European Proverbs Quotes

Talk of an angel and you'll hear his wings. ~ Proverbs

In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right,
until someone comes forward and cross-examines. ~ Anonymous

Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed." (Proverbs 16:3). ~ Bible

You must act as if it's impossible to fail. ~ Ashanti

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs. ~ Idries Shah

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. ~ Idries Shah

If you don't want anyone to find out about it then don't do it ~ Chinese-proverbs

Pay attention to proverbs. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor (Proverbs 22:9). ~ Anonymous

Wisdom is a mother;
proverbs are her offspring. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I was playing catch with the European audience. ~ Charles Olson

First Proverbs quote in "C, You Can Do It!" -
'What dainty morsels rumors are--but they sink deep into one's heart.'
Proverbs 26:22 ~ Lynn Frances

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films. ~ Jodie Foster

One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs. ~ Michael Gove

European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular. That conviction has had crucial, indeed lethal, consequences or European public life and European culture. ~ George Weigel

Some proverbs live because they are too true to die. Others endure because they have a smug sound and nobody has bothered to bury them. ~ Albert Payson Terhune

Do you know Eastern proverbs?
"Unskilled guns, but ... The more guns, the likely they will hit ... "
I've got plenty of Akuma to go around. ~ Katsura Hoshino

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly. ~ Proverbs 16:22 Bible KJV

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. ~ Holy Bible Proverbs 4 23

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think. ~ Ric Keller

European identity, it seems, is only perceived by educated people. And that is sad, but it is a start. ~ Umberto Eco

El hambre agudiza el ingenio," said Raphael.
Hunger sharpens the wit.
"Good proverb," said Magnus. "However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything. ~ Cassandra Clare

He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls. ~ Charles Grandison Finney

A city lives or dies on its myths," Cleaves said tapping the side of his nose and ~ European P. Douglas

The book of Proverbs teaches this truth: 'Where there is no vision, the people perish' (Proverbs 29:18). If we are to prosper rather than perish, we must gain a vision of ourselves as the Savior sees us. ~ O. Vincent Haleck

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie. ~ Monica Bellucci

It is unwise to trust your own judgment. "He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who lives by wisdom will escape" (CJB, Proverbs 28:26). Many people have made bad financial investments because they based their decisions on their own judgment and pride. The Tanakh warns, "Pride goes before destruction, and arrogance before failure" (CJB, Proverbs 16:18). "Before being ruined, a person's heart is proud" (CJB, Proverbs 18:12). The ~ H.W. Charles

European Identity is a western European continental sense of belonging to a European community. It is post-national identity combined with national elements whose evolution requires a constitution to serve as a social contract which will make Europeans loyal to the constitution. ~ Endri Shqerra

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently. ~ Ernst Zundel

Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Careless words stab like a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing. Proverbs 12:18 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rescue of those who are crushed. Proverbs 31:8 ~ Wendy Duke

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. ~ Turkish Proverbs

We don't need to learn about European History in African Schools around the continent, for the media reminds us that every day is EUROPEAN HISTORY. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. ~ Nick Clegg

The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging. ~ Martin Winterkorn

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline. ~ Tarja Halonen

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists. ~ Tariq Ali

I've been working a long time, and mostly European films. ~ Lena Headey

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy, the European Union. ~ Michael Gove

The European public has always been great to me. ~ Kim Carnes

I want to be European, world and Olympic gold medallist. ~ Jade Jones

Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage. ~ Gordon Brown

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians. ~ Zubin Mehta

In the same way, people who sleep when they should be working are testing God. Because God promised to take care of them, they assume that God will find a way. But in Proverbs, God told them to work: "Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth" (Proverbs 10:4). ~ Martin Luther

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well. ~ Cleo Moore

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us. ~ Richard Perle

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film. ~ Ted Demme

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country. ~ Sally Kirkland

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music. ~ Kip Winger

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. ~ Mikheil Saakashvili

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. ~ James Joyce

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. ~ Bianca Jagger

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished. ~ Paul Keating

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties. ~ Jeremy Thomas

If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level. ~ Romano Prodi

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual. ~ Charlie Bewley

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history. ~ Walter Kasper

I am a very committed European. ~ Jose Manuel Barroso

The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union. ~ Angela Merkel

For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments. ~ Larry Siedentop

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union. ~ John Hutton

Orientalism is never far from what Denys Hay has called the idea of Europe,3 a collective notion identifying "us" Europeans as against all "those" non-Europeans, and indeed it can be argued that the major component in European culture is precisely what made that culture hegemonic both in and outside Europe: the idea of European identity as a superior one in comparison with all the non-European peoples and cultures. There is in addition the hegemony of European ideas about the Orient, themselves reiterating European superiority over Oriental backwardness, usually overriding the possibility that a more independent, or more skeptical, thinker might have had different views on the matter. ~ Edward W. Said

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels. ~ Margaret Thatcher

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union. ~ Tim Harford

I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14. ~ Benjamin Carson

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American. ~ Roger Michell

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point. ~ Emma Bonino

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept. ~ Roger Daltrey

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START. ~ E.P. Thompson

Outsiders became keen to join an organization [European Community] that offered attractive bribes to the poor. Greece did so in 1981 and Spain and Portugal in 1986. - written before 2003. ~ J.M. Roberts

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region. ~ Vaclav Havel

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance. ~ Montel Williams

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs. ~ David Archuleta

The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union. ~ Jose Manuel Barroso

Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe ... and it worries me. ~ Tony Judt

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European. ~ Gordon Brown

My life is European. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it. ~ David Cameron

And Philippe won't speak English. She's sure he can - he's got that European je ne sais quoi that usually means Oh, I speak six languages. And a little Japanese. ~ Ellen Sussman

I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself. ~ Michael Gove

A robin perched on the branch of the apple tree, his feathers ruffled, his red chest blazing.
'No need to look so down in the mouth,' he chirruped. 'Things'll get worse before they get better.'
'I don't know what it is about that tree,' Geno grumbled, 'that makes everything that sits in it talk in proverbs.'
'It's easier than thinking,' the robin stated. ~ Felix Salten

All worship is contextual, but there may be an underlying assumption of European American primacy in worship and the failure to recognize the captivity of the church to European American norms. ~ Soong-Chan Rah

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country. ~ Anibal Cavaco Silva

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world. ~ John Henrik Clarke

I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that. ~ John Tanton

Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it. ~ Charles Kennedy

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. ~ Benjamin Whorf

A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries. ~ Francois Hollande

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started. ~ Tim Tebow

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. ~ Nigel Farage

Above all, what is our culture, and what has remained of it? Is European culture perhaps nothing more than the technology and trade civilization that has marched triumphantly across the planet? Or is it instead a post-European culture born on the ruins of the ancient European cultures?
There is a paradoxical synchrony in these developments. The victory of the post-European techno-secular world and the universalization of its lifestyle and thinking have spread the impression (especially in Asia and Africa) that Europe's value system, culture, and faith (in other words, the very foundations of its identity) have reached the end of the road and have indeed already disappeared. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases. ~ Leon Trotsky

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans. ~ Phyllis Schlafly

Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen. ~ Traian Basescu

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states. ~ Jose Manuel Barroso

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"Because ... because he's so tall," Mindy explained, like height was proof of good character. "And did I mention European?"
"Yes. It's so much better to be stalked by a tall European that an American of average height. ~ Beth Fantaskey

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward. ~ Pope Francis

But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom. ~ Lionel Barber