#wise

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life. ↗

— Confucius

#enduring-good #generosity #life #wise-advice #work

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#founding #founding fathers #issue #left #marriage

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

#getting #hold #makes #rid #than

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ↗

— George Byron

#dunce #laughter #man #more #nothing

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#conversation #e-mail #exchange #intimate #more

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety? ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#best #best friend #enough #friend #him

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#am #amity #between #chinese #committed

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#demanded #granted #health #i #love

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#men #only #prophecy #wise #wise men

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. ↗

— Richard Lamm

#got #know #leave #like #politics