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My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Wise
Men
Talking
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
― Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl
Wise
Powerful
Purpose
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
― Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Wise
Wisdom
Men
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
― Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Wise
Freedom
Men
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
― Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Wise
Creativity
Creative
No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.
― Uell Stanley Andersen
Uell Stanley Andersen
Wise
Fate
Law
The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.
― Stephen Hawking
Wise
Logical
Stephen Hawking
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
― Stephen Covey
Inspirational
Life
Wise
Stephen Covey
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
― Alice Hoffman
Wise
May
Serpent
Alice Hoffman
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned
― Al-Ghazali
Change
Wise
Spiritual
Al-Ghazali
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.
― Audrey Hepburn
Wise
Fall
Lap
Audrey Hepburn
Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.
― Audrey Hepburn
Inspiring
Beauty
Wise
Audrey Hepburn
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
― Bill Cosby
Funny
Life
Wise
Bill Cosby
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
― Bertrand Russell
Wise
Affection
Substitutes
Bertrand Russell
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
― Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Wise
Men
Promise
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