To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. Votes: 4
Susan SontagBooks are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. Votes: 4
Edward GibbonNever let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. Votes: 4
NichirenThe Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no "others' for him. Votes: 3
Ramana MaharshiYou're killing me here, Sage!" "I'm not doing anything." "Exactly my point. Votes: 3
Richelle MeadSage, aren't you guys supposed to have uniforms? This looks like what you usually wear. Votes: 3
Richelle MeadThe Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine. Votes: 3
Ogwo David EmenikeWho are you?" I asked. "You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours." ~Clea / Sage, pg. 105 Votes: 3
Hilary DuffNice blouse, Sage," Adrian told me, deadpan. "It really brings out the khaki in your pants. Votes: 3
Richelle MeadYou're a terrible liar, Sage, but I'm still touched you'd attempt it for my sake. A for effort. Votes: 3
Richelle MeadBut each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy." "Already crazy about you, Sage. Votes: 3
Richelle MeadThe Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. Votes: 3
Solomon Ibn GabirolThe vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. Votes: 1
Frank WatersThe sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. Votes: 1
Mason CooleyI don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think. Votes: 1
Jude Law'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years. Votes: 1
Dhani HarrisonThe sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting. Votes: 0
LaoziThe man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. Votes: 0
Martin Farquhar TupperI know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. Votes: 0
Edward DahlbergThe first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage. Votes: 0
Thomas HardyWhatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLet thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusA mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyA fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house. Votes: 0
William Graham SumnerSAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies. Votes: 0
Diana Wynne JonesFor I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeEven virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. Votes: 0
HoraceReligion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control. Votes: 0
Judith Sargent MurrayThe sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself. Votes: 0
LaoziThe sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneAnybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage. Votes: 0
RajneeshThe Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiHow can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. Votes: 0
Bill VeeckWhere all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. Votes: 0
James Anthony FroudeThe Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiCharacter no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanIn my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees Votes: 0
Philip RothIn the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergThe sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianThe sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose. Votes: 0
LaoziWhenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within. Votes: 0
Sereda Aleta DaileyThe gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. Votes: 0
Henry James ByronThe flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranThe saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The sage is a man who rids himself of his ego. Votes: 0
Wei Wu WeiIt is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. Votes: 0
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of ShaftesburyThe true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. Votes: 0
Maurice MaeterlinckKeep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years. Votes: 0
Dhani HarrisonSei klüger als die anderen, wenn Du es kannst, aber sage es ihnen nicht.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Graf vonEs stört mich nicht, was meine Minister sagen, solange sie tun, was ich ihnen sage.
Thatcher, MargaretEine Wahrheit ist eine Wahrheit, und ich liebe sie, es sage sie gleich, wer da wolle.
Franck, SebastianSage mir, wie groß sein Bücherschrank ist, und ich sage dir, man kann niemandem trauen.
Kasper, HansWie fangen wir's an? / Das sage mir einer! / Lang leben will jedermann, / Alt werden keiner.
Bauernfeld, Eduard VonEuer Gehorsam ist grenzenlos, und er wird, daß ich es euch nur sage, von Tag zu Tag unverzeihlicher.
Mann, ThomasI cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her. Votes: 3 Tao Lin
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose. Votes: 2 Tim Jackson