English Proverbs
| № | Proverbs | origin |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. | African |
| 2 | Words should be weight not counted. | Yiddish |
| 3 | It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. | Chinese |
| 4 | A spoon doesn’t know the taste of food, nor a fool the taste of wisdom. | Welsh |
| 5 | Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. | English |
| 6 | A fool and his money are soon parted. | English |
| 7 | Before you score you must have a goal. | Greek |
| 8 | Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. | Chinese |
| 9 | The pillow is the best adviser. | Swedish |
| 10 | A cat in mittens won’t catch mice. | Gaelic |
| 11 | Empty barrel makes the most noise. | Icelandic |
| 12 | He who digs a pit for others will fall in it himself. | Romanian |
| 13 | There is a bad potato in every sack. | Welsh |
| 14 | In a piranha filled river, the alligator swims backstroke. | Brazilian |
| 15 | Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. | English |
| 16 | It is not enough to learn how to ride; you must also learn how to fall. | Mexican |
| 17 | The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure. | Tibetan |
| 18 | Listen to the wind. It talks. Listen to the silence. It speaks. Listen to your heart. It knows. | Native American |
| 19 | You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. | English |
| 20 | Don’t cross a bridge until you come to it. | English |
| 21 | Out of sight out of mind. | English |
| 22 | Barking dogs seldom bite. | English |
| 23 | Don’t put the cart before the horse. | English |
| 24 | Every cloud has a silver lining. | English |
| 25 | If you can’t beat them, join them. | English |
| 26 | It’s better to be safe than sorry. | English |
| 27 | Never test the depth of water with both feet. | English |
| 28 | No news is good news. | English |
| 29 | The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. | English |
| 30 | A wise man makes his own decisions and an ignorant man follows the public opinion. | Chinese |
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Wise Quotes
| № | Wise quotes | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | «Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” | Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011), an American business magnate, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor |
| 2 | “It is during the darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” | Aristotle, 384BC, philosopher |
| 3 | “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step” | Lao Tzu Chinese VI-V century BC, philosopher |
| 4 | “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” | Friedrich Nietzsche 19th-century philosopher |
| 5 | “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” | Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865); 16th U.S. President |
| 6 | “Love the life you live. Live the life you love” | Bob Marley (1945-1985), musician, singer |
| 7 | “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” | Les Brown n, born in 1945, American motivational speaker. |
| 8 | “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” | Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890), artist |
| 9 | “It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” | Confucius, (551-479 BC), philosopher |
| 10 | “The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” | Nelson Mandela, (1918-2013), South African political leader |
| 11 | “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” | Albert Einstein, (1879 – 1955), physicists |
| 12 | “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” | Albert Einstein, (1879 – 1955), physicists |
| 13 | “Your severest critic should be the one who sits in you, and not next to you.” | B. Toushibekov, 1955, Kazakh writer, historian |
| 14 | “Wisdom is the same mind, only placed in the heart.” | B.Toushibekov, 1955, Kazakh writer, historian |
| 15 | “You can never cross the oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” | Christopher Columbus,(1451-1506), Italian maritime explorer |
| 16 | “It always seems impossible until it’s done”. | Nelson Mandela, (1918-2013), South African political leader |
| 17 | “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” | Albert Einstein, (1879 – 1955), physicists |
| 18 | “You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.” | Indira Gandi, (1917-1984), Former Prime Minister of India |
| 19 | “You never fail until you stop trying.” | Albert Einstein, (1879 – 1955), physicists |
| 20 | “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.” | Albert Einstein, (1879 – 1955), physicists |
| 21 | “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” | Albert Einstein, (1879 – 1955), physicists |
| 22 | “Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.” | Albert Einstein, (1879 – 1955), physicists |
| 23 | “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” | Albert Einstein, (1879 – 1955), physicists |
| 24 | “Forging a new path is far more satisfying than following a map will ever be.” | James Pierce, (1900-1983), American actor |
| 25 | “The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.” | Chadwick Boseman, (1976-2020), American actor |
| 26 | “Learning never exhausts the mind”. | Leonardo da Vinci, (1452 – 1519), painter, scientist, inventor |
| 27 | “It is far better to be alone than in bad company.” | G. Washington, (1732-1799), 1 US President |
| 28 | “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” | William Arthur Ward, writer (1921-1994) |
| 29 | “Don’t judge the day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant”. | Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, (1850-1894) |
| 30 | “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but we often look so long at the closed one that we don’t see the one that has been opened for us.” | Helen Keller. American author, (1880-1968) |
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