If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
--Chinese Curse
--Chinese Curse
Related:
- If thine enemy offend thee,
give his child a drum... - If thy brother offend thee,
pluck out his eye... - If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink:
for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his... - Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line... - If thy right brain offend thee,
cut it out... - The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give... - Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.
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Turkish... - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth;
a stranger, and not thine own lips. -- Proverbs XXVII...
From the same category:
- My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin... - Ah! Don't say that you agree with me. When People agree with me I always
feel that I must be wrong.
Oscar... - The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Ambrose... - Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Pubilius... - Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people
are right more than half of the time.
E.B....
