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proverbs
English 14th Century Proverbs The more you get the more you want.
proverbs superior wealth
African Proverbs A man's wealth may be superior to him. Cameroon
proverbs reap shall sow
English 16th Century Proverbs They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
proverbs wise
Greg Mello It's a wise thing that Kuckuck is doing.
proverbs ship woman
English 16th Century Proverbs A woman and a ship ever want mending.
proverbs
Turkish Proverbs Of everything else the newest; of friends, the oldest.
proverbs spare
English 17th Century Proverbs Spare at the spigot, and let out the bung-hole.
proverbs providence side
English 19th Century Proverbs Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.
wise laughter people
Charles Dickens He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset
wise words-of-wisdom godmother
Charles Dickens This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
wise men may
Charles Caleb Colton A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
wise money thinking
Charles Caleb Colton It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise light fire
Charles Caleb Colton If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.
wise art moments
Charles Caleb Colton The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise heart wine
Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
wise foolish gravity
Charles Caleb Colton Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.