Jeopardy Measuring Cup

Measure twice, cut once. - Craftsman Aphorism

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

Everyone is wise until he speaks. - Irish Drinking Toast

I'd rather be funny than wise. - Dennis Miller

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Wise is the man who knows he has enough. - Unknown

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Colette

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise. - Sallust

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. - Aeschylus

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. - John Lennon

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two. - Yiddish

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. - William Shakespeare

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson

The measure of a man is what he does with power. - Pittacus

Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism. - Stephen Kinzer

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

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

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. - Aeschylus

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

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. - Lao-Tzu

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. - Portuguese Proverb

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. - Menander

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. - Galileo Galilei

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

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. - Benjamin Franklin

Measure yourself by what you have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. - Oscar Wilde

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

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian

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

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he gives the more he has. - Chinese Proverb

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. - Lin Yutang

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - William Faulkner

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. - Unknown

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. - Mason Cooley

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. - Lactantius

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. - The Bible

may I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - e e cummings

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato

I'd have thrashed him to within an inch of his life, but I didn't have a tape measure. - Groucho Marx

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

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

He who devotes 16 hours a day to hard study may become as wise at 60 as he thought himself at 20. - Mary Wilson Little

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas B Macaulay

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. - Dag Hammarskjold

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom. We learn from trial and error; we become wise by understanding problems. - Leon Brown

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. - Lou Holtz

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who plows in his field but does not sow. - Saadi

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled. - Dan Rather

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

Q: When is the perfect time?
A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

A wise man knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser man of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle when all odds stand against you. - Shannon L. Alder