Quotes About Wisdom

I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.

Short sentences drawn from long experience.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

Youngsters read it [Don Quixote's story], grown men understand it, and old people applaud it.

Ne'er look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

I can see with half an eye.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

A word to the wise is enough.

All is not gold that glitters.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

He preaches well that lives well.

Little said is soonest mended.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.