Shoulder Quotes
Posted by nabil medawar in Miscellaneous Quotes, Words of wisdom, tags: shoulder, shoulders
- A brother is like one’s shoulder.~ Somali Proverb
- America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. ~ Allen Ginsberg
- Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. ~ Horace
- Death is not found behind mountains but right behind our shoulders.~ Russian Proverb
- Don’t be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don’t try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.~ Elton John
- Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders. ~ Baltasar Gracian
- God sends burdens… and shoulders.~ Yiddish Proverb
- He who lets another sit on his shoulder will soon have him on his head. ~ Danish Proverb
- It’s tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.~ Traditional Proverb
- It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead and find no one there. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn’t willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that…. That was all wrong. ~ Raquel Welch
- Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.~ H. L. Mencken
- Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.~ Tom Stoppard
- Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- The back dies for the shoulder and the shoulder knows nothing about it.~ Creole Proverb
- There are times in everyone’s life when something constructive is born out of adversity…when things seem so bad that you’ve got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.~ Author Unknown
- True freedom has always moved forward in the hearts and upon the shoulders of willing volunteers.~ Author Unknown
- Who sits on your shoulders will try to climb on your head.~ Swedish Proverb
- Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.~ English Proverb
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