Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns
There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain... →
Steve Buscemi
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Lord Byron
God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our... →
Samuel Hopkins
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Horace
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells