wise saying

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Gen. Douglas Sims, a senior officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, counseled the lawmakers that caution in this instance was wise, saying, “Once you take a shot, you can’t get it back.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023

Comparison, as the wise saying goes, is the thief of joy.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2021

The Germans have a wise saying, 'The trees do not grow up to the sky.'

From Time Magazine Archive

We have a wise saying," said he: " 'Better to have 100 friends than 100 rubles.'

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw an adage yesterday, in a medical magazine, which is well worth your remembering and acting on, it is this wise saying of the great Lord Bacon's:—'Who asks much learns much.'

From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by Richardson, John Purver