Don't call the alligator big mouth till you have crossed the river


Belizean Proverb

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No call alligator long mouth till you pass him
JAMAICAN PROVERB
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
CORDELL HULL
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river
CORDELL HULL
Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.
HAITIAN PROVERB
Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.
CORDELL HULL
Remember: Don't Insult the Alligator till after you cross the river.
SHORT QUOTES
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
DAN RATHER
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
DAN RATHER
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout
ASHANTI PROVERB
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
Don't let your alligator mouth out talk your tadpole butt.
KEVIN COOK
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back afte...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB
I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.
HAL NEEDHAM
When everythng is dark around you,dont you ever open the light cause you will get shocked just wait ...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN
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
On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderos...
NORMAN FITZROY MACLEAN
The mouth of the Miami River would have been a preferred place to be if you were a prehistoric hunte...
JOHN RICISAK
It ain't nothin' till I call it.
BILL KLEM
I have a big mouth.
JULIE BOWEN
I have such a big mouth.
KELLY HU
If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you
BELIZEAN PROVERB
Don't hang your hat higher than you can reach
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I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protec...
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Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
MIKE TYSON
She crossed over death to call me. I crossed through Hell to find her.
KENDARE BLAKE
I got a big mouth.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth
MIKE TYSON
It ain't nothin' till I call it.
BILL KLEM
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain ...
W. H. AUDEN
Well, the River Mart. You have to have the River Mart.
GEORGE YOUNG
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
MIKE TYSON
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you w...
BILL O'REILLY
If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
SIMON COWELL
I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you w...
BILL O'REILLY
The biggest question in life is: 'what's for dinner tonight?'
AARON SANTOS
To have a philosophical view on what time is, we would have to go outside the box and look at the bi...
GARY F EVANS...
I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps ov...
W.H. AUDEN
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the m...
W. H. AUDEN
Before the show I was a real paperback-by-the-pool sort of girl. I'd backpacked through Europe and m...
BROOKE BURKE
We are not victims by nature...we are programmed to be victims...for good reason...if we truly embra...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN
You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.
JIM HARRISON
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,Till we can clear these ambiguities.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light
LADY GAGA
I have noticed that most times, the least that you give out is the best that someone really needs. S...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
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
See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
BILL HALEY
You cant find outside what you dont have inside.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG
I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.
WILLIAM HENRY ASHLEY
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.
BILL O'REILLY
Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.
BILL O'REILLY
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you k...
JACK OSBOURNE
You dont have to live forever just live.
NATALIE BABBITT
I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for ...
LEAH REMINI
I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.
BILLY CORGAN
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love as Einstein stated which is very t...
GARY F EVANS...
Call no man happy till he is dead.
AESCHYLUS
With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
DONALD TRUMP
It will be a big day tomorrow. We pulled it out of the bag today with brilliant crew work downwind a...
EAMON CONNEELY
You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.
JANET JACKSON
If adventurers were cowardly, no one would have crossed the nations; if sailors were fearful, no one...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
, "THE CALL OF CTHULHU"
We collected 30 fish from the South River near Annapolis last year. Sixteen fish had raised, pinkish...
FRED PINKNEY
A part of the Jews are Palestinians, and they are represented in our legislative council. Till now, ...
YASSER ARAFAT
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
GEORGE HERBERT
If you have things near the river?s edge, bring them in. Don?t let them float down the river.
DAN MUNDELL
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BIBLE
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JAN BONUGLI
You dont have the right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation ...
CHERYL STRAYED
Many small streams make one big river.
DUTCH PROVERB
And we used to call the day of judgment a lie; / Till death overtook us.
QURAN
That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Be not be discourage by the rejections. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done wi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Do not be discourage by people who reject your true purpose. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop be...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun; Never ...
KATHARINE LEE BATES
Sir, the object of the Flagg, which crossed the River, was to propose a cessation of hostilities for...
WILLIAM HULL
Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theorie...
CASSANDRA CLARE
...I thought, breaking into a sweat, I'd better call Saul. I owe Kate an apology... Damn damn damn.
MORDECAI RICHLER
You know… the airport is the only place you can walk around with no shoes, a glazed look on your f...
CORIANDER WOODRUFF, THE CALL OF THE SPECTACLED OWL
Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
NINA DE GRAMONT
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that ...
BLACK ELK
dont let the old break you; let the love make you
BERTRAND RUSSELL
you dont busy yourself arranging straw when you still have that passage that can let in the wind unp...
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH
Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
PHYLLIS DILLER
The umpire said he went to his mouth. It was a bad call. It was a mistaken call. It's unfortunate th...
PHIL GARNER
If the bird hadn’t sung, it wouldn’t have been shot. Japanese Proverb
BOHDI SANDERS
It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.
STEVEN MOFFAT

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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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The less people think the more they talk.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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