Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“Big heart,
wide as a watermelon,
but wise as birth,
there is so much abundance
in the people I have....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)