Patience and Wisdom

The dog is the god of frolic. - Henry Ward Beecher

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

Sleeping dogs bark the loudest. - Archie Bunker

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. - William Alger

Dogs have masters. Cats have staff. - Unknown

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall. - Unknown

Wise is he who collects the wisdom of others. - Juan Guerra Caceras

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

Get the hanging dog expression off your face. - Archie Bunker

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force. - Edmund Burke

Patience is a vital trait of the great athlete. - Unknown

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake

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

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. - Abraham Lincoln

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

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog. - Wendy Liebman

Persistence is the master virtue. Without it, there is no other. - Unknown

With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. - Job 12:1

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Winston Churchill

Wisdom is becoming competent with regard to the realities of life. - Gerhard von Rad

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. - Julie Andrews

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. - William Penn

To acquire knowledge one must study. To acquire wisdom one must observe. - Marilyn Vos Savant

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. - Albert Einstein

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. - Francis Bacon

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

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today ll the exhilaration of a vice. - G K Chesterton

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. - Newt Gingrich

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T S Eliot

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. - Mencius

There are two things in this world that don't last long: dogs chasing cars, and pros putting for pars. - Lee Travino

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - Moliere

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

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. - Pele