All Quotes

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
‐‐ Buddha

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
‐‐ Vanessa Williams

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'
‐‐ Lela Rose

The wisest have the most authority.
‐‐ Plato

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

The wisest man may be a blind father.
‐‐ Jules Verne

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
‐‐ George Santayana

The wisest of the wise may err.
‐‐ Aeschylus

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
‐‐ Horace Walpole

The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
‐‐ George W. Bush

The wish for healing has always been half of health.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?
‐‐ Eric Roth

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
‐‐ Jacob Bronowski

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.
‐‐ George Osborne

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
‐‐ James Thurber

The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

'The Witch' is feminist.
‐‐ Anya Taylor-Joy

The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the biggest pullout ever by an army not defeated in battle.'
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
‐‐ Florence King

'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens.
‐‐ Tony DiTerlizzi

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

The woeful tales of 'Super Mario Bros.' and 'Street Fighter' have taught studios that merely slapping a name to a movie is not enough to bring in the fans of the franchise. Also, the way games now unfold their stories more parallels that of a movie, with characters and plot points actually meaning as much as a high score.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
‐‐ Elihu Root

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.
‐‐ Steve Albini

The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.
‐‐ Casey Wilson

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.
‐‐ Mother Angelica

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
‐‐ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

'The Woman on the Train' just didn't sound as good. I'll take care next time not to have 'girl' in the title.
‐‐ Paula Hawkins

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.
‐‐ Ellen Key

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.
‐‐ Alice Paul

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
‐‐ Ang Lee

The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.
‐‐ Li Na

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching.
‐‐ Betty Grable

The woman that deliberates is lost.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
‐‐ Amelia Earhart

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
‐‐ Margaret of Valois

The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
‐‐ Henry Adams

The woman who loves always smells good.
‐‐ Remy de Gourmont

The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
‐‐ Saint Basil

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese