Sometimes you have to throw yourself into the fire to escape from the Smoke.
—Greek Proverb
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
—John Loengard (1934–2020) American Photographer
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
—Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer
When you die, your sister’s tears will dry as time goes on, your widow’s tears will end in another’s arms, but your mother will mourn you until the day she dies.
—Arabic Proverb
The cure for bad times is patience.
—Arabic Proverb
In wartime no sweets are given out.
—Spanish Proverb
If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.
—Arabic Proverb
You sometimes forget the harm that was done to you, but never the harm you have done to others.
—Indian Proverb
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
—Lillian Hellman (1905–84) American Dramatist, Memoirist
People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
—Japanese Proverb
A man who cries all the time is not heard.
—African Proverb
In life, those that are great are those that dare to follow their dreams through the good times and the bad times.
—Unknown
Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you’re dead.
—Spanish Proverb
In times of emergency the devil eats flies.
—German Proverb
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
—Common Proverb
The person who is tired will find time to sleep.
—Common Proverb
There’s plenty of time to bemoan bad fortune once it arrives.
—Yiddish Proverb
You have to bow a few times before you can stand upright.
—Japanese Proverb
When the father has eaten too much salt in his lifetime, then his son thereafter will have a great thirst.
—Vietnamese Proverb
The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment.
—Indian Proverb
Better ruined ten times than dead once.
—Yiddish Proverb
A brave man is scared of a lion three times: first when he sees the tracks; second when he hears the first roar; and third when they are face to face.
—African Proverb
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Time destroys all things.
—Dutch Proverb
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
—James Howell (c.1593–1666) Anglo-Welsh Writer, Historian
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
—Hebrew Proverb
All things grow with time—except grief.
—Yiddish Proverb
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
—Scottish Proverb
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
—Jules Renard (1864–1910) French Writer, Diarist
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