Precept guides, but example draws.
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Example is the best precept.
AESOP Example is always more efficacious than precept.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
SENECA A good example is far better than a good precept.
DWIGHT L. MOODY The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
SENECA We believe content relationships are compelling draws even where paid-TV-provided guides are prevale...
ALFRED AMOROSO The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and ver...
LORD BYRON Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, l...
BIBLE For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a littl...
BIBLE Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little.
BIBLE No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead b...
THICH NHAT HANH The ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failu...
SAMUEL SMILES As, then, a consummate master teaches both by example and by precept, so Christ taught the obedience...
RUFINUS MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:
WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
RIGHT OR BEING K...
R.J. PALACIO Feelings are great guides, but lousy leaders. Use them wisely.
JIM GENOVESE 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 Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
LAURENCE STERNE A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS ..quite limitless: climbing a Swiss Alp, tasting wine at a French chateau, renting a surfboard in Po...
ROUGH GUIDES Discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I re...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL Barking dogs seldom bite, but beware of those dogs that know this proverb.
VIKRANT PARSAI In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIAN We may plan a journey but it is God who guides our steps.
JAIME CONTRERAS Buddha guides my thoughts, but it's up to me to guide my life.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good,...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
DAN PFEIFFER Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Wisdom that guides and guards is not on the lips, but in the heart.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Fear guides more than gratitude.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Where God guides, He provides.
UNKNOWN My faith guides my life.
KAY HAGAN It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
PROVERB It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
RUSSIAN PROVERB She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS Because you might just get there and turn around and want to leave again. I'm not going to ping-pong...
BUT APRIL I want to make sure it is out of there for good. Whatever it is, there is a shark floating in there ...
BUT BURNETT Something wasn't right. It's pretty frustrating. I feel about two inches tall.
BUT BURNETT Well? I mean, I know fatherhood isn't your strong suit, but I thought maybe you'd evolved a little s...
BUT APRIL Last time I heard, she was still pregnant, and you were still in the running for daddy.
BUT APRIL There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
DENIS DIDEROT Petty deviance is encouraged
JKRAK Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For m...
BEN JONSON Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB One woman never praises another. Estonian Proverb
ESTONIAN PROVERB Sometimes it's good to start over
R.J. PALACIO To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, t...
JAMES E. FAUST Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING Serving ice cream isn't exactly like serving in state government, but what I learned guides me t...
DOUG DUCEY You may lose your way, but never your faith; it's what guides you whether you realize it or not...
N. S. COLE Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
GAUTAMA BUDDHA To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to b...
MERCEDES LACKEY Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.
LAO TZU Evil draws men together.
ARISTOTLE Money just draws flies.
MAHALIA JACKSON As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall no...
BIBLE As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not...
BIBLE A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB Everybody draws when they are little.
KEITH HARING Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
MARK TWAIN AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPT
Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the wor...
R.J. PALACIO The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from...
THOMAS SZASZ The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them
CHINESE PROVERBS Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
C. L. R. JAMES The guides have been combined. They are now one book.
CHUCK GATES ...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that eve...
JEANETTE WINTERSON A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
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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.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
PROVERB Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
PROVERB Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
PROVERB The Devil finds work for idle hands.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
PROVERB The work praises the man.
PROVERB A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
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