Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.


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Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
UNKNOWN
Barking dogs seldom bite, but beware of those dogs that know this proverb.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Laughter and orgasm are great bedfellows
JOHN CALLAHAN
Wealth lost---something lost; honor lost---much lost; Courage lost---all lost.
GERMAN PROVERB
DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Ne...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
GOODMAN ACE
War makes strange bedfellows.
HELEN THOMAS
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
Politics makes strange bedfellows
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
JACKIE MASON
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
GROUCHO MARX
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does
GROUCHO MARX
Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They’re bedfellows.”

-General John J...
L. DOUGLAS HOGAN
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
GROUCHO MARX
Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched...
MARCEL ACHARD
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour (Proverbs 21...
BIBLE
By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life (Proverbs 22:4).
BIBLE
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
There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
AMANDA PALMER
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
DAN COATS
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We've received a lot of funding from Democratic and Republican administrations. It makes for some st...
DAVID HOFFMAN
The powerful are never faithful and the rich are seldom.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Opportunities are seldom labeled.
JOHN A. SHEDD
Waiters are seldom socialists.
GEORGE ORWELL
Great and good are seldom the same man.
THOMAS FULLER
Great and good are seldom the same man.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
You are seeing some strange retail bedfellows. They may compete at some level, but they also bring s...
STAN POHMER
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH
Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
NAPOLEON HILL
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather th...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Things are seldom what they seem.
W. S. GILBERT
Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
Fine minds are seldom fine souls.
JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
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
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
OVID
A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are t...
MARK TWAIN
A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are ...
MARK TWAIN
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
SIMEON STRUNSKY
Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
CAROL SHIELDS
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and a...
ECKHART TOLLE
Songs are meant to heal our hearts and ease our pain.
ALFRED BALBO
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
CONFUCIUS
Well, Kaleb’s voice whispered in Nikita’s mind, it seems this will make strange bedfellows out o...
NALINI SINGH
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Ne...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers
HERBERT KAUFMAN
For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up i...
GEORGE PACKER
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Rates are still going up here, and rates are going down abroad or are beginning to ease.
BOB DOLL
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
SAMUEL ADAMS
A wolf's thoughts are seldom far from its appetite.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
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
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
XUN KUANG
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
RICHARD WAGNER
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries
RICHARD WAGNER
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
TITUS LIVY
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
We are never at ease because our minds are always at attention.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
EDMUND SPENSER
How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not i...
ALEX MORRITT
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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Time and I against any two.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Never say die.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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The Devil finds work for idle hands.
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The work praises the man.
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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
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