Patience and Wisdom

France is a dog-hole. - William Shakespeare

Every dog has his day. - Unknown

It is wisdom to believe the heart. - George Santayana

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

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

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - Phil Jackson

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

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

A good bone does not always come to a good dog. - French Proverb

Dogs can't operate an MRI machine but cats can. - Unknown

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

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

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

A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz. - Humphrey Bogart

Have patience and endure: this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. - Ovid

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

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

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. - Rita Rudner

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Wisdom is the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally. - Vivian Clayton

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

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

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley

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

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men. - Norman MacDonald

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. - Mencius

There are two things in this world that don't last long: dogs chasing cars, and pros putting for pars. - Lee Travino

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. - Orison Swett Marden

Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. - Terence

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

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain

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