Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohamed Al-Fayed

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

Portuguese Proverb

I would rather have a donkey that takes me there than a horse that will not fare.

John Erskine

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey

Charles Spurgeon

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat

Jason Smith

They used to have horses and donkeys in the parade.

Dutch Proverb

A donkey usually does not hit his foot twice to the same stone.

African Proverbs

A donkey knows no gratitude. - (Knappert, p. 138, Swahili)

Irish Proverb

The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey

Ozzie Guillen

We have to get him ready so he knows how to prepare.

Charlotte Bronte

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Brian Eno

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

Brian Eno

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brent Weeks

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

Billy Chamberlain

We know each other so well. We try to open it up, but every time I try to do something, he knows how to stop it.

David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

English 17th Century Proverbs

There is reason in the roasting of eggs.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Scottish Proverb

We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.