Headstrong or a bit weak in the head? Here are some proverbs and quotes about the head.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.Orson Welles
A flea on top of a bald head.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.Eric Hoffer
And there are families that hold their heads high that wouldn't ever have existed but for some king or other taking his amusements on the wrong side of the blanket as the old saying goes.Dorothy L. Sayers
Source: Strong Poison
Better an ant's head than a lion's tail.
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.It is better to be leader of a small group than a follower in a bigger group.
Better to be an ant's head than a lion's tail.
Cabbage: A vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.Ambrose Bierce
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.Criss Jami
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.Oscar Wilde
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Don't look for fleas on others to get them on your own head.Mind your own business.
Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head.
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
He on whose head we would break a coconut never stands still.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.Theodore Roosevelt
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.Michel de Montaigne
Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.(unknown author)
It rots the sense in the head!Roald Dahl
It kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
he can no longer understand
a fantasy, a fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
He cannot think--he only sees!
Source: Poem: Television
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.Langston Hughes
Like a chicken without a head.
Little children, headache; big children, heartache.
Lower your head modestly while passing and you will harvest bananas.
Man is the head of the family; woman is the neck that turns the head.
The apple falls on the head that's under it.
The brain is not in the pocket, but in the head.
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.A.B. Guthrie
The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.Bible
Source: Mark 4:28
The head of a dragon, the tail of a snake.
The heaviest ear of corn bends its head lowest.
The mob has many heads but no brains.
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.Austin O'Malley
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.Henry S. Haskins
There in the shadows on a large flat stone sat a tremendous goblin with aJ.R.R. Tolkien
huge head, and armed goblins were standing round him carrying the axes and
the bent swords that they use.
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 4 - Over Hill and Under Hill
Too much bed makes a dull head.Don't sleep too much if you want to think clearly.
When an ant gets wings, it loses its head.
When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
You can worship a sardine's head if you believe in it.
You can't be the head of a family unless you show yourself both stupid and deaf.
