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A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.Collection: Wise
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.Collection: Wise
The wise are above books.Collection: Wise
I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.Collection: Wise
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.Collection: Wise
The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.Collection: Wise
A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.Collection: Wise
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.Collection: Wise
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.Collection: Wise
Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.Collection: Wise
Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.Collection: Wise
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.Collection: Wise
Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.Collection: Wise
A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.Collection: Wise
Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.Collection: Wise
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.Collection: Wise
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.Collection: Wise
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.Collection: Wise
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple...when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us.Collection: Wise
Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.Collection: Wise
The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.Collection: Wise
God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.Collection: Wise
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.Collection: Wise
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.Collection: Wise
The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.Collection: Wise
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.Collection: Wise
I write not to record what I think but to discover what I thinkCollection: Wise
Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.Collection: Wise
Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.Collection: Wise
The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.Collection: Wise
There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.Collection: Wise
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.Collection: Wise
Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.Collection: Wise
The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.Collection: Wise
Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?Collection: Wise
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.Collection: Wise
Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.Collection: Wise
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."Collection: Wise
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.Collection: Wise
A fool and his money are quickly parted.Collection: Wise
It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we´re going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment.Collection: Wise
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.Collection: Wise
You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.Collection: Wise
Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient being; the fountain and author of all being and good; the first cause, last end, and sovereign Lord of all; therefore, he is to be worshipped: therefore, are we to admire, adore, and love him; to praise, to trust and to fear him.Collection: Wise
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.Collection: Wise
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.Collection: Wise
A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.Collection: Wise