#proverb

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders. ↗

— Bill Bradley

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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

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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

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

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My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#chemistry #early #high #high school #home

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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