Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
I had a lot of tough experiences at Bristol City. I came there for a few quid and was getting booed off by fans, got injured. I was out of the team due to injury but also because I was having an awful time playing wise. But they were amazing experiences.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Income splitting is not a wise investment for Canadians.
When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
We want market-based, consumer-based reforms in health care. We want to give people incentives to make wise choices in a marketplace, not centralized choices and have government mandates and takeovers.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
