For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
Let no one oppose this belief of mine with that well-worn proverb 'He who builds on the people builds on mud.
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Egyptian Proverb The worst things To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
There is a southern proverb fine words butter no parsnips.
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says 'The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.'
This proverb flashes thro' his head, The many fail, the one succeeds'.
The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
Curse away And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,'Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost.'
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 film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb And the Prophet said, And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead.
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them or as the Italian proverb says, The man that lives by hope, will die by despair
Old proverb says, That bird is not honest That filleth his own nest.
I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says 'He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy.' The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.
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