885 quotes found
“What you can't get is just what suits you.”
“Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.”
“We all envy other people's luck.”
“Misfortunes come to all men.”
“I murmured because I had no shoes until I met man who had no feet.”
“Other people's eggs have two yolks.”
“Envy eats nothing but its own heart.”
“If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.”
“Fear is a fine spur.”
“"But" is a fence over which few leap.”
“Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)”
“A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.”
“Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.”
“Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.”
“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
“Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.”
“Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.”
“With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.”
“A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.”
