wise saying

Another wise saying, “Read yourself full, and then write yourself empty,” also applies to art.

To the traveller there are two meanings in this wise saying, both worthy of his best attention.

"Think twice before you speak once," is a trite but wise saying.

That was a wise saying of Pythagoras, that, "ability and necessity dwell near each other."

Howe now had cause to regret his absent six, and to ponder Nelson's wise saying, "Only numbers can annihilate."