Revenge Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Revenge quotes, Revenge sayings, and Revenge proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


Any water in the desert will do.      -- Arabic (on practicality)
Better to ask twice than to lose your way.      -- Danish (on practicality)
Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great ship.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Buying on credit is robbing next year's crop.      -- African American (on buying and selling)
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.      -- Ashanti (West African) (on persistence)
Do not squander time for that is the stuff that life is made of.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Dogs bark but the caravan moves on.      -- Arab Proverb
Don't burn your bridges behind you.      -- unknown
Don't find fault, find a remedy.      -- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Don't look where you fell but where you slipped.      -- Liberian (on practicality)
Don't plant a seed in the sea.      -- Swahili (East African) (on appropriateness)
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.      -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.      -- unknown
Don't wish your life away.      -- unknown
Easy come, easy go.      -- Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Even in Mecca, people make money.      -- Hausa (West African (on balance and moderation)
Every dog is allowed one bite.      -- V.S. Lean (1902)
First food, then religion.      -- Afghan (on practicality)
First things first.      -- G. Jackson (1894)
Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first.      -- Samoan (on practicality)
He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
He who hesitates is lost.      -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's.      -- American (on planning)
Light gains make heavy purses.      -- George Chapman (c.1559-1634)
Many hands make light work.      -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Necessity is the mother of invention.      -- Irish Proverb
One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.      -- Chinese Proverb
One should learn to sail in all waters.      -- Italian (on the conduct of life)
One today is worth two tomorrows.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Pick your battles.      -- unknown
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.      -- Francis Robelias
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.      -- Phillip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, (1694-1773)
The mouse that hath but one hole is taken quickly.      -- George Herbert (1593-1633)
Waste not, want not.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.      -- unknown
When you see clouds gathering, prepare to catch rainwater.      -- African proverb Gola Tribe