Top 1200 Wise Friendship Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is anything more worthwhile in life than friendship. Friendship is a far better thing than love, as it is commonly accepted.

Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

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

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.

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

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

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

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

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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

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

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

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.

Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

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

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

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

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

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendship - it is friendship plus mutual interest, and it is bipartisan.

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

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

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

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

I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything

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

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

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

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

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

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

I think that the friendship that women share is so powerful. In fact, there's nothing quite like it. People talk about mother-child bonds, but I would argue that female friendship bond is also in a league unto its own.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

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

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

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

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

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

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

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.