I'd rather be dead than red


American Proverb

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Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
TAMARA ECCLESTONE
Rather be dead than cool.
KURT COBAIN
Rather be dead than cool
KURT COBAIN
I'd rather be dead than cool.
KURT COBAIN
It's best, though, to get premises ID done early rather than wait.
DR. GEORGE TEAGARDEN
I'd rather be dead than think about death
BRENDAN BEHAN
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
DAVY CROCKETT
I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm forty-five.
MICK JAGGER
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
MICK JAGGER
I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.
MICK JAGGER
We're hoping that he's well preserved, and that the ID will be rather easy.
BOB MANN
I would rather be dead, than go back to being silent and suffocated.
TAHEREH MAFI
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbli...
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
AESCHYLUS
I wouldn't be caught dead in red.
BILLY PORTER
I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.
MICK JAGGER
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TALCOTT PARSONS
I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
CHARLES EVERS
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
JIMMY BUFFETT
I'd rather be dead then cool.
KURT COBAIN
The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in h...
NICHOLAS MONSARRAT
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Id rather fail a million times than give up, for to fail again means to succeed once more but to giv...
MOE ZEE
I'd rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.
NEMA AL-ARABY
I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'
GUILLAUME CANET
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA
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CAMILLE PAGLIA
Rather than rotting in a jail, he might consider the ultimate martyrdom to be being put to death by ...
LEE RUBIN
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
WILFRED OWEN
Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
WILFRED OWEN
When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB
Better red than dead. Not sure what that means, but I say it in my head every time I put lipstick on...
CHLOE THURLOW
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ROBERT HALL
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
THOMAS CARLYLE
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO ELDER
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
the intelligence community owes the president (an explanation) rather than the president owing the A...
DAVID KAY
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
LORD BYRON
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rat...
LESLIE FIEDLER
I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for d...
ANDREA GIBSON
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
People are so ungrateful they would rather sleep in their bed of nails rather than in my bed of flow...
ANDONI GARCIA
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
LEWIS CARROLL
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American cu...
FAWAZ GERGES
I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization."
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MARIE BRENNAN
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek t...
JERRY MORAN
Where id was, there ego shall be.
SIGMUND FREUD
Where id was, there shall ego be.
SIGMUND FREUD
Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an a...
SIDNEY BUCHMAN
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the contr...
NORMAN COUSINS
Whether he is alive or dead almost doesn't matter because he has become a symbolic figure, rather th...
RICHARD CLARKE
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any...
JOHN PODHORETZ
It makes it so the rest of the West can remain reliant on American products ... rather than going ab...
COURTNEY BOONE
The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spendin...
JOHN FLEMING
The North American market is red hot and brutally competitive,
RICHARD WAGONER
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it ar...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have ...
TUCKER CARLSON
When you're acting to a piece of sticky tape rather than seeing someone come back from the dead, tha...
JONNY LEE MILLER
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
EDWARD ALBEE
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KATE WINSLET
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ALAN JACKSON
You see this? ... This is your story: American Red Cross disaster.
ANN BROWN
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
BURT LANCASTER
Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND
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
Rather be safe than sorry.
JACQUE JONES
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
CHARLES LAMB
I have a red line against the Americans.
MUQTADA AL SADR
The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurg...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
Loose lips sink ships
AMERICAN PROVERB
A mill cannot grind with water that is past.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Don't cry over spilled milk
AMERICAN PROVERB
Feed a cold; starve a fever
AMERICAN PROVERB
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole
AMERICAN PROVERB
Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
AMERICAN PROVERB
When it rains, it pours
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Don't hide your light under a bushel
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Ignorance is bliss
AMERICAN PROVERB
Always count the cost.
AMERICAN PROVERB
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The love of evil is the root of all money.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The best things in life are free.
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Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
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You don't put robbers to work in a bank
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.
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The wish is the father of the deed
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Cunning men deal in generalizations.
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Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Variety is the spice of life
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It's never over till it's over
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If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.
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Loose lips sink ships
AMERICAN PROVERB
A mill cannot grind with water that is past.
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Don't cry over spilled milk
AMERICAN PROVERB
Feed a cold; starve a fever
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You can't fit a round peg in a square hole
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Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
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When it rains, it pours
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Don't hide your light under a bushel
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Ignorance is bliss
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Always count the cost.
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There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The love of evil is the root of all money.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The best things in life are free.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
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You don't put robbers to work in a bank
AMERICAN PROVERB
A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.
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The wish is the father of the deed
AMERICAN PROVERB
Cunning men deal in generalizations.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Variety is the spice of life
AMERICAN PROVERB
It's never over till it's over
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If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.
