#wise

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. ↗

— Jim McMahon

#inherently #otherwise #risk #taking #would

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#desert island #go #island #live #otherwise

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#becomes #begins #calculate #depth #his

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great. ↗

— David Millar

#clean #come #cycling #economics #funding

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#content #easy #endeavor #glad #i

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#frightening #hollywood #i #lord #otherwise

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ↗

— John Patrick

#life #makes #man #pain #think

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#because #been #children #concerns #could

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ↗

— William Penn

#before #body #companion #friend #hast

Time is the wisest counselor of all. ↗

— Pericles

#counselor #wisest