Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A wise man hears one word and understands two.”
—Yiddish proverb.
“A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 10:1.