Johnson Proverbs
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(3106 votes) 
(1349 votes) Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Chinese Proverbs
Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin
(1121 votes) If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
Indian Proverbs
Indian Proverbs
Sayings of Indian Origin
(888 votes) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Chinese Proverbs
Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin
(888 votes) Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
German Proverbs
German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin
(862 votes) What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Jewish Proverbs
Jewish Proverbs
(742 votes) Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing. - Ethiopia
African Proverbs
African Proverbs
(693 votes) The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson
1928-, British Journalist
(679 votes) A boys best friend is his mother and there's no spancel stronger than her apron string.
Irish Proverbs
Irish Proverbs
(653 votes) 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
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(643 votes) Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
English Proverbs
English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin
(629 votes) Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(628 votes) He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(625 votes) A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(624 votes) 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
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(595 votes) The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(583 votes) There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(582 votes) Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(536 votes) There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(517 votes) The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
English Proverbs
English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin
(507 votes) The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long. - Ethiopia (Ayele, p. 23, Amharic)
African Proverbs
African Proverbs
(505 votes) A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.
Proverbs
Proverbs
(496 votes) I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner.
Bedouin Proverbs
Bedouin Proverbs
Sayings of Bedouin Origin
(495 votes) There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.
American Proverbs
American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin
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