Nuggets of Gold

Short and precise, these proverbs, axioms, and maxims tell a story, and teach a lesson in a few words. Granted that some of them sound rather cliché, but they are also deep truth as clichés tend to be.

Sometimes the meaning might not be obvious until you have read it a couple of times, and pondered upon it for a while, and sometimes the meaning becomes clear only after you have undergone certain life experiences.

Keep a few of these phrases in mind, and pepper your conversation with them when opportunities arise. Your friends will be impressed with you.

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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus. - Turkish Proverb

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. - Chinese Proverb

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. - Unknown

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. - Lao Tzu

Reason is the wise man’s guide, example the fool’s. - Welsh Proverb

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. - Aesop

A man surprised is half beaten. - Unknown

Let bygones be bygones. - Unknown

Never assume the obvious is true. - Unknown

Storms make oaks take deeper root. - George Herbert

Striving to be better, oft we mar what is well. - Unknown

Words should be weighed not counted. - Yiddish Proverb

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli

Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal. - Mike Ditka

Where ignorance is bliss ‘tis folly to be wise. - Thomas Gray

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. - James Henry Leigh Hunt

What’s meant to be will always find a way. - Trisha Yearwood

When everything has to be right, something is not. - Stanislaw Lec

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out. - Unknown

True valour lies between cowardice and rashness. - Miguel de Cervantes

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All quotes are from 👉 Here- my personal collection which I started in my school days.