Wise Proverb Quotes & Sayings

Dance with your rhythm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition. — Dwight Morrow

I can only run the rate in which my heart beats. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A wise man hears one word and understands two. — Anonymous

He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not is a student - teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows is asleep - wake him. He who knows and knows he knows is wise - follow him. — Proverb

Said one of the wise: the wrath of you did not do evil in you, "Go for it authors of" you, anger exposes quality of human beings — Undefined

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb — Alvin Toffler

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well. — Francois Rabelais

Fools look to tomorrow; Wise men use tonight — Scottish Proverb

I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better. — May Sarton

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. — Giuseppe Mazzini

Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry. — Valerie Worth

Took you long enough!,' she said, and planted a kiss on his lips. — Jessica Day George

One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school. — D.B. Patterson

Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost." — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Are you scared?" he said into my hair.
"Yeah."
"What scares you?"
I kept my eyes on the ceiling.
"That this is too good. That it won't last. That you'll leave. — Leah Raeder

It's soothing to see an entire world at once-to see the pieces and know how it all fits together — Nicola Yoon

The sacred time defined the sacred-moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement. — Idries Shah

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain
adults and wise persons _never_ speak it. — Mark Twain

The light shines in our hearts and our lives. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep. — Bryan Procter

There is an end to every journey.
Even life will come to an end one moment in time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb — L. Michael Hall

I love my brother. I miss my brother. — Randy Quaid

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair) — Idries Shah

To help me be a better listener and observer, she shared a little proverb that I carry with me whenever I travel. She says, "With two eyes and two ears and one mouth, try to observe and listen four times as much as you speak."
Her advice has paid off. I learn much more by staying quiet. I pick up more cultural signals when I am observing than when I am talking. As another sage observed, "When I's talking, I ain't learning nothin' new." Or again: "Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent" (Prov 17:28). — Paul Borthwick

El hambre agudiza el ingenio," said Raphael.
Hunger sharpens the wit.
"Good proverb," said Magnus. "However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything. — Cassandra Clare