Patience and Wisdom

France is a dog-hole. - William Shakespeare

Every dog has his day. - Unknown

Let sleeping dogs lie. - French Proverb

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom is found only in truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. - Indira Gandhi

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. - Latin Proverb

Better to be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. - English Proverb

Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. - WC Fields

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. - Ogden Nash

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. - Lawrence J. Peter

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

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. - Franklin P Jones

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

Wisdom is knowing which road is the right one; integrity is taking it. - Unknown

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

Observe your dog: if he's fat, then you're not getting enough exercise. - Evan Esar

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. - William Shakespeare

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

I am obsessed with Costco. I love the salmon and rotisserie chicken, the dog beds. - Kris Jenner

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

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

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway. - Albert Einstein

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

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. - Benjamin Disraeli

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. - George Bernard Shaw

Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything. - Unknown

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. - Joseph Addison

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. - I Ching

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. - Bhagavad Gita

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid. - Confucius

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one else can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Winston Churchill

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr