Wisdom Sayings and Quotes

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Wisdom Sayings

A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind.      
Iranian
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A crown's no cure for a headache.      
English
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A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners.      
Virgin Islander (on friendship)
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.      
American 
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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.      
Lord John Russell
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All's well that ends well.      
John Heywood
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.      
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.      
Chinese Proverb
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Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.      
French (on thrift)
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Not even a fish would get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.      
Korean
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Everything in moderation.      
unknown
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever.      
Chinese Proverb
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He that respects himself is safe from others.      
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He who flees at the right time can fight again.      
Marcus Trentius Varro 
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Health is better than wealth.      
unknown
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In bad things be slow; in good things be fast.      
Afghan (on time and timeliness)
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Just because something is common sense doesn't mean it's common practice.      
unknown
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Justice is truth in action.      
Benjamin Disraeli 
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Life is a journey, not a destination.      
Cliff Nichols
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Life is what you make it.
Grandma Moses
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Live and let live.      
Dutch Proverb
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Lost time is never found again.      
Ben Franklin
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Money buys everything but good sense.
Yiddish (on money)
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Nothing is impossible to the willing mind.      
Books of the Han Dynasty
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One should speak little with others and much with oneself.      
Danish (on the conduct of life)
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Out of sight, out of mind.      
unknown
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Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your life like you will die the next day.      
unknown
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Proverbs are the daughters of experience.      
Sierra Leone
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Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.      
unknown
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The errors of a wise man make your rule rather than the perfections of a fool.      
William Blake
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.      
Alphonse Karr
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The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.      
Yiddish (on conscience)
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The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can.      
French 
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The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.      
Tibetan
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander.      
John Ray
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When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.      
Chinese
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Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather.      
Czech 
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Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.      
unknown
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom,      
Greek Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.      
John Heywood
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You can only die once.      
Portuguese Proverb
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You have to take the bitter with the sweet.      
unknown