To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel de Cervantes
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his... →
William Ellery Channing
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it... →
Lydia M. Child
It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.
Noam Chomsky
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie