#prove

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#genius #nation #proverbs #spirit #their

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop. ↗

— Gina Barreca

#body #body shop #improve #longing #looks

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#companies #done #fast-growing #gets #i

If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#attract #businesses #education #improve #kind

It’s commonplace to nitpick on minor faults. But it's exceptional to correct them through enlargement. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #self-improvement #funny

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

#proverbs #truth #wisdom #equality

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much. ↗

— Beth Henley

#i #i love #live #love #me

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#foods #function #healthful #improve #our

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#could #everyone #feels #improvement #little