All Quotes By Tag: Proverbs
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
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“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
“A wise man does not pretend to know what he doesn’t know. He will be quiet and listen to the wiser.”
“A wise man does not pretend to know what he know not. He will listen to the wiser.”
“If you threw a stone to my direction, if the stone was not for me nor hits me, but it will hurt.”
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“If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.”
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“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
“Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.”
“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”
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“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of ‘Quotography’ (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: ‘Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments’.”
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“It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind’s arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.”
“In your name, the family name is at last because it’s the family name that lasts.”
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“Great losses are great lessons.”
“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”