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Patience is a virtue; Pearls of wisdom; Penny wise and pound foolish; Penny, Penny. Makes many. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones; Physician, heal thyself; Play stupid games, win stupid prizes [23] Possession is nine-tenths of the law; Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely; Practice makes perfect
Below, you'll find some of Maya Angelou's best quotes about life, love, selfhood and motivation. Maya Angelou quotes about life “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
Patience is a virtue" is a proverbial phrase referring to one of the seven heavenly virtues typically said to date back to Psychomachia, an epic poem written in the fifth century. Patience is a virtue may also refer to: "Patience Is a Virtue", a 1991 single by Lois Reeves, part of the Motorcity Records singles discography
The Paradoxa Stoicorum (English: Stoic Paradoxes) is a work by the academic skeptic philosopher Cicero in which he attempts to explain six famous Stoic sayings that appear to go against common understanding: (1) virtue is the sole good; (2) virtue is the sole requisite for happiness; (3) all good deeds are equally virtuous and all bad deeds equally vicious; (4) all fools are mad; (5) only the ...
50. “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” 51. “No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.” 52. “It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important.
From the wise minds of Maya Angelou, William Faulkner, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain and plenty of others, come a wide variety of quotes to motivate you to take that next step or make that ...
Others are taken from such diverse sources as poetry, [33] [34] stories, [35] songs, commercials, advertisements, movies, literature, etc. [36] A number of the well known sayings of Jesus, Shakespeare, and others have become proverbs, though they were original at the time of their creation, and many of these sayings were not seen as proverbs ...
a word to the wise [is sufficient] A phrase denoting that the listener can fill in the omitted remainder, or enough is said. It is the truncation of "verbum sapienti sat[is] est". verbum volitans: flying word: A word that floats in the air, on which everyone is thinking and is just about to be imposed. [citation needed] veritas: truth