Penny wise is often pound foolish.


French Proverb

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Penny wise is often pound foolish.
PROVERB
Penny wise, pound foolish.
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The president's proposal is penny wise and pound foolish.
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People should seek to be pound wise and penny foolish.
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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
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FRENCH PROVERB
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Silence is wise if we are foolish, but foolish if we are wise.
UNKNOWN
The least foolish is wise.
GEORGE HERBERT
The wise can learn from the foolish as the foolish can learn from the wise
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA
The wise respond. The foolish react. The wise think & then act. The foolish act and then regret.-RVM
RVM
A wise man was once foolish
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is fooli...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they c...
PAULO COELHO
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
AESCHYLUS
It is wise to avoid pain but foolish to deny problems.
JAIME CONTRERAS
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIAN
A wise man was once foolish and throw foolishness did he become wise
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
QUINTILIAN
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.
TURKISH PROVERB
Thinking I know what I don't is foolish. Thinking I don't know is wise.
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Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.
JANETTE OKE
Wise death is the best answer to the question posed by foolish & vanity life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
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In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
OSCAR WILDE
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
A foolish fox is caught by one leg, but a wise one by all four
SERBIAN PROVERB
I think if we put it off, we will be penny wise and dollar dumb.
FRANK WEIKEL
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ROBERT STERNBERG
One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish ...
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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
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The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
GEORGE HERBERT
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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
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Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
BRUCE LEE
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
BRUCE LEE
Life's irony;Atimes the wise may have to act foolish in other to maintain the status of being wise.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
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GARY F EVANS...
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON
Wise men dine with humility,but foolish ones opt for pride instead.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
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DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understan...
AMBROSE BIERCE
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
BIBLE
Where the foolish easily give up after failure,the wise continually persist until success is in sigh...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A penny saved is a penny earned, and a penny spent, is a penny enjoyed.
UNKNOWN
He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
GEORGE HERBERT
Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.
IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
KARL KRAUS
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
KARL KRAUS
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots
KARL KRAUS
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EDMUND BURKE
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN
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JANE AUSTEN
That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.
JOHN STUART MILL
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother
BIBLE
That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public
JOHN STUART MILL
The wise see in the dark;
the foolish are blind, even in light.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
EPICTETUS
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
JAMES OPPENHEIM
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
JAMES OPPENHEIM
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
JAMES OPPENHEIM
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T. B. JOSHUA
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SAM FOSS
A penny saved is a penny wasted
AL DIAMOND
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A penny saved is a penny earned.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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AMBROSE BIERCE
The wise man boasts of his goods and wares; the foolish one of his young wife.
RUSSIAN PROVERB
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
A wise man tried to avoid battles he would not only lose, but look foolish losing.
ROBERT JORDAN
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prep...
JANE AUSTEN
A penny saved is a penny to squander.
AMBROSE BIERCE
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
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AMBROSE GWINETT BIERCE
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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