Top 1200 Old And Wise Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice.

My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

If Coors Field is the flashy youngster, Wrigley is a wise and weathered, tattered, beat up old man, but rich in charisma and character.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

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.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

In most movies, they show you somebody who is perfect looks-wise, and skills-wise, and the movie doesn't give you a choice.

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.