Quotes
Had a maximum hits on the Proverb sections, here are some more for your reading pleasure:
- · A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
- · A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.(My favorite)
- · A book holds a house of gold.
- · A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
- · A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
- · A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
- · A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
- · A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.
- · A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
- · A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
- · A nation's treasure is in its scholars.
- · A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.
- · Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
- · Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.
- · Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
- · Dig the well before you are thirsty.
- · Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
- · Do not employ handsome servants.
- · Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.
- · Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
- · Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
- · Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
- · Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- · He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- · He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.
- · He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
- · If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
- · If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- · If you bow at all, bow low.
- · If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
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