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Quotations about Madness

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Proverbs about Madness
"Who God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad." English Proverb

Quotations about Marriage

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Proverbs about Marriage

  1. "Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave." English Proverb
  2. "Marriages are made in heaven."English Proverb
  3. "Marry in haste, and repent at leisure."English Proverb
  4. "Marry in Lent, and you'll live to repent."English Proverb
  5. "Marry in Mary, rue for aye."English Proverb
  6. "The first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy."English Proverb

Quotations about Luck

Quotations Search list of famous sayings, proverbs and quotes about  Luck. We have listed all lucky quotes below.

Proverbs about Luck
  1. "A bad penny always turns up." English Proverb
  2. " A cat has nine lives." English Proverb
  3. "Finders keepers, losers weepers." English Proverb
  4. "It is better to be born lucky than rick." English Proverb
  5. "The devil looks after his own." English Proverb

Quotations about Loyalty

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Quotations about Loyalty

  1. "In the following him, I follow but myself." William Shakespeare

Proverbs about Loyalty

  1. "Dog does not eat dog." English Proverb
  2. "There is honour among thieves." English Proverb
  3. "You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds." English Proverb

Quotations about Habit


Famous sayings, quotations and proverbs about Habit.




  1. "Old habits die hard." English Proverb 


Quotations about Greatness


Famous sayings, proverbs and quotations about greatness.

  1. "A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child." Chinese Proverb

Quotations about Human Nature


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  1. “We are usually the best men when in the worst health.” English Proverb

Quotations about Hunger


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  1. "Hunger is the best sauce."English Proverb

Quotations about Faith


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  1. “Faith will move mountain.” English Proverb
  2. “It is unclear who has money and who faith.” Turkish Proverb
  3. “When bribery enters through the door, faith goes out through the chimney.” Turkish Proverb
  4. “The more you know the less you believe.” Sicilian Proverb
  5. “Wealth and holiness, believe only half, if you believe less, you'll do better.” Sicilian Proverb
  6. “What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't believe.” Sicilian Proverb
  7. “Who loses his honour loses a lot, who loses his faith, loses everything.” Sicilian Proverb
  8. “What you see is what you believe.” Somali Proverb


Quotations about adversity

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Quotations
"We are all strong enough to bear the misfortunes of other." Duc de la Rochefoucauld 1613-80 (French Writer)
Proverbs
  1. “Adversity is the stuff that shows whether you are what you thought you were.” Albanian Proverb
  2. “Adversity has no friends.” Albanian Proverb
  3. “Adversity does best discover virtue.” Albanian Proverb
  4. “A man will show his true colours in adversity.” Albanian Proverb
  5. “A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.” American Proverb
  6. “Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain in the spring.” Chinese Proverb
  7. “In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty, In time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.” Latin Proverb
  8. “In time of prosperity consider how you will bear adversity.” Latin Proverb
  9. “Adversity brings wisdom.” Vietnamese Proverb
  10. “When you're enjoying prosperity, be wary of adversity.” Sicilian Proverb
  11. “Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.” Romanian Proverb
  12. “In adversity is when friendship is proven.” Portuguese Proverb
  13. “He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.” Romanian Proverb
  14. “In the hour of adversity be not without hope.” Persian Proverb
  15. “Prosperity improves one's personality, adversity cripples it.” Kashmiri Proverb
  16. “Neighbours bring comfort in adversity but only envy in success.” Irish Proverb
  17. “Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity.” English Proverb
  18. “Sweet are the uses of adversity.” English Proverb
  19. "Drink wine, and have the gout; drink no wine, and have the gout too." English Proverb
  20. "It is easy to bear misfortunes of others."
  21. "It never rains but it pours."English Proverb
  22. “Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.” English Proverb
  23. “Be frugal in prosperity, fear not in adversity.” Chinese Proverb
  24. “There is no education like adversity.” Albanian Proverb




Quotations about acting

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  1. “Think before acting and whilst acting still think.” Dutch Proverb
  2. “Acting is the forte of all their race.” Latin Proverb
  3. “Acting in concert, like the oil-merchants in the Velabrum.” Latin Proverb

Quotations about tax

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  1. “The devil sups with the tax collector.” Togolese Proverb
  2. “A fly, a harlot, a beggar, a rat, and gusty wind; the village-boss and the tax collector - these seven are always annoying to others.” Indian Proverb
  3. “Only two things in life are certain; death and taxes.” English Proverb
  4. “Diseases are the tax on pleasures.” Albanian Proverb

Quotations about Idea


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  1. “If lending were a good idea, then the husband would lend out his wife.” Hebrew Proverb
  2. “A late repentance is a dog’s idea.” Hungarian Proverb
  3.  “Every fool follows their idea.” Corsican Proverb
  4. “An inflated idea can burst the bubble of your happiness.” Burmese Proverb
  5. “Our pillow should be our counsellor.” Latin Proverb
  6. “One has woven the thread, another has drawn it forth.” Latin Proverb
  7. “The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a meeting.” Traditional Proverb
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Quotations about future


