Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The eye of the master fattens the horse.

Experience | Life | Life | Principles | Psychology | Time | Youth | Youth |

Italian Proverbs

Needs must when the devil drives.

Harmony | Object | Time |

Italian Proverbs

The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority.

Life | Life |

Italian Proverbs

Two women and a goose make a market.

Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

Italian Proverbs

To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.

Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |

Italian Proverbs

Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home.

Necessity | Self | Theoretical |

Italian Proverbs

When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

Self |

Italian Proverbs

Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail.

Self |

Italian Proverbs

Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

Enough | Self |

Italian Proverbs

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

Italian Proverbs

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

Self | Sense | World |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbors, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Action | Enough | Force | Law | Little | Time |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Little | Time |

J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Friendship with Lewis compensates for much, and besides giving constant pleasure and comfort has done me much good from the contact with a man at once honest, brave, intellectual--a scholar, a poet, and a philosopher--and a lover, at least after a long pilgrimage, of Our Lord.

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