Quotes of Judicious - somelinesforyou

“ Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. ”

- Maya Lin

“ Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds. ”

- Norman McLaren

“ Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers. ”

- Jerome Wiesner

“ If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics. ”

- Will Rogers

“ How charming it is that there are words and sounds: are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things eternally separated? ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Wine can of their wits the wise beguile,Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. ”

- Homer

“ The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act… ”

- Mitch Albom

“ He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. ”

- Horace

“ A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. ”

- Thomas Macaulay

“ Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ”

- Thomas B. Macaulay

“ A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. ”

- Dr. Joseph Collins

“ There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body. ”

- Juvenal

“ The sound of water says what I think. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. ”

- Robert Redford

“ Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics. ”

- Roger Ebert

“ It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis. ”

- Crystal Eastman

“ People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics. ”

- Douglas Hurd

“ I think it was more politics than anything else. ”

- Pat Roberts

“ Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! ”

- The Bible

“ He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. ”

- Horace

“ Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool. ”

- Alma Guillermoprieto

“ I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. ”

- Chris Patten

“ I'm not very wise to many things. ”

- Charles Manson

“ A person whose all works are free from selfish desires and motives, and whose all Karma is burned up in the fire of Self-knowledge, is called a sage by the wise. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now. ”

- Jeffrey Archer
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