I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's... →
Geraldine Brooks
Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.
Joyce Brothers
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. Buck
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't... →
Alafair Burke
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke