611 Proverbs about Wise / Page 13
241. The wise bird flies lowest.
242. A glutton lives to eat, a wise man eats to live.
243. Any fool carries an umbrella on a wet day, but the wise man carries it every day.
244. For every wise man there is one still wiser.
245. A fool dreams of wealth, a wise man, of happiness.
246. A man is as wise as his head, not his years.
247. A wise man does his own work.
248. A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.
249. Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.
250. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
251. A fool, if he holds his tongue, passes for wise.
252. Every one is wise when the mischief is done.
253. Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise and simple.
254. It is a wise son that knows his own father.
255. It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
256. So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long.
257. The wise hand does not all that the tongue says.
258. The wise knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows.
259. The wise man does not hang his knowledge on a hook.
260. Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise.
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