Portuguese Proverb Famous Quotes



"Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure."

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

"The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread."


Portuguese Proverb Quotations






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"Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority."
Martin Luther King Jr

"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."
Peter McWilliams

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Norman Mailer

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."
James Truslow Adams

ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.
Samuel Johnson

"Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll."
Billy Madison

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
F Scott Fitzgerald

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
Thomas Szasz

"Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it."
Luke Salisbury

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van der Post