Quotes 401 till 420 of 483.
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.
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Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies.
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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We can learn much from wise words, and less from wise guys.
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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.
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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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