Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. — William Mathews Copy Share Image
“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese proverb” — shared by my mom Hazel Lock Copy Share Image
“Fat Kid Proverb #52: Never miss an opportunity to dissect a compliment.” — K.L. Going Copy Share Image
“You can’t force anyone to love you or lend you money. —Jewish proverb Saturday,” — Jane Healey Copy Share Image
“Let those who want to hatch hatch their own eggs. ----Martinique proverb” — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“Q: How can I help myself? A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past. — Sarah Doudney Copy Share Image
“I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I… — Andre Breton 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
“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
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
“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
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
“Never judge a man without putting yourself in his place.” This old proverb makes all judgment impossible, for we judge someone only… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“It is a fool who lives his life believing the waves upon which he sails shall remember him. The seas know nothing.… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
“That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” —James Cameron “If you… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of… — P.T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations),… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“No, sir! If, for example, in earlier times it was said to me: “Love your neighbour” and I acted on it, what… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Again, the law of balance does not allow anyone to take the lion's share of nature's gifts. Beauty in face is accompanied… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
