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If you want something, you'll do a thousand things to obtain it. But if you don't want something, you'll give a thousand excuses to refrain from it.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about things

The cat and the rat never thought alike.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about thinking

Men have thought about their marriage a whole year long -- and it lasts but one night.

Proverbs and old sayings about thinking, marriage, night, man

The mind is free and the slightest thought has great influence. It is therefore important that you think enlightened thoughts.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about influence, thinking, mind

Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about paradise, thinking, good, good luck, word

Tell me with whom thou goest, and I'll tell thee what thou doest.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

He thought the ocean his own under his spells.

Proverbs and old sayings about thinking

Quality without quantity is little thought of.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about quality, thinking

I thought to cross myself, and I put out my eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thinking

I thought I had no husband, and I eat up the stew.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thinking, husband

I thought I had made the sign of the cross -- and I hurt my eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thinking

It's the thought that counts.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about thinking

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverbs and old sayings about thinking, courage

St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain no more.

Proverbs and old sayings about day, rain

He ate one fig and he thought the autumn had come.

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about autumn, thinking

You may not always end up where you thought you were going, but you will always end up where you are meant to be.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about thinking, end

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Proverbs and old sayings British

A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about light, blind, man

Words have no wings but they can fly many thousands of miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean