I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
I find that it isn’t wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I’ve met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they’re very nice. At the same time, I’ve met people whose music I’ve loved, and they’re not the person you’ve invested all this emotion in.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.
He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
With age, you become more humble, more wise.
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it’s time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.
Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.
I don’t think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
In Princess Margaret I found a fine friend who could steady my restless nature and offer wise counsel.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
I’d like to be very wise.
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Earl Sweatshirt is very wise.
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.
The wise policymaker doesn’t assume that any policy adopted in good faith will have good results. Instead, he or she weighs the likely outcome of any new policy based on facts and experience – not sentiments and dreams.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
Because of how much I’ve gone through, I want to say I’m more wise than my age.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
My mother’s father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.
We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man – Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think – wonder – whether we really are wise men.
In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring – and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
There are a lot of people who approached me after ‘Dangal’ and ‘Stree’ to do films in lead roles with great money. But I don’t want to rush into it. I want you to call me with a happy face that the film is rocking… And that will only happen if I make wise and patient decisions.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
I am old enough and wise enough and I have been around long enough to know that things will be said – and not nice things a lot of the time. And when you are doing well, nice things will be said.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Before starting a building project, it is wise to discuss your plans in full with the neighbours.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
We aren’t always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who don’t always do the wise thing.
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren’t wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
My parents inspire me every day. They are both incredible people that I love and look up to every day. Industry wise, I love what Justin Timberlake has done with his career. He’s truly an idol to me, not only as a performer, but as a person as well.
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
It’s the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to ‘write what you know’. So I did.
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the ‘intellectuals.’
Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
I’m incredibly uncommitted to party politics. I vote Labour but only because Glenda Jackson was my MP and I loved her on ‘Morecambe & Wise.’
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It’s wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don’t realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Wise investors won’t try to outsmart the market.
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It’s a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
