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- There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.
- Swahili proverb
- Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars.
- Serbian proverb
- He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish.
- Spanish proverb
- I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.
- Proverbs 7:17-18
- I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
- Miguel Cervantes
- If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
- Turkish proverb
- Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
- Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
- Everyone is wise until he speaks.
- Irish Proverb
- What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.
- Norman Douglas
- An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
- Chinese Proverb
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