proverb

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
434e43d	Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.	proverb	Terry Pratchett
b276f9e	Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.	inspirational proverb	Ben Franklin
1b67f69	There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.	proverb revelation suffering wisdom	Libba Bray
f2558e7	Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.	proverb	Frank Herbert
9f5f37d	He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.	ancient ancient-china ancient-chinese body chinese conquers fighting inspirational philosophical philosophy proverb self-improvement self-realization training warrior	Confucius
ae0a77a	Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.	act acting actor actors adage adages animal animals aphorism aphorisms audacity axiom axioms balls be-yourself boldness brave bravery cojones conform conforming conformity courage courageous courageousness daring dead death deep dictum dictums die epigram epigrams facade façades fear fearful fearlessness fit-in fitting-in fruit fruits gallantry gnome gnomes grit guts hardihood heroism herself himself human human-being human-beings humans humor humour insightful inspiration inspirational inspire inspired intrepidity kill killed lemon lemons made-me-think make-you-think maxim maxims motivated motivational motive moxie murder murdered nerve nonconformity oneself orange people peoples person persons plant plants pluck pluckiness pretend pretender pretenders pretending produce profound proverb proverbs provoke-thought quotation quotations quote quotes satire satirical saying sayings self spunk standing-out standout themselves thought-provoking thoughtful tree trees true-grit valour words-to-live-by yourself	Mokokoma Mokhonoana
8cbd5c8	To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying	proverb	Mercedes Lackey
36a7182	"Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours." This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, "One cloud feels lonely": and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast."	proverb rabbit rain	Richard Adams
ae693d3	The second mouse gets the cheese!	mouse proverb retort	Terry Pratchett
3c6c083	"Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest."	lacking-substance proverb	Alan Brennert
eebc67f	A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.	proverb proverbs	W. Somerset Maugham
fb87c66	"In the void, there is no distinction of east and west." Gwen blinked slightly at that. "I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean."	funny monk proverb steampunk	Jim Butcher

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

b276f9e

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

inspirational proverb

Ben Franklin

1b67f69

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

proverb revelation suffering wisdom

Libba Bray

f2558e7

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

proverb

Frank Herbert

9f5f37d

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

ancient ancient-china ancient-chinese body chinese conquers fighting inspirational philosophical philosophy proverb self-improvement self-realization training warrior

Confucius

ae0a77a

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

act acting actor actors adage adages animal animals aphorism aphorisms audacity axiom axioms balls be-yourself boldness brave bravery cojones conform conforming conformity courage courageous courageousness daring dead death deep dictum dictums die epigram epigrams facade façades fear fearful fearlessness fit-in fitting-in fruit fruits gallantry gnome gnomes grit guts hardihood heroism herself himself human human-being human-beings humans humor humour insightful inspiration inspirational inspire inspired intrepidity kill killed lemon lemons made-me-think make-you-think maxim maxims motivated motivational motive moxie murder murdered nerve nonconformity oneself orange people peoples person persons plant plants pluck pluckiness pretend pretender pretenders pretending produce profound proverb proverbs provoke-thought quotation quotations quote quotes satire satirical saying sayings self spunk standing-out standout themselves thought-provoking thoughtful tree trees true-grit valour words-to-live-by yourself

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

8cbd5c8

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying

proverb

Mercedes Lackey

36a7182

"Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours." This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, "One cloud feels lonely": and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast."

proverb rabbit rain

Richard Adams

ae693d3

The second mouse gets the cheese!

mouse proverb retort

Terry Pratchett

3c6c083

"Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest."

lacking-substance proverb

Alan Brennert

eebc67f

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

proverb proverbs

W. Somerset Maugham

fb87c66

"In the void, there is no distinction of east and west." Gwen blinked slightly at that. "I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean."

funny monk proverb steampunk

Jim Butcher