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Favorite Trivia – PROVERBS & SAYINGS
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| Somewhere there’s an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.”
David Baird – A Thousand Paths to Enlightenment |
| “If you didn’t hear it with your own ears or see it with your own eyes, don’t invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth.”
Ali Wentworth – As quoted in Go Ask Ali (Gossip Girl) |
| “One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.”
William Ellery Channing |
| “Into each life some rain must fall.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| “If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.”
Japanese proverb |
| “He who sings frightens away his ills.”
Cervantes – Don Quixote |
| “The nail that sticks out is hammered down.”
Japanese proverb |
| “I believe in the motto, ‘waste not, want not,’ because I sure want to want not.”
Patty Martino Alspaugh |
| “The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”
David Baird – A Thousand Paths to Enlightenment |
| “A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.”
James Abram Garfield |
| “You’re Not the Only Pebble on the Beach.”
Harry Braisted – Title of song, 1896 |
| “Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.”
Spanish proverb |
| “Dress to meet your parents; undress to meet your husband.”
Chinese proverb |
| “Always act as if you were seen.”
David Baird – A Thousand Paths to Enlightenment |
| “Beware the fury of a patient man.”
John Dryden |
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“A man convinced against his will
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“Society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they will never sit.”
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| “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm”
David Baird – A Thousand Paths to Enlightenment |
| “Even the tortoise must stick his neck out if he hopes to make any progress.”
David Baird – A Thousand Paths to Good Luck |
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Regarding freedom: “Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.”
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| “When one must, one can.”
Yiddish proverb |
| Not as mean not as lean But still a marine. Bumper Sticker |
| “When you throw dirt, you lose ground.”
David Baird – A Thousand Paths to Long Life |
| “No matter how rough the waves on the ocean surface, the waters beneath are always calm.”
David Baird – A Thousand Paths to Tranquility |
| “After the game, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.”
David Baird – A Thousand Paths to Enlightenment |
| “Never cut what can be untied.”
David Baird – A Thousand Paths to Enlightenment |