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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Aims Aspire Body Ever
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There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

Africa Find Foot Grave
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The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Author Battle Could David
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Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.

Inner Outward Possibilities Problems
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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Ask Busy Busy Person Done
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Care Cultivate Eyes Garden
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Chains Move Notice Those
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When you ride a tiger, you must be prepared to end up in its bowels.
When Ride Tiger Be prepared
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They want you to hunt but not better than them
Hunt Better than Them
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Just because a dog doesn't bite its master doesn't mean you are safe too.

Dog Master Mean Safe too
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Eats Most pleasure Requires Sauce
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There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

Exist One side Paper Two sides
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When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-running', but not to help.

When The fox Rabbit scream Help
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You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
Cat do Hide Die Dogs
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Rough diamonds Mistaken Worthless pebbles
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

The female Species More deadly Male
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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

Mirror Makes you Sad Know you
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The river that flows in you also flows in me.

The river Flows In you
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There's no virgin in a maternity ward.

Virgin Maternity Ward
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Gold is not found among gold, but among pebbles and stones.
Gold Pebbles Stones
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I love this African adage; If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito.

Love Adage Too small Difference
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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

The proverb Not bite Feeds you Prevents
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Abandon ship Just because Control The winds
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
The lion Own strength Hard were Any man
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.

Servant Better Master
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You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

To do Own growing No matter How tall
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The angry man will defeat Himself in battle As well as in life.

Angry man Defeat himself Battle In life
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Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.

Every job Requires Certain riding A horse
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

What happens The hole Cheese Gone
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

Unhappy The land Need Heroes
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It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

No shame Have Dirty face Comes
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Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.

Have you Wise man Future exists The past
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You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle

You can Put wings Pig Doesn't make
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Journeys Midwives Thought Few places
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An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

An urgent Wish Guarantor Sound solution
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Now I know why tigers eat their young.
I know Why Tigers eat Young
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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
Place Your hand Lion's mouth Complain
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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.

Proverbs Human error What Computer
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Tourist May complain Be lost
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If a man slaps you and instead of slapping him back you rather go and punch your own brother for not speaking for you. The man will realize that you are a big coward and he’ll slap you again and again.

Man slaps You Back Punch
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We have labored long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

Have labored Build Heaven Populated
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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

The mountain Lived Long enough Listen objectively
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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Last word Ignorance The man Who says
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When you see a man selling handkerchiefs and still sweating profusely in traffic, it tells you that possession is not the same as ownership!

You see Man Selling handkerchiefs Sweating profusely
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A burnt finger remember the fire.

Burnt finger Remember The fire
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Don't let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.

Let anyone You believe The length Your skirt
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Single Conversation Wise Men
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.

Learning Rowing Advance Drop back
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You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.

You Seen Shadow Sky
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