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“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ”
— William Shakespeare
“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
— William Shakespeare
“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. ”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ”
— Robert Redford
“The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.”
— Robert Rodriguez
“A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ”
— Sai Baba
“My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.”
— Christina Aguilera
“States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live. ”
— George Washington Bush
“The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. ”
— George Washington Bush
“My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before. ”
— Hillary Clinton
“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. ”
— Johnny Depp
“It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. ”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
— Helen Keller
“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”
— Helen Keller
“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”
— Maya Angelou
“People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.”
— Mick Jagger
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.”
— Kim Kardashian
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
— Clive Staples Lewis
“We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
— Barack Obama
“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”
— Henry Miller
“Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.”
— James Madison
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”
— Dolly Parton
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