Famous sayings, proverbs and quotations about future.
  1. “Tomorrow never comes.” English Proverb
  2. “Every future is not far away.” Arabian Proverb
  3. “A pessimist is a person who mourns the future.” Traditional Proverb 
  4. “The past is for God, the future for the Tsars."Russian Proverb
  5. “To give away is to make provision for the future.” Tswana Proverb
  6. “If an offense has hurt you too much, leave it, my friend, for a future time.” Sicilian Proverb
  7. “Put up with your present condition to avoid a bad future.” Sicilian Proverb
  8. “A diviner cannot accurately divine his own future.” Nigerian Proverb




Quotations about Hope

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  1. “A drowning man will clutch at a straw. English Proverb
  2. “Hope for the best.” English Proverb
  3. “It is a long lane that has no turning.” English Proverb
  4. “While there’s life there’s hope.” English Proverb
  5. “Hope is the physician of each misery.” Irish Proverb
  6. “Hope is the bread of the poor.” Turkish Proverb
  7. “Hope won't be cut from the soul that has not expired.” Turkish Proverb
  8. “Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.” Turkish Proverb
  9. “Hope may give a man strength, but not sense.” Yiddish Proverb
  10. “Timely rain cheers my soul; water and sun during seeding, inspires hope; the rains of April and May are late at night; then the good mornings, will be the wealth of the houses.” Sicilian Proverb
  11.  “With death you don't lose hope: damnation is called separation.” Sicilian Proverb
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Quotations about Honesty

Quotations Search list of famous sayings, quotations and proverbs about honesty.


  1. “An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.” English Proverb
  2. “Honesty is the best policy.” English Proverb
  3. "If someone transports dung and does not eat it, it should not be concluded that he is an honest person." Taiwanese Proverb
  4. "God is an honest payer, but a very slow one." Yiddish Proverb
  5. "Honesty is na pride."Scottish Proverb
  6. "Honesty and kindness enhance every beauty."Sicilian Proverb
  7. “Honest poverty is thinly sown."French Proverb
  8.  “Honesty lasts longest.” German Proverb
  9. “Honest men marry soon, wise men never.” Italian Proverb





Quotations about Home


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Quotations

  1. "What's the good of a home, if you are never in it?" Quotation by George Grossmith 1847-1912, British Singer and Comedian.
  2. "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." George Moore 1852-1933, Irish Writer

Proverbs

  1. “Home is where the heart is.” English Proverb
  2. "You can build a house but you must make a home."Albanian Proverb
  3. "The longest mile is the last mile home."Albanian Proverb
  4. "The frost will bring the pig home."Albanian Proverb
  5. "Night brings the cows home."Albanian Proverb
  6. "It is better to die young at home than to die old in a hospital."Albanian Proverb
  7. "Home is the father's kingdom, the children's paradise, the mother's world."Albanian Proverb
  8. "Home is not a structure, but something in your heart."Albanian Proverb
  9. "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow your wife may come home."Albanian Proverb
  10. "Charity begins at home but should not end there."Albanian Proverb
  11. "A house is not a home."Albanian Proverb

Quotations about History



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  1. “History repeats itself.” English Proverb
  2. “A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.” American Proverb
  3. “Walk in the valley of our ancestors, learn of the history, and marvel at the beauty.” New Zealander Proverb
  4. “Without History, No Life.” Nigerian Proverb
  5. “History is written by the victors.” Klingon Proverb
  6. “History is constantly teaching, but it does not find many pupils."  Austrian Proverb
  7. “Old men and women in the village are books of history and wisdom.” African Proverb
  8. “Every day of your life is a page of your history.” Arab Proverb
  9. “Happy is the country which has no history.” Italian Proverb
  10. “A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.” Traditional Proverb
  11. “Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.” Traditional Proverb
  12. “History is written by the winners.” Traditional Proverb
  13. “History repeats itself.” Latin Proverb
  14. “Happy nations have no history.” Belgian Proverb

Quotations about Healthy Living


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  1. “A little with quiet is the only diet.” English Proverb
  2. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” English Proverb
  3. “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” English Proverb
  4. “Health is better than wealth.” English Proverb
  5. “Wash your hand often, your feet seldom, and your head never.” English Proverb
  6. “Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.” Danish Proverb
  7. “The healthy die first.” Italian Proverb
  8. “Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.” Spanish Proverb

Quotations about Failure

Famous quotations, proverbs and sayings about failure.
  1. “A miss is as good as mile.” English Proverb
  2. " Men learn little from success, but much from failure" Arabian Proverb
  3. "The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure." Chinese Proverb 
  4. "Failures are but mileposts on the road to success." Italian Proverb
  5. "The first pancake is always a failure." Russian Proverb
  6. "Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan." American Proverb