God only understands fools. [ French Proverb ]
An old fox understands a trap. [ Proverb ]
Every one hears only what he understands. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Let every one talk of what he understands. [ Spanish Proverb ]
I am a barbarian here, for no one understands what I say. [ Ovid ]
Her eye in silence hath a speech which eye best understands. [ Southwell ]
A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. [ Amiel ]
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence. [ Lavater ]
The speech of the tongue is best known to men; God best understands the language of the heart. [ Warwick ]
It is an awfully dangerous thing to come across a woman who thoroughly understands one. They always end by marrying one. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Whatever that be, which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine; and, upon that account, must necessarily be eternal. [ Cicero ]
There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told. [ Lowell ]
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together - a main plot and an underplot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress. [ Colton ]
Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
See a fond mother encircled by her children; with pious tenderness she looks around, and her soul even melts with maternal love. One she kisses on its cheeks, and clasps another to her bosom; one she sets upon her knee, and finds a seat upon her foot for another. And while, by their actions, by their lisping words, and asking eyes, she understands their numberless little wishes, to these she dispenses a look, and a word to those; and whether she grants or refuses, whether she smiles or frowns, it is all in tender love. [ Krummacher ]