Wise Men

Wise men can refer to:

  • Biblical Magi, the "wise men" who follow the Star of Bethlehem in the New Testament
  • Fu Lu Shou, personified deities of good fortune, prosperity, and longevity in Chinese Buddhism and Taoism
  • The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, a 1986 book about the group of foreign policy elders during the Cold War by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
  • Wise Men, a 2013 novel by Stuart Nadler
  • Wise Men of Gotham
  • Three Wise Men (cocktail), a drink made from a mixture of three different types of whiskey
  • Wisemen (rap group)
  • Wisemen, a pop rock song by James Blunt

Famous quotes containing the words wise men, wise and/or men:

    The novel is not “a crazy quilt of bits”; it is a logical sequence of psychological events: the movements of stars may seem crazy to the simpleton, but wise men know the comets come back.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)