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To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying


Mercedes Lackey


#proverb #life

Booze makes brothers like no mothers ever do.


Killian McRae


#love

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.


Soichiro Honda


#arise #best #equipped #go #goes

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.


Lafcadio Hearn


#any #helps #kind #literature #more

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.


James Howell


#common #common people #improperly #may #people

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.


William R. Alger


#fields #gathered #gems #mental #mind

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


Francis Bacon


#genius #nation #proverbs #spirit #their

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.


R. Buckminster Fuller


#few #into #matter #much #proverb

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.


Dwayne Johnson


#check #cliff #comedy #comes #commit

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.


L. M. Montgomery


#fine #help #nothing #proverbs #real






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