Great Throughts Treasury

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Estonian Proverbs

There is no room for two kings in one castle.

Teach | Will | Work |

Estonian Proverbs

Who does not obey forbidding will regret afterwards.

Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who does not want to work, need not to eat.

Little | Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who eats bread with barley porridge will be sent to Siberia.

Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who sets a bug on its feet on the path will step up the staircase.

Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who talks a lot will get little done.

Will |

Estonian Proverbs

The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.

Will | Old |

Estonian Proverbs

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

Little | Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who falls from height will suffer a hard blow.

Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who laughs will get a furuncle.

Will |

Estonian Proverbs

Who lives in lust will die in hunger for fat.

Will |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Oh old hyena eat me without making excuses.

Will |

Eugene Peterson

God is at the foundation and God is at the boundaries.

Infancy | Will |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

Means | Mind | Psychology | Will |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

In forming a habit of communicating to one another this fort of ideas by actions, mankind accustomed themselves to determine them; and from that time they began to find a greater ease in connecting them with other signs.

Perception | Regard | Respect | Taste | Will | Respect |

Eugene Peterson

I wish him well. Now he can continue to pursue his dream of excellence in education.

Life | Life | Will |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Will |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you anymore. ItÂ’s the foghorn I hate. It won't let you alone. It keeps reminding you, and warning you, and calling you back.

Little | Love | Will |

Ethiopian Proverbs

What is taken for oneself is usually not a small piece.

Will |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

I am so far from being a pessimist... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

People | Will | World |