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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
JUVENAL Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL Nature never says one thing, and science another.
UNKNOWN A counterfeit leader says one thing and does another.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT He who does not know one thing knows another
AFRICAN PROVERB No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; ...
THOMAS CAHILL Some say one thing and do another. Others say one thing and do it just for spite. I say far too much...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ Nature pulls one way and human nature another.
E.M. FORSTER His offer doesn't change the facts: Ken Blackwell still says one thing and does another.
BOB PADUCHIK Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended wi...
ANDRE-FRANCOIS DESLANDES Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON But there were elements where they would conflict. One would say one thing and then another would sa...
MATT DAWSON You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
HERMAN MELVILLE One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
LINDSAY KOLB Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
ALLY CONDIE It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of anoth...
LAO TZU Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Never say one car is better than another until you have driven both.
DELARA ZAMANI It's one thing to say you can't have executable code and another to actually prevent that from happe...
ANDREW JAQUITH Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
RAKUL PREET SINGH Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
STEVE LACY Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
JOHN CAGE The one thing that's always very safe to say with 'Arrow' is never make assumptions.
MARC GUGGENHEIM Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
FREYA STARK If one dismisses another because of his accent, he truly lacks wisdom and understanding.
TROY J. GAINEY Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity
EMILY DICKINSON Every time she does a movie, I'm on another one. So we never really talk about work.
DAKOTA FANNING It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another...
BHAGAVAD GITA It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, ...
BHAGAVAD GITA Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforwa...
ZAYN MALIK When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the f...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the f...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and all...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS One man thinks one thing best, another another.
UNKNOWN It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is ...
KAI BIRD The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
EARL MONROE It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To see far is one thing, going there is another.
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI Here's a guy who says one thing and does another. He's been filing with [the New Jersey Election Law...
JOE RATTO Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometime...
RICHIE NORTON Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is wha...
SARAH STEELMAN If your persistence does not prevail, never stop moving and change your route. You will arrive at yo...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.
SETH GODIN All the pains are caused from going against the ‘nature’! 'Nature' adjusts everything but one do...
DADA BHAGWAN Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence ag...
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence ag...
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE One thing leads to another and another ...and there goes your life.
LORRIN L. LEE The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say t...
LEO TOLSTOY It's one thing to say, 'I'd really like to go,' and it's another to be able to do it. It's just a lo...
JAIME CHARLES It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. D...
HELEN HUMPHREYS Most preachers say the nature of God is unknowable, but I'm certain of one thing at least. God almig...
ROBERT FERRIGNO Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
PROVERB Surround yourself with the colours of nature, after all no one does it better than mother nature
DARLENE WATSON People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to und...
ERIN MCKEAN The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
VIN DIESEL Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU One bad turn does not excuse another.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH All he ever wanted to do is be a cop it's one thing to read that on the page, but another thing to h...
MICHAEL PENA Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
ARTHUR KEITH The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It k...
MING-DAO DENG He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn’t say one damned thing, and said it so you...
ISAAC ASIMOV Wisdom is the ability to make wise decisions and pursue them. The bible said "wisdom is the principa...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
JALAL TALABANI The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas th...
SAMUEL SMILES In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.
RAGHURAM RAJAN It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. ...
G.K. CHESTERTON It's one thing to say to the teams we're going to upgrade it, ... It's another thing to actually hav...
LAURA MILLER Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be ...
BRUCE DICKINSON Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD The very character of the seven-party leaders fluctuates. If they're talking to the foreign powers t...
MATRIKA PRASHAD YADAV Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
WILLIAM COWPER Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Us being a praying family, we just said ?they say one thing and God says another?. Grandmother began...
CHANTELL BEAN To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one pl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI How does one say something new and not retell?
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
GEORGE HERBERT Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparall...
MONICA RAYMUND I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing l...
LAURA HARRIER One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
HENRY MILLER Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another n...
WALT WHITMAN There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
EDOUARD MANET It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Wisdom does not come overnight
AFRICAN PROVERB Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
UNKNOWN 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One bad thing cannot be resolved with another bad thing.
JAIME ORTEGA You'd never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for ...
PETE BURNS

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JUVENAL The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
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JUVENAL Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
JUVENAL Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
JUVENAL The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
JUVENAL Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
JUVENAL Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
JUVENAL A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL All things may be bought in Rome with money.
JUVENAL Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy,...
JUVENAL Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
JUVENAL No one every suddenly became depraved.
JUVENAL It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
JUVENAL So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
JUVENAL The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into o...
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JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
JUVENAL We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
JUVENAL A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
JUVENAL They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
JUVENAL Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
JUVENAL What is the use of your pedigrees?
JUVENAL Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
JUVENAL Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
JUVENAL It is difficult not to write satire.
JUVENAL Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
JUVENAL Revenge is a dish best served cold
JUVENAL Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
JUVENAL Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
JUVENAL You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
JUVENAL A healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)
JUVENAL It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
JUVENAL This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
JUVENAL There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
JUVENAL A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't...
JUVENAL Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL Be gentle with the young.
JUVENAL The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi...
JUVENAL How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
JUVENAL Wisdom overcomes fortune.
JUVENAL The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
JUVENAL Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a con...
JUVENAL Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
JUVENAL The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no m...
JUVENAL Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes lif...
JUVENAL Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reaso...
JUVENAL Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we ...
JUVENAL One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
JUVENAL Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
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JUVENAL Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
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JUVENAL Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses
JUVENAL There's many a thing which they - Whose coats are tattered never dare to say
JUVENAL Panem et circenses.
JUVENAL No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
JUVENAL All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price
JUVENAL All wish to know, but none want to pay the fee
JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last
JUVENAL Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
JUVENAL Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, w...
JUVENAL 'Tis unto children most respect is due
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JUVENAL Wisdom is the winner over good luck
JUVENAL Honesty is praised and starves
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JUVENAL Virtue is the one and only nobility.
JUVENAL Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest
JUVENAL No one ever reached the depths of wickedness all at once.
JUVENAL No one shall be a thief with me as his helper
JUVENAL In times like these it is difficult not to write satire
JUVENAL Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
JUVENAL Virtue's admired - and shivers with the cold
JUVENAL difficile est saturam non scribere
JUVENAL Who is to guard the guards themselves?
JUVENAL The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
JUVENAL A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ign...
JUVENAL I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
JUVENAL Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogita...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroqu...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of a...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est anim...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa For...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat.,...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Satire is what closes Saturday night.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselv...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse thi...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accompli...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpib...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in i...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' w...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eag...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of de...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! C...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proport...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; Tha...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deform...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH