When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.