English Proverb or Saying Quotes

What is permitted is not always wise.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit. It is but common prudence to see the way out before we venture in.

Work all by counsel and you shall not rue.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Valor by itself may be respected but without wisdom and calculation it does not lead anywhere.

Have regard not merely to what is permissible but especially to what is expedient.

Do not seek advice from the ignorant.

Is that wise, darling? Remember you have to reign all afternoon

We have exercised restraint and adopted a wise and sane policy. But this should never be construed as weakness…

There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

If we still advise we shall never do.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.