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

- Martin Sheen

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you`ll find many of them are unwise.

- Andrew Young

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you`ll find many of them are unwise.

- Jayne Mansfield

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.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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 doubt on their existence. Or lack thereof.

- Neil Gaiman

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

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

- Henry David Thoreau

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.

- Adam Loewen

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.

- Allan Bense

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.

- Amitai Sandy

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

- Andrew Ladd

I think it`s unwise and perhaps misleading for me to get into the business of saying we`re considering this person, we`re not considering that person.

- Ayenew Alemeneh

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

The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.

- John Kenneth Galbraith