Tools of the trade


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Men have become the tools of their trade.
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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“Every master craftsman equips himself with the best tools for the trade”
JEFF KRANTZ
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ADAM LEVIN
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH 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
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB
Life consists on lightness and darkness, when you reached to lightness, prepare your tools for darkn...
KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
CHINUA ACHEBE
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
Men have become the tools of their tools.
JOHN TUDOR
Men have become the tools of their tools.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Men have become the tools of their tools
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
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.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Men have become tools of their tools.
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
As the Chinese proverb goes, 'Real gold does not fear the test of fire.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
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The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
HENRI BERGSON
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Don't learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade.
UNKNOWN
Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB
One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
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It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.
SPANISH PROVERB
The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn’t amount to convict...
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
JAMES BENNIS
Barking dogs seldom bite, but beware of those dogs that know this proverb.
VIKRANT PARSAI
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions...
LOTOYA PETERSON
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MAX PALLENBERG
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to b...
MERCEDES LACKEY
Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.
LAO TZU
Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade.
JAMES CHARLTON AND H. JACKSON BROWN
Once you raise your own child and you will comprehend the hardship of your parents. – Chinese prov...
CHINESE 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
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
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If the bird hadn’t sung, it wouldn’t have been shot. Japanese Proverb
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them
CHINESE PROVERBS
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single ste...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single st...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
They've got the tools. Now it's just a matter of getting them to the point where they're using those...
JASON YUSTEN
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. (English Proverb.
UNKNOWN
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS
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BIBLE
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not...
BIBLE
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NICHOLSON BAKER
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges...
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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
LEWIS CARROLL
Words are mere tools of the mind
JOSHUA WRIGHT
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Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
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Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. Russian proverb
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Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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