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The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.
— Idries Shah
When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth - Persian Proverb
— Jennifer Fallon
I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.
— Bryan Procter
There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post.
— Andrew Matthews
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The second mouse gets the cheese!
— Terry Pratchett
My spirit thirst for the living water.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.
— Idries Shah
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:
Leave no stone unturned. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue - Russian Proverb
— Rachel Van Dyken
There is no honour among thieves.
— American Proverb.
There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
— Thomas Carlyle
In a good book the best is between the lines.
— Swedish Proverb
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
— Swedish Proverb
Cry is a sound in woman's ear; it is a volcano in man's heart.
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. French Proverb
— Lawrence W. Gold
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
— Stephen King
He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.
— Salman Rushdie
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, and others build windmills. chinese proverb
— Anonymous
Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
— Patricia Wentworth
Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.
— Idries Shah
No colour comes after black.
— Idries Shah
There is a proverb which says "As the soul is at three so it is at one hundred,
— Yei Theodora Ozaki
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
— Mark Twain
A bench of bishops is the devils flower garden
— Unattributed
A stolen kiss is not easily returned.
— Idries Shah
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
— Yiddish Proverb
A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)
— Habeeb Akande
There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.
— D.B. Patterson
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
— Anthony Trollope
As long as a human being lives he will learn .
— Lybian Proverb
There is no fool like an old fool.
— American Proverb.
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus - man is a wolf to man - ... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
— Geoffrey Gorer
Where are the fish, though?""In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb. — Rudyard Kipling
Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.
— Leo Gordon
Visits always give pleasureif not the arrival, the departure. — Portuguese Proverb
god gives but does not share" --haitian proverb
— Tracy Kidder
Better late than ever.
— American Proverb.
No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.
— Idries Shah
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
As the Chinese proverb says, 'Those who say it can't be done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing it.
— Mollie Culligan
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.
— Idries Shah
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
— Chinua Achebe
You are never too old to learn.
— American Proverb.
He who makes no mistakes never makes anything.-- English Proverb — Andrew Szlachetko
Stop hating yourself for the things you have not and start loving yourself for the things that you have.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Good things come to those who wait. English Proverb
— Bey Deckard
One lie will keep out forty truths.
— Idries Shah
I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
There's an old Japanese proverb - to wait for luck is the same as waiting for one's death. We make our own luck, my old friend." "I
— David Leadbeater
Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.Proverb — Idries Shah
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
— Idries Shah
The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
— Marian Keyes
There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Tell the truth and . . .run!"Old Croatian proverb — Teresa Toten
If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
The lion and the lamb may lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep. - An old desert proverb
— Melissa McPhail
There is an end to every journey.Even life will come to an end one moment in time. — Lailah Gifty Akita
God made man because He loves stories
— Yiddish Proverb
Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly,
— Marian Phair
Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing. - SIOUX PROVERB
— Jeff Brown
Silence is the door of consent.
— Lybian Proverb
Wealth is like the morning dewwhich dissipates with the
advent of the sunrise"
(A Ndebele Proverb)
— Ndaba Sibanda
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." Dutch proverb
— Nana Awere Damoah
Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.
— Idries Shah
Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb. — Idries Shah
The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
— Thomas Szasz
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
— Pliny The Elder
Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.
— Laura Fitzgerald
