Humanity Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old humanity quotes, humanity sayings, and humanity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.
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A day is lost if one has not laughed.
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A friend in need is a friend indeed.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
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A man's house is his castle.
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A place for everything and everything in its place.
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A smile is a window in your face to show your heart is at home.
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A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
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All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.
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Any port in a storm.
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As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens.
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As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life.
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Bread, oil, Salt and Heart
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Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree.
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Character building begins in infancy and continues until death.
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Cold hands, warm heart.
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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
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Curses like chickens, come home to roost.
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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
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Don't bypass a town where there's a friend.
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Don't let the grass grow on the path of friendship.
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Eat coconuts while you have teeth.
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Every day of your life is a page of your history.
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Everyone wants to live long but no one wants to be called old.
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Fact is stranger than fiction.
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Follow your dreams.
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For every bow there is an arrow. (For everyone there is someone.)
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Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd and never well mended.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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Great oaks from little acorns grow.
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He lives long who lives well.
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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
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Hold fast to the words of your ancestors.
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Honor is better than honors.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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Industry pays debts, despair encreases them.
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It takes all kinds to make a world go round.
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Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.
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Laugh every day; it's like inner jogging.
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Laughter is the best medicine.
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Life has its little ups and downs.
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Life is one big experiment.
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Life is short and full of blisters.
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Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing.
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Life is too short to waste.
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Make a meal and contention will cease.
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May the outward and inward man be at one.
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No one is good at everything but everyone is good at something.
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Nothing goes on forever.
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Observe all men; thyself most.
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One hand washes the other.
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People are architects of their own fortune.
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Praise the young and they will blossom.
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Small children give you a headache, big children a heartache.
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Spring is in the air.
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Take life as it comes.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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The best things in life are free.
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The company makes the feast.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your pocket.
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
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The memories of youth make for long, long thoughts.
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The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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The old one who is loved, is winter with flowers.
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The person sins, then blames Satan for it.
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The stargazer's toe is often stubbed.
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The worst prison is a closed heart.
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Vices are their own punishment.
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We'll never know the worth of water 'till the well goes dry.
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When the apple is ripe it will fall.
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When the tiger kills, the jackel profits.
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Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind.
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While the cat's away, the mice will play.
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Who are a little wise, the best fools be.
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You cannot carve rotten wood.
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You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
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You can't win them all.
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You may delay but time will not.
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Your success and happiness lie in you...resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.