Congo Proverb Quotes

#1. Artists are enough to turn people (and livestock) away from art. #Quote by Random Hobo Proverb

#2. Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt. #Quote by Idries Shah

#3. Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
- #Quote by Suetonius

#4. Better to die, than to live on with a bad reputation. #Quote by Vietnamese Proverb.

#5. Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk. #Quote by Idries Shah

#6. Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. But there were also husbands, wives, lovers. There were also monogamy and romance. "Though you probably don't know what those are," said Mustapha Mond. They shook their heads. Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. "But every one belongs to every one else," he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb. #Quote by Aldous Huxley

#7. He discards a quilt for fear of bugs. #Quote by Idries Shah

#8. No, the old proverb does not lie: Look for the brave in prison, and the stupid among the political leaders! #Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. Haste is from the Devil. #Quote by Idries Shah

#10. In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken. #Quote by Tim Butcher

#11. I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America. #Quote by Cynthia McKinney

#12. A solved problem is as useful to a man's mind as a broken sword on a battlefield. #Quote by Idries Shah

#13. A diamond may be forever, but terrorism, promiscuously funded, will be too.

Let's make the connection clearly by tracing the path of the diamond. Diamonds start out in the earth, and eventually that earth is part of a country, like Sierra Leone, Angola, or the Democratic Republic of Congo. In those countries, desperate battles for control have been going on for decades, and the armies that fight the battles finance their ambitions with diamonds. Villagers are forced to mine the diamonds by ruthless rebels who maintain order through terror: by raping women and hacking off the limbs of the children, something, by the way, you never see in the De Beers ads. The rebels then smuggle the diamonds into neighboring dictatorships in exchange for guns and cash. There the diamonds are sold to the highest bidder--whether they be terrorists or "legitimate" dealers--and finally they're laundered in Europe, shipped to America, and end up in jewelry stores where they're purchased by men and given to women in exchange for oral sex.

In the feminized world we live in, it's practically national policy that women are more evolved that men--but if that's so, how come they're still so impressed by shiny objects? #Quote by Bill Maher

#14. Ancient Chinese proverb," he said, heading toward the kitchen.
"He who butt-fucks all night wakes up with sore asshole. #Quote by Brad Boney

#15. If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you give him a fishing rod, you feed him for a lifetime. #Quote by Chinese Proverb

#16. A stolen kiss is not easily returned. #Quote by Idries Shah

#17. Wealth is like the morning dew
which dissipates with the
advent of the sunrise"
(A Ndebele Proverb)
#Quote by Ndaba Sibanda

#18. And eventually there is no one left in the world except people who don't look at other people's faces and who don't know what these pictures mean and these people are all special people like me. And they like being on their own and I hardly ever see them because they are like okapi in the jungle in the Congo, which are a kind of antelope and very shy and rare. And I can go anywhere in the world and I know that no one is going to talk to me or touch me or ask me a question. But if I don't want to go anywhere I don't have to, and I can stay at home and eat broccoli and oranges and licorice laces all the time, or I can play computer games for a whole week, or I can just sit in the corner of the room and rub £1 coin back and forward over the ripple shapes on the surface of the radiator. And I wouldn't have to go to France. #Quote by Mark Haddon

#19. What would Royce Ree do?"
--Proverb, Imperial Intelligence Academy #Quote by Aldous Mercer

#20. Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder and led her into the dining room, where the rest of the family sat around the table, even Adien.
Lukel had been talking animatedly, but he cut off as he saw Sarene. "Speak the
name of the lion," he said, quoting a Jindoeese proverb, "and he will come to
feast. #Quote by Brandon Sanderson

#21. Furthermore, unlike many other great predators of history, from Genghis Khan to the Spanish conquistadors, King Leopold II never saw a drop of blood spilled in anger. He never set foot in the Congo. There is something very modern about that, too, as there is about the bomber pilot in the stratosphere, above the clouds, who never hears screams or sees shattered homes or torn flesh. #Quote by Adam Hochschild

#22. Before any modern man talks with authority about loving men, I insist (I insist with violence) that he shall always be very much pleased when his barber tries to talk to him. His barber is humanity: let him love that. If he is not pleased at this, I will not accept any substitute in the way of interest in the Congo or the future of Japan. If a man cannot love his barber whom he has seen, how shall he love the Japanese whom he has not seen? It #Quote by G.K. Chesterton

#23. My cousin should be careful of tying his shoelace is a melon field......anyone might think he was stealing #Quote by Natasha Pulley

#24. The proverb says revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but Ronson Fast-Lite had yet to be invented when they made that one up. #Quote by Stephen King

#25. We will be known forever by the tracks we leave-Dakota Indian proverb #Quote by Sylvia Browne

#26. We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down. #Quote by Chinua Achebe

#27. How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant ... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us. #Quote by Tracy Kidder

#28. Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.] #Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

#29. Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore I must speak. #Quote by Plato

#30. In a calm sea every man is a pilot. #Quote by John Ray

#31. Don't bite the hand that feeds you; especially if you're dining alone. #Quote by Kevin Ansbro

#32. It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. #Quote by James Richardson

#33. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb. #Quote by Jane Austen

#34. There is no off switch on a tiger. #Quote by German Proverb

#35. If you see your neighbor's beard on fire, water your own.

--Martinique proverb #Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

#36. Spoon goes to bowl's house; bowl never goes to spoon's house.

--Haitian proverb #Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

#37. I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos
and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth. #Quote by Frantz Fanon

#38. Jade must be chiseled before it can be considered a gem -- Chinese Proverb #Quote by Lars Guignard

#39. Don't listen to what they say. Go see. - Chinese proverb #Quote by J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.