Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.”
—Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter, and Lewis Milestone. General Mitsubi (Richard Loo)
“I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer; and, which is more, a householder; and, which is more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina; and one that knows the law, go to; and a rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath had losses; and one that hath two gowns and everything handsome about him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)