“The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole”
Aristotle
“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”
Douglas Hofstadter
“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.”
Charlotte Bronte
“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
Kwame Nkrumah
“Seeing is different than being told.”
African Proverb
“To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It doesn't pull away any wax that it says it's supposed to.”
Anthony Robbins
