Quotes of: Wise-men Keyword

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

Tim Robbins

To me, my peers are Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger. I'm not talking age-wise, but in terms of careers. Madonna. Those are my peers. And I'm okay with that.

LL Cool J

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim

He who is wise is steps away from riches. He who is loving is steps away from God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Life IS the gift you were given, So stop waiting around for your dues. Use it wisely and you’ll gift yourself abundantly.

Michelle Geaney

There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

Mariano Rivera

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Hugh Grant

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

Samuel Butler

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

Andreas Schleicher

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

John Lubbock

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Sun Tzu

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Freeman Dyson

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Joseph Hall

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Harold Pinter

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

Johnny Vegas