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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Better Fool Foolish Than
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Robbed Smiles Something Steals
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He who considers too much will perform little.

Considers Perform Little
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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Universal Death Benefit
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It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Easy Give Advice Port
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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Gain Crown Fighting Great
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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Merely Enemy Rise Reconciled
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Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Disappointments Soul Thunderstorm Air
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With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain

Stupidity Gods Struggle In-vain
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Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Live Century Creature
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Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.

Forget Done People Time
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Prose Adages Verse Which
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Crown Merely Hat Rain
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He who defends everything, defends nothing.

Defends Everything Nothing
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The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.
See More Men Better
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It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

Pardonable Defeated Never Surprised
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...I am the immense shadow of my tears

Immense Shadow Tears
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Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.
Today Heart Trembling Stars
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Have Worried Born Die
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We're all curious about what might hurt us.
Curious What Hurt Us
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My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.
Head Full Fire Grief
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I want to sleep for half a second, a second, a minute, a century, but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive...

Sleep Second Minute Century
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“The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.”

Earth Suffocating Swear Cut
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Like Long Walk People
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Imitation Sincerest Form Television
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
Lies Empire Treason Quislings
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I know nothing and my heart aches

Nothing Heart Aches
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

Empty Stage Actors Plays
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From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

Much Self-destroyed Self-thinking Thoughts
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Child Father Knows Own
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Covetousness Desire Having Sin
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Again Away Battle Fall
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We do things for good reasons that are bad.

Things Good Reasons Bad
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A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Number Images Certain Beyond
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“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.”

Experience What Looking
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It’s not easy catching a loose snake in the dark.
Snake The dark Catching
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Place New Destination Longer
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...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..

Memory Particular Image Regret
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One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.

Person Different Acquiesce Feeling
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
Flower Vase Smiles Longer
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Expression Words Never Coincide
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Nothing Treated Means
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Risk Wrong Decision Preferable
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Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
Have Two-roads Chosen Third
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And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction.

Coffee Deliciousness Bitterness Addiction
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I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Learned Dismantled Words Draw
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Words are a homeland.

Words Homeland
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The true sweetness of wine is one flavor
True Sweetness Wine Flavor
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Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Attraction Humanity Moves Progress
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Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Better Means Optimism Pessimism
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