Patience and Wisdom

Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

France is a dog-hole. - William Shakespeare

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

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

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

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

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. - William Shakespeare

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

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. - Unknown

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

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. - Edward Abbey

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. - Barbara Kingsolver

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. - William Shakespeare

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - JRR Tolkien

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

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. - Kirk Douglas

A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves you a hundred moments of regret. - Unknown

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

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David S Jordan

It's not the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain

I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog. - Owen Hart

Knowledge alone is not enough. It must be leavened with magnanimity before it becomes wisdom. - Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: pour a little Lavoris in the toilet. - Jay Leno

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

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. - Christopher Hampton

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. - Sue Murphy

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

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. - Joseph Addison

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch

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