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It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise. -- Andrew Young
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. -- Walter Savage Landor
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. -- George Washington
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. -- James Russell Lowell
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
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
What is necessary is never unwise. -- Ben Cross
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise -- Craig Groeschel
I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools. -- Elsie de Wolfe
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. -- Henry David Thoreau
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power. -- Thomas Paine
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. -- Oliver Cromwell
To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth. -- Os Guinness
To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main. -- Lydia M. Child
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong. -- Martin Sheen
If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions. -- Rand Paul
It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years. -- Grover Norquist
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities. -- Yoko Ono
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
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. -- John Podesta
It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit. -- Janet Napolitano
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
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise. -- Origen
In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step. -- Deborah Sampson
If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise. -- Josh Hartnett
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
Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. -- Evan Davis
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
But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America. -- John Cornyn
Men are unwise and curiously planned. -- Doris Lessing
This is servitude, To serve the unwise. -- John Milton
An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely. -- T.A. Miles
Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little. -- Agnes Repplier
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise. -- George Eliot
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. -- John Ruskin
It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action. -- A.J. Darkholme
It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves. -- Brigham Young
It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson. -- Belva Plain
We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place. -- Andrew Levkoff
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous. -- Henry David Thoreau
When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it. -- Jim Holt
You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you'll REGRET it! -- Israelmore Ayivor
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods. -- Georgia Harkness
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other. -- Andre Gide
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others. -- Baltasar Gracian
Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional. -- Jim Babka
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship -- James Russell Lowell
I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain. -- John Mortimer
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He picked some unwise words. Saying, â??Iâ??ll enjoy killing you for my lordâ?, is just not the way to make my acquaintance. -- Charlaine Harris
A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear. -- Ellen Hopkins
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm. -- ElRay L. Christiansen
It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return. -- John Mihaljevic
This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled. -- John Milton
Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous. -- John Lubbock
I wondered whether trusting him was merely unwise or if it crossed the line into recklessness, like lying down for a nap in the middle of a road. -- Ransom Riggs
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass. -- Zoe Lofgren
People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going. -- Elaine Stritch
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. -- Winston Churchill
One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it. -- G.K. Chesterton
The new Republican Congress should move full speed ahead to repeal and replace Obamacare. It would be unwise to wait for the Supreme Court to perform this service for the American people. -- Deroy Murdock
The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time. -- Edmund A. Opitz
There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now. -- Mark Beeson
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp. -- Francesco Guicciardini
To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward. -- Ambrose Bierce

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