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Quotes About Saying

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
~ Monty Python
In my language there is a saying: "Ndiwelimilambo enamagama" (I have crossed famous rivers). It means that one has traveled a great distance, that one has had wide experience and gained some wisdom from it.
~ Nelson Mandela
To Goethe again we owe the profound saying: "the mathematician is only complete insofar as he feels within himself the beauty of the true.
~ Oswald Spengler
Silence becomes a woman.' Every woman I've ever known was brought up on that saying.
~ Pat Barker
His favorite saying was, 'Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum." "'Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe'?" Boyd said, sounding a little incredulous. Isabella hadn't, apparently, been the only one who understood her defiance. She nodded. "Usually he only said it when my brother or I were being particularly horrible.
~ Patricia Briggs
Expect disaster every seven years,'" he said. "It is an old saying, and true enough.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
each person here because the time has come for this, for arriving and surrendering, for saying yes to the truth and just going there, to that place, where we already are.
~ Paula McLain
This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance.
~ 1 Timothy 4:9