Proverbials!

Sayings about Consulting What's the use of consulting a dead man's horoscope? ~ Senegalese Proverb And never consult a doctor who has never been ill himself. ~ Greek Proverb While the doctors consult , the patient dies. ~ English Proverb It is better to skip one meal than to consult a hundred doctors. ~ Spanish Proverb If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. ~ Chinese Proverb Quotations about Consulting Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. ~ Joseph Brodsky Don’t consult anyone’s opinions but your own. ~ Persius My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. ~ Peter F. Drucker Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult . ~ Napoleon Bonaparte A consultant is someone who saves his client almost e...

Sayings about Ball Games The ball always looks for the best player. ~ French Proverb It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground. ~ Traditional Proverb Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game. ~ Traditional Proverb Quotations about Ball Games Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half if physical. ~ Yogi Berra Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. ~ Mark Beltaire The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does. ~ Phil Woosnam Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. ~ Willie Mays Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field? ~ Jim Boulton Baseball is an isla...

Quotations about Anticipation Anticipate  the good so that you may enjoy it. ~ Ethiopian Proverb When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the  anticipation  of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure. ~ Roger Crawford All fear is in itself painful, and when it conduces not to safety; is painful without use. Every consideration, therefore, by which groundless terrors may be removed adds something: to human happiness. ~ Samuel Johnson An intense anticipation i tself, transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ~ Samuel Smiles Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ~ Samuel Johnson Our thinking and our behavior are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. ~ Deepak Chopra Anticipate the difficult by ...

Sayings about Partnership If there is any profit in partnership , two will share a woman. ~ Tunisian Proverb In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on. ~ American Proverb Authority has no partner . ~ French Proverb One of the two partners always bites the best part of the apple. ~ Indian Proverb Partnership is an invention of the devil. ~ Russian Proverb Doctors and gravediggers are partners . ~ Yiddish Proverb A partner in the business will not put an obstacle to it. ~ Ethiopian Proverb Quotations about Partnership It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. ~ Michael Eisner First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it. ~ David Ogilvy Strategic partnership is based on a shared set of values.~ Benigno Aquino III Mirror your partner’s ...

Sayings about Results Good habit  results  from resisting temptation.~ Traditional Proverb Justice is the result of public opinion.~ Chinese Proverb There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the  result  is twins. ~ Chinese Proverb Win a cat and lose a cow -- the consequence of litigation. ~ Chinese Proverb What you sow, so shall you reap. ~ Yemeni Proverb Being too nice can cost a lot. ~ Yiddish Proverb Abuses are the result of seeing one another too often. ~ Swahili Proverb Whatever you sow, you reap. ~ Iranian Proverb The consequence is the reward of the cause. ~ Japanese Proverb Much more than you have sown will grow in your garden. ~ Croatian Proverb Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ~ Bible He that sows shall also reap. ~ Iranian Proverb No matter how fast a man is, he cannot outrun his shadow. ~ Cameroon Proverb Haste does not result in prosperity. ~ S...

Sayings about Politeness Too much  politeness  conceals deceit. ~ Chinese Proverb One can forgive a murder but not  impoliteness . ~ Chinese Proverb Politeness pleases even a cat. ~ Czech Proverb If you have no money, be polite . ~ Danish Proverb Politeness is what warmth is to wax. ~ German Proverb Polite words open iron gates. ~ Croatian Proverb When you are polite , the others think they are wearing flowers. ~ Japanese Proverb Learn politeness from the impolite. ~ Egyptian Proverb Nothing is more noble than politeness , and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony. ~ Traditional Proverb To serve our elders is a duty, our equals it is polite , but serving the young is humiliating. ~ Serbian Proverb Politeness is the art of rendering to every one, without effort, that which is socially his due. ~ French Proverb A polite devil is more agreeable than a rude saint. ~ Lebanese Proverb Too much politeness is impertinent. ~ Japanese Proverb Qu...

Quotations about Tolerance Tolerance  always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant. ~ Sidney Hook Travel teaches tolerance . ~ Benjamin Disraeli It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. ~ Pierre Bayle Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.~ John F. Kennedy Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him. ~ Goethe The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. ~ George Eliot What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. ~ Voltaire Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. ~ Thomas Mann Laws alone cannot secure f...

Quotations about Retirement Retirement : statutory senility. ~ Emmett O'Donnell To fear retirement is to fear life. ~ Ernie J. Zelinski Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. ~ Anthony Trollope Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire . I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ~ Samuel Johnson Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ~ G...

Sayings about Principles I have no set principles ; I make adaptability to all circumstances my principle. ~ Japanese Proverb A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment. ~ Chinese Proverb What's got badly goes badly. ~ Irish Proverb The day of the storm is not the time for thatching your roof. ~ Irish Proverb Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. ~ English Proverb A puff of wind and popular praise weigh the same. ~ English Proverb A good name is better than a precious stone. ~ Yiddish Proverb Quotations about Principles Many people would rather fight for their principles than live up to them. ~ Author Unknown I like persons better than principles , and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ~ Oscar Wilde To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. ~ Albert Camus Amid the pressure of great even...

Sayings about Places Poets know all about famous places without having been there. ~ Japanese Proverb There's no place like home. ~ English Proverb Birds of a color fly to the same place . ~ Welsh Proverb Do not stand in a dangerous place trusting in miracles. ~ Arabian Proverb At a round table there is no dispute about place . ~ Italian Proverb This world is a harsh place , this world. ~ Zulu Proverb Don't cough in a hiding place . ~ Sudanese Proverb Don't settle in a place where the doctor has gout. ~ Yiddish Proverb A change of name or place may sometimes save a person. ~ Hebrew Proverb In a place without dogs they teach the cats to bark. ~ Georgian Proverb The place honors not the man; it is the man who honors the place. ~ Hebrew Proverb The world is a big place but there is so little room in it. ~ Polish Proverb If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree.~ Osage Proverb No one can be caught in places ...

Sayings about Dogs Where there are no dogs the wolves will howl. ~ Serbian Proverb When the healthy dog fights with a mad dog, it is the ears of the healthy one that are bitten off. ~ Myanmar Proverb The dog has four feet, but he does not walk in four roads at the same time. ~ Haitian Proverb A dog with a docked tail is not afraid that its backside can be seen. ~ French Proverb If you don't want to be hung yourself, blame the dog for stealing the sausage. ~ German Proverb A hungry wolf is stronger than a satisfied dog . ~ Ukrainian Proverb Stroke the dog and he will mark you with his dirty paws. ~ Albanian Proverb A grateful dog has more worth than an ungrateful man. ~ Arabian Proverb By slitting the ears and cutting the tail, a dog is still a dog, not a horse, not an ass. ~ Sanskrit Proverb A white dog does not bite another white dog. ~ Kenyan Proverb When the hyena is gone, the dog begins to bark. ~ Ethiopian Proverb The talker will lead the dog to the me...