#verb

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

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next ↗

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

#even #four #hate #i #kinds

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#form #late #never #prefer #proverb

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#drawn #experience #i #i believe #many

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#audible #been #delay #ear #harmonics

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#languages #metaphysical #most #nouns #verbs

I typically go overboard when I research new projects. ↗

— Will Wright

#i #new #new projects #overboard #projects

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#paper #verbal #worth #written

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. ↗