Quotes about Proverb

Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it.

"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."

~~German Proverb~

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather.

Don't be afraid to encounter loneliness.  It is a rare opportunity to make friends with oneself.

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.

Place is more important than strength.

The language is the soul of the people.

It is in the shelter of each other that people live.

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

All dreams spin out from the same web.

When you lose, dont lose the lesson.

Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut … We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?

If someone hates you, they won't ask you for things.

~~Ashanti proverby, quoted by Kwame Anthony Appiah in "Cosmopolitanism."

The Dog may bark, but the caravan moves on.

YOU'RE ONLY OLD ONCE.

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

He who pursue righteousness and love, finds life, properity, and honor.

We're fools whether or not we dance, so we might as well dance.

  One pang of conscience is worth more than many lashes.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

If you dam a river, it stagnates.  Running water is beautiful water.

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it”

Take heed. You do not find what you do not seek.