A weapon which you don't have in your hand won't kill a snake
African Proverb
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Carry a heart, not a weapon,
Use your hand to help not to kill
DEEPSHA If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all
JAPANESE PROVERB If you dont get what you want,you wont want what you get.
KENNETH ELLIOTT HUDSON Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake
PERSIAN PROVERB Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
PERSIAN PROVERB People live for eating,but
I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden be...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB My Hopes are so High that your Kiss might Kill me So wont you Kill me So I die Happy.
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Demand your respect. Know what you want out of a man so he can manifest and become it... But that wo...
NERISSA IRVING To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Never wound a snake; kill it.
HARRIET TUBMAN Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, an...
JEAN ANOUILH Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
ROSS PEROT when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa...
DALLY SALAD You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
ROSS PEROT It all comes down to serving the ones who are fighting alongside you, watching your back, putting a ...
JAMES LUCENO You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move ...
KATE SEREDY Books wont stay banned. They wont burn. Ideas wont go to jail. In the long run of history, the censo...
ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD He caught Ben's come in the napkin, the smell making his mouth water harder than any chile sauce cou...
B.A. TORTUGA A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning yo...
SOICHIRO HONDA There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE There's an old African proverb that I have on my desk that says a lot about partnerships. If you wan...
PATTY STONESIFER My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one b...
MEM FOX Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion
EGYPTIAN PROVERB If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', me...
SOICHIRO HONDA Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE If your doing Gods will , you wont have time to do as you will
TIPSON N MOKGOPHA The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill y...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and ...
TOMMY LASORDA Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has ...
STEVEN GALLOWAY I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
DEYTH BANGER Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN...
DEYTH BANGER The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...
That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO You don’t need any weapon to kill
Cushy man just insult him
DEEPAK KUMAR Hold a true friend with both hands
AFRICAN PROVERB The African proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child' -- that speaks volumes about where the ki...
AARON LEE I am the perfect weapon, I can kill with a single touch.
MELINDA SALISBURY I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but ...
TOMMY LASORDA I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and...
YAYA TOURE A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN 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 I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now ...
J. R. MARTINEZ Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis...
ELVIS HODZIC There was a time when they wouldn't allow you to have a gun because they were afraid that you would ...
DONNAYSIA IFIELD I thought they were going to kill me there and then, which would have been a relief. To my horror, t...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Arab children,
Corn ears of the future,
You will break our chains,
Kill the opium in ...
نزار قباني How can someone ask you to show your full potential when their actions bring out the worst in you.Fo...
TANICA S HALL Resentments are like this Chinese proverb: If you have revenge in mind, you’d better dig two grave...
ANIL GUPTA The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from...
THOMAS SZASZ There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of Febr...
ROBERT HALL O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g...
RUSSELL HOBAN If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the...
SOURCE UNKNOWN If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the...
ANON. You Cannot Fly Like An Eagle If You Wont Stretch Your Wings!
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER Stoans want to be lissent to. Them big brown stoans in the formers feal they want to stan up and tal...
RUSSELL HOBAN When you have a hammer in your hand everything around you starts looking like a nail.
ANONYMOUS people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
MICHAEL PARENTI (...) Would it kill you to have a little faith in your older brother?'
'It might
JULIE KAGAWA You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around...
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NIKKI ROWE If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel......
MARTIN VAN CREVELD Caste is a weapon that is professionally used by illiterates to kill humanity and mankind in self an...
VIJAY KUMAR ALLAM Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER It's a less-than-lethal weapon (with which) you can save lives.
JACK FISCHER Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that Afr...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
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THOMAS S. SZASZ The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...
THOMAS SZASZ A weapon didn't come to an agreement with the hand that held it.
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB One monkey don't stop no show!
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