Children and fools speak true


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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Children and fools cannot lie
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Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE
A child who fell down on his own must not cry (Өөрөө унасан хүүхэд уйлдаггү...
MONGOLIAN PROVERB
Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND
I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
ZHUANGZI
Those who realize their folly are not true fools
CHUANG TZU
It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'...
MAGGIE SMITH
There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two p...
PLATO
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
BRANDON MULL
I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.
GERALDO RIVERA
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
PROVERB
Shushtari proverb “Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it’s a hollow walnut shell.�...
FIROOZEH DUMAS
We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. . -...
ANCIENT PROVERB
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
PLATO
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Let the children speak of art
ELIZABETH CLAIRE COLLEY
There is perhaps nothing confidential that the fools are often too confident than true confident.
ANUJ SOMANY
They (children) often can't speak for themselves.
JEANNE MARSH
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn f...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
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
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn.
WILLIAM HULL
I, too, am here to speak for our children.
MIKE CLAWSON
My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
WENDI DENG MURDOCH
Real recognize real and if you real ill speak to you and if i speak to you i fucks with you true shi...
JANEA BROWN
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than t...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to th...
MATTHEW FOX
The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchild...
GENE CRAWFORD
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit agai...
BIBLE
I tell you the world is full of fools and only fools call each other fools.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: / Lift not up yo...
BIBLE
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he se...
BIBLE
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.
BRAD PITT
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to sp...
HESIOD
Accustom children to a true notion of things.
GEORGE SHELLEY
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his s...
BIBLE
Learned fools exceed all fools
GERMAN PROVERB
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
LARRY NIVEN
Speak good words over your children, never yield to the temptation of doing otherwise
SOTONYE ANGA
There were a lot of fools at that conference—pompous fools—and pompous fools drive me up the wal...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they brea...
EDWARD DYER
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion year...
MARK TWAIN
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr...
THE CHILDREN
I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b...
THE CHILDREN
The worst thing about proverbs and quotations is that the fools make no use of them.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB
One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That ...
LEO TOLSTOY
You've got your passion. You've got your pride.But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?Drea...
BILLY JOEL
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH PROVERB
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.
YVONNE PIERRE
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
SPANISH PROVERB
It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
JEWISH PROVERB
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
GEORGE LORIMER
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brillian...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
WELSH PROVERB
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
MAURICE FREEHILL
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HENRY FORD
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack p...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
GENE BROWN
Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
BIOLEAU
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shal...
WES SMITH
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
H. ALLEN SMITH
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a myste...
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