Proverbials!

Sayings about Deeds Perform good deeds ; you will not regret them. ~ Moroccan Proverb After a foolish deed comes remorse. ~ Kenyan Proverb A tale is soon told; a deed is not soon done. ~ Russian Proverb A good deed will make a good neighbor. ~ Bantu Proverb Great deeds come from times of shortage. ~ Japanese Proverb Good deeds banish bad ones. ~ Islamic Proverb Nothing ages more than a good deed . ~ French Proverb They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech. ~ French Proverb Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you. ~ Traditional Proverb A good deed dies when it is spoken about. ~ Arabian Proverb Knowledge is not the main thing, but deeds . ~ Sierra Leonean Proverb A good deed is written on snow. ~ Estonian Proverb The news of a good deed travels far, but the news of a bad one travels even farther. ~ Polish Proverb Big words seldom accompany good deeds . ~ Danish Proverb A good deed is the best form of prayer....

Sayings about Poems A friend is a poem . ~ Iranian Proverb Poetry moves heaven and earth. ~ Japanese Proverb A poem round and perfect as a star. ~ Alexander Smith When you are very angry, don't go to a lawyer; when you are very hungry, don't be a poet . ~ Chinese Proverb I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore. ~ Tukaram For what is a poem , but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography.~ Robert Penn Warren A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ~ E.M. Forster The moment of change is the only poem .~ Adrienne Rich For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem . ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my " poems " are competing. ~ EE Cummin...

Sayings about Poetry Three things that can't be taught: generosity, poetry and a singing voice. ~ Irish Proverb Growing rice gives you more than poetry will. ~ Japanese Proverb Poetry moves heaven and earth. ~ Japanese Proverb Quotations about Poetry What is poetry but impassioned truth—philosophy in its essence—the spirit of that bright consummate flower, whose root is in our bosoms? ~ Ebenezer Elliott Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. ~ Thomas Carlyle An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ~ Raymond Chandler Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry . ~ Alexander Pope Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either ...

Sayings about Poets Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village. ~ Malian Proverb A poet is born not made. ~ Traditional Proverb Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets . ~ Indian Proverb We all have something of a doctor, a poet and a fool. ~ Chilean Proverb Poets know all about famous places without having been there. ~ Japanese Proverb Quotations about Poets To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. He requires whatever it needs to be completely his own master. ~ Robert Graves The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ~ Edith Sitwell In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet . ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood. ~ Jean Cocteau Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. ~ William Bolitho A ...

Sayings about Rhymes Prayer and practice is good  rhyme . ~ Scottish Proverb I was promised on a time – to have reason for my rhyme; from that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. ~ Edmund Spenser There’s something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn’t just the meaning of the words, it’s the music to the words and the shape and the sound. ~ Gary Ross You want to know how to rhyme , then learn how to add. It’s mathematics. ~ Mos Def This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer – it is like a pleasure deferred. ~ James Fenton It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme . ~ Seamus Heaney Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of o...

Sayings about Words A healthy ear can stand hearing sick words . ~ Senegalese Proverb Words  go further than bullets. ~ Malagasy Proverb Wisdom consists of ten parts -- nine parts of silence and one part with few words . ~ Arabian Proverb Mere words do not feed the friars. ~ Irish Proverb Words are but dwarfs, deeds are giants. ~ Swiss Proverb Fine words do not produce food. ~ Nigerian Proverb You have two ears, but you never hear words twice. ~ Surinamese Proverb If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice. ~ Chinese Proverb Faith and dishonesty are other words for uselessness. ~ Chinese Proverb There are many words that are like salted jam. ~ Turkish Proverb The words of tongue should have three gate keepers. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb The stomach is not content with nice words . ~ Norwegian Proverb Words die and men keep on living. ~ Jamaican Proverb Cold hearts can find warm words ...

Sayings about Kindness It is easy to forget a kindnes s, but one remembers unkindness. ~ Indian Proverb A kind word can attract even the snake from his nest. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury. ~ Islamic Proverb Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind .~ English Proverb Kind words are worth much and they cost little. ~ Traditional Proverb Kindness begets kindness. ~ Greek Proverb Kind words conquer. ~ Tamil Proverb Welcome is the best cheer.~ Greek Proverb Kind words will unlock an iron door. ~ Kurdish Proverb A word of kindness is better than a fat pie. ~ Russian Proverb Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense. ~ Chinese Proverb To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. ~ Traditional Proverb He who is narrow of vision cannot be big of heart. ~ Chinese Proverb Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses .~ Chinese Proverb One kind word can warm three winter months. ~...

Sayings about Language As long as a language lives, the people will not perish. ~ Czech Proverb Love understands all languages . ~ Romanian Proverb The echo knows all languages . ~ Finnish Proverb God knows what will happen to women who drink wine, girls that speak old languages , and suns that set too early. ~ Breton Proverb Speaking French is no proof of intelligence. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.) Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~ Czech Proverb Love has its own language , but marriage falls back on the local dialect. ~ Russian Proverb Proverbs are the lamp of speech. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men. ~ Latin Proverb The eyes have one language everywhere. ~ Romanian Proverbs Who knows the language is at home everywhere. ~ Dutch Proverb As the man is, so is his language . ~ Danish Proverb Speech is silver, silence is golden. ~ Traditional Proverb Better wise language than well combed hair. ~ Ice...