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.
A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear. Aesop
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A day is lost if one has not laughed. French (on the conduct of life)
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. James Ray
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth. Benjamin Franklin
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A man's house is his castle. Sir Edward Coke
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A place for everything and everything in its place. Samuel Smiles
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A smile is a window in your face to show your heart is at home. unknown
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A trouble shared is a trouble halved. unknown
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All of us, the great and the little have need of each other. Aesop
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Any port in a storm. unknown
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As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens. E. Pellham
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As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life.Sanskrit (on life and living)
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Bread, oil, Salt and Heart Albanian
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Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree. Native American Saying (on war and peace)
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Character building begins in infancy and continues until death. Eleanor Roosevelt
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Cold hands, warm heart. V.S. Lean
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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. Benjamin Franklin
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Curses like chickens, come home to roost. Chaucer
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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Bible
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Don't bypass a town where there's a friend.Malagasy (on journeys)
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Don't let the grass grow on the path of friendship. Blackfoot (Native American) (on friendship)
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Eat coconuts while you have teeth. Singhalese (on youth and age)
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Every day of your life is a page of your history.Arabic (on life and living)
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Everyone wants to live long but no one wants to be called old. Icelandic (on youth and age)
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Fact is stranger than fiction. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Follow your dreams. unknown
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For every bow there is an arrow. (For everyone there is someone.) unknown
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Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd and never well mended. Benjamin Franklin
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness. Queen Elizabeth II
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Great oaks from little acorns grow. Chaucer
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He lives long who lives well. J. Wilson
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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. Phillip Massinger
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Hold fast to the words of your ancestors. Maori (on proverbs)
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Honor is better than honors. Flemish (on the conduct of life)
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In time we hate that which we often fear. Seneca
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Industry pays debts, despair encreases them. Benjamin Franklin
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It takes all kinds to make a world go round. T. Shelton
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Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
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Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. Horace
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Laugh every day; it's like inner jogging. unknown
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Laughter is the best medicine. unknown
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Life has its little ups and downs. unknown
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Life is one big experiment. unknown
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Life is short and full of blisters.African-American (on life and living)
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Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing.Yiddish (on life and living)
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Life is too short to waste. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Make a meal and contention will cease.Hebrew (on the human comedy)
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May the outward and inward man be at one. Socrates
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No one is good at everything but everyone is good at something. unknown
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Nothing goes on forever. unknown
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Observe all men; thyself most. Benjamin Franklin
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One hand washes the other. Epicharmus
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People are architects of their own fortune. Spanish (on fortune)
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Praise the young and they will blossom. Irish Proverb
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Small children give you a headache, big children a heartache. Russian Proverb
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Spring is in the air. unknown
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Take life as it comes. unknown
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Edmund Burke
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The best things in life are free. B.G. DeSilva
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The company makes the feast. J. Warton
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The discontented man finds no easy chair. Benjamin Franklin
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The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your pocket. unknown
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Edward John Phelps
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The memories of youth make for long, long thoughts. Lapp (on youth and age)
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The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. Bible
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The old one who is loved, is winter with flowers. German (on youth and age)
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The person sins, then blames Satan for it.Afghan (on the human comedy)
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The stargazer's toe is often stubbed.Russian (on the human comedy)
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The worst prison is a closed heart. Pope John Paul II
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Vices are their own punishment. Aesop
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We'll never know the worth of water 'till the well goes dry. Scottish Proverb
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When the apple is ripe it will fall. Irish Proverb
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When the tiger kills, the jackel profits. Afghan (on business)
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Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind. Armenian (on basic truths)
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While the cat's away, the mice will play. James Ray
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Who are a little wise, the best fools be. John Donne
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You cannot carve rotten wood. Chinese
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You can't teach an old dog new tricks. unknown
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You can't win them all. unknown
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You may delay but time will not. Benjamin Franklin
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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. Helen Keller
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Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together as if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.Cleveland Armory
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.William S. Burroughs
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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.Willa Cather
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others.Mahatma Gandhi
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.Mahatma Gandhi
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Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.Vincent Van Gogh
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Humanity is just a work in progress.Tennessee Williams
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.Hesiod
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I am a human, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.Terence
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I know of no great souls except those who have rendered great services to the human race.Voltaire
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Our humanity was a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.Sir Francis Bacon
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Humanity is a miracle with a purpose.Alfred Henry
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Only love enables humanity to grow because love engenders life and it is the only form of energy that lasts forever. Only love enables humanity to grow because love engenders life and it is the only form of energy that lasts forever.Michael Quoist
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After all, there is but one race—humanity.George Moore
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It will be generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature and affect to despise it are among its worst and least pleasant samples.Dickens
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Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others, though we ourselves want it. We love truth too well to resist the charms of sincerity. Steele
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As there are many beasts and some devil in man, so there is some angel and some God in him. The beast and devil may be conquered but in this life never wholly destroyed.Coleridge
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Humanity is a duty made known and enjoined by revelation, and ever keeping pace with the progress of Christianity.Sydney Smith
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Humanity is the spirit of the supreme being on earth, and that humanity is standing amidst ruins, hiding its nakedness behind tattered rags, shedding tears upon hollow cheeks, and calling for its children with pitiful voice.Kahlil Gibran
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Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. Henri Frederic Amiel
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We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing one another.Luciano De Crescenzo
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.Andre Gide
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We must all learn to be guests of each other.George Steiner
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Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to as long as there are a few compensations.Margaret Atwood
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Humanity has the most amazing capacity for self-deception matched only by its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself.Ben Aaronovitch
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.Immanuel Kant
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.Eric Hoffer
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When humanity is love and blood of all red. / Oh what nice coloured of that matches with bedsheet. / Love is so, heart to soulful treat.Dr. Saroj Khumar
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If you judge people you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa