The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.
Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
Mama always said that if it can't rain on you, you're indoors.
All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
Never look a gift lion in the mouth.
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs
Full of wise saws and modern instances.
Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
