English Proverb or Saying Quotes

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

I'm a guy who just loves to reinvent myself.

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming

The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.