Quotes of Wise - somelinesforyou

“ We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. ”

- Barry Goldwater

“ In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ 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

“ It is not wise to be wiser than necessary. ”

- Philippe Quinault

“ It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly. ”

- Franklin Field

“ Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. ”

- Unknown

“ In politics, nothing is contemptible. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. ”

- Bible

“ Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. ”

- Ernest Benn

“ Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster. ”

- John P. Roche

“ Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders. ”

- John Morley

“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”

- Vera Brittain

“ Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites. ”

- Larry Hardiman

“ Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ”

- George Orwell

“ The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see — but microscopes are prudent in an emergency. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. ”

- Larry Hardiman

“ Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. ”

- Malcolm S. Forbes

“ Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody. ”

- Dick Armey

“ If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ In the case of Condoleezza Rice, Bush changes her I think. She doesn't put forward the same ideas as she did before she got involved in Bush politics. ”

- Peter Singer
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