Wise Quotes - page 80

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him. (Matthew Henry)
With regard to the construction of statutes according to the intention of the legislature, we must remember that there is an essential difference between the expounding of modern and ancient Acts of Parliament. In early times the legislature used (and I believe it was a wise course to take) to pass laws in general and in few terms; they were left to the Courts of law to be construed so as to reach all the cases within the mischief to be remedied. But in modern times great care has been taken to mention the particular cases in the contemplation of the legislature, and therefore the Courts are not permitted to take the same liberty in construing them as they did in expounding the ancient statutes. View quote
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
For never, never, wicked man was wise. View quote
Homer
To some the powers of bloody war belong, To some, sweet music, and the charm of song; To few, and wondrous few, has Jove assigned A wise, extensive, all-considering mind. View quote
Homer
These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live, Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts Will meet the offering, of so little worth, Wanting the benison death has made divine. View quote
Lucy Larcom
They're everything that's wrong in this instant-coffee and microwave age. ‘I want it now.' There used to be that romantic image of going off to Tibet and climbing the mountain to speak to the wise man. And when you got to the top, he could tell you the truths of the universe. Now people wanna take a helicopter to the top-or e-mail him! View quote
Malcolm Azania
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. View quote
John Tillotson
I'm not sure what ministry really is, and that whatever it is, God seems to be kind enough to wrap it into our efforts and sometimes wise enough to bestow it in spite of them. View quote
Mark Heard
Globalization is a trend with many gurus; not all have been wise. Some, writing during the economic euphoria of the Clinton years, predicted that global trade would translate into global peace. In The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, Thomas Friedman even dismissed terrorists like Ramzi Youssef, architect of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, as ineffectual "Yahoos" who were not the wave of the future. We know now that the Ramzi Youssefs of the world are not ineffectual; that they will threaten us for decades to come; and that they will seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction and use them against us. View quote
Mark Riebling
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect. View quote
William Shakespeare
The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. (William Shakespeare)
Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she. View quote
William Shakespeare
The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. View quote
William Shakespeare
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself. View quote
William Shakespeare
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so. View quote
William Shakespeare
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain, Lest sorrow lend me words and words express The manner of my pity-wanting pain. View quote
William Shakespeare
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. View quote
William Shakespeare
Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks. View quote
William Shakespeare
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. View quote
William Shakespeare
Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. View quote
William Shakespeare
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. (William Shakespeare)
If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it. View quote
William Shakespeare
Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise. View quote
William Shakespeare
(Man in suit to Indian woman) Oh guru, ancient mother of the world, we men have been crippled. We have never learned how to feel; we don't even know how to cry. Oh my wise guru, can you teach me to cry? (Guru) Sure. No problem. Tomorrow I'll start you at a dead-end job, pay you at women's wages and then I'll throw in sole support of a pre-school child. View quote
Nicole Hollander
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. View quote
Coventry Patmore