Patience and Wisdom
Two of the greatest virtues in life
QuotaBillsKindness 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