IMPROMPTU - Proverbs

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Actions speak louder than words.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

All good things must come to an end.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

A watched pot never boils.

Beggars can’t be choosers.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Better late than never.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

In most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

No man is an island.

Fortune favors the bold.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Two heads are better than one.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

 Pope Francis Marilyn Monroe

Thomas Edison Abraham Lincoln

Rosa Parks Mother Teresa

Lyndon Johnson John F. Kennedy

Ludwig Van Beethoven Martin Luther King

Oprah Winfrey Nelson Mandela

Indira Gandhi Winston Churchill

Eva Peron Frederick Douglas

Dalai Lama Bill Gates

Walt Disney Muhammad Ali

Neil Armstrong Mahatma Gandhi

Harriet Tubman Margaret Thatcher

Ben Carson Charles de Gaulle

MIchelle Obama Christopher Columbus

Mark Zuckerberg George Orwell

Richard Branson Charles Darwin

Warren Buffett Elvis Presley

Henry Ford Albert Einstein

Charles Darwin Paul McCartney

William Shakespeare Plato

Adolf Hitler Queen Elizabeth I

John F. Kennedy Queen Mary of Scots

Kim Kardashian Queen Victoria

Misty Copeland John M Keynes

Emma Watson Leonardo da Vinci

Amy Schumer Louis Pasteur

Tim McGraw Leo Tolstoy

John Oliver Pablo Picasso

George W. Bush Vincent Van Gogh

Franklin D. Roosevelt
jealousy friendship

love pride

imagination freedom

power hope

charity wisdom

courage truth

enthusiasm ignorance

faith danger

passion wealth

opportunity embarrassment

rapture fortune

misery dream

thrill childhood

abandonment compassion

beauty bravery

inspiration reality

duplicity charity

success loyalty

failure patriotism

curiosity liberty
"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other." – John Steinbeck,
Of Mice and Men

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of
certain defeat." – Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"Terror made me cruel" - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." – George
Orwell, 1984

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the gaps between the
stories." - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common
sense of the morning.” – H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it." - Leo
Tolstoy, Anna Kerenina

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs." -

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." –
Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went
completely out of his mind." - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart." - Haruki
Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." – James Joyce,
Ulysses

"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude
can quickly destroy reason." - Jules Vern, The Mysterious Island

"No man can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally
getting bewildered as to which may be the true." – Nathaniel Hawthorn, The Scarlett
Letter

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." – Oscar
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying." – Richard Yates, Revolutionary
Road

"She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her." -
Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

"We need never be ashamed of our tears." - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." – Mary
Shelley, Frankenstein

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane." - Phillip K Dick, Valis

"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you." –
Roald Dahl, The Witches

"Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her." – Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

"You are your best thing" - Toni Morrison, Beloved

"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot." – Truman Copote,
Breakfast at Tiffany’s

"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves." – V. S.
Naipaul, In a Free State

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing." -
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all.” – Stephen King, Different Seasons