He who quarrels with a drunken man injures the absent
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He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
UNKNOWN He who injures one man threatens many.
UNKNOWN The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
FRANK GARBUTT The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
FRANK A. GARBUTT A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.
AMBROSE BIERCE One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.
UNKNOWN He who spares the bad injures the good.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS He who spares the wicked injures the good.
SENECA He who spares the wicked injures the good.
UNKNOWN He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
ANDREW LANG He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination
ANDREW LANG He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.
ANDREW LANG He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination.
ANDREW LANG As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth...
SAMUEL JOHNSON As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth
of the Indies must carry the wealt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If he avoids quarrels with these persons, he will be freed from all sins, and by suppressing ,all su...
GURU NANAK He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
if attacked by another, that man i...
UNKNOWN He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
ANDREW LANG For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD He that spares the bad injures the good
THOMAS FULLER He injures a fair lady that beholds her not
THOMAS FULLER And from that time on I bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, ARTHUR RIMBAUD The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, ...
CICERO The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures a...
JOSEPH ADDISON A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
- Chinese pr...
ALVIN TOFFLER Chauvinism is totally absent in a heart of a man who truly respects a woman.
~ Angelica Hopes, ...
ANGELICA HOPES Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit
THOMAS JEFFERSON A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
CORETTA SCOTT KING My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?
C. FERN COOK He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN It is better to be drunken with your dreams,than to be drunken with wine.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN VON GOETHE And to my soul mate,” he raises his glass, “who has been with me all along, but is absent from m...
T.L. SWAN A bad worker quarrels with his tools
PROVERB Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent sup...
H. RIDER HAGGARD Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
JOHN GAY Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
THOMAS FULLER Those who in quarrels interpose - Must often wipe a bloody nose
JOHN GAY This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you ar...
TERRY PRATCHETT When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The books usually introduce the Man with the Yellow Hat at the beginning. He says, 'Goodbye, George,...
MATTHEW O'CALLAGHAN The bad plowman quarrels with his ox
KOREAN PROVERB The bad gardener quarrels with his rake
AMERICAN PROVERB By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking...
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.
SOURCE UNKNOWN There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
BIBLE Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money eno...
JOHN GAY The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man.
NABIL N. JAMAL Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways
of Providence with drunken skipper...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the ab...
GILBERT MURRAY He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absen...
THOMAS MERTON An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather ...
ANDREW LANG I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more t...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
PROVERB Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS He that is drunken . . .
Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill
Did with his liquor slide int...
GEORGE HERBERT Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
HENRY R. LUCE When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more usef...
MENANDER ATHENS Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA 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 It said, Qui facit per alium facit per se.
Greenmantle knew the proverb.
He wh...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man.
-Nabil N. Jamal
NABIL N. JAMAL And to my soul mate, who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.
T.L. SWAN A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there ar...
NORTHROP FRYE As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like sa...
DAVID AIELLO The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like sa...
DAVID J AIELLO JR. Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
TACITUS Greater things are believed of those who are absent
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dr. Lee is not a hero, he is not an absent-minded professor, he is a felon,
JANET RENO (Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool?
(Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. O...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he...
G.K. CHESTERTON The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A just man is not one who does no ill, but he, who with the power, has not the will
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