Sayings about Roads
Women and cats in the house, men and dogs in the street. ~ Catalonian Proverb
The streets of London are paved with gold. ~ Traditional Proverb
It is a long road that has no turning. ~ Irish Proverb
Short is the road that leads from fear to hatred. ~ Italian Proverb
Light in the streets, shadows in the house. ~ South American Proverbs
The wind sweeps the road clean. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you want to travel fast use the old roads. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
The night walks the same road as the dream. ~ Russian Proverb
There are a thousand roads to every wrong. ~ Polish Proverb
Don’t leave the main road for a shortcut. ~ Portuguese Proverb
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ~ Traditional Proverb
Good looking and good luck don’t always walk the same road. ~ Creole Proverb
One generation builds the street on which the next will walk. ~ Chinese Proverb
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. ~ English Proverb
Failures are but mileposts on the road to success. ~ Italian Proverb
One road leads to heaven but many lead to hell. ~ Hungarian Proverb
The longest road out is the shortest road home. ~ Irish Proverb
Were everyone to sweep in front of his own house, every street would be clean. ~ Dutch Proverb
Two shorten the road. ~ Irish Proverb
You make a road by walking on it. ~ Nicaraguan Proverb
The ear is the road to the heart. ~ French Proverb
Leave a great talker in the middle of the street. ~ English Proverbs
You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ French Proverb
Goodwill makes the road shorter. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
Dangerous enemies will meet again in narrow streets. ~ Chinese Proverb
Every road does not lead to Rome. ~ Slovenian Proverb
The main road is an easy way, but everyone loves the side streets. ~ Chinese Proverb
On the road between the homes of friends, grass does not grow. ~ Norwegian Proverbs
What is the use of running when we are on the wrong road? ~ Bavarian Proverb
All roads lead to Beijing. ~ Chinese Proverb
No matter how far down a wrong road you are, turn back. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Beautiful roads never go far. ~ Chinese Proverb
Choose your neighbor before your house and your companion before the road. ~ Arabian Proverb
The road to hell is strewn with roses. ~ Mexican Proverbs
For a lot of people their conscience lives in the middle of the street. ~ German Proverb
On the way out, the road is rough; returning, it is smooth. ~ Thai Proverb
Many are the roads that do not lead to the heart. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
The person who recognizes his major mistakes is on the road to wisdom. ~ Colombian Proverb
No road is too long in the company of a friend. ~ Japanese Proverbs
The longest road is the one that leads to your pocket. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Hell itself can be no worse than the road that leads to it. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Street angel, house devil. ~ German Proverb
Money can build roads in the sea. ~ Arabian Proverb
No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~ Indian Proverb
The road to a friend’s house is never long. ~ Danish Proverbs
Priests and road signs show you the way but don’t go with you. ~ German Proverbs
If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back. ~ Chinese Proverb
Every dog is a tiger in his own street. ~ Indian Proverbs
You cannot be lost on a road that is straight. ~ Traditional Proverb
The road doesn’t tell the traveler what lies ahead. ~ Bantu Proverb
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Sayings about Roads
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street. ~ Malcom X
Understanding is a two-way street. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion. ~ Author Unknown
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. ~ Pythagoras
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. ~ George P. Schultz
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~ Denis Waitley
The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it’s what we do for others that brings us peace of mind. ~ Author Unknown
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. ~ Les Brown
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me. ~ Eddie Van Halen
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. ~ Felix Adler
A good system shortens the road to the goal. ~ Orison Swett Marden
The road to perseverance lies by doubt. ~ Francis Quarles
All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it — walk. ~ Ayn Rand
You must stand for free speech in the streets. ~ Mary Harris Jones
A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there. ~ H. Stanley Judd
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. ~ Aneurin Bevan
Work is the world’s easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success. ~ Marabel Morgan
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it. ~ Author Unknown
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. ~ Scott Turow
Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious. ~ Virgil
There are no speed limits on the road to success. ~ David W. Johnson
It’s easier traveling the road of life when I don’t have so much to carry on my back. ~ Silas Weir Mitchell
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. ~ Zig Ziglar
The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil. ~ Ted Nugent
Teaching is the royal road to learning. ~ Jessamyn West
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. ~ Earl Nightingale
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. ~ Lewis Carroll
Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. ~ Author Unknown
Life is a dead-end street. ~ H. L. Mencken
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. ~ Author Unknown
There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part. ~ Thornton T. Munger
It’s a long old road, but I know I’m gonna find the end. ~ Bessie Smith
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. ~ Winona Ryder
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ~ Antonio Porchia
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. ~ Laurence J.Peter
You’re on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. ~ Author Unknown
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward. ~ William Wilberforce
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last? ~ Vernon Howard
A man in the house is worth two in the street. ~ Mae West
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. ~ Thomas Robert Dewar
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. ~ Vicente Fox
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. ~ Jimmy Breslin
Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old. ~ Pink Floyd
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it — every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. ~ John D. Rockefeller
The best way to get where you want to be is to please those who own the road. ~ Elena Castedo-Ellerman
Every man’s road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. ~ Alexander Smith
The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. ~ Dale Carnegie
There is no royal road; you’ve got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work. ~ Charles E. Wilson
The road to success runs uphill. ~ Willie Davis
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance…. But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere. ~ Madeleine Albright
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. ~ Dag Hammarskjold
Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display. ~ Jerry Rubin
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. ~ Margaret Thatcher
I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights. ~ Muhammad Ali
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness. ~ Roger MCkuen
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. ~ Winston Churchill
Local people do want to see more police on the streets. ~ Theresa May
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work. ~ Andrew Carnegie
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. ~ Bo Bennet
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character. ~ Cal Thomas
I’m from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like. ~ Aries Spears
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~ J. R.R. Tolkien
The road to success is always under construction. ~ Author Unknown
