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Tag Name "Proverb" (118)

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Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
Bill Bradley
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
Jane Austen
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If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.
Bruce Springsteen
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There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
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But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
John Heywood
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For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
Charles Dickens
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Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
Johnnetta B. Cole
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An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
Chinua Achebe
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In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'
Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza
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There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Chinua Achebe
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The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB
Craig Johnson
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For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
Aeschylus
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To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
Agatha Christie
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Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Al Gore
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I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
Francois Rabelais
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As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
Geoffrey Gorer
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CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
Ambrose Bierce
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