885 quotes found
“If Fortune calls offer him a seat.”
“Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.”
“I murmured because I had no shoes until I met man who had no feet.”
“If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.”
“God made the ocean but the Dutch made Holland.”
“If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.”
“When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.”
“If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.”
“The rich would have to eat money but luckily the poor provide food.”
“Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.”
“Pray to God but keep rowing to shore.”
“Call on God but row away from the rocks.”
“Trust in Allah but tie your camel first.”
“When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.”
“When a proud man hears another praised he feels himself injured.”
“A dimple in the chin a devil within.”
“All would live long but none would be old.”
“A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds.”
“Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave and he'll rise and steal a horse.”
“If you can't bite don't show your teeth.”
