Patience and Wisdom

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

As welcome as a skunk at a lawn party. - Proverb

He who lies down with dogs, rises with fleas. - English Proverb

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. - Leonard Nimoy

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

Flatterers looks like friends, as wolves like dogs. - George Chapman

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert

The scalded dog fears hot water, and afterwards, cold. - Italian Proverb

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. - Leo Rosten

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. - Unknown

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. - Chinese Proverb

When was public virtue to be found when private was not? - William Cowper

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. - Teri Hatcher

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. - Joseph Addison

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. - Unknown

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. - William Shakespeare

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am. - Unknown

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore. - G K Chesterton

A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves you a hundred moments of regret. - Unknown

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. - William Cowper

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. - Unknown

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Adams

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

It is the province of knowledge to speak. It is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Christine Lane

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. - Mac McCleary

It's not the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. - Vanna Bonta

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

The problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues. - Elizabeth Taylor

I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person. - Unknown

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. - Orison Swett Marden

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. - Joseph Addison

The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. - Cato The Elder

Perseverance: outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves. - R.S. Guthrie

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison