A Quote by Laozi

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

Howard Staunton

My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

Theodore Roosevelt

I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.

Milton Friedman

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Antoni Gaudi

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

Penn Jillette

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

Orison Swett Marden

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

Gregory Bateson

Walk straight ahead look straight ahead don't stop don't pose sharp turns be confident love yourself.

Rad Hourani

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

Benjamin Rudyerd

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Euripides

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

Norman Douglas

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

Confucius

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

Baron Vaughn

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

Douglas William Jerrold

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Voltaire

There's so much more that I want to do. Of course it's great what has happened so far: Ultra, Coachella, EDC. But still, production-wise and show-wise, I'd love to play a show at Madison Square Garden. Stuff like that is beyond my imagination.

Martin Garrix

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