
- Great
- Game
- Earth

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Andre Breton
- Writing
- Nature
- Wise
Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

H. L. Mencken
- Men
- Interesting
- Wise
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

Philip Massinger
- High
- Fall
- Wise
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

Hippocrates
- Health
- Wise
- Realize
A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

J. I. Packer
- Life
- Experience
- Together
Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

Peter Brimelow
- Good
- Great
- Professional