Quotes Tagged "adage"

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.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Great losses are great lessons.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

All worries are less with wine.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

What you choose also chooses you.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.