Patience and Wisdom

France is a dog-hole. - William Shakespeare

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah

A hard dog to keep on the porch. - Hillary Clinton

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. - M. Scott Peck

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

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

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

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis Bacon

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

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

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb

My wife's such a bad cook, the dog begs for Alka-Seltzer. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

Be to their virtue very kind;
be to their faults a little blind. - Matthew Prior

Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalms 90:12

All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. - Confucius

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

A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley

And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. - Tom Wilson

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right. - Walt Disney

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Isaac Rubin

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. - Admiral Richard Byrd

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

All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtue. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. - Peter Ustinov

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass! - Rodney Dangerfield

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. - Robert Louis Stevenson

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams. - Smohalla

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy. - Burt Shavitz