Water which is too pure has no fish
Afghan Proverb
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JOHN KEATS There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
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JOHN KEATS Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.
INDIAN PROVERB Networking is pure spring water from which an endless flow of people bubble up.
LILY CHATTERJEE Fishing is awesome. It has pulled off all that water and has concentrated the fish in a smaller amou...
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LAURENT FOX A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water
SWEDISH PROVERB The Western media has depicted the Afghan woman as a helpless, weak individual. I have said it befor...
RULA GHANI Water used to be fresh, pure and drinkable, now the water has lots of fecal matter and bacteria.
CLAUDINE SIERRA There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. A ...
JAMES DEAN Where one has become indifferent (nispruha), there pure love has not arisen. And where there is no p...
DADA BHAGWAN The water is up and visibility is good down to about two feet. That, plus the warmer water, has a lo...
DICK PARKER Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB For us, the Chinese proverb must be restated: we do not want the gift of a fish; neither do we expec...
FRANCISCO FLORES For us, the Chinese proverb must be restated: we do not want the gift of a fish; neither do we expec...
FRANCISCO FLORES Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER Never wash blood, with blood.
AFGHAN PROVERB A little water is a sea to an ant
AFGHAN PROVERB When the tiger kills, the jackal profits
AFGHAN PROVERB Give even an onion graciously
AFGHAN PROVERB The person sins, then blames Satan for it
AFGHAN PROVERB If you think you're leading and no one is following you, then you're only taking a walk.
AFGHAN PROVERB The right answer to a fool is silence
AFGHAN PROVERB Blood cannot be washed out with blood.
AFGHAN PROVERB If you deal in camels, make the doors high
AFGHAN PROVERB They set fires in a city that has no water, which blows our minds.
MELINDA SHIRAKI We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH PROVERB There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB Most fresh-water fish eat water fleas at some point in their lives. They are an important food sourc...
DEREK J. TAYLOR Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER [There are no fish swimming in Lakeview, and no bayou alligators, he said. The water bubbles with na...
DAVID HUNTER Your action from a choice within, which requires no reason, no content of thought, is pure creation.
REUBEN LOWE The fish is even more dangerous for people than toxic water.
LYUBOV KONDRATYEVA Then three years ago we started exploring deep water for bottom fish. Few boats fish for bottom fish...
ED DUDA They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.
RICHARD GRAFTON Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They offer leaves to water which provides the food for insects which feed the fish we love to catch....
ROBERT TIEDEMANN This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?'...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.
GUNTER GRASS As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or...
KATHA UPANISHAD For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
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WIL S. HYLTON The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal
in every food which offers.
UNKNOWN The Afghan people have done their job. Now the international community must come and provide alterna...
HAMID KARZAI I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. FIELDS The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every
man is free who breathes it.
SIR JAMES MANSFIELD I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which ar...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE It is better to weave a net than to stand by the water longing for fish.
VIKRANT PARSAI There are also a few big fish being caught deep with cranks, but the best bite for the most fish is ...
LONNIE STANLEY The high water from last year will be a benefit. There is lots of brush where the fish hide and this...
JED DICKERSON He has a pure love of the game, no arrogance, and no fear of failure.
DAVID ENGLISH I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.
KAREN MARIE MONING The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.
MARTY RUBIN God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting,...
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AFRICAN PROVERB A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.
ANONYMOUS There are plenty of fish coming in, but we went from gin-clear low water to dirty high water.
BOB GOODING Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any ...
TERRY PRATCHETT We can reconstruct which fish went where and therefore which fish stock -- which are populations of ...
DAVID WELCH Waitress: "And to drink?"
Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As...
EOIN COLFER If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
GAYLE FORMAN No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN My pure love is playing music.
JAMIE CULLUM The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is l...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If your fiancé or fiancée asked why you love them so much. Remember to say to them no one can expl...
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA Anglers who see fish exceptionally well can fish successfully in less productive water than anglers ...
THOMAS MCGUANE Music to my blood and bone is what water is to cement. It makes me hard, pure and complete.
LARSS VINCENT MCKEVITT Speech emanating from a pure heart and mind of learned men and scholars are naturally pure just like...
YAJUR VEDA We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.
JACK LALANNE The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of...
DEEPAK CHOPRA We use the coastline as much as the sea otters. And we take fish from the water, we swim in the wate...
CARL BENZ Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty ...
C. JOYBELL C. Into the well which supplies thee with water, cast no stones
THE TALMUD An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.
CRISS JAMI A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtl...
DORIS LESSING If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble...
DORIS LESSING I have no fondness for pure form at all.
PETER PORTER Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunr...
SANTOSH KALWAR I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
UNKNOWN It was swimming that stumped us. Everyone knows that, in water, fish are weightless.
ADRIAN BEJAN Every time I draw a clean breath, I'm like a fish out of water.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS All Americans deserve clean water to drink and safe places to swim and fish.
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ANNE RICE The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
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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.
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PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
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PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
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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.
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PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
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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.
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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.
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