My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
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.
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
A word to the wise is enough.
I think that it's more important for an economist to be wise and sophisticated in scientific method than it is for a physicist because with controlled laboratory experiments possible, they practically guide you; you couldn't go astray. Whereas in economics, by dogma and misunderstanding, you can go very sadly astray.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders.
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
