Famous quotes containing the words wise man, wise and/or man:
“Union of the weakest develops strength
Not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge
One of the leaves that have fallen in autumn?
But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.”
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)
“What is man but a mass of thawing clay?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)