W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wise people problems, becomes everyone's solution. Foolish people solutions becomes everyone's problem.”
“Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none”
Source: Villette
“Wise people treat laws as guidelines, issued by the society and they understand that observance of these laws is the price that they are paying to live in a civilized society.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Wise people understand the need to consult experts; only fools are confident they know everything.”
“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”
“Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.”
“Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke.”
Source: Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
“Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.”
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.”
“Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves”
“Wise teats other as wise.”
“Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.”
“Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer
“Wise to resolve, patient to perform.”
“Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.”
“Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.”
Source: Horace: Of the Art of Poetry: A Poem
“Wise with Your Words.
Speak words that support your highest good. Are your thoughts building you up or tearing you down? Notice the quality of your words—your best first impressions ride on them.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Wise woman healing teaches the importance of excellent nutrition during pregnancy, understanding that your form your child and yourself from the nourishment you receive in the forty weeks of pregnancy. Excellent nutrition includes pure water, controlled breath, abundant light, loving and respectful relationships, beauty and harmony in daily life, positive, joyous thoughts, and vital foodstuffs.”
“Wise women don't turn away from the uncomfortable and uneven places that leave us searching for steady ground. We do not give in to despair. Or hatred. Or indifference. Wise women go within to access the wisdom and courage needed to transform the conditions around us.”
Source: And Whose Life Are You Living Anyway? What Wise Women Know and Do about Purposeful Living
“Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.”
“Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.”
Source: Deadhouse Gates: (Malazan Book Of Fallen 2)
“Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.”
“Wise words; but O, when wisdom brings no profit,
To be wise is to suffer.”
Source: Oedipus Rex
“Wise words were never spoken,
never thought
never lived.
P.C.M. Hermans
September 27, 2016”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.”
Source: The poems of Alexander Pope
“Wise, compassionate and accessible, David Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself is truly a gift to the dedicated seeker. The author draws on his professional experience as a psychologist and his own lifelong vocation as a Christian. The result is a book that felicitously weaves together the insights of psychology and Christian spirituality.”
“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
“Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;
While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
“Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.”
Source: Shilling annotated Plays of Shakspeare for Students: Each Play with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes Critical Remarks and other Aids to a thorough understanding of the Drama. Edited for the use of Schools and Students preparing for Examination By the Rev. John Hunter
“Wiseman participates, others are just observers”
“Wisemen's minds and hearts live together under the same roof of wisdom”
“Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.”
“Wisest is he who knows he knows not.”
“Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.”
“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
Source: Sophie's World
“Wish all my corpses would do that.”
Source: Broken
“Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Wish chastely, and love dearly.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: The taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. The winter's tale
“Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.”
Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
“Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.”
“Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother”
“Wish God should have created me with two brains, I would have donated one to my haters”
“Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.”
“Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water?”