It is disgraceful to stumble against the same stone twice


Greek proverb

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To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
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To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
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If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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Act quickly, think slowly.
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A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
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Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek.
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Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.
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When God throws the dice are loaded.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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A person's character is revealed by their speech
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There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
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In hospitality, the chief thing is the good will
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Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have
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The liar and the thief rejoice in their first year only.
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The fox is one hundred years old its' child is one hundred and ten.
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When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe
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Death is never at a loss for occasions
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If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
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If you do not have brains you follow the same route twice.
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Nothing, in excess.
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Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth
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The beginning is half of every action
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As long as you have the blessing of your parents it does not matter even if you live in the mountain...
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The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones
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To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, He has no experience with it
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The rabbits' eye differs from that of the owl.
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No need to teach an eagle to fly
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One minute of patience, ten years of peace
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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
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A person can be as sweet as honey or as heavy as steel.
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A miser is ever in want
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My first wedding makes me proud in front of people.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar
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A miser and a liar bargain quickly.
GREEK PROVERB
If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
GREEK PROVERB
Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
GREEK PROVERB
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
GREEK PROVERB
I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.
GREEK PROVERB
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
GREEK PROVERB
Act quickly, think slowly.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
GREEK PROVERB
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
GREEK PROVERB
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
GREEK PROVERB
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom
GREEK PROVERB
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek.
GREEK PROVERB
The heart that loves is always young.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB
Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.
GREEK PROVERB
When God throws the dice are loaded.
GREEK PROVERB
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
GREEK PROVERB
If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
GREEK PROVERB
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
GREEK PROVERB
A person's character is revealed by their speech
GREEK PROVERB
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal
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There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
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Before you can score, you must have a goal
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A library is a repository of medicine for the mind
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In hospitality, the chief thing is the good will
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Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have
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The liar and the thief rejoice in their first year only.
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The fox is one hundred years old its' child is one hundred and ten.
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When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe
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It is not possible to step twice into the same river
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Death is never at a loss for occasions
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If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of...
GREEK PROVERB
I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee
GREEK PROVERB
If you do not have brains you follow the same route twice.
GREEK PROVERB
Nothing, in excess.
GREEK PROVERB
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth
GREEK PROVERB
The beginning is half of every action
GREEK PROVERB
As long as you have the blessing of your parents it does not matter even if you live in the mountain...
GREEK PROVERB
The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones
GREEK PROVERB
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, He has no experience with it
GREEK PROVERB
The rabbits' eye differs from that of the owl.
GREEK PROVERB
No need to teach an eagle to fly
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One minute of patience, ten years of peace
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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
GREEK PROVERB
A person can be as sweet as honey or as heavy as steel.
GREEK PROVERB
A miser is ever in want
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My first wedding makes me proud in front of people.
GREEK PROVERB
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar
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Where there is a sea there are pirates
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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
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To rebel in season is not to rebel
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A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes
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A heart that loves is always young.
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He who suffers much will know much
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He who is not satisfied with a little is not satisfied with allot.
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The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words
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An open enemy is better than a false friend
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Poor in my youth, and in life's later scenes - Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour, Who naught enj...
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Success has many friends
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If you do not have brains you have legs.
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If it were not for hope, the heart would break
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It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good
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Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
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To know and not to do is not to know
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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The time to make friends is before you need them.
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Short judgments make long friends.
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
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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.
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Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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Try and trust will move mountains.
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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All sins cast long shadows.
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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A silent mouth is melodious.
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Silence implies consent.
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The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
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Shame is worse than death.
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God likes help when helping people.
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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Attack is the best form of defense.
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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.
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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
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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.
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How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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Rest breeds rust.
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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
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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