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Proverbs, sayings and quotes about postponing things. For example: "I postpone everything, except things I wouldn't do anyway."
Quotes and proverbs about poverty. For example:"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." (Mother Teresa)
A collection of proverbs and quotes about problems. For example: "I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police." (Keith Richards)
Proverbs and quotes about progress. For example: "True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice." (St. Francis of Assisi)
Sayings and quotes about proverbs and quotes. For example: "Proverbs are like butterflies, some are caught, some fly away."
Proverbs and quotes about the color purple. For example: "Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye." (Shakespeare)
Proverbs and quotes about purpose and goals. For example: "The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together." (Robert C. Dodds)
Proverbs, quotes and sayings about questions. For example: "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?"
Proverbs and quotes about rain. For example: "If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?" (Tom Barrett)
Proverbs and quotes about reading. For example: "The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones." (Joseph Joubert)
Proverbs and quotes about reason. For example: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward." (Sherlock Holmes)
Proverbs, sayings and quotes on the color red. For example: "My love is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June." (Robert Burns)
Proverbs and quotes about religion, beliefs and superstition. For example: "All men are superstitious; they only differ in degrees." (John Toland)
Proverbs and quotes about remaining silent. For example: "One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut." (Eric Clapton)
Quotes and proverbs about reptiles. For example: "We keep an eye on the scorpion and the serpent, but we do not watch out for the millipede."
Proverbs and quotes about rest and resting. For example: "Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head." (Michel de Montaigne)
Proverbs and quotes about retirement. For example: "When you retire, you switch bosses — from the one who hired you to the one who married you." (G. Perret)
Proverbs and quotes about rice. For example: "If you plant rice, rice will grow. If you plant fear, fear will grow." (Cain, Kung Fu)
Proverbs and quotes about richness. For example: "Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich."
Proverbs and quotes about right and correct. For example: "He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes." (Spanish proverb)
Proverbs and quotes about rights. For example: "The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment." (George S. McGovern)
Proverbs and quotes about roads and streets. For example: "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." (Lewis Carroll)
Proverbs, sayings and quotes about science. For example: "Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis."
Proverbs and quotes about the sea and ocean. For example: "Don’t sell the fish that is still swimming in the ocean." (Turkish proverb)
Proverbs and quotes about the 4 seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter. For example: "I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees."
Proverbs and quotes about secrets. For example: "How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves."
Proverbs and quotes about seeing. For example: "A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind." (Iranian proverb)
Proverbs and quotes about self-knowledge. For example: "Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment" (Laozi)
Proverbs and quotes about selfishness, greediness and egoism. For example: "The point is that you can't be too greedy." (Donald Trump)
Proverbs and quotes about September. "By all these lovely tokens, September days are here, With summer’s best of weather, And autumn’s best of cheer."
Proverbs and quotes about shadow. For example: "Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you." (Maori proverb)
Proverbs and quotes about sharing. For example: "Giving chocolate to others is an intimate form of communication, a sharing of deep, dark secrets."
Proverbs and quotes about sheep and lambs. For example: "Appearance can be deceiving. A wolf can disguise himself as a sheep."
Quotes from Sherlock Holmes. Example: "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition in knowledge you forget something that you knew before."
Proverbs and quotes about shoes and boots. For example: "Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush." (Doug Larson)