I was a wild child. It's nice, though, now to have grown up and be normal and domestic. I've become very traditional. Conservative, worldly... →
Kelly Carlson
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower... →
Thomas Carlyle
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of... →
John le Carre
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are... →
Giacomo Casanova
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Robert Cecil
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.