Quotes of: Wise-person Keyword

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Spanish

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

Spanish

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The Essays

A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat

Cloud Atlas

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

The Importance Of Living

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then? Juniper: I can't be bothered.

Wise Child

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

The Wise Man's Fear

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

The Wise Man's Fear

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

The Wise Man's Fear

Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

The Wise Man's Fear

Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together.

The Wise Man's Fear

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

The Wise Man's Fear

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Sophocles

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Lord Byron

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Norman Douglas

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

Pindar

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower