885 quotes found
“When one friend washes another both become clean.”
“The game is not worth the candle.”
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
“He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.”
“The beginning is half of every action.”
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.”
“If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.”
“Talking is easy action difficult.”
“He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.”
“Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.”
“He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.”
“By his deeds we know a man.”
“Wishing does not make a poor man rich.”
“One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water one pops up while you try to hold down the other.”
“He who begins many things finishes but few.”
“Who begins too much accomplishes little.”
“Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.”
“The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.”
“If you would be Pope you must think of nothing else.”
