He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Planning is like taking on blinders. I think it is a wise thing to be open to whatever shows up on your doorstep.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
I think the Chinese are wise. After all, they know the U.S. is in a very different league than Russia. The U.S. is the major power in the world, and the US-China relationship... is very important to global stability, to sustain global economic growth.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
When I first started, as long as you were a bit brown, you could play any kind of ethnic anything. Now it's much more localised and specific. I feel like a wise old woman looking back on the evolution of how much more sophisticated audiences are.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.