Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay
dear for it.
Wisdom is attained by learning when to
hold one's tongue.
Wisdom is better than strength.
Wisdom is born; stupidity is learned.
Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to
gather.
Wisdom is folly unless a wise man guides it.
Wisdom is in the books.
Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard.
Wisdom is in the head, not in the beard.
Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it.
Wisdom is like a baobab tree, no one
individual can embrace it.
Wisdom is like a good skin bag every man
carries his own.
Wisdom is like fire. People take it from
others.
Wisdom is lost in a fat man's body.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and
hidden.
Wisdom is the least burdensome travelling
pack.
Wisdom is wealth.
Wisdom is what makes a poor man a king, a
weak person powerful, a good
generation of a bad one, a foolish man
reasonable.
Wisdom outweighs strength.
Wisdom rides upon the ruins of folly.
Wisdom without morality is like a ring
without a gem.
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
Wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Wise in the morning is wiser in the evening.
Wise is who admits he is still ignorant.
Wise lads and old fools were never good for
anything.
Wise man's anger never comes out.
Wise men are never in a hurry.
Wise men change their minds, fools never.
Wise men do not quarrel with each other.
Wise men have their mouth in their heart,
fools their heart in their mouth.
Wise men learn at another's expense.
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Wise men learn by other men's mistakes,
fools by their own.
Wise men learn by others' harm.
Wise men learn from other men's mistakes;
fools insist on learning from their own.
Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat
them.
Wise men o sittin.
Wise men philosophize as the fools live on.
Wise men sue for offices, and blockheads get
them.
Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals
about facts, and the ordinary man talks
about what he eats.
Wise people can't answer the most foolish
questions.
Wise rats run from a falling house.
Wise rising gives joy.
Wise sayings are men.
Wiser than Loqman.
Wish thy friend joy of his journey, but pray
in secret that he have no joy, for then
may he return quickly to thee.
Wish well, be well.
Wishers and woulders are poor
householders.
Wishes are the echo of a lazy will.
Wishes never filled the bag.
Wishes won't wash dishes.
Wishing does not make a poor man rich.
Wit bought is the wit best, If it be not
bought too dear.
Wit bought makes folk wise.
Wit in a poor mans head, and mosse in a
mountain, avails nothing.
Wit is folly unless a wise man hath the
keeping of it.
Wit is more often a shield than a lance.
Wit without discretion is a sword in the
hand of a fool.
Witch doctors do not sell their potions to
each other.
Witches and harlots come out at night.