Better untaught than ill taught
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Better untaught than ill-taught.
UNKNOWN A boy is better unborn than untaught.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE It is better to be completely ignorant than to be ill taught.
VIKRANT PARSAI Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
LEWIS CARROLL It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS Better do nothing than do ill.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS An ill agreement is better then a good judgement.
[An ill agreement is better than a good judgment...
GEORGE HERBERT Better fed than taught.
JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET" A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
- Chinese pr...
ALVIN TOFFLER Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT Instinct is untaught ability.
ALEXANDER BAIN Instinct is untaught ability
ALEXANDER BAIN Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
GEORGE HERBERT Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife
BIBLE We're taught better than we played. We struggled. We knew they'd pass.
KAYLE BUCHANAN It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought alon...
ETHAN ZOHN When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB My mom taught me how to love, my dad taught me how to be a man.You put them together, and ill be you...
LUIS ARIEL ROMERO JR. My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.
ESAI MORALES One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
UNKNOWN It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Better to be blinde, then to see ill.
GEORGE HERBERT Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign succes...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.
LEIGH BARDUGO I wished your venison better--it was ill killed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for ...
RICHARD BAXTER Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than...
LISA LING 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 A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or deba...
CATHY BETTER Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
THOMAS FULLER If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
SOPHOCLES It's better for other people to go out and learn. They have a GED program and people can get their d...
KRISTY WALKER The Good are better made by Ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
SAMUEL ROGERS Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl...
SAMUEL BUTLER I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still survivin...
CARRIE FISHER The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to m...
FAT JOE One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of suc...
NEALE DONALD WALSCH Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
DEAN KOONTZ If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
AFRICAN PROVERB Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
FRANÇOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
WINSTON CHURCHILL An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is better to be honourable than be honoured.
SHIV KHERA Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
JACQUES MARITAIN Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence
JACQUES MARITAIN Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
GAUTAMA BUDDHA To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to b...
MERCEDES LACKEY Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.
LAO TZU O visions ill foreseen! Better had I
Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne
My part of evil o...
JOHN MILTON Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when t...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Ill seed, ill weed
FRENCH PROVERB A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
AMBROSE BIERCE I was always taught, even as a kid, playing against grown men, you get better.
DRAYMOND GREEN The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a w...
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a w...
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart...
CHARLES DICKENS I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - ...
STEPHEN KING I wasn't very ill and missed three days [of training]. I'm feeling better now. I've trained well for...
TIRUNESH DIBABA I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them
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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.
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PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
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PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
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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.
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PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
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PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
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PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
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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.
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PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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PROVERB Practice is the best master.
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PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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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.
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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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