A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.
Nigerian Proverb
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“A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.”
ESAN MAGAZINE 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 All places are distant from heaven alike.
ROBERT BURTON This is no time to make new enemies.
VOLTAIRE When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.
NIGERIAN PROVERB Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.
NIGERIAN PROVERB However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.
NIGERIAN PROVERB Hold a true friend with both hands.
NIGERIAN PROVERB He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.
NIGERIAN PROVERB When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby
NIGERIAN PROVERB When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby
NIGERIAN PROVERB No matter how long the night may be, the day is sure to come
NIGERIAN PROVERB A woman is like a horse: He who can drive her is her master
NIGERIAN PROVERB The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is
NIGERIAN PROVERB A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
ISABELLE EBERHARDT Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS I'm not sure that Registered Traveler should be a research program.
JAMES DEMPSEY I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagin...
RICKIE LEE JONES Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS If you refuse to be taken for a ride, you will not end up in someone else's destination.
SEGUN OLOGE There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB Only a fool would believe he has no enemies. Wise men understand and flush them from their hiding pl...
TROY J. GAINEY To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many...
STEVEN PINKER A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
LAO TZU We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work.
HASSAN ALI I think more people should plant more flowers in more places, to make the world a more colorful plac...
ALAN STEVENS Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someo...
VERA NAZARIAN Watch your back, little wolf, they say. Enemies arise from unexpected places.
MARIE LU A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS [death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
GEORGE WASHINGTON No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb
TURKISH PROVERB The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
LAO TZU A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
LAO-TZU A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
LAO TZU Tell the truth and make enemies, ...many enemies
TROY J. GAINEY There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed fr...
ELIZABETH I The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our ...
DAVID MCGEE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good ...
SHERRILYN KENYON The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. T...
ED ROYCE There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Friends in high places definitely helped- especially if you had enemies in even higher spots.
CHLOE NEILL an opportunity for Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military, and an opportun...
WOLE SOYINKA I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are
HARRIET MARTINEAU \[Bryan Harvey\] didn't make enemies. People might have got mad at him, but he didn't make enemies.
JOHNNY HOTT Traveler there is no trail you blaze the trail as you travel.
XOCHITL GARZA Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh,...
MARK TWAIN There are enough no smoking places now.
DAVID HOCKNEY I just got off a flight that crossed through five time zones. Does that make me a time traveler?
PHOTO Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
CONFUCIUS There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it pr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...
THOMAS SZASZ A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
PAUL NEWMAN A person with no enemies is a person with no personality.
JEFFREY FRY Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
FRANK HERBERT One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they ke...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The announcement had been made taking into account the feelings of the people... There is no offence...
ALOK SINHA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain ...
JANE SMILEY Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
BIBLE By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemie...
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Procastination should never be your close friend,but your very distant enemy.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) As TIME passes by many PEOPLE will turn out to be your ENEMIES! But its on YOU whether to make them ...
VIPIN ONGALATHE Ours is not just a Nigerian bid, but the African bid.
YAKUBU GOWON Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places! Look for delusion and truth in the bottom ...
RYOKAN There is no new news about the hostages. We continue to work closely with the Nigerian authorities a...
ANDY CORRIGAN The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, ...
THOMAS SZASZ If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW WILSON If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW T. WILSON People should understand that compassionate love defines trustworthiness, attachment, and empathy wh...
SAAIF ALAM A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY There are places in the city you don't want to go at night, which is not the way it should be. I thi...
EMMA FITZPATRICK Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor
SUNDAY ADELAJA Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Be...
EDWARD M. LERNER It was one of those days, and no disrespect, but we should be coming to places like Wigan and gettin...
SHAY GIVEN Friends becomes enemies, enemies become friends, no matter what happpens stay focused and stay true ...
OLASOT He was tremendously against that, absolutely sincere: 'You should not go to these places. It's wrong...
PAUL MOORE It's an easy way to make enemies, talking about it.
PETE ELIADES Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful (Proverbs 27:6).
BIBLE Get those dinner reservations now. Places are filling up quick. Girls should have any hair or make-u...
KIP HAFEY Paranoia will get you through times of no enemies better than enemies will get you through times of ...
PETE GRANGER It will be an interesting project. We want to restore them historically by still make them appeal to...
CITY CLERK SCOTT BERKA potentially make Texas more competitive in the not-too-distant future.
DAVID BOSITIS God can make your enemies your footstool.
JOEL OSTEEN I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibili...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from...
THOMAS SZASZ
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PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
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