#unwise

It is most unwise for people in love to marry. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#marry #most #people #unwise

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#greatest #greatest service #i #many #prevent

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. ↗

— William Safire

#attack #characterize #choice #critics #current

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#simply #time #unwelcome #unwise #war

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#face #feel #forgive #look #make

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them. ↗

— Diane Duane

#any #hopes #i #many #me

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#book #cover #else #enough #fact

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#certain #characters #doubts #excepting #existence

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#believers #conscience #earnest #even #judgment

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored. ↗

— Paul Begala

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