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What a man says drunk he has thought sober.


Flemish Proverb

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He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
DECIMUS LABERIUS I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
SOURCE UNKNOWN No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...
TERRY PRATCHETT What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
KENNETH TYNAN A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand
FLEMISH PROVERB She's not drunk, she's just not sober.
E. CLAIRE Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The people would rather have John A. drunk than Brown sober
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN He had the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on airships when st...
O. HENRY Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Madelyn knew her aunt, drunk or sober, simply did not have the continuity of thought to see beyond h...
OLIVIA PARKER Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.
ASHWIN SANGHI Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober
LEGAL MAXIM Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure y...
DIANA WYNNE JONES Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
OZZY OSBOURNE Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He's a honest man who does what he says,
STEVE HARVEY The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have...
PETER DE VRIES My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
G. K. CHESTERTON The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
KHALED HOSSEINI Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That ...
LEO TOLSTOY No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid."
"What do you think?" his father as...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
HENRY WARD BEECHER As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am...
A. E. HOUSMAN A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ...
SOTONYE ANGA The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
W.B. YEATS Honor is better than honors
FLEMISH PROVERB It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE 'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mr...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A proverb is not a 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 no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth...
SAMUEL JOHNSON As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Their case is based on what he says and they want you to believe him. The man sitting before you can...
JOEL BENNETT It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
OSCAR WILDE I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe wh...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.
THE TALMUD Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times' a...
S. I. HAYAKAWA It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for ...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Never spoil a man of words. 'Cause what he says, he does. And when he does, he really means it.
ALEXANDER A. MANANTAN Seat belts are your best defense against a drunk driver. We want people to drive safe, drive sober a...
GLYNN BIRCH It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a prove...
CHINUA ACHEBE A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN “If a blind man says, "Let's throw stones," be assured that he has stepped on one.”
ESAN MAGAZINE Two things a man can't hide; that he is drunk and that he is in love.
AMAN JASSAL Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
JOHN IRVING Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, a...
S. I. HAYAKAWA I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a c...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
LESLIE STEPHEN A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
FEOUDE A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
FEOUDE A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translate...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...
BERTRAND RUSSELL In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a M...
WILLIAM PENN A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today mad...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL What seems mysterious can be understood.
SIMON STEVIN A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES OF MACEDONIA A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.
JOE E. LEWIS Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what ...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN The thought is stronger that the sky above when the man hopes, and weaker than the butterfly's wing ...
MARIANA FULGER Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says
SPANISH PROVERB Voters quickly forget what a man says.
RICHARD M. NIXON Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought i...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY ADAMS What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has see...
SITTING BULL Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making y...
JULIAN BARNES The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a c...
JOSE BERGAMIN If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will le...
CHUCK JONES

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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.
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.
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