Quotes About Proverb

There was never a saint with red hair.

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal and sermonizing proverb, the harder it is to implement.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Curiosity was a cat killer?

At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed.

But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.

Do your people have a proverb about a man looking for something inside the bag of a man looking for something?

a man who perfectly exemplified the old saying that all work and no play makes Jack a management consultant)

An old Ukrainian proverb warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil." That is a risk we have to take.

We really did try hard to overcome her resentment and get her to like us—but it was no use. (Okay, maybe we didn't try all that hard.) And by now we'd given up the attempt. What was it Lottie was always saying? Call out into the forest, and the same sound comes echoing back. Or anyway, she had a proverb along those lines. We were part of a pissed-off forest, anyway, or at least Mia and I were.

I think you're being very nasty about her, and, anyway, you're in no position to talk about beauty; it's only skin deep after all, and before you go throwing stones you should look for the beam in your eye,' said Margo triumphantly. Larry looked puzzled. 'Is that a proverb, or a quotation from the Builders' Gazette?' he inquired.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.

If February give much snow A fine Summer it doth foreshow.

When the flag is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

A dimple in the chin; a devil within.

As old as the itch.

Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave, and he'll rise and steal a horse.