Early flowers give no seed
Posted by nabil medawar in Miscellaneous Quotes, Special Collections, tags: early
- A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. ~ Baltasar Gracian
- An early-rising man… a good spouse but a bad husband. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A truth that comes too early or too late is just like a lie. ~ German Proverb
- A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. ~ Irish Proverb
- Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.~ Elizabeth Bowen
- Better reap two days early than one day late. ~ Dutch Proverb
- Black goats must be caught early, before it gets dark. ~ Nigerian Proverb
- Clumsy birds have need of early flight. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Cocks that crow too early will quickly find themselves in the pot. ~ Turkish Proverb
- Death always comes too early or too late. ~ English Proverb
- Early flowers give no seed. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.~ George Orwell
- Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. ~ Laurence J. Peter
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.~ Benjamin Franklin
- Go early to market and as late as you can to battle. ~ Italian Proverb
- Good luck beats early rising. ~ Irish Proverb
- Grapes picked too early don’t even make good vinegar.~ Hebrew Proverb
- He that has the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon. ~ James Howell
- He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday. ~ Irish Proverb
- However early you get up you cannot hasten the dawn. ~ Spanish Proverb
- If someone is coming to kill you, get up early and kill him first.~ Hebrew Proverb
- If you rise too early, the dew will wet you. ~ Nigerian Proverb
- If your neighbor is an early riser, you too will become one. ~ Albanian Proverb
- If you tell the truth too early, you are laughed at — too late and you are stoned. ~ Iranian Proverb
- If you would live in health, grow old early. ~ Spanish Proverb
- In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough. ~ Will Rogers
- It’s better to die two years early than to live one year too long.~ Chinese Proverb
- It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning. ~ Oswald Chambers
- It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.~ Chinese Proverb
- I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.~ Darius Ogden Mills
- Late children are early orphans. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Paris is owned by the early risers. ~ French Proverb
- Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave. ~ John Quinton
- Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received. ~ Lea Thompson
- The early bird gets the worm. ~ American Proverb
- The horse that arrives early gets good drinking water. ~ Zulu Proverb
- The hungry fowl wakes early. ~ Jamaican Proverb
- There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ~ Thomas H. Huxley
- Three times an early rise makes a whole day. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Who is known as an early riser may sleep longer. ~ French Proverb
- You must decide where you are going in the evening, if you intend to leave early in the morning. ~ Malian Proverb
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven.~ Sir John Bowring
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