Woe be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser


Proverb

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Out & Equal is about work. It's about authenticity. It's also about justice. Essentially it's about ...
SELISSE BERRY
Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!
ERNEST RENAN
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one tra...
THE TALMUD
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
That man's a fool whose sheep flees twice. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
GEORGE HERBERT
Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.
JOYCE RACHELLE
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
BIBLE
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in li...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in lif...
JOSEPH CONRAD
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses a...
JOHN FOXE
He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is c...
CHANAKYA
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
People referred to him as a peacemaker. He was an amazing advocate for his people. He was a really k...
CRAIG FRANCIS
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILLIAM J. DURANT
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANT
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SOPHOCLES
Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who...
ERIC HOFFER
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Who hath sorrow? Who hath woe?/ They who do not answer no;/ They whose feet to sin incline/ While th...
CARRY NATION
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his h...
CHARLES PEGUY
If he becomes minister for foreigners, or integration, shouldn't two guys go see him to blow him up,...
AHMAD AKKARI
But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
EURIPIDES
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
ANONYMOUS
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
UNKNOWN
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, wh...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundi...
EMILE DURKHEIM
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were d...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death i...
JOHN MILTON
Dumbfounded arrogance can clutch a man, but woe will certainly kill him
AARON OZEE
The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence...
MINNA ANTRIM
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of ...
MINNA ANTRIM
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decay...
FARAAZ KAZI
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
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken...
BIBLE
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We don't advocate goofing off. The public should be served. But if there's no work, it's not his fau...
MARTIN DRUYAN
Thanksgiving for previous blessings of God will lead to some new blessings of God.
IMAM HOSSEIN (PEACE BE UPON HIM)
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
JAMES BEATTIE
I see one accuser...I don't see any other accusers.
DONALD DEMAYO
There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that truste...
LORD BYRON
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, w...
JUVENAL
When we were making allegations that his policies were designed to enrich him and those around him, ...
KORN CHATIKAVANIJ
Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of ...
FELIX E. SCHELLING
Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, d...
GEORGE CRABBE
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
Be an informed advocate and support.
ASA DON BROWN
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
His flexibility, his unwillingness to get stuck in a doctrinal straitjacket that becomes dysfunction...
ALAN BLINDER
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of ...
GEORGE H. WHITE
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not...
EURIPIDES
Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, wh...
ALEXANDER POPE
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, wo...
LAO TZU
Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly ru...
KAREN HUGHES
To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON
To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND
And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER
There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN
God created woman from the side of man. Not from his head to be above him, nor from his feet to be t...
UNKNOWN
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
ASA DON BROWN
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the ...
H. L. MENCKEN
The critic will certainly be an interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a riddling Sphinx, whose s...
OSCAR WILDE
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
GEORGE HERBERT
I totally disagreed with him. Brett is the bowler he is because of his pace. If he drops his pace he...
RICKY PONTING
He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous ...
THE TALMUD
Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY
I sat in that courtroom for six months, and I did everything possible to advocate for his cause.
AUDREY LEWIS
Praise be to God; whose compassion is all-embracing and Whose mercy is universal; Who rewards His se...
أبو حامد محمد الغزالي
There's an inherent outward appearance of unfairness and duress when a motorist is forced to plea ba...
GLENN VALLE
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER Its ground: God, by whose goodness ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
If you have a complaint about someone, then you become the accuser and the other becomes the accused...
DADA BHAGWAN
The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
N.B.: From this quote...
BIBLE
It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.
SPANISH PROVERB
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb...
ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
SOPHOCLES

More Proverb

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely be...
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.
PROVERB