A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair
Iranian Proverb
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ADRIAN BELEW A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
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JOHN KEATS Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.
IRANIAN PROVERB Every tear has a smile behind it.
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IRANIAN PROVERB Doubt is the key to knowledge
IRANIAN PROVERB A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind
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JUDY HU A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
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JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by c...
SETH MACFARLANE I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever tol...
J.D. SALINGER Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.
SHIRIN NESHAT The elephant ear was great. I figured I'd bring (my girlfriend) down as a surprise and get an elepha...
CHRIS STEPHENS Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
LAZARUS LONG An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
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SARA BAUME When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
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VINCENT CASSEL Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
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A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER The first and the sustainable function that any person claiming to be leader, is required to do is t...
ANUJ SOMANY If one wants to enervate the enthusiasm of talent in any company, then he should be made to report t...
ANUJ SOMANY When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
CREIGHTON ABRAMS When eating an elephant take one bite at a time
CREIGHTON ABRAMS I have a face like the behind of an elephant.
CHARLES LAUGHTON This may be a very volatile trading session. The market wants good numbers, but an exceedingly good ...
ART HOGAN Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be
overturned.
GEORGE HERBERT Shushtari proverb “Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it’s a hollow walnut shell.�...
FIROOZEH DUMAS He caught Ben's come in the napkin, the smell making his mouth water harder than any chile sauce cou...
B.A. TORTUGA No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm...
ABDUL REEKI No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm...
ABDUL HAMEED REEKI When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
RICHIE NORTON Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
VACHEL LINDSAY It seems an Iranian-born German soccer star is refusing to play in his team's next match because it'...
JAY LENO Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead...
OSMAN BAKAR Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Goliath always has a weakness; an ant is small but can defeat an elephant.
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DAN ROSE A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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By wisdom ...
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AFRICAN PROVERBS an affront to the Iranian nation.
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear t...
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time.
PAUL DICKSON And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ...
HIRO FUJIWARA The director of the Road Safety Authority comes on the radio to tell me that today is the day of the...
SARA BAUME Everything is very nearly over. And so none of the normal rules of behavior apply. And so none of my...
SARA BAUME But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothere...
SARA BAUME So it's as if,' I say, 'I'm okay in my own bones, but I know that my bones aren't living up to other...
SARA BAUME There really isn't much wrong with me,' I say, 'it's just that, well, I'm not like other people; I d...
SARA BAUME I knew precisely what things I wanted to do—and when and why—and I was deeply resentful of other...
SARA BAUME A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS I try to lead by example.
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RICHELLE E. GOODRICH A gentle word opens an iron gate
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GEORGE ELIOT I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing...
LOUIS THEROUX I may not take my clothes seriously. I may not have brushed or even washed my hair today. But I pron...
RAINBOW ROWELL The lead role would be played by a global actor while the female lead would go to an Indian.
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BRET EASTON ELLIS I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
NOEL COWARD Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant
would drown.
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
MATTHEW HENRY I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
NOëL COWARD Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
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PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
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PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
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PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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