Wise Quotes - Page 25

• As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

  Plautus

  Girl, Women, Long

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• Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Peace, War

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• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Art, Flower

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• Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

  Susan Jeffers

  Wisdom, Clever, Silence

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• A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

  Horace

  Future, Darkness, Obscure

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 304-06, Carmina, III. 29. 29, 1922.

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• Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Philosophy, Failure, People

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• Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

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• Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.

  Heinrich Heine

  Witty, Philosophical, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.235

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• We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys (particularly the ninja) one is wise to shoot for the head. That statement has got a whole bunch of journalists and commentators bleeding from the nose. One wonders why it should. Where else should you shoot a man if he is probably wearing an armored vest? If you decide to shoot you have made the big decision. Where you place your shot is merely a technical matter.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Hysteria, Guy

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• No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Eye, Men

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• Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Wisdom, Clever, Ocean

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• Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

  Timothy Keller

  Hurt, Healing, Suffering And Death

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• Be deeply satisfied and ready for more.

  Esther Hicks

  Wise Words, Satisfied, Ready

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• Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.

  Catherine Ponder

  Strings Attached, Giving, Secret

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• Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions, I see religion as the winnower of the wisdom of the human race. Of course, not everything about these religions is wise. Their social patterns, for example - master-slave, caste, and gender relations - have been adopted from the mores of their time. But in their view of the nature of reality, there is nothing in either modernity or postmodernity that rivals them.

  Huston Smith

  Reality, People, World

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• Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!

  Karen Walker

  Baby, Jesus, Winter

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• Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
  Against stupidity the very gods
  Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
  Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
  Wise foundress of the system of the world,
  Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
  Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,
  Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
  Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Daughter, Stars

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.435

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• If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Fool, Ifs

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.9166, Delphi Classics

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Men, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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• Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

  Mike Rowe

  Important, Missionary, Doe

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• You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

  Israel Zangwill

  Analogies, May, Want

  Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

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• The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Coins, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Age, Would Be

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.46, Fig

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• How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

  Sam Levenson

  Religion, Lord, Knows

  "You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson".

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• Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Order, Law

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.109

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