A king's son is no nobler than his company.
Scottish Proverb
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A king's son is no nobler than his company.
GAELIC PROVERB No love is greater than that of a father for His son.
DAN BROWN Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE 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 Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth
RUTH MCKENNEY Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B...
RUDYARD KIPLING Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
LUDWIG VON MISES Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship
SAMUEL JOHNSON A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success
KAHLIL GIBRAN Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
JOHN RUSKIN Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
JOHN RUSKIN Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
BIBLE Kindness, nobler ever than revenge
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER “Being honest and truthful is far nobler than wearing a crown.”
~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN No one is more than a sum total of his life experiences. Mr. Wilson is the son of a strict disciplin...
CHRIS HARPER It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.
LOUIS DEBONNAIRE One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
NICK LAMPSON i'm going to brand myself on you so that whenever you dress, wash, or even think of being with someo...
DONNA GRANT There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check,
Richer than doing nothing for a robe,
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I’m your son!” he screamed up at Crouch. “I’m your son!” “You are no son of mine!” bel...
J.K. ROWLING Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to ...
ROSE GEORGE Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of ...
AYN RAND A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
DENIS DIDEROT His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings
DENIS DIDEROT What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? / Give not thy strength un...
BIBLE For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when h...
JANE LINDSKOLD And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri h...
BIBLE No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man...
THOMAS CARLYLE A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
- Chinese pr...
ALVIN TOFFLER No father is happy to find his son has been arrested by the DEA.
EDWARD HAYES No father is happy to find his son has been arrested by the DEA,
EDWARD HAYES No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB And love is love in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
DENIS DIDEROT It’s a sheer-madness for a father not to see his son greater than him
ETC WANYANWU I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Sco...
KIMIKO GLENN It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There was a man whose only son died of a sudden illness. He did not mourn for his son, nor was he sa...
LIEZI A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB He's far more concerned about my daughter and his son than he is about himself, which is typical. Hi...
FAYE MARSHALL There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...
JOHN LYLY There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marr...
MARTIN LUTHER There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...
MARTIN LUTHER Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up th...
KARAN JOHAR A cleaner can clean a toilet better than a leading businessman can run his company. Who is more skil...
DAN VALVERDE To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
SCOTTISH PROVERB It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Where vice is vengeance follows.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Prayer and practice is good rhyme.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Monday is the key day of the week.
SCOTTISH PROVERB He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.
SCOTTISH PROVERB We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
SCOTTISH PROVERB While a person gets they can never lose.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Plenty makes dainty!
SCOTTISH PROVERB It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Meat makes, and clothes shapes, but manners makes a man.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Perfect love cannot be without equality.
SCOTTISH PROVERB False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
SCOTTISH PROVERB They speak of my drinking but never think of my thirst
SCOTTISH PROVERB Insults should be well avenged or well endured.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Modesty is the beauty of women.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Money is flat and meant to be piled up.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.
SCOTTISH PROVERB If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.
SCOTTISH PROVERB More than we use is more than we want.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Forsake not God till you find a better master.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Repentance won't cure mischief.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Were it not for hope the heart would break.
SCOTTISH PROVERB One may survive distress, but not disgrace.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Open confession is good for the soul.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Confessed faults are half-mended.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Who God does not teach, man cannot.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Carelessness is worse than a thieve.
SCOTTISH PROVERB May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!
SCOTTISH PROVERB Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Any port in a storm.
SCOTTISH PROVERB There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Assurance is two-thirds of success.
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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
SCOTTISH PROVERB It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Where vice is vengeance follows.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Prayer and practice is good rhyme.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Monday is the key day of the week.
SCOTTISH PROVERB He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.
SCOTTISH PROVERB We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
SCOTTISH PROVERB While a person gets they can never lose.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Plenty makes dainty!
SCOTTISH PROVERB It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Meat makes, and clothes shapes, but manners makes a man.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Perfect love cannot be without equality.
SCOTTISH PROVERB False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
SCOTTISH PROVERB They speak of my drinking but never think of my thirst
SCOTTISH PROVERB Insults should be well avenged or well endured.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Modesty is the beauty of women.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Money is flat and meant to be piled up.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.
SCOTTISH PROVERB If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.
SCOTTISH PROVERB More than we use is more than we want.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Forsake not God till you find a better master.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Repentance won't cure mischief.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Were it not for hope the heart would break.
SCOTTISH PROVERB One may survive distress, but not disgrace.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Open confession is good for the soul.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Confessed faults are half-mended.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Who God does not teach, man cannot.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Carelessness is worse than a thieve.
SCOTTISH PROVERB May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!
SCOTTISH PROVERB Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Any port in a storm.
SCOTTISH PROVERB There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Assurance is two-thirds of success.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Better bend than break.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Common sense hides shame.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Open confession is good for the soul
SCOTTISH PROVERB Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
SCOTTISH PROVERB What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
SCOTTISH PROVERB He that loves the law will get his fill of it.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Danger past, God forgotten.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Charity begins at home, but shouldn't end there.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A bird in the hand's worth two fleeing by.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Egotism is an alphabet of one letter
SCOTTISH PROVERB Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more
SCOTTISH PROVERB Never marry for money. You'll borrow it cheaper.
SCOTTISH PROVERB They are good that are away
SCOTTISH PROVERB Ask thy purse what thou shouldst spend
SCOTTISH PROVERB They talk of my drinking but never my thirst
SCOTTISH PROVERB Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight
SCOTTISH PROVERB When the heart is full the tongue will speak
SCOTTISH PROVERB The day has eyes, the night has ears
SCOTTISH PROVERB What may be done at any time will be done at no time
SCOTTISH PROVERB False friends are worst than bitter enemies.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper
SCOTTISH PROVERB Willful waste makes woeful want
SCOTTISH PROVERB Feather by feather the goose is plucked
SCOTTISH PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Better bend than break
SCOTTISH PROVERB They are good that are away.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Money is flat and was meant to be piled up.
SCOTTISH PROVERB What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
SCOTTISH PROVERB From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord...
SCOTTISH SAYING Hours are Time's shafts,
and one comes winged with death.
SCOTTISH CLOCK MOTTOW A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
PROVERB If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
PROVERB Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it w...
PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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