Top 1200 Wise Sayings Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

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]

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

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

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

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

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

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

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

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.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.

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

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.

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

Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.

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

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

Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends

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

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

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.

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

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

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

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

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

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.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!

The wise are wise only because they love.

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

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

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

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

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.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

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

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.

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

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

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

My dad has sayings for days. 'You bloom where you're planted' ties into farming, but it also sums up the ideals and morals that we have as a family by staying in Firebaugh.

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

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

In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.