Jeopardy Measuring Cup

Camouflage: Wise guise. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Measure twice, cut once. - Craftsman Aphorism

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey

A wise man once said nothing. - Unknown

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca

Everyone is wise until he speaks. - Irish Drinking Toast

Be quick to learn and wise to know. - George Burns

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e e cummings

Measure a thousand times and cut once. - Turkish Proverb

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

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. - Aristophenes

Water is the only drink for a wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

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

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

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. - Unknown

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

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

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

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. - Spanish Proverb

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

Even in wise men there is more folly than wisdom. - Sebastien Chamfort

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. - Henri Arnold

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. - Norman Cousins

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - Albert Einstein

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake. - Gerald Brooks

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon

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

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

A proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty. - Erasmus

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Albert Einstein

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. - Spanish Proverb

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. - Plutarch

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

Wise people learn when they can.
Fools learn when they must. - Arthur Wellesley Wellington

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

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

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. - Oscar Wilde

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin

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 fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. - Bill Lemley

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

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

Wise Husband: One who buys his wife such fine china she won't trust him to wash the dishes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. - G K Chesterton

The secret to living well and longer is: EAT half; WALK double; LAUGH triple; and LOVE without measure. - Unknown

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

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

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

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play. - Bill Russell

A boss on vacation is the most cost effective measure. Everybody in the office has a vacation at the cost of one. - Thibaut

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

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

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next. - Edmund Gibson

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. - Martin Luther

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say; a wise man knows whether or not to say it. - Frank M. Garafola

God gave unto the Animals
A wisdom past our power to see:
Each knows innately how to live,
Which we must learn laboriously. - Margaret Atwood

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Francis Bacon