#wise

I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise. ↗

— Cole Younger

#any #anything #appear #aware #bank

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#everything #funny #i #i think #make

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bid #does #enter #his #house

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#been #could #everything #forever #go

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#begins #deal #did #down #down the road

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#bored #find #get #god #i

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. ↗

— William Godwin

#artillery #civil #civil liberty #consequence #follows

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. ↗

— William Godwin

#derived #ever #existed #introspection #mainly

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#divide #lead #politician #rule #unite