A Quote by Michael Stipe

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.' — © Michael Stipe
A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'
Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.
A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.
A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]
The wise man once said invest young
As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.
The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.
Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy and wealth and wise. As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.
A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.
Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!
As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.
As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.
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