Wise Quotes

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J.K. Rowling

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

William Shakespeare

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

John Green

...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

J.K. Rowling