Proverb Quotes

“As the saying goes, 'People do not stay in favor a thousand days; flowers do not stay in bloom a hundred days.' Nobody can count on being happy and prosperous a whole lifetime.”
― Pai Hsien-yung, Taipei People

“Why do you do that?" Bellatine asked him.
"Do What?"
"You're a compulsive liar."
He popped a fry into his mouth, chasing it with a gulp of wine. "We're all acting, all the time. We have different selves for different people, different circumstances. You play one part for me, another part for Mira & Dad, and another altogether when you're alone."

Bellatine & Issac Pages 172”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

“Before you can fly, you've first got to swim. That's a proverb from BearPaw Duck Farm.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“The Gallic cock was worth most on his own dunghill” - a Roman proverb.”
― Seneca, Apocolocyntosis

“Japanese Proverb ,Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands,”
― Japanese Proverb

“Find someone who loves you the way my girlfriend pushes me off a cliff. Without hesitation.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“If light reveals not what you seek,

In darkness what can you peek?”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Your feet will lead you where your heart is.”
― Irish proverb

“A successful aphorism is like the universe in its infancy: vast energy and luminosity clenched in a single fist.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“There is no mercy for the cripple. Therefore, you must have the courage to be a conqueror, if only you remain persistently committed to your definite course with strong will of determination of diligence to divine duty.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Curiosity can not kill the cat.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Look at the people from the top, who were trying to defeat you, when God holds your back day by day you go up.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“He who lies and steals ...and forms a government.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Proverb:
«A palafrén bien ensillado, nunca falta jaca para ser amado»

Answer:
El dicho sugiere que quien tiene un buen palafrén no le falta compañía o amor. Quizás sea una forma de expresar que ante el valor de un hombre
sumiso nunca falta mujer para ser querido.”
― David Silvestre, Eduardo, Príncipe Negro de Gales

“And he said...

...do not carry a piece of straw unless you are expecting to meet an angry camel.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Wild Fremen said it well:"Four things cannot be hidden - love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Why don't you answer me straight out?" Hayt demanded. "You know we have other ways of questioning you. We'll get our answers. . . one way or another."
"But I have answered you! Have I not said the myth is real? Am I the wind that carries death in its belly? No! I am words! Such words as the lighting which strikes from the sand in a dark sky. I have said: 'Blow out the lamp! Day is here!' And you keep saying: 'Give me a lamp so I can find the day.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Non se collen troitas a bragas enxoitas.”
― Álvaro Cunqueiro, Merlín e familia

“All the water in the sea won’t wash out our kinship.”
― Angus Macgillivray, Our Gaelic Proverbs: A Mirror of the Past

“একটি কুমির এবং একটি জলহস্তী কখনও বন্ধু হতে পারে না!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“A crocodile and a hippopotamus can never be friends!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“The dogs bark but the caravan moves on”
― N/A

“The devil thrives in confusion's cracks.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Fall seven times, stand up eight (Nanakorobi yaoki (七転び八起き) - Japanese Proverb; Water Moon”
― Samatha Sotto Yambao

“Abantu abahle abaningi banemoya omubi.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Better a dog of the Ait Atta, than Sultan under the French.’’

— Saying of the Middle Atlas”
― Carleton S. Coon, The Riffian

“The ill alone know what health is worth.”
― Mozabite proverb

“প্রত্যেক ডুবন্ত মানুষই স্বার্থপর!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“মুচির নজর জুতার উপর!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“A cobbler always eyes your shoes!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque