One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs ...
KARL KRAUS Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has sev...
BRUCE ROBINSON Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB One thing that I feel like I have been able to do is transition between those two sports very easily...
JEREMY BLOOM Shara now sits on committees that decide who shall be nominated to be committee chairs for other com...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society
HENRY DAVID THOREAU He who is judge between two friends loses one of them
FRENCH PROVERB But it is said and ever shall, Between two stools lieth the fall
JOHN GOWER One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) challenges; the great wall between those who stand and those who fall
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to...
G.K. CHESTERTON Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall...
BRYAN CRANSTON I don't want to speak to two empty chairs,
ROGER CLEMENS Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward ...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES It's such a simple idea: two mikes, two chairs, two human beings looking into each other's eyes,
DAVID ISAY This may simply be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
MICHAEL GREENBERGER A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSON When he sits down, his ears pop
DON NELSON May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...
ROBERT FANNEY No. And if Sherman sits him down, they'll sit Sherman down.
JIMMY JOHNSON The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent sup...
H. RIDER HAGGARD A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSON A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW T. WILSON People want to know which chairs we think are the most comfortable, and I tell them we're selling th...
JEANETTE MORRISETT May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their ...
LISA KLEYPAS The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
COLETTE Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptio...
ALAN LIGHTMAN The scale between players is so easily tipped, that one call, one point does make a huge difference.
CLIFF DRYSDALE One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.
LAUREN OLIVER The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLPH HITLER They don't really know who they are until someone sits them down and gives them the chance to think ...
EMILY LAND Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.
SPANISH PROVERB Two cannot fall out if one does not choose
SPANISH PROVERB I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements ...
MARIO BUATTA He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.
It’s time to jump.
LAUREN OLIVER If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
ADOLF HITLER Beginning this fall, the $7 has been divided into two equal $3.50 deposits - one deposit for fall an...
JEFF EDWARDS Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one c...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the ab...
G.K. CHESTERTON Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.
JIM BISHOP If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is n...
DONNA JO NAPOLI A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already,...
ADOLF HITLER One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope b...
SUZANNE CROWLEY You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.
EDWARD W. HOWE You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.
ED HOWE The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair a...
ARNOLD SCHOPENHAUER A Prayer
Refuse to fall down
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and...
WOODY ALLEN The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall beh...
ORRIN WOODWARD I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a m...
STEPHEN LANG The one who, having killed the serpent, released the seven rivers; the one who drove out the cows by...
RIG VEDA Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
THEODORE H. WHITE A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure ca...
BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON It is lose-lose situation. Anyone who expects prompt fiscal correction in Hungary may easily be disa...
ZOLTAN TOROK 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 Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
WOODY ALLEN The first two months, in April and May, the majority of the time was spent doing interviews to compl...
WILLIAM ANDREWS I find it beautiful when we're in Italy that everybody sits down at the table together. My mothe...
DEBI MAZAR Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.
JIM BISHOP Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.
GERMAN PROVERB There's always one or two holes to fill and you never know who may step up and surprise you.
CRAIG BEHAN The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
GARTH BROOKS For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down
the middle wall of partition betw...
BIBLE We want to overcome the gap between the people who generate science and those who use it. Many peopl...
KATHY JACOBS The two co-chairs of the [Black Leadership Institute] decided to contact who they thought were very ...
AARON BLAKE They blame him who sits silent, they blame him who speaks much, they also blame him who says little;...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER He has made contacts, personal friendships, with each and every one of the so-called leadership Demo...
PETER BURLING One man on two boats, will fall into the water sooner or later.
ADRIAN ADAM LEE For it ne sits not unto fresh May
Forto be coupled to cold January.
JOHN LYDGATE He didn't fall down on purpose. I made him fall down.
JAMES HARDY As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers ...
RAM DASS The distance between two souls-one is infinity, outside.
MARIANA FULGER You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.
AMIT RAY There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL I've heard that one superintendent is in favor of it. (Another) superintendent says you're just rear...
JOHN DRUZBICK Two may keep counsel, putting one away
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Ye...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I'm getting outstanding feedback from Conservative Party chairs. I met only one who supports Pirro, ...
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