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  • What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

    Wisdom   Gander   Geese  
  • I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

  • There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

    Soul   Attention   Body  
    John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.90, Baker Books
  • Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  • Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

    Ideas   Speak   Produce  
  • If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.

    Lying   Light   Want  
  • All is well that ends well

    Wise   Drama   Italian  
    Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.
  • Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

    May   Speak   Said  
    Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
  • As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

    Horse   Rampage   Feds  
  • The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

    Food   America   Cooking  
    Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions”
  • Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Cato Major De Senectute, III. 7, p. 124-25, 1922.
  • There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

    Kindness   Age   Weakness  
    "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.
  • There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

  • But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

    Clerks   Forget   Priests  
    John Heywood (1908). “Two Tudor "shrew" Plays - (1) John John the Husband, Tib His Wife, and Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood (c1533): And (2) Tom Tiler and His Wife, Anonymous (c1551)”
  • The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

    Mountain   Made   Mice  
    Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.814, 谷月社
  • You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

  • Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

    Country   Boys   Night  
    Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco
  • You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

    Horse   Thinking   Water  
  • If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

    Fool   Clients   Lawyer  
  • All's well that ends well.

    Wise   Wisdom   Drama  
    John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21
  • There is no fool like an old fool.

    Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.143, Penguin
  • There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. Control rather than no noise is the key to silence. James saw clearly that the person who could control his tounge is perfect (James 3:1-12). Under the Discipline of silence and solitude we learn when to speak and when to refrain from speaking.

    Eye   Keys   Perfect  
    Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass
  • The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.54
  • It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

    Fool   Said   Has Beens  
  • There's an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates and the truth of the matter is the weak and feckless policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East and all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we're not having talks anymore.

    Moving   Russia   Years  
    Source: www.politico.com
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