Proverb Quotes - Page 4

Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.

Chinese Proverb

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life…By wisdom a house is built, by understanding it is established; And by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

In youth audacity is wise

William Allingham

Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.

The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.

Haste is from the Devil.

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

E.A. Bucchianeri

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

Michael Crichton

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

Joe Hill

What you choose also chooses you.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Lao Tzu

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Benjamin Franklin

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.--Shin'a'in saying

Mercedes Lackey

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