Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“Who does not see that heresies have some time prevailed, that reforms have already taken place? All this worldly wisdom might be regarded as the once unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)