An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.


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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
PROVERB
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
RUDYARD KIPLING
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
MICHAEL KORDA
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
DANISH PROVERB
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.
PROVERB
An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
HENRY DE BRACTON
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.
FREDERIC R. MARVIN
An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
RICHARD BAXTER
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
ELBERT GREEN HUBBARD
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
ELBERT HUBBARD
An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.
RICHARD BAXTER
An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument
SYDNEY SMITH
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
MICHAEL KORDA
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
PROVERB
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment
ELBERT HUBBARD
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
SPANISH PROVERB
An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240.
HENRY DE BRACTON
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance. - Nolan's / Peter's Placebo.
UNKNOWN
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
THOMAS FULLER
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with
THOMAS FULLER
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When put to the test, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness
ELBERT HUBBARD
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest
SPANISH PROVERB
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
JOHN WESLEY
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge
JOHN WESLEY
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge
JOHN WESLEY
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
YIDDISH PROVERB
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
MAE WEST
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
MICHAEL KORDA
An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
ERNST F. SCHUMACHER
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Better an ounce from the ground than a pound from the roof
THE TALMUD
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ANUJ SOMANY
An illness comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.
TURKISH PROVERB
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES GARFIELD
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps
JAMES THURBER
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
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Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
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POPE JOHN PAUL II
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda We ought to see far enoug...
MICHAEL KORDA
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK
I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK
Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK
I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK
It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK
Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
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