John Wise

John Wise may refer to:

  • John Wise (clergyman) (1652–1725), Massachusetts divine who protested taxation
  • John Wise (balloonist) (1808–1879), American ballooning pioneer
  • John Ayshford Wise (1810–1865), British MP for Stafford
  • John Clayton Wise, Baron Wise (1923-2012)
  • John Sergeant Wise (1846–1913), U.S. Congressman from Virginia
  • John Wise (politician) (born 1935), former Canadian Minister of Agriculture
  • John A. Wise, American scientist
  • John Wise (Entrepreneur)

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or wise:

    “Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
    Communicated monthly, sit and stare
    At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
    Where a young man lands hatless from the air.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)