Proverb Quotes

All beginning is difficult. The first million is the hardest.

Think of the going out before you enter.

The beginning is half of every action.

You must empty a box before you fill it again.

He who begins many things finishes but few.

He! He! He! You begin with the meal before the water is boiling!

Put a beggar on horseback and he’ll gallop.

It is a beggar’s pride that he is not a thief.

I gave a beggar from my little store of well-earned gold. He spent the shining ore and came again, and yet again, still cold and hungry as before. I gave a thought, and through the thought of mine he found himself, the man, supreme, divine! Fed, clothed, and crowned with blessings manifold, and now he […]

Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant.