Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
Persian Proverb
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Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade
ARABIAN PROVERB A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down
RUSH LIMBAUGH If you want a tall shade tree, draw a line directly down from the power line and plant 30 feet back ...
KEITH TALBOT If you are the big, big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down!
BOB MARLEY It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
ANDREW COHEN A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small.
VIKRANT PARSAI NOTHING GROWS WELL IN THE SHADE OF A BIG TREE.
G. RAGUNATHAN. He who is in the habit of sitting in the shade will not take an axe to the tree.
VIKRANT PARSAI The One Lord gives shade to all beings.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB A tree does not fall at it's first cut
DUTCH PROVERB God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB I saw a squirrel go in the big oak tree over there. That's his home. I'm worried that he won't be ab...
ANNA PETERSON A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch t...
RUMER GODDEN Do not cut down on your expenses, Increase your income!
HONEYA What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide s...
EDWARD ABBEY While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking t...
PRATIBHA PATIL Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .
WILLIAM BARNES Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
CHARLES DICKENS If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree
AFRICAN PROVERB Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
WARREN BUFFETT Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
LES BROWN Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happines...
OSHO Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech...
ADLAI STEVENSON For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
WARREN BUFFETT In the summertime, if you walk down the street, and all you have is a palm tree shading you . . . th...
ALYCE ROBERTSON Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE You can't just snatch the boy down out of that tree,
CHARLAYNE WOODARD He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a spee...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a ti...
IDRIES SHAH The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and ma...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that ...
JOHN MAY Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. —Warren Buff...
LORA M. CECERE Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only a...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB If you do not sharpen your axe, it will take twice the same amount of time to cut down the same amou...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees...
CHANAKYA If you could chop down a tree -- any tree at all -- what kind of tree would it be?
BARBARA WALTERS The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
NELSON HENDERSON The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and ...
ANDREW WYATT The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
PERSIAN PROVERB Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake
PERSIAN PROVERB Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
PERSIAN PROVERB Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PERSIAN PROVERB One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
PERSIAN PROVERB The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write inj...
PERSIAN PROVERB Go and wake up your luck.
PERSIAN PROVERB A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.
PERSIAN PROVERB There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
PERSIAN PROVERB Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous
PERSIAN PROVERB Treat others as you want them to treat you because what goes around comes around
PERSIAN PROVERB Good poets are like angels of Heaven
PERSIAN PROVERB Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
PERSIAN PROVERB In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds
PERSIAN PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done
PERSIAN PROVERB Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
PERSIAN PROVERB Thinking is the essence of wisdom
PERSIAN PROVERB He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows ...
PERSIAN PROVERB By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair
PERSIAN PROVERB Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know ho...
PERSIAN PROVERB When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth
PERSIAN PROVERB The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the f...
PERSIAN PROVERB 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 And brilliant days come alive,
with you,
around
but the things we d...
ANDREA KOEHLE JONES It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates. But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut means...
JOHN LONSKI It gives the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut rates, ... But I don't believe that a BOJ rate cut m...
JOHN LONSKI Cut that down by 400 percent...that helps you get responsive,
JACK WEINSTEIN I wouldn't want to expose a client to that vulnerability. If the tree is not cut and you can't agree...
BRUCE ROBINSON 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 When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, whi...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, ...
THOMAS SZASZ Trees are very emotional. I try not to say, 'Palms are bad.' . . . But when you walk down a street a...
ALYCE ROBERTSON First you must find... another shrubbery! (dramatic chord) Then, when you have found the shrubbery, ...
MONTY PYTHON I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the hi...
CHERIE LUNGHI Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree wit...
ROBERT JORDAN If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
THOMAS J. PETERS If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
TOM PETERS I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do
finde that the absence of my Nath,...
LADY ANNE BACON They preserve the soil, they keep erosion down and give wonderful shade. It'll be awhile before thes...
ANNE MOORE Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on thi...
BIBLE Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make ...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex o...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA I'm going to be Pennington. I'm not going to get my hair cut though. Then again, if somebody gives m...
LAURA CAMERON Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
LEWIS CARROLL We were lucky the house wasn't more damaged. My sister's room is back there and it didn't break a si...
LOREN MILLER You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
MALCOLM X No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words...
SORIN CERIN I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less ...
JACKEE HARRY There is something unique about a tree in the center of a downtown that gives it a Christmas atmosph...
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