Promise little and do much
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Hebrew Proverb
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DENNIS PRAGER It's amazing how some people can promise so much yet accomplish so little
JOHN OTTESEN
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.
NAOMI WOOD
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
HEBREW PROVERB
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
HEBREW PROVERB
Pride is the mask we make of our faults
HEBREW PROVERB
Love him who tells you your faults in private.
HEBREW PROVERB
Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.
HEBREW PROVERB
Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of ge...
HEBREW PROVERB
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
HEBREW PROVERB
If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.
HEBREW PROVERB
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
HEBREW PROVERB
Who is mighty? One who makes an enemy into a friend
HEBREW PROVERB
Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide
HEBREW PROVERB
The best way to know a man is to watch him when he is angry
HEBREW PROVERB
God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she sh...
HEBREW PROVERB
Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend
HEBREW PROVERB
Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.
HEBREW PROVERB
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones
HEBREW PROVERB
Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of
HEBREW PROVERB
These three are the marks of a Jew - a tender heart, self-respect, and charity
HEBREW PROVERB
Judge not thy neighbor until thou art come into his place
HEBREW PROVERB
Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced
HEBREW PROVERB
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death
HEBREW PROVERB
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as ...
LJUPKA CVETANOVA When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS...
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
NATALIE PORTMAN
Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?"
"Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Mayb...
LEV GROSSMAN Say yes, Jenny. Promise you'll marry me. Promise you'll still be here, driving me crazy and loving m...
MAGGIE OSBORNE Don't promise. Do and show!
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI The technology has not only as much promise, but even more promise than wind energy.
GEORGE HAGERMAN
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 If you expect too much and do too little, you are bound for disappointment. If you talk too much and...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
HESIOD
I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differ...
STEVIE WONDER
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
LEWIS CARROLL So little done, so much to do.
CECIL RHODES
Men expect too much, do too little.
ALLEN TATE
He who boasts much can do little
AFRICAN PROVERB
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establ...
CYNTHIA OZICK She was looking at you Hebrew.
CHRIS PERKINS This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more usef...
MENANDER ATHENS
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.
WILLY WONKA
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
OVID
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 It is better to do too much than to do too little.
BAS RUTTEN
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
HELEN KELLER
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
HELEN KELLER
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
SALLUST
I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (a...
LEWIS CARROLL A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and hav...
JOSHUA A. NORTON
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move cl...
LORETTA LYNCH A place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
BIBLE
The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though m...
EDWARD DYER We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
ROALD DAHL We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.
WILLY WONKA Give a little bit more than you gave yesterday, and make a promise to be a little more grateful than...
CHARMAINE J FORDE Not that a promise means much to a demon - or a god.
JOANNE HARRIS 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
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
ZUBIN MEHTA
I promise I will do two more.
LUC BESSON Do not pretend - be. Do not promise - act. Do not dream - realize.
MIRRA ALFASSA The special knowledge you are about to learn will reveal a “letter theory” that was set into mot...
MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
I cannot promise very much. I give you the images I know. Lie still with me and watch. We laugh and ...
ANNE SEXTON
Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backward.
JOHN FLAVEL
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON We should expect nothing less from the language that was originally given by God, to His human famil...
MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE
I promise every time I walk down this street I will polish that little star,
ALICE COOPER I can't promise not to make you mad. I can't promise that I won't hurt you. All I can promise is tha...
CHELSEA M. CAMERON
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 Too little is one heart for how much the human brain and soul want to do...
MARIANA FULGER 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
More Hebrew Proverb
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
HEBREW PROVERB
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
HEBREW PROVERB
Pride is the mask we make of our faults
HEBREW PROVERB
Love him who tells you your faults in private.
HEBREW PROVERB
Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.
HEBREW PROVERB
Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of ge...
HEBREW PROVERB
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
HEBREW PROVERB
If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.
HEBREW PROVERB
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
HEBREW PROVERB
Who is mighty? One who makes an enemy into a friend
HEBREW PROVERB
Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide
HEBREW PROVERB
The best way to know a man is to watch him when he is angry
HEBREW PROVERB
God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she sh...
HEBREW PROVERB
Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend
HEBREW PROVERB
Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.
HEBREW PROVERB
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones
HEBREW PROVERB
Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of
HEBREW PROVERB
These three are the marks of a Jew - a tender heart, self-respect, and charity
HEBREW PROVERB
Judge not thy neighbor until thou art come into his place
HEBREW PROVERB
Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced
HEBREW PROVERB
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death
HEBREW PROVERB Of course, I'm the guy driving the big red truck.
JOSH HEBREW Most of the time when you're on calls you can run off the adrenaline.
JOSH HEBREW There's always plenty of speculation, but never any wagers.
JOSH HEBREW A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
PROVERB Speak when you are spoken to.
PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
PROVERB Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
PROVERB How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB Rest breeds rust.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
PROVERB If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
PROVERB Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it w...
PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
PROVERB To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the p...
PROVERB Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB He who does not research has nothing to teach.
PROVERB Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains,...
PROVERB He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
PROVERB No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
PROVERB Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
PROVERB Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
PROVERB When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
PROVERB If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
PROVERB The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
PROVERB Never say die.
PROVERB There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and t...
PROVERB If you wish for peace be ready for war.
PROVERB When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB Peace with a club in hand is war.
PROVERB If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
PROVERB Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB Riches have wings.
PROVERB A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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