Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.
I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.
Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.
Stubbornness destroys good advice.
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner. "
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".
I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.
A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.
Every past is worth condemning.
Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
