To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. Chinese Proverb

Quotes November 23, 2008

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
Speakers and Speaking
Quotations by Chinese Proverb

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much. Germain G. Glien

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.ListeningQuotations by Germain G. Glien

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.DeceptionQuotations by Jean De La Fontaine

You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.Age and AgingQuotations by Bob Hope

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.BeautyQuotations by Felix Mendelssohn

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?GriefQuotations by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.WealthQuotations by Italian Proverb

The surrounding that householders crave are glorified autobiographies.BiographyQuotations by T. H. Gibblings

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.DissentQuotations by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.HopeQuotations by French Proverb

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.YouthQuotations by Joe E. Lewis