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“Mind your P's and Q's.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: possibly from the old custom of hanging a slate in a tavern with P and Q (for pints and quarts) unde
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“There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't
know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know
that they know; and those who know that they know.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: rendering of an Arab proverb
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“Wode has erys, felde has sigt.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: King Edward and the Shepherd, a manuscript (circa 1300)
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“The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Story of Sir Eglamour of Artois, an English romantic story circa 1350, from a manuscript in the Garr
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“Snug as a bug in a rug.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Stratford Jubilee (II, 1, 1779), also in letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley
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“The woman that deliberates is lost.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Stratford Jubilee (II, 1, 1779), also in letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley
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“The asses' bridge.
[Lat., Pons Asinorum.]”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: applied to Proposition 5 of the first book of Euclid
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“I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,
The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";
The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase
confessed.
Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"
"Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;
Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"
And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";
Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";
Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.”
Proverbs (general) Quotes Source: from the Greek
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“The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs.”
Proverbs (general) Quotes Source: from the Greek
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“Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee,
Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.”
Gods Quotes Source: in "Greek Anthology"
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“I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown
I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down.”
Gods Quotes Source: in "Greek Anthology"
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“Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be
In commune held by Pallas and by thee?
Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine
In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.”
Gods Quotes Source: in "Greek Anthology"
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“Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.”
Gods Quotes Source: in "Greek Anthology"
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“I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God and God is
matter; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or no.”
God Quotes Source: The Unbeliever's Creed--Connoisseur No. IX
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“That blessed word Mesopotamia.”
Words Quotes Source: see Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"
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“He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat
to him the words of gods.”
Words Quotes Source: Egyptian Book of the Dead
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“The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger
than all fighting.”
Words Quotes Source: The Husia of Ancient Egypt, translation by Maulana Kaurenga
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“Thee is a skeleton on every house.”
Secrecy Quotes Source: Italian Tales of Humour, Gallantry and Romance, s saying in a story
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“Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of
downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and
reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts
and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.”
Speech Quotes Source: in "The Tatler", no. 252
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“Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.
[Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]”
Law Quotes Source: Magna Charta--Privilege of Barons of Parliament
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“There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't
know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know
that they know; and those who know that they know.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: rendering of an Arab proverb
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“To kiss the rod.”
Punishment Quotes Source: History of Reynard the Fox, (William Caxton's translation, printed by him) (1481)
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“A cat may look like a king.”
Cats Quotes Source: title of a Pamphlet
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“The grave's the market place.”
Grave Quotes Source: Death and the Lady, a ballad in Dixon's "Ballads", the Percy Society
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“A niche in the temple of Fame.”
Fame Quotes Source: origin is owed to establishment of Pantheon (1791) as a receptacle for distinguished men
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