The word “thing” is a lovely thing; it can be used for so many different … things. Have fun with this collection of proverbs and quotes about things.
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A bird is three things: feathers, flight and song, and feathers are the least of these.Marjorie Allen Seiffert
All good things come to an end.Good experiences will end some time.
All good things come to those who wait.Just be patient.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.John Stuart Mill
All things are difficult before they are easy.Things become easier after some time after you had some practice.
All things grow with time, except grief.As time goes by, grief will diminish.
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.Rainer Maria Rilke
Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.Ugo Eze
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.Richard Dawkins
Boys always make things more complicated.Katrina Abbott
Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.Evan Esar
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.Chaim Potok
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.Richard Dawkins
Cornstarch is used in the manufacture of soda pop, chewing gum, ice cream, peanut butter, library paste, ketchup, automobile paint, embalming fluid, gunpowder, insecticides, deodorants, soap, potato chips, surgical dressings, nail polish, foot powder, salad dressing, and several hundred things more.Bill Bryson
Source: At Home
Couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Creating memories is a priceless gift. Memories will last a lifetime; things only a short-period of time.Alyice Edrich
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.Theodore Levitt
Diversity should be forever; it should be a normal thing.Storm Reid
Energy and persistence conquer all things.Benjamin Franklin
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.Richard M. DeVos
Few things offer greater return on less investment than praise.Bill Walsh
Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.(unknown author)
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.George Bernard Shaw
First things first.Important matters should be dealt with before other things.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.Roger Bacon
From little date seeds, great things are born.
Good things come to those who wait.Be patient.
He did not remember things very well, unless he put them down on his Engagement Tablet: like this: Gandalf Tea Wednesday.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.Konrad Adenauer
Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes? Only two things that money can't buy. That's true love and home grown tomatoes.John Denver
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.Stephen Hawking
I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples, bastards and broken things.(unknown author)
Source: Game of Thrones
Quoted: Tyrion Lannister
I think quotes are very dangerous things.Kate Bush
I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The return of the King
Quoted: Eowyn
If you are truly stupid you not only do things stupidly but are in all likelihood too stupid to realize how stupidly you are doing them.Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
If you buy things you don’t need, you are stealing from yourself.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.Jim Rohn
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.Aristotle
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together.(unknown author)
Source: Movie: Sleepless in Seattle
It's always something. If it's not one thing, it's another.Roseanne Roseannadanna
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.Stephen Hawking
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.Mother Teresa
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Of what significance are the things you can forget.Henry David Thoreau
One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.Eric Clapton
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep is this – To rise above the little things.John Burroughs
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.Henry Miller
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.Albert Einstein
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