Proverbials!

Sayings about Age The golden age never was the present age. ~ English Proverb Old age and poverty are wounds that can't be healed. ~ Greek Proverb Old age is a hundred disorders. ~ Welsh Proverb Old age is ripeness. ~ United States Proverb If youth knew! If age could! ~ French Proverb Old age is a disease that you die from. ~ German Proverb Age does not give you good sense, it only makes you go slowly. ~ Finnish Proverb Old age devours your youth. ~ Kenyan Proverb The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~ Chinese Proverb Every age has its book. ~ Arabian Proverb An hour may destroy what an ag e was building. ~ English Proverb Old age does not announce itself. ~ South African Proverb Rejoiced in youth, repented in age . ~ German Proverb Everyone is the age of their heart. ~ Guatemalan Proverb Age is a sorry travelling companion. ~ Danish Proverb The old age of an eagle...

Sayings about Loneliness The palace leads to fame, the market to fortune, and loneliness to wisdom. ~ Chinese Proverb A lonely person is at home everywhere. ~ Russian Proverb Loneliness breaks the spirit. ~ Jewish Proverb In a choice between bad company and loneliness -- the second is preferable. ~ Spanish Proverb Strife is better than loneliness . ~ Irish Proverb Loneliness is a nest for the thoughts. ~ Kurdish Proverb Solitude is full of God. ~ Serbian Proverb The lonely person is at home everywhere. ~ Russian Proverb Quotations about Loneliness Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ~ Harold Bloom If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.~ Jean-Paul Sarter In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ~ Geoffrey F. Fisher In solitude , where we are least alone. ~ George Gordon At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful...

Sayings about Speaking From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. ~ Italian Proverb One should speak a little with others and a lot with oneself. ~ Danish Proverb When men speak of the future, the gods laugh. ~ Chinese Proverb Never speak ill of the dead. ~ Traditional Proverb Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~ Slovenian Proverb To speak French doesn't mean you are smart. ~ Haitian Proverb Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks . ~ Dutch Proverb With money you can make the dead speak ; without it you can't even keep the deaf quiet. ~ Chinese Proverb Let him speak who has seen with his eyes. ~ Congolese Proverb No woman ever speaks the naked truth. ~ Italian Proverb When a liar speaks the truth, he is sick. ~ Romanian Proverb If your heart is a rose, then your mouth will speak perfumed words. ~ Russian Proverb Nothing speaks more eloquently than money. ~ French Proverb A good speaker makes a good l...

Sayings about Doors He who wants to tell the truth will always stand before closed doors . ~ Danish Proverb Whoever keeps his door locked all the time longs for it to be broken down. ~ Chinese Proverb It's a big wind that blows on small doors . ~ French Proverb Never open a door that you can't lock again. ~ Iranian Proverb It is useless to knock at the door of a deaf man. ~ Greek Proverb When one door shuts, another opens. ~ Traditional Proverb We let him in, and now he shows us the door . ~ Berber Proverb While keeping a tiger from the front door , the wolf comes in at the back. ~ Chinese Proverb Follow the saint no further than his doorstep . ~ Egyptian Proverb Th e door of success is marked "push" and "pull." ~ Yiddish Proverb Sweep first before your own door , before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors. ~ Swedish Proverb Believe the liar up to the door of his house and no further than that. ~ Egyptian Proverb The m...

Sayings about Explanations I wept when I was born and every day explains why. ~ Spanish Proverb A judge knows nothing unless it has been explained to him three times. ~ Traditional Proverb The end justifies the means. ~ Traditional Proverb Justifying a fault doubles it. ~ French Proverbs In his decision the judge with seven reasons gives only one in court. ~ Chinese Proverb Quotations about Explanations A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation . ~ Hector Hugh Munro There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. ~ William Shakespeare It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t. ~ Martin Van Buren The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation , showing, observation and supervision. ~ Harold Hook You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. ~ Richard J. Clarke The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it. ~ Author Unknown To on...

Sayings about Measurement Eat with pleasure; drink with measure . ~ French Proverb You can’t measure the whole world with your own yardstick. ~ Yiddish Proverb A three inch tongue — the iron bulwark of politics. ~ Japanese Proverb Your fingers can't be of the same length. ~ Chinese Proverb Deviate an inch, lose a thousand miles. ~ Chinese Proverb The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. ~ French Proverb If an ox doesn't know the size of his arse he won't eat an apricot stone. ~ Martiniquais Proverb Measure your guilt, and then stretch your legs. ~ Arabian Proverb An inch too short is as bad as a yard. ~ Dutch Proverb Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven’s finger. ~ Chinese Proverb Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wick...

Sayings about Being Alone Better being alone than in bad company. ~ French Proverb He who has travelled alone can tell what he likes. ~ Rwandan Proverb Marriage teaches you to live alone . ~ French Proverb Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night. ~ Chinese Proverb Man can't live in this world alone . ~ United States Proverb Leave well alone . ~ Traditional Proverbs Who speaks alone is always right. ~ Zanzibar Proverb It is unpleasant to go alone , even to be drowned. ~ Russian Proverb A party of one alone is not a party. ~ French Proverb One would not be alone even in Paradise. ~ Italian Proverb It may be quieter to sleep alone , but not warmer. ~ Italian Proverb Better be quarrelling than lonesome . ~ Irish Proverb Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone . ~ English Proverb Pretend to be dead and the bull will leave you alone . ~ Portuguese Proverb Try to be in good company, even when you are alone . ~ Hungaria...

Sayings of Tibetan origin To spread the news is to multiply it. One good punch on your enemy's nose, gives more pleasure than hearing well-meaning advice from your elders. Cling not to experiences for ever-changing are they. Excellent Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts. A lie is like a jump from a high roof. Men will always lose the battle against cholera and bureaucracy. Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold. Each lama has his own teaching. Cold hearts can find warm words. Water in the mouth before eating; water in the eyes when the bill comes. Learn to stand up where one falls. When a king is about to lose his power his orders burn more intensely than fire. To set fire to the wood, you need the help of the wind. Beat a Chinese long enough and he will talk Tibetan. Daughters are no better than crows. Having drunk the country's water, one should obey the country's laws. The highest art is the art of living an ordin...

Sayings about Ideas Wise men talk about ideas , intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats. ~ Mongolian Proverb Id eas are something that usually comes like fireman- too late. ~ Jewish Proverb An inflated idea can burst the bubble of your happiness. ~ Myanmar Proverb The conversation of the wise concerns ideas ; that of the intelligent is about ideas; the common folk talk about food. ~ Chinese Proverb The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~ Chinese Proverb A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow building echoes all sounds. ~ Chinese Proverb Quotations about Ideas Our land is not more the recipient of the men of all countries than of their ideas . ~ George Bancroft My mind contains many good ideas , but it's not always easy to squeeze one out. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant If you are possessed by an idea , you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. ~ Thomas Mann Ideas corrode the intern...