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.
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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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