Johnson Proverbs

Love is like a war:Easy to begin Hard to end!
ancient Proverbs

I always saw myself as a multi media artist.
Holly Johnson

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
Jack Johnson

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
Indian Proverbs

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Chinese Proverbs

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
English Proverbs

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Jewish Proverbs

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
German Proverbs

The journey is the reward.
Chinese Proverbs

Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Irish Proverbs

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Chinese Proverbs

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Latin Proverbs

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Hungarian Proverbs

Blind belief is dangerous. - Luyia , Western Kenya
African Proverbs

Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing. - Ethiopia
African Proverbs

A boys best friend is his mother and there's no spancel stronger than her apron string.
Irish Proverbs

A dog knows the places he is thrown food.
African Proverbs

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
Paul Johnson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Samuel Johnson

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Familiarity breeds contempt.
English Proverbs

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
Chinese Proverbs

Actions speak louder than words.
English Proverbs

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
Irish Proverbs

All's well that ends well.
English Proverbs

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Samuel Johnson

That which is escaped now is pain to come.
Proverbs

The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long. - Ethiopia (Ayele, p. 23, Amharic)
African Proverbs

When the sky falls we'll catch larks.
Irish Proverbs

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
Proverbs

Good fences make good neighbors.
English Proverbs

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
Samuel Johnson

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel Johnson

A bad penny always turns up.
English Proverbs

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
English Proverbs

An old broom knows the dirty corners best.
Irish Proverbs

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education
Lyndon B. Johnson

One beetle recognizes another.
Irish Proverbs

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
English Proverbs

The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
Irish Proverbs

A Champion bull starts from birth. - Luyia.Western Kenya
African Proverbs

Bad dancing does not brake an engagement. - Luyia , Western Kenya
African Proverbs

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
English Proverbs

Knowledge is better than riches. Cameroon
African Proverbs

A windy day is not the day for thatching.
Irish Proverbs