Wise Quotes - Page 32

• But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Religious, Wine, Sleep

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far.

  Robert Breault

  People, Judging, Remember

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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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• A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

  E. B. White

  Men, Vines, Restless

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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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• In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

  Robert Breault

  Reason, Ends, Inseparable

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• A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.

  Michael Bassey

  Men, Hands, People

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• Be deeply satisfied and ready for more.

  Esther Hicks

  Wise Words, Satisfied, Ready

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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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• Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: —love —friendship —understanding —appreciation —tolerance —a helping hand —a leg up —an answer

  Robert Breault

  Appreciation, Hands, Understanding

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• Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Men, Rely Upon

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• We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Views, People

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• Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
  Think each in each, immediately wise;
  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
  What this tumultuous body now denies;
  And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
  And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

  Rupert Brooke

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.114, The Oleander Press

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• The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, will give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be neither happy, nor wise, nor good.

  John Jortin

  Art, Passion, Skills

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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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• 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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• God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Looks, Half

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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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• Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to interpret any vision till they have first enquired the time at which it befell; for, if it were early, and of the morning sleep, they then thought that they might make a good interpretation thereof... in that the soul was then fitted for divination, and disincumbered. But if in the first sleep, or near midnight, while the soul was as yet clouded and drowned in libations, they, being wise, refused to give any interpretation.

  Anna Kingsford

  Morning, Kings, Sleep

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• Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

  Nawang Khechog

  Trying, Kind, Humans

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• A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

  John Charles Polanyi

  Wisdom, Science, Men

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• The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

  Gary Zukav

  Generosity, Choices, Creative

  "Occupy Your Heart" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

  Walter Lippmann

  Hurt, Opponents, Ruins

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• If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Answers, Rational

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• The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Long, Ought

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.22

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