Quotes of: Wise-men Keyword

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

Terence

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

Janet Yellen

Our greatest currency is our time and we cannot save it. Spend it wisely and never waste another's or your own.

Kyle Barger

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Miguel de Cervantes

Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Every day is a gift. Every thought is a lift. Every hour is a prize. Use it and be wise.

Debasish Mridha

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

William Penn

All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

James E. Faust

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Helen Keller

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Douglas Hurd

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

Nancy Gibbs

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

Roger Ebert

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Aeschylus

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Eric Hoffer

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Joseph Addison

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

Joe Torre

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

Orson Pratt

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

Sheherazade Goldsmith