It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted


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Don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen
AMERICAN PROVERB
It's a little bit like shutting the door after the horse has bolted. It [the new approach] sounds li...
PAUL KAVANAGH
The horse has already bolted.
GEORGE SPEIGHT
If something is wrong, it is like locking the barn door after the horse is stolen, ... But we are st...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Closing the barn door after the horse escapes
PROVERB
It's like shutting the barn door after the horse escaped,
JOHN MORRISON
Don't shut the barn door after the horse is stolen
PROVERB
Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away
AMERICAN PROVERB
When you close the barn door after the horse has escaped, that horse is personally identifiable data...
ALMA GONZALEZ
I'm locking the door. . .I intend to keep them there,
JOE FONTANA
He's been a great horse for the stable, but the handicapper has caught up with him now.
MARK MASON
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
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
But paradise is locked and bolted....
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back ...
HEINRICH VON KLEIST
He just bolted to the front and he just flew off the (cockpit) door when he hit it.
PAUL SIGLER
It is another form of back door compulsion in the same way that ID cards have been bolted on to pass...
MICHAEL PARKER
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.
SPANISH PROVERB
The man trying to find a horse or a wife without fault has neither steed in his stable nor angel in ...
VIKRANT PARSAI
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
JOHN STEINBECK
I felt safe before it happened. But now I'm more cautious about locking my door.
ANGELA JOHNSON
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse
ARTHUR WELLESLEY
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Endeavor to exhibit all the ideas you can possibly generate in this life,because after this place,it...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
She was very cautious about locking her door and not letting people into her home that she didn't kn...
DONNA MAY
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corri...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
If this becomes a permanent barrier to employment and volunteering because of the use of this techno...
IRA GLASSER
It wouldn't be unfair to say that not only is the horse out of the barn but Finance has no idea wher...
DON DRUMMOND
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is f...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI
In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
She turned and bolted out the door. She had learnt an important lesson - "When a man paid 'for' you....
MALLIKA NAWAL
If a company has stable earnings quarter after quarter, ... and each quarter its earnings go up anot...
JASON ZWEIG
This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more usef...
MENANDER ATHENS
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter ...
ELAYNE BOOSLER
The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
CONFUCIUS
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its ...
CHARLES DE LINT
Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, the European Union has opened its door to Turkey,
JOSE MANUEL BARROSO
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tigh...
BETTY GRABLE
I am happy and I am excited. I targeted this horse as the best horse in the stable and being able to...
DAVID HAYES
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
There aren't that many stable neighborhoods in Camden. Cramer Hill is a stable neighborhood. Why are...
AMY GOLDSMITH
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours...
GARY F EVANS...
There are no big feature changes in the beta version. The main difference is that the beta version i...
TOR ODLAND
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you ...
BETTY GRABLE
She has helped keep that school stable and moving ahead during a time in its history that it has bee...
JEFF YOUNG
The homeowner contacted us after she got a business card from a contractor who was soliciting door t...
CARL VEGA
It is the good horse that draws its own cart.
IRISH PROVERB
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
Its no use boiling your cabbage twice.
IRISH PROVERB
It is undeniable that these women were healthy before the use of (RU-486) and became very sick or di...
DONNA HARRISON
He's an amazing horse. No horse I've ever seen in any race stumbled like that. And I don't know any ...
JEREMY ROSE
His condition remains critical but he has been stable overnight. There have been no adverse events.
DR. RICHARD SHANNON
The Wild Horse ranch is doing what it has done, historically, for years. The county is killing its g...
BRUCE SHOLES
Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool
IRISH SAYINGS
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testab...
NANCY PEARCEY
The only students who were injured were the ones who bolted.
DON CANNARD
And then what are your plans?”
Annwyl frowned. “My plans?”
“Yes. Your plans. You...
G.A. AIKEN
The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are ...
BORIS BOEHM
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish ...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish ...
WYNDHAM LEWIS
There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS
The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larg...
STANISłAW LEM
We treat the $500,000 racehorse the same as the $500 horse that comes through the door. It's all the...
JENNIFER BROWN
The property is currently being used in a variety of ways, including commercial dog kennels, and aba...
CARY CLARKE
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA
Jo? Look at me. I’m about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to rem...
SHERRILYN KENYON
That’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS
If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert w...
DARYNDA JONES
Just look at Kevin -- he's a horse. He's a horse and he gets after it.
TOM ARLIS
We got them out right after the storm and kept them in the walls of the stable.
LUCIAN MITCHELL SR
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no wal...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Money only has value in its use and application.
STEVEN REDHEAD
At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I see no signs that China plans to use its military to attack countries on its borders, ... I see no...
ANDY ROTHMAN
No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it
EARL WILSON
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.
GEORGE HERBERT
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its...
J. G. BALLARD
The stable outlook is based on the ability of the hotel to attain its projected financial performanc...
JODI HECHT
The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail
RUSSIAN PROVERB
My pony is about critters a horse would encounter in its lifetime.
DENISE BROWN
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door....
STEPHEN WRIGHT
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W.C. FIELDS
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. FIELDS
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no pr...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS
Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no pr...
WYNDHAM LEWIS
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
THOMAS FULLER

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