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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.


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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
PROVERB Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB I wrapped my arms around him like I was saving an oak tree.
C.J. ENGLISH It's funny, Rudi is putting down roots in Cincinnati like an old oak tree,
JANICE JOHNSON An acorn is an oak tree inside out.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There is an oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become an oak tree unle...
SAJI IJIYEMI He's like a disease. He's like an infection. He just spreads.
AARON HARRIS A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS The seeds of an oak tree rebuilds with stronger roots.
DR NIRVADHA SINGH It's like hitting an oak log.
RICHARD LONG Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak...
NEIL GAIMAN The event grew like an acorn into a giant oak tree in one year. The dedication of the volunteers who...
DENNIS MORLOK Tribulation is a good & an evil tree.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become the oak tree unless it i...
SAJI IJIYEMI The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and i...
BOB GOODLATTE If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if ...
JACK CANFIELD Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting ...
CLIVE ANDERSON The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and i...
BOB GOODLATTE The mountain veiled in mist is not a hill; an oak tree in the rain is not a weeping willow.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Planting a tree is like having a baby
SOTONYE ANGA Like looking for a needle in a haystack
PROVERB As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today.
JAMES CARVILLE The best time to plant an oak tree is 20 years ago, the next best time is right now!
UNKNOWN And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
JOHN MOTSON Yet love enters my blood like an I.V.,
dripping in its little white moments.
ANNE SEXTON When an oak-tree is felled the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silentl...
THOMAS CARLYLE It's [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.
JACK WELCH The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It's like threading a needle while walking on a water bed.
PHIL DONAHUE ...sips fuel like a mouse sipping sherry from a hypodermic needle.
JEREMY CLARKSON Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.
JAPANESE PROVERB The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I...
RAM DASS Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
UNKNOWN Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots
BIBLE Don’t trust in smile every time because evil always enters smiling.
VIKRANT PARSAI A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women s...
KATHA POLLITT You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)
SHERRILYN KENYON The wind was howling and I was worried about trees falling down. Suddenly, I heard a loud, thud-like...
SHERYL BRENNER It will be like a capsule placed into the tumor with a needle.
BABAK ZIAIE I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree then prehaps I should, so that othe...
EDDIE IZZARD Learn to accept and bend like the willow. For if you resist, you will break like the oak.
RVM It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three...
BEN JONSON Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move you...
JACK CANFIELD We were like a traveling jukebox, and then we added cheerleaders to the jukebox and it started to lo...
AL JARDINE ...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.
ZAK EBRAHIM Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb
CHINESE PROVERB An alder tree can't become an oak at will. A maple can't pick up its roots like legs, and stride, st...
EMILY WHITMAN At least I don't look like a Christmas tree."
"You look like the star atop the tree.
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.
JANET ERSKINE STUART You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom
JANET ERSKINE STUART Finding a cheap room to rent here is like finding a needle in a haystack.
LYNNE FINDING Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tr...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I've been doing this for 18 years. It was a little sapling, and now it's a sturdy oak tree, firmly p...
AL NIGRIN Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
KHALED HOSSEINI How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . ...
WILLIAM COWPER The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futu...
GARTH NIX He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB It is easy to become a monk in one's old age
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB One who recovers from sickness soon forgets about God
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB The fool is thirsty in the midst of water
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB What one hopes for is always better than what one has
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder.
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The tree, which is a red oak, was inspected and limbed before the start of the PGA Championship and ...
ANDY BUSH The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Th...
JOHN DRYDEN If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his...
TERRY PRATCHETT As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
EDDIE CONDON Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes ...
NANCY GIBBS Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies wh...
ROBERT BURNS An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Spreading himself like a green bay tree.
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He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB It is easy to become a monk in one's old age
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB One who recovers from sickness soon forgets about God
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB The fool is thirsty in the midst of water
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB What one hopes for is always better than what one has
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder.
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
PROVERB To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB Silence implies consent.
PROVERB The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB A good speaker makes a good liar.
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.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
PROVERB The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
PROVERB You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
PROVERB Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know h...
PROVERB Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
PROVERB What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
PROVERB Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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.
PROVERB The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
PROVERB If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
PROVERB Respect starts with yourself.
PROVERB He who is near the Church is often far from God.
PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
PROVERB Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
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.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
PROVERB The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
PROVERB Force without forecast is to little avail.
PROVERB Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it w...
PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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.
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