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Swedish proverbsA "Alla vegar ber till Rom." Translation: "All roads lead to Rome." "Allt er inte guld som glimmar." Translation: "Not everything that glimmers is gold."
John Hegley
Sourced Glad To Wear Glasses (1990) my grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the muck on your own
John Wesley Hardrick
Sourced. Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality. Said in 1914 during an exhibit at Allen Chapel in Indianapolis; cited in William Edward Taylor ...
Clothing
Sourced. Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Dorothy Parker, caption written for Vogue, 1916. (Cf. Hamlet, Act II, sc. ii: "Brevity is the soul of wit.")
Diogenes of Sinope
Quotes. I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be. As quoted in The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern (1937) by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Greg Bear
Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh, And now it is forever.
English proverbs
Proverbs are popularly defined as short expressions of popular wisdom. Efforts to improve on the popular definition have not led to a more precise definition.
Fabio Cannavaro
Fabio Cannavaro, Cavaliere OMRI (born September 13, 1973) is an Italian FIFA World Cup-winning footballer and captain of Italy who currently plays for Juventus Turin.
Shoes
Quotes about shoes. Sourced. For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. Proverb reported by George ...
Aristophanes
Sourced Each quote is often given in multiple versions: always the translation at Perseus (usually reliable literal translation with hypertext original Greek available ...
Tiberius
Sourced. Quem maxime casum timens, partes sibi quas senatui liberet, tuendas in re pAublicaA. depoposcit, quando universae sufficere solus nemo posset nisi cum altero vel ...
Jose Mourinho
FC Barcelona (assistant manager) "Luis Fernandez has made this shock Adefeat of BarcelonaA a war of dogs. I only talk about men, not of rude children."
Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC, born at Sassina, Umbria) was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his ...
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Eastern Orthodox Christianity is the Christianity held by the Eastern Orthodox Church a Christian body that views itself as: the historical continuation of the original ...
Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-12-25 1855-01-25) was an English diarist, travel-writer and catalyst in the writing of her brother William Wordsworth 's poems.
Scottish Gaelic proverbs
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Fred Brooks
"It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable."
Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (March 18, 1869 November 9, 1940) was a British politician from a famous political dynasty. After being Mayor of Birmingham, he went into ...
David Icke
David Icke (born April 29, 1952) is a controversial English writer, and conspiracy theorist. Previously a goalkeeper in the English football league, which he retired from ...
December 7
Quotes of the day from previous years: 2004 Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would ...
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785-01-04 1863-09-20) and Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-02-24 1859-12-16), were both giants in the field of Germanic ...
Advertising slogans
Advertising slogans are short, often memorable phrases used in advertising campaigns. They are claimed to be the most effective means of drawing attention to one or more ...
Jade Empire
The Player (Note: these are only choices that the player can potentially make) Ato Kai Lan the Serpent, suggesting that Black Whirlwind fight him in his or her steadA There ...
Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
July 26
Quotes of the day from previous years: 2004 Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our ...
Ability
Sourced. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Francis Bacon, Essays; Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can ...
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born 1940-05-17) is an American computer scientist known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user ...
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, famous for his ...
Divine Principle
The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean, Wolli Kangron) is the main theological textbook of the Unification Church.
American proverbs
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z A. A handful of gold is a heart of iron. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Thomas Browne
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with me in that, from which perhaps within a ...
Duty
Duty (from "due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, did, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. "debt") is a term loosely applied to any action (or course of ...
On the Jews and Their Lies
On the Jews and Their Lies (German: Von den Juden und ihren Legen) is a treatise written in January 1543 by Martin Luther, the German theologian, in which he advocated ...
Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c. 69 c. 140) was a Roman biographer. Among his surviving works are some thumbnail sketches of the lives of Roman grammarians, rhetoricians ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray (often mistakenly referred to as The Portrait of Dorian Gray) is the only published novel written by Oscar Wilde, first appearing as the lead ...
Italian proverbs
A. Non affoga colui che cade in acqua - ma affoga chi male incappa. Literal translation: Who falls in water doesn't drown - but who falls badly will.
Jorge Luis Borges
All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our ...
Francois Fenelon
All men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such.
The Simpsons
For other uses, see The Simpsons (disambiguation). The Simpsons is a popular US animated television series on the Fox Network (December 17, 1989 - present) created by Matt ...
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.
Davy Crockett
I leave this rule for others when I'm dead Be always sure you're right THEN GO AHEAD!
Greeks
This page contains quotes about the people of Greece. For the TV series, see Greek (TV series). The Greeks are an ethnic group who have populated Greece from the early 2nd ...
Blake's 7
Vila: Easy! Take it easy! I hate personal violence, especially when I'm the person.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
Finnish proverbs
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