Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "W" » wise to
«Be quick to learn and wise to know.»
«Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
crutch, crutches, idiots, wise to
«Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.»
«Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.»
«Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Fashion,
Ignorance,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
affect, wise to
«Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.»
«A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself»
«Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
All My, external, grant, harmony, in harmony, in restraint, possessions, restraint, riches, rich person, self-restraint, wise to
«A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works, and the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
astronomy, cultivated, flowering, geology, wise to
«Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
