All Quotes

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
‐‐ Anacharsis

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
‐‐ Plato

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
‐‐ Aristophanes

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
‐‐ John Selden

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
‐‐ Arthur Helps

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
‐‐ Sophocles

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
‐‐ Homer

'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.
‐‐ Jonathan Banks

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
‐‐ Douglas Hurd

Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.
‐‐ Michael Ian Black

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
‐‐ Jalal Talabani

Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's worldview won't make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Wishing of all employments is the worst.
‐‐ Edward Young

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
‐‐ Andrew Young

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
‐‐ Aristotle

Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.
‐‐ Isaac of Nineveh

Wisin is my brother. He always will be my brother. We are very happy as solo artists. We had a great musical trajectory together, which will be there forever. And for the future, we won't discard reuniting and making something new.
‐‐ Yandel

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
‐‐ Madame de Stael

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.
‐‐ Jeanne Calment

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
‐‐ Elizabeth Montagu

Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
‐‐ Frank Muir

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is educated insolence.
‐‐ Aristotle

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
‐‐ Arthur Murphy

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
‐‐ Mark Van Doren

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
‐‐ Madame de Stael

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
‐‐ Noel Coward

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
‐‐ Thomas Malory

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
‐‐ P. T. Barnum

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
‐‐ Charles de Lint

Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.
‐‐ Deborah Harkness

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
‐‐ Janet Montgomery

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
‐‐ Rik Mayall