Wise

Famous quotes containing the word wise:

“Big heart,
wide as a watermelon,
but wise as birth,
there is so much abundance
in the people I have....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“So you finally got wise to yourself, did you? Funny thing about you women. Most of you don’t get wise soon enough. You wait until you’re so old nobody want you.... You’re not so hard to look at. Give yourself a tumble, you’ll make the grade.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)