Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. Yet a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful son...
On April 18, 1906, when that earthquake hit San Francisco and took David from her, Vivien began to speak the language of grief. She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather, time insis...
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his ...
A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
A well mannered man does not step on the shadow of his fellow man.
Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch.
Age does not give you good sense, it only makes you go slowly.
He who puts his nose in a turd does not know what he is smelling.
The dog has four feet, but he does not walk in four roads at the same time.
When the goat goes to church, he does not stop till he gets to the altar.
A canoe does not know who is king. When it turns over, everyone gets wet.
Distracted by what is far away, he does not see his nose.
He who does not lose his way by night will not lose his way by day.
Who does not beat his own child will later beat his own breast.
The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.
The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who sleeps.
If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition.
The monkey does not see his own hind backside; he sees his neighbor's.
A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.
He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
