Proverbs and quotes about accidents. E.g.: "Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects." (Dave Barry)
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Proverbs and quotes about adventures. For example: "After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure." (Dumbledore)
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about advice. For example; "Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice."
Quotes and proverbs about age and ageing, such as: "As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish." (François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
Quotes and proverbs about agriculture, such as "Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own" (Samuel Johnson)
Proverbs, quotes and saying about air. For example: "Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
Quotes by Albert Einstein. For example: "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
Proverbs and quotes about aloholism and drunkenness. For example: "The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
Proverbs and quotes about amphibians. E.g.: "If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry."
Proverbs and quotes with analogies or similar comparisons. For example: "Compliments are like mushrooms, the most beautiful are the most poisonous."
Proverbs and quotes about animals and beasts. For example: "If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal."
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about answers and answering. For example: "Love is the answer. What was the question?" (John Lennon)
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about ants. For example: "An elephant may be big, but it falls on its face more often than an ant."
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about appearances. For example: "Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance."
Proverbs, quotes and sayings about apples. For example: "It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."
Proverbs and quotes about the month of April. For example: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." (George Orwell)
Proverbs and quotes about art. For exmple: "Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." (Al Capp)
Quotes and proverbs about scorpions, millipedes and other arthropods. "Even the hand of compassion is stung when it strokes a scorpion."
Proverbs and quotes about atheism. For example: "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Proverbs and quotes about the month of August. For example: "The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August." (Lord George Byron)
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about autumn or fall. For exmple: "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." (Emily Brontë)
Quotes and proverbs about axes. For example: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." (Abraham Lincoln)
Proverbs and quotes about "beautiful". For example: "Some women are not beautiful – they only look as though they are." (Karl Kraus)
Quotes and proverbs about bees. For example: "He keeps hives and hives of great fierce bees, and lives most on cream and honey." (JRR Tolkien)
Some quotes and proverbs about beetles. For example: "Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother."
Proverbs and quotes about the begin. For example: "Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." (Mother Teresa)
A collection of Bible related quotes. For example: "He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them."
Quotes, proverbs and sayings about birds. For example: "Keep a tree green in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come."
Proverbs and quotes about birth and born. For example: "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." (Anne Frank)
Proverbs and quotes about birthdays. For example: "You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." (Bob Hope)
Quotes and Proverbs about the color Black. For example: "When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remains white but its heart grows black."
Proverbs and quotes about blind and blindness. For example: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein)
Proverbs and quotes about blood. For example: "Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood." (Tongue twister)
A collection of proverbs and quotes about the color blue. For example: "The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current." (Willa Sibert Cather)
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about the body. For example: "In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius."
Quotes and proverbs about books and reading. For example: "A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world."
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about boys. For example: "He's a boisterous little boy, but he wouldn't hurt a fly!" (J.K. Rowling)
Proverbs and quotes about bread. For example: "The gardener's hands are black with earth but his loaves are white." (Albanian proverb)
Proverbs and quotes about breath and breathing. For example: "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." (William Wordsworth)
Proverbs and quotes about bureaucracy. For example: "In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction."
Quotes and proverbs about butterflies. For example: "Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly." (Pablo Neruda)