He that makes himself dirt is trod on by the swine
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He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
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GRETCHEN JACKSON We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOS We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by a wolf
ITALIAN PROVERB And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.
CHINUA ACHEBE We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes ...
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
IMMANUEL KANT It said, Qui facit per alium facit per se.
Greenmantle knew the proverb.
He wh...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He probably is harder on himself than I want him to be right now. Sometimes he makes a mistake and b...
DERRICK JACKSON The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for ...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.
GEORGE HERBERT The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes ...
HAN FEI The ocean:
rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars
.. only by great masters trod, ...
SAIOM SHRIVER Going as if he trod upon eggs.
ROBERT BURTON Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same
mistake.
UNKNOWN He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
BALTASAR GRACIAN He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat.
BIBLE Sidney's never makes a mistake, he said to himself. We know that, too. What else can we depend on?
PHILIP K. DICK He who makes excuses, accuses himself
FRENCH PROVERB He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liqu...
HENRY V. O'NEIL A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDER DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
AMBROSE BIERCE A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.
SOURCE UNKNOWN He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly...
VIKTOR FRANKL Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he trul...
VICTOR FRANKL The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Talking with Steve, he has remorse. He was disappointed in himself at that moment
He knows the co...
JEFF FRIED Nobody ever called me any OH MY GOD you mean that guy that one that set himself on FIRE JOSS WHEDON Who makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolves
PROVERB The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...
JAMES THURBER The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...
JAMES THURBER The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...
JAMES THURBER By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
DEMOCRITUS A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
CHARLES H. PARKHURST When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is...
MAX ERNST Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animal...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired gee...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
ALEXANDER POPE Then on the grounde
Togyder rounde
With manye a sadde stroke,
They roll and rumble,
...
SIR THOMAS MORE The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.
WILLIAM MASON You have a wrong sow by the ear.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Shear swine, all cry and no wool.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your
pearls before swine, lest they tram...
BIBLE You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for
hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd.
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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
TURKISH PROVERB When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package
JOHN RUSKIN [Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him de...
CASSANDRA CLARE How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God m...
SAIOM SHRIVER I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better...
OLIVER Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroy...
JAMES ALLEN He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him
THOMAS FULLER He may well win the race that runs by himself
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
RUDYARD KIPLING He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrat...
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA It appears he was not properly supervised . . . . He should not have got on the elevator by himself.
BILL CUNNINGHAM No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's i...
WILLIAM FAULKNER He went into business by himself in 1905, on the anniversary of our centennial,
ALLAN WELLS One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself...
GEORG GRODDECK A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
MARCUS AURELIUS The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands upon others
ANDRE GIDE He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very prof...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We made more money on dirt than we ever did on tobacco. Selling dirt is the best way to get money.
HAYES HARBOUR The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA Swine are held by the Egyptians to be unclean beasts. In the first place, if an Egyptian touches a h...
HERODOTUS Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou...
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself
feared?
UNKNOWN One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT One is rated by others as he rates himself.
FRENCH PROVERB 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 Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p...
MARCEL PROUST The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte...
LORD SHAFTESBURY He is dirt under fingernails and the stick of sap on skin... I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, othe...
SONYA HARTNETT He Himself is near, and He Himself is far away; He Himself is in-between. He Himself beholds, and He...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himse...
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