Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Leunig

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.

Samuel Butler

Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

Steve Ruggiero

With the high tax rates, this seems like the wisest choice. They are a strong company in their markets so that seems to be the right course to take.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Joseph Howe

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

William Shakespeare

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

William Shakespeare

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Kent Beck

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

Pete Sepp

We would view this as a missed opportunity to have a wider debate on the wisdom of these restrictions that are driving up costs for taxpayers.

Nigel Harris

Universities by their very nature encourage debate, question and challenge of conventional wisdom and existing theories. We are places where knowledge is discovered. We advance existing precepts and understandings by which society currently runs. And in that context, academic staff will time to time have views that are different from the government's.

John Powell

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

William Shakespeare

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

William Shakespeare

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

Alan Beck

A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.

Alan Ball

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

Alan Ball

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.