(37 quotes found)
“By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair”
Persian Proverb
“Thinking is the essence of wisdom”
“Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.”
“The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy”
“Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done”
“He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.”
“I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.”
“Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake”
“Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue”
“In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds”