Patience and Wisdom

Dogs never bite me. Just humans. - Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - Phil Jackson

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. - William Shakespeare

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

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. - Kyle Farnsworth

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

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

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. - Chinese Proverb

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

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. - Teri Hatcher

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

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

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of fun out of owning one. - Andrew A. Rooney

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. - Unknown

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel

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

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

I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai. - Shirley MacLaine

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

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

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

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers

Why do dogs always race to the door when the doorbell rings? It's hardly ever for them. - Harry Hill

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

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. - Ellen Glasgow

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. - Vanna Bonta

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather. - Jeff Foxworthy

Praise is but virtue's shadow; who courts her,
Doth more the handmaid than the dame admire - Robert Heath

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

Virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. - Sonia Sotomayor

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. - John S Mill

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

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. - Michael J. Fox

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

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