Branches Proverbs

Sayings about Branches

A man without a woman is a tree without leaves and branches. ~ Corsican Proverb

The monkey knows which branch to swing on. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)

The trees with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit. ~ Brazilian Proverb

No one can climb a tree with no branches. ~ Finnish Proverb

A fallen blossom never returns to the branch. ~ Japanese Proverb

No matter how tall the tree is, its leaves will always fall to the ground. ~ Chinese Proverb

Woe to him who sits upon a branch. ~ Croatian Proverb

Often a branch is broken off the tree by the one who has rested in its shadow. ~ Myanmar Proverb

The nuts from a palm tree don't fall without dragging a few leaves with it. ~ Congolese Proverb

God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well.~ Turkish Proverb

You shake in vain the branch that bears no fruit.~ Samoan Proverb

A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch -- both cannot be saved. ~ Indian Proverb

Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves. ~ Greek Proverb

Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots. ~ Malawian Proverb

When the tree falls everyone runs to cut the branches.~ Dutch Proverb

The branch that bears the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground. ~ Iranian Proverb

Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first.~ Samoan Proverb

He who is afraid of the leaves must not go into the wood. ~ Dutch Proverb

Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree. ~ Dutch Proverb

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.~ Chinese Proverb

The branch is seldom better than the stem.~ Danish Proverb

If there is no reason, why would the tempua bird nest on the low branches? ~ Malay Proverb

Men make the earth black from green leaves. ~ Turkish Proverb

Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned. ~ United States Proverb

Elm trees have beautiful branches but hardly ever bear fruit. ~ Spanish Proverb

A young branch can be straightened, a mature one breaks. ~ Filipino Proverb

Truth has no branches. ~ Indian Proverb

The butterfly who settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it. ~ Armenian Proverb

Tall branches are apt to be broken.~ Korean Proverb

Quotations about Branches

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. ~ James Otis

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.~ John B. S. Haldane

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch. ~ Baha'u'llah

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. ~ Frank Zappa

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. ~ William Law

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.~ Victor Hugo

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.~ Jules Verne

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.~  John Leonard

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. ~ William Allingham

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ~ e. e. cummings

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.~ Thomas Jefferson

I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.~ Jim Murray

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. ~ Albert Einstein

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.~ Frances Cornford

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.~ Margaret Atwood

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.~ Victor Hugo

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.~ Ann Plato

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. ~ Dorothea Dix

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.~ Bible

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. ~ Matthew Fox

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.~ Author Unknown

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ Henry David Thoreau

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. ~ James Stephens

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots. ~ David Novak