1244 Quotations with Wise.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
- 126. Anatole France: It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
- 127. Plato: Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who rece ...
- 128. Lazarus Long: Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. ...
- 129. Lazarus Long: Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. L ...
- 130. H.P. Lovecraft: You have dreamed too well, O wise archdreamer, for you have drawn dream's gods a ...
- 131. H. Allen Smith: When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believ ...
- 132. Aldo Leopold: Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as ...
- 133. Jerome Lettvin: Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise re ...
- 134. Bette-Jane Raphael: Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not ...
- 135. H. L. Mencken: Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has ...
- 136. Henry David Thoreau: Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I se ...
- 137. Russ Zandbergen: All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?
- 138. Henry Albert Ben: Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemi ...
- 139. Robertson Davies: Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; ...
- 140. Douglas R. Hofstadter: Tortoise: But we must be careful in combining sentences. For instance, you'd gra ...
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