A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.


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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
GERMAN PROVERB
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs
GERMAN PROVERB
The quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MOHANDAS GANDHI
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated
MAHATMA GANDHI
The Greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
MAHATMA GHANDI
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are t...
MAHATMA GANDHI
The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
SIMON SINEK
A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.
AMIT KALANTRI
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are trea...
MELANIE JOY
The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares
AGONA APELL
A person can't be judged by his words, behavior or looks, He can only be judged by their thoughts.
JAZZ GILL
Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that o...
JIM BUTCHER
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I...
MAHATMA GANDHI
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way it's animals are treated.
MAHATMA GANDHI
You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
NELSON MANDELA
A woman can be judged by her cooking, her dressing and her husband.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by ...
LAURENCE HOPE
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by ...
ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON
Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two p...
PLATO
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the r...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
This will be judged on its merits.
KAREN SZULCZEWSKI
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
JANE BYRNE
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH
The quality of life is determined by its activities.
ARISTOTLE
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely re...
PERRY ANDERSON
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the...
RANDY SCHEKMAN
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not...
NELSON MANDELA
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and ca...
JAMES FORRESTAL
The quality of meditation should not be measured by frequency, duration, or serenity, but rather by ...
JIM GENOVESE
This party will, ultimately, be judged on its ability to deliver on its promise.
TONY BLAIR
Talent is a by-product of education; the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.
KLAUS SCHWAB
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mat...
VERNON HOWARD
Every act is to be judged by the intention of the agent.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover u...
MARYROSE WOOD
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its char...
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
KARL JASPERS
...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, ...
PAUL HOFFMAN
A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and...
PAUL KALANITHI
The quality of thoughts depends not on mind or heart, but on the humane words deeply embedded with c...
ANUJ SOMANY
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
FRANCIS BACON
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six
SHERRILYN KENYON
Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15
BIBLE
“It is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should ...
NELSON MANDELA
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
You can be a black man in the country noted for its rampant racism
SUNDAY ADELAJA
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will st...
RAHM EMANUEL
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.
NOSTRADAMUS
That 'I cannot tell a lie' has almost become a proverb. It's something that turns the patriarch of o...
JACK SANTINO
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN
You can judge a restaurant by the quality of ketchup the serve.
HARSHIT SHAH
The act is judged of by the event.
UNKNOWN
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listen...
LILY WALTERS
would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest ...
LEO HINDERY
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or milita...
HERBERT READ
Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusade...
THOMAS SOWELL
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE
One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
BIBLE
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people
JAMES HOWELL
Patch grief with proverbs
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.
BRIAN SPELLMAN
The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its militar...
KIM JONG-UN
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights fo...
GEORGE ELIOT
The beauty of her fairness has nothing to do with her character. A woman cannot be judged by her app...
ETC WANYANWU
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of ...
MARGARET MEAD
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
BAINBRIDGE COLBY
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.

~ Dr. Burdette
SHERRILYN KENYON
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.
MIN KIM
I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with ...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON
No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be call...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
SUCCESS OF A TEACHER IS JUDGED BY THE SUCCESS OF HIS OR HER STUDENTS !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS
The failure to properly address the modern plague caused by HIV is an act of (irresponsibility) that...
DAVID HO
Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones. (Proverbs 28:13)
BIBLE
It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
STEPHEN KING
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The Italy of my children will be at head of Europe, economically. Because Italy has all the conditio...
MATTEO RENZI
A man is judged by his work.
TURKISH PROVERB
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich ...
BONO
When the Lord's request comes, will remove all other demands.
KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
A man’s character may be judged by how he gives you response to the same question asked by you the...
VIKRANT PARSAI

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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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