Quotes 281 till 300 of 483.
-
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
-
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
-
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
-
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
-
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
-
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.
-
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
-
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
-
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
-
That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
-
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
-
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
-
The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
-
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
All count-wise famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 15)
