Penny wise is often pound foolish.
French Proverb
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Penny wise is often pound foolish.
PROVERB Penny wise, pound foolish.
ROBERT BURTON The president's proposal is penny wise and pound foolish.
DR. LEO TRASANDE People should seek to be pound wise and penny foolish.
DOUGLAS J UTBERG If improved competitiveness is our goal, it may be penny-wise but pound-foolish to cut the successfu...
DOROTHY COLEMAN Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
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 A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
- Chinese pr...
ALVIN TOFFLER There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE 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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ROBERT WARD 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.
CANDICE OLSON 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 Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get t...
ROBERT STERNBERG One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish ...
CRISS JAMI 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.
PROVERB The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
GEORGE HERBERT Not all philosophy's are wise but than again every philosophy is thought by man and every man was on...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 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) Why live for tomorrow like a fool when tomorrow is not here yet.Live for the day like a wise individ...
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 Wise people problems, becomes everyone's solution. Foolish people solutions becomes everyone's probl...
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 The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is
foolish, when they act without delibera...
EDMUND BURKE Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considera...
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 When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise...
T. B. JOSHUA They are good, they are bad,They are weak, they are strong,They are wise, they are foolish---so am I...
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 Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understand...
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 Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of underst...
AMBROSE GWINETT BIERCE Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understa...
AMBROSE BIERCE In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles...
EMILE ZOLA He who thinks becomes clever throw the schools educational system Is foolish to think so for he is f...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because i...
LEO STEIN The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because ...
LEO STEIN Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the bla...
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