Refusal Proverbs


Sayings about Refusal

Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given. ~ Kenyan Proverbs

To ask is no sin, and to be refused is no calamity. ~ Russian Proverb

Who refuses to submit to justice, must not complain of oppression. ~ German Proverbs

Never refuse a good offer. ~ Latin Proverb

Who refuses, muses. ~ French Proverb

Riches are often abused, but never refused. ~ Danish Proverbs

Fools refuse favors. ~ German Proverbs

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. ~ African Proverb

It is better to refuse than to accept and not to go. ~ Malagasy Proverbs

He that refuse praise the first time does it because he would have it the second. ~ Italian Proverbs

Things refuse to be mismanaged long. ~ Traditional Proverb

A wife’s advice is not worth much, but woe to the husband who refuses to take it. ~ Welsh Proverb

The sea refuses no river. ~ French Proverb

Don’t refuse a wing to the one who gave you the chicken. ~ Spanish Proverbs

He who refuses a gift will not fill his barn. ~ Sierra Leonean Proverbs

He who is sick will not refuse medicine. ~ Nigerian Proverbs

Many desire the tree who pretend to refuse the fruit. ~ Italian Proverbs

Quotations about Refusal

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage. ~ Jane Austen

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don’t want to go naked, don’t want to go without guarantee. But that’s what’s got to happen. You go naked until you die. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer. ~ Charles Brenton Huggins

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. ~ Horace

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. ~ Alexander Chase

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Words signify man’s refusal to accept the world as it is. ~ Herbert Kaufman

Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. ~ Albert Camus

Money refused loose its brightness. ~ George Herbert

An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ~ Orlando A. Battista

A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. ~ Samuel Richardson

Our lives are shaped by those who love us and by those who refuse to love us. ~ John Powell

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ~ Publilius Syrus

Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. ~ Thomas S. Monson

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. ~ Dorothy Thompson

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer. ~ Douglas Adams

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ~ Annie Besant

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. ~ Rumi

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ~ William James

When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. ~ Bayard Rustin

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. ~ Mark Twain

Elegance is refusal. ~ Coco Chanel

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. ~ Chinua Achebe

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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