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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

Price Pay Choose Get
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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Grace Lake Water Door
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Cancer Host Anger Fire
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Once Something Everything Cannot
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Language Head Heart Understand
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Pain Coming Conscious Without
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To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Right Problem Solution Ask
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If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive
Want Gather Honey Kick
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Allowed Anyone Child Disrespectful
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Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

Perfect Parachutes Nobody Mean
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I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

Honey Bees Mean Life
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Live Build Cheap House
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Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Fate Does Chance Matter
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You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

Preach Sermons Sinners Short
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Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

Camel Discovered Election Eye
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Funeral His Own Sympathy
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Book
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Celebrate Myself Sing
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Climbs Fruit Gulf He
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architect He Himself History
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
Cure Prayer Sovereign Worry
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Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Freedom Wolves Meant Dealth
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The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.

Fly Bird Dry Leaves
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A hungry man is an angry one.
Angry Hungry Man
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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
Forgivable Easily Some Make
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Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.

Rebellion Produce Relationship Revelation
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Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Side Story Lion Tale
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Door Found Key Might
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Spirit Genius Nation Proverbs
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Got House Planet Put
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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Dies Earnest Jest Squirrel
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Look Matters See You
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Down How Live Sit
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The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Ears Exact Eyes More
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Always Envy Happiness Lasts
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
Does Learning Much Teach
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Ears Eyes People Poor
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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Begins Bites Chew Cutting
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Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

Anger Cowardice Extremism Ignorance
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Lost Rivers Sea Self-Interest
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Else Everyone Extra Just
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Empty Empty Stomach Failing Full
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Fault Last Long Only
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Food Medicine Thy Let
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
Light Many Share Task
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Also Many Sleep Time
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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Aloof Best Curb Gentle
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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Patient Perform Resolve Wise
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Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Get Gun Pick Rid
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Comb Dew Gray Hairs
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