Water for oxen, wine for kings.
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VIKRANT PARSAI The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water.
KEN MACLEOD Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
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BIBLE Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water
SWEDISH PROVERB Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's
sake and thine often infirmities.
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GALILEO GALILEI My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water
MARK TWAIN High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
MARK TWAIN Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine
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MARK TWAIN My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
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BIBLE Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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MANU JOSEPH Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN I drink red wine on ice to water it down.
DIANE KEATON his lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine
E.E. CUMMINGS Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
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DAVE GUERRERO The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
WILLIAM BLAKE Only living water satisfy the thirsty soul.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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PROVERB Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB In teaching others we teach ourselves.
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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.
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PROVERB Never say die.
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PROVERB If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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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.
PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
PROVERB The Devil finds work for idle hands.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
PROVERB The work praises the man.
PROVERB A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
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