You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
All is well that ends well
All's well that ends well.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool
There is no fool like an old fool.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'
Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."
There's an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates and the truth of the matter is the weak and feckless policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East and all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we're not having talks anymore.
If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.
There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. Control rather than no noise is the key to silence. James saw clearly that the person who could control his tounge is perfect (James 3:1-12). Under the Discipline of silence and solitude we learn when to speak and when to refrain from speaking.
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
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