Famous quotes containing the words wise man, wise and/or man:
“Facts are ventriloquists’ dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The man whose heart is as warm as a hanky soaked in ethyl chloride.”
—Edmund White (b. 1940)