The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.


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The wise man has long ears and a short tongue
GERMAN PROVERB
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
GEORGE HERBERT
Long tongue - short hands
CZECH PROVERB
You're short on ears and long on mouth.
JOHN WAYNE
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.
EPICTETUS
God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to spea...
THOMAS WATSON
Not every ass has long ears
GERMAN PROVERB
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance corre...
EDWARD ALBEE
Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak
EPICTETUS
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see mo...
SOCRATES
At table keep a short hand; in company keep a short tongue.
TURKISH PROVERB
Being a good person alone does not guarantee a tragedy-free life; so, be wise and be careful: Life i...
JOHN B. BEJO
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
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
A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.
UNKNOWN
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

- Chinese pr...
ALVIN TOFFLER
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
DIOGENES
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less
DIOGENES
A fool is surrounded by blessings, but is chained by folly and thus cannot reach them. A wise person...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears
EMILY MURPHY
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
EMILY MURPHY
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
WARREN BENNIS
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
WARREN G. BENNIS
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
WARREN BENNIS
A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
DIOGENES LAëRTIUS
Your tongue is more foolish than you but your ears are wiser than you.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to s...
ROBERT FULGHUM
A long tongue shortens life.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
EPICTETUS
Mungu alitupa masikio mawili na ulimi mmoja. Tunatakiwa kusikiliza zaidi kuliko kuongea.
ENOCK MAREGESI
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the m...
UNKNOWN
Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing
BIBLE
I wanted his death so savagely that the need for it rang in my ears and clouded my sight and was a f...
STEPHENIE MEYER
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Advice for the wise:
You"d better bite your tongue
Rather than cast a spell wrong.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
BIBLE
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
It has the potential to help lower both short-term and long-term health costs.
HELEN DARLING
Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish...
DIOGENES
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish...
DIOGENES OF SINOPE
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks
YIDDISH PROVERB
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce L...
BEN JONSON
In a short amount of time, the design team has come a long, long ways, ... ... I think it's starting...
MAGGIE BROOKS
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
Always run away from temptations... but slowly, so they can catch up to you.
SAM LEVENSON
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
ANONYMOUS
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
ERMA BOMBECK
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
ANONYMOUS
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
ANONYMOUS
There has been huge demand everywhere. These people all need short- and long-term housing.
AL MANSELL
Reading a book is like meeting a wise person who has plenty of time to share his ideas with you.
ILZE LITIņA
A wise man's words, will always fall on deaf ears. For He is speaking to unwise men, and must learn ...
ENRIQUE VEGA
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
JEN KNOX
A wise person escapes temptation and leaves no forwarding address.
UNKNOWN
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talker...
PLAUTUS
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talker...
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Technology has given the dumb a tongue
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
We know it only takes one critically short telomere to make a cell die, so it's clear that the more ...
CAROL GREIDER
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
NIKITA IVANOVICH PANIN
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
POPE PAUL VI
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
POPE PAUL VI
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
GEORGE BANCROFT
Petite doesn't necessarily mean small circumference-wise, but short.
PEGGY DUPRAS
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of th...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR
The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrati...
ROBERT WIBBELSMAN
A hungry stomach has no ears.
PROVERB
A hungry stomach has no ears.
TURKISH PROVERB
You can be wise in certain things but to be consider a wise person you have to be wise in all
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA
The day has eyes, the night has ears
SCOTTISH PROVERB
Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting to...
JAZZ FEYLYNN
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
THOMAS CARLYLE
A wise man is actually a very experienced person.
NEHA KOTHARI
Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting ...
JAZZ FEYLYNN
A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.
ROY T. BENNETT
He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really w...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
A person with a gun is no match for a fearless person with heart. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN
The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
CARL HIAASEN
Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears; As wise philosophers h...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
The one who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is a wise person.
BHAGAVAD GITA
Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute,...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise (Proverbs 15:31).
BIBLE
The person who completes your life, is not so much the person who shares all the years of your exist...
SUSAN MEISSNER
I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongu...
ANNE RICE
A wise person understands that we need a balance between then, now and next.
GRANT FAIRLEY
The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed tha...
TERRY LANDER

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