Quotes About Proverb

In Russia we have a proverb--it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Amour au bandeau: Ce proverbe est faux. L'amour ouvre grand les yeux, il rend clairvoyant:J'ai, de toi, sur toi, le savoir absolu. Rapport du clerc au maître; tu a tout pouvoir sur moi, mais j'ai tout savoir sur toi.

Apart from sewerage systems and synthetic vitamins, you don't seem to do anything at all about prevention. And yet you've got a proverb: prevention is better than cure. But cure, said Will, is so much more dramatic than prevention.

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of impulse and energy. But everyone belongs to everyone else, he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic , self-evident, utterly indisputable.

in the kingdom of the blind," as the French proverb has it, "the one-eyed man is king";

There's an old German proverb to the effect that "fear makes the wolf bigger than he is," and that is true.

You retain your health only so long as you are willing to forgive your stresses, shrug off adversity and adapt to new situations. Resistance to change always impedes the workings of your immunity. An old Sanskrit proverb tells us kshama chajanani: the essence of motherly love is forgiveness. Damage to the ahamkara-mother predisposes us to disease by weakening our innate forgiveness.

Dyer holds that the first twelve days of January portend the weather for the next twelve months.

If Moscow is Russia's heart,' runs a Russian proverb, 'and St Petersburg its head, Kiev is its mother.

Well, they said, these are the pies we have . It was a proverb.

Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge.

When people began to throw stones at him, Shibli—so the legend has it—threw a rose, and Hallaj sighed. Asked the reason for his sigh, he answered: "They do not know what they do, but he should have known it." And the saying that "the rose, thrown by the friend, hurts more than any stone" has become a Turkish proverb.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea' – TURKISH PROVERB

It is a bad sign," said Lys. "You know the Morbihan proverb: 'When the cormorant turns from the sea, Death laughs in the forest, and wise woodmen build boats.'" "I wish," said I sincerely, "that there were fewer proverbs in Brittany.

There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.

acho que Zar aprendeu a lição. Uma vez queimado, duas reservado. - Hmf. Uma vez deitado, sempre esfomeado seria um ditado melhor para este caso.

Slowly - slowly. It was haste killed the Yellow Snake that ate the sun

Where are the fish, though? In the sea they say, in the boats we pray, said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb.

Those who beg in silence starve in silence,' said Kim, quoting a native proverb.

He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Planchet, two hours before, had asked his master for some dinner, and he had answered him with the proverb, "He who sleeps, dines." And Planchet dined by sleeping.

Confucius-says

Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.