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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

You cannot quench a burning fire with petrol.

Cannot quench Burning fire Petrol
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Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

Don't Advice How Cook
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I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.

Learned When You're Love
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Fire Force Abated Anger
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

If Pleasant Taste Adversity
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Don’t fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way.

Don't Fall Love Night
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An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep” If we were to summarize this insightful African proverb in one word, it would be “leadership” Lion leadership to be specific. Which is characterized by bold, determined decisions to safeguard interest

An army Sheep Led by A lion
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Learn To appreciate Be time The trees
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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.
Hungry dog Believes in Nothing Meat
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No one can help the fish to find the ocean.

No one Help Find Ocean
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

Can't eat Orange Peel away A man
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Are you here to feed the soil or to grab the fruit.

Are you Here To feed The soil
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A lion never roars after a kill.
A lion Never roars A kill
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Matter Cat Catches Mice
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

Person desires To keep Own bread Hunger ensue
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You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

Can't take A cat A dog Get lemons
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Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

The few Know The sweetness Twisted apples
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The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

Crows Hens Deliver Goods
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Hot water may insist on transforming gaari’s destiny. But it must first accept to disappear into it.It’s suicidal to insist on changing someone else.

Hot water May insist Transforming First accept
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The ants that die inside sugar always start off thinking they’ve found a lifetime opportunity.

The ant Die Inside sugar Thinking
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No matter how hungry the lion is she will never eat grass, it is not arrogance, it is her way of life.

No matter How hungry The lion Eat grass
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If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove

Man Wise Harmless Dove
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When you want to kill a small dog you give it a big name.
You want Kill Small dog Big name
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Looked Home Examine Conscience
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Man Stream Knows Strength
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Don't quench your thirst with toxic water and satisfy your hunger with maggot-infested meat.Trust your truth.

Don't quench Your thirst Toxic water Your hunger
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Only a true Queen can make a King wait.on his feet.

True queen Can make King wait His feet
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Do not throw mud at people for you may miss them while being left stuck with dirty hands.

Throw mud At people Miss them Left stuck
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Never Sell Killed Beast
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You are at full speed,I'm walking.I'll still catch you.
Full speed I'm walking Catch you
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The people that gathered ant infested firewood are complaining that lizards have come to visit them.

The people Infested firewood That lizards Visit them
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For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

You New Glitters Gold
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Don’t mock people that seek your help.The sun that melts butter is the same sun that hardens the clay.Life is a vicious circle.

Mock people That seek Your help The sun
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If you aid a scorpion today, know that tomorrow it will be your turn to be stung for it is the nature of the scorpion to sting.

You aid Scorpion today Tomorrow Be stung
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

Real Experienced Proverb Life
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander

Good Goose Gander
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Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

Coal Dug Warms World
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Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

Omelets Made Eggs
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Proverb Sentence Experience
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