“He who lives without discipline dies without honor.” Icelandic Proverb” — Lance Hightower Copy Share Image
“Well dressed to-day; only a langouti tomorrow. --Mauritius proverb” — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Rome ne s’est pas faite en un jour. (Rome wasn’t built in a day.)” —ancient French proverb” — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“Don’t Rely on Experts Doveryai, no proveryai (trust, but verify). —OLD RUSSIAN PROVERB,” — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom. — Greg Jackson Copy Share Image
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If you can’t have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have. Amish Proverb” — Shelley Shepard Gray Copy Share Image
“He who has never hunted, never loved, never sought out the fragrance of a flower, and never quivered at the sound of… — Julia Drosten Copy Share Image
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“Never apologize for struggling with an enemy who attacks you,” she said, almost as if she was quoting a proverb. “That is… — B.V. Larson Copy Share Image
“The only way to tell a fable is to introduce a human. The only way to tell a proverb is to introduce… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
You know there's an old african proverb that i made up. if you want to go quickly, go alone. if you want… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When life makes no sense...it's time to 'seek not your own understanding.' -Proverb 3:5-6 — Bible Copy Share Image
Let the wise also hear and gain in learning, and the discerning acquire skill, to understand a proverb and a figure, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
