Johnson Proverbs
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(16 votes) I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson
American, Athlete Quotes
(818 votes) If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
Indian Proverbs
Indian Proverbs
Sayings of Indian Origin
(731 votes) Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Chinese Proverbs
Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin
(643 votes) What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Jewish Proverbs
Jewish Proverbs
(642 votes) Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
German Proverbs
German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin
(569 votes) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Chinese Proverbs
Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin
(525 votes) Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing. - Ethiopia
African Proverbs
African Proverbs
(499 votes) A boys best friend is his mother and there's no spancel stronger than her apron string.
Irish Proverbs
Irish Proverbs
(450 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
(444 votes) The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson
1928-, British Journalist
(425 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
(424 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
(423 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
(419 votes) Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(414 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
(410 votes) Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(394 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
(391 votes) The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long. - Ethiopia (Ayele, p. 23, Amharic)
African Proverbs
African Proverbs
(387 votes) 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
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(386 votes) 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
Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
(381 votes) 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
Lyndon B. Johnson
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