When the cat winketh, little wots the mouse what the cat thinketh.

More proverbs about Wisdom

• Though the cat winks awhile, yet sure she is not blind. Temporary inattention doesn't indicate genuine inability; the cat merely feigns sleep whi…
• Those are wise who learn caution from their own experience; but those are wiser who learn it from the experience of others. Benefiting from others' mistakes costs less than accumulating your own painful lessons.
• There is nothing certain in this life but death and taxes! Mortality and financial obligation are life's only inevitabilities, making all other plan…
• I'm too old a bird to be caught by chaff. Experience teaches you to recognize deception disguised as something worthless or trivial.
• The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion. Illness strips away life's distractions, leaving only the essential human need to seek me…
• It chanceth in an hour that comes not in seven years. Fortune can deliver in moments what patient waiting over years might never produce.