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"689 Proverbs & Adages Quotes

Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to a minimum.

Animals Body Fast Found
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Widow. The word consumes itself.
Consumes Itself Widow Word
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Like Nothing Pile Stinks
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I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.
Begun Feel Jew Like
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If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
Anybody Disappointed Expect Never
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What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Arrow Future Man Off
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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Currents Despairing Electric Floods
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Don’t ever wrestle with a pig..you both will end up dirty but the pig will enjoy it.

Enjoy Dirty End Both
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Having wrong friends and yet expecting a great future is like building a house using inferior materials.

Future Great Wrong Friends
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.

Change Get Must Who
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I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

Cave Live Palace Rather
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Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

Back Cause Circus Got
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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Belt Feather Head Over
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Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

Game Life Play Realize
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It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Face Hard Mirror Own
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

Metaphors Other Perhaps Things
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Different Each Others Part
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Legalistic remorse says,
Legalistic Remorse God Repentance
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
Person King Glass Water
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Because Deemed Good Helps
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The dose makes the poison.

Dose Makes Poison
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

Bite Careful Chew Dangerous
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Because Book Cover Day
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Being Blind Having Only
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Did Does Explain Less
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Enough Gate Knock Long
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A goat cannot go to a barbing salon when a lion is the barber.
Salon Lion Barber When
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

House Laughter Makes Woe
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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Blood Gallon Pint Saves
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You give before you get.

Before Get Give You
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Delightful Most Must Senses
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Deep Does Frost Glitter
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

Enough Ground How Legs
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Without a leader, black ants are confused

Black Leader Confused
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Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Men Dead Hang Right
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The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

World Bright Men Say
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

College Fools Develop
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
Tongue Lies Truth
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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Strife Vanquished Dead
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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Better Bird Cannot Catch
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If you are carrying an elephant on your head, don't use your toe to kill an ant. Ignore small haters. Your progress is too vital to interrupt for them

Head Elephant Toe Haters
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

Create Keep Secret Benefit
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
Good Look
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Judge Questions Answers
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Man Every Guilty Good
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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Fear less Hope more Eat less Chew more
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Those who wish to sing will always find a song.

Wish Song Sing Always
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A witty saying proves nothing

Witty Saying Proves
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Better is the enemy of good.

Better Enemy Good
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