Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.

People |

Italian Proverbs

When wine enters modesty departs.

Ideas | People |

Italian Proverbs

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

Better | Ethics | People |

Italian Proverbs

When in trouble first of all every one himself should do his best to improve his condition.

Good | People |

Italian Proverbs

Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel.

People | Personality |

Italian Proverbs

There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

People | Public |

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

Where there is great love there is great pain.

Good | People | Right |

Italian Proverbs

There is a cause for all things.

Intelligence | People |

Italian Proverbs

There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

Censor | Fear | People | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Today me, tomorrow thee.

Individual | People | Power |

Italian Proverbs

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Childhood | People | Personality |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

Need | People | World |

Italian Proverbs

The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.

Language | People | Words |

Italian Proverbs

There is no rule without an exception.

People | Work | Think |

Italian Proverbs

To a young heart everything is sport.

People | Public |

Italian Proverbs

When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.

Good | Gratitude | Important | Nothing | People | Practice | Religion |

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

And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

Children | Global | Government | Labor | People | Rights | War | Government |

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

We must, I think, regard the normal death as a feature characteristic of life. Normal death is sometimes regarded as a wearing out of the machinery of life; but it is evidently a quite unsuitable metaphor, since living structure, when we consider it closely, can easily be seen to be constantly renewing itself, so that it cannot be regarded as mere machinery which necessarily wears out. Normal death must apparently be regarded from the biological standpoint as a means by which room is made for further more definite development of life.

People | Work |

Ivan Krastev

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

People | Religion | Right |