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A clear conscience is a good pillow.
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Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
AMERICAN PROVERB
You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too
AMERICAN PROVERB
If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
AMERICAN PROVERB
If you look back, you'll soon be going that way.
AMERICAN PROVERB
If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be a part of someone else's.
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Hope is the nurse of misery.
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He that lives on hope will die fasting.
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Each day provides its own gifts.
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Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Character is what you are in the dark.
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Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
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Advice is least heeded when most needed.
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A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
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A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
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A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
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A good son makes a good husband.
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A contented mind is a continual feast.
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Never swap horses crossing a stream.
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If you can't lick 'em, join 'em
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Too many cooks spoil the broth
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For want of a nail the kingdom was lost
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A miss is as good as a mile
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Little pitchers have big ears
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People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
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It never rains, but it pours
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No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
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Crap or get off the pot
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Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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There are plenty of fish in the sea
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The worm turns
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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.
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Don't bite more than you can chew.
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No good Indian but a dead Indian
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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
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You made your bed, now lie in it
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The bad workman blames his tools
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Silence is golden; speech is silver
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You can't unscramble an egg
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Don't judge a book by its cover
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Take the bitter with the sweet
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It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on the job
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Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Practice what you preach
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All's fair in love and war.
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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business
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If you want anything done, give it to the busy man
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A good dog deserves a good bone
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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Where there's smoke, there's fire
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Every dog is allowed one bite
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Don't give up the ship
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The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
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Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Eat, drink, and be merry. For tomorrow we die.
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The pen is mightier than the sword
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Easy come, easy go
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Don't upset the apple cart
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Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
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You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear
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The cobbler should stick to it's last
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Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander
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It's never too late to mend your ways
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You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
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I am just as good as you are, and a damned sight better
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A dog is a man's best friend
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If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's
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The only thing a heated argument ever produced is coolness
AMERICAN PROVERB
I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Don't whiz on the electric fence
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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.
AMERICAN PROVERB
It takes two to tango
AMERICAN PROVERB
Once bitten, twice shy
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You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
AMERICAN PROVERB
Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it
AMERICAN PROVERB
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride
AMERICAN PROVERB
Don't change horses while crossing a stream.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Better to be safe than sorry.
AMERICAN PROVERB
He who hesitates is lost
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From little acorns mighty oaks do grow
AMERICAN PROVERB
Seeing is believing
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A Monday morning quarterback
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Bad news travels fast
AMERICAN PROVERB
Don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen
AMERICAN PROVERB
You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream
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Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away
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Make love, not war
AMERICAN PROVERB
The bigger they come the harder they fall
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It takes a thief to catch a thief
AMERICAN PROVERB
Actions speak louder than words
AMERICAN PROVERB
The bad gardener quarrels with his rake
AMERICAN PROVERB
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
AMERICAN PROVERB
It isn't over until the fat lady sings
AMERICAN PROVERB
Love many, trust a few, and learn to paddle your own canoe.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The one who pays the piper calls the tune
AMERICAN PROVERB
A friend who shares is a friend who cares.
AMERICAN PROVERB.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die...
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only a...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongd...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
What the people believe is true.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Pray to understand what man has forgotten.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
A good chief gives, he does not take.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick axe.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
I have been to the end of the earth,
I have been to the end of the waters,
I have been to the ...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may ...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Every animal knows more than you do.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
White men have too many chiefs.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Talk to your children while they are eating;
what you say will stay even after you are gone.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
A starving man will eat with the wolf.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The coward shoots with shut eyes.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life:
A fight is going on inside me, he said to th...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creat...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Truth does not happen, it just is.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The supreme law of the land is the Great Spirit's law, not man's law.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
No answer is also an answer.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Work hard, keep the ceremonies, live peaceably, and unite your hearts.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
In age, talk; in childhood, tears.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The greatest strength is gentleness.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
A good soldier is a poor scout.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Our first teacher is our own heart.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Judge not by the eye but by the heart.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
It is good to tell one's heart.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
All who have died are equal.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Treachery darkens the chain of friendship, but truth makes it brighter than ever.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Never sit while your seniors stand.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Knowledge that is not used is abused.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
One rain does not make a crop.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
You already possess everything necessary to become great.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The only things that need the protection of men are the things of men, not the things of the spirit.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
All dreams spin out from the same web.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The one who tells the stories rules the world.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for yo...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
One finger cannot lift a pebble.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
In death, I am born.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Man has responsiblity, not power.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The way of the troublemaker is thorny.
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