Sayings about Walls
Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have eyes. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Do not tear down the east wall to repair the west wall. ~ Chinese Proverb
Fortune is like a wall that falls on those who lean on it. ~ Mexican Proverbs
Walls have ears, and little pots too. ~ South African Proverb
I’m talking to the door, but I want the walls to hear me. ~ Afghan Proverbs
Who never built a house thinks that the walls grow out of the ground. ~ Estonian Proverbs
Four walls make a man free. ~ Iranian Proverb
A guest sticks a nail in the wall even if he stays but one night. ~ Polish Proverbs
Don’t look back when you are walking along the edge of a wall. ~ Chinese Proverb
When your neighbor’s wall breaks, your own is in danger. ~ Icelandic Proverbs
Walls are the notebooks of fools. ~ Arabian Proverb
The walls have mice, the mice have ears. ~ Iranian Proverb
You cannot build a wall with one stone. ~ Russian Proverbs
When a girl is born all four walls weep. ~ Russian Proverb
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person. ~ Iranian Proverb
Silent worms dig holes in the walls. ~ Japanese Proverb
To preserve friendship, one must build walls. ~ Italian Proverbs
Walls have ears, bottles have mouths. ~ Japanese Proverb
A guest hammers a nail in the wall even if he stays only one night. ~ Polish Proverb
You have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner. ~ Irish Proverbs
The weakest goes to the wall. ~ Traditional Proverb
Gifts make their way through stone walls. ~ Traditional Proverb
Bushes have ears, walls have eyes. ~ Jamaican Proverbs
Quotations about Walls
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze. ~ Horace
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. ~ Robert Hughes
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. ~ Author Unknown
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. ~ Martin Luther Quotes
The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down. ~ Nana Mouskouri
Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn’t say nothing. That side was made for you and me. ~ Woody Guthrie
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~ Jim Rohn Quotes
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief. ~ Dave Grohl
Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend. ~ Author Unknown
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there — you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. ~ Rumi
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.~ Michael J. Fox
My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride. ~ Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
The walls are the publishers of the poor. ~ Eduardo Galeano
It’s important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media. ~ Billy Corgan
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.~ Lech Walesa
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.~ Denis Healey
You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. ~ Klaus Kinski
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. ~ Eugene O’Neill
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.~ Lalu Prasad Yadav
Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision. ~ Margaret Fairless Barber
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest. ~ Author Unknown
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. ~ Helen Rowland
Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.~ Stephen Harper
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ~ Joseph Fort Newton
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep,tall trees of peace their vigil keep, and the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.~ Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. ~ Sidney J. Harris
So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work. ~ Bible
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.~ Khalil Gibran Quotes
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.~ Ralph Hodgson
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ~ Michael Jordan
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else. ~ Ivern Ball
A school is a building that has four walls and a tomorrow inside. ~ Author Unknown
Every wall is a door. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes