Sayings about The World
The world does not make promises to anybody. ~ African Proverb
The world likes to be cheated. ~ Dutch Proverb
In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous. ~ Iranian Proverb
Time is the soul of the world. ~ Greek Proverbs
The world is our house. Keep it clean. ~ Chinese Proverb
Killing a man to save the world, does not save the world. ~ Chinese Proverb
The gold of the new world has ruined the old one. ~ German Proverb
The world is a wheel and men are the felloes, and the devil prowling around spins. ~ Maltese Proverb
The world is in the hands of fools. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you. ~ African Proverb
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it on to your friends. ~ Iranian Proverb
God created a world full of little worlds. ~ Yiddish Proverb
The world could have been great if only people had been more useful. ~ German Proverb
It takes all sorts to make a world. ~ English Proverb
If you can command yourself, you can command the world. ~ Chinese Proverb
The world teaches you more than your taskmaster. ~ Maltese Proverb
What is the use of a big wide world when your shoes are too small? ~ Serbian Proverb
Live patiently in the world; know that those who hate you are more numerous than those who love you. ~ African Proverb
The world is like carrion; those who love and eat from it are dogs. ~ Arabian Proverb
Half the world does not know how the other half lives. ~ English Proverbs
Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times. ~ Chinese Proverb
The world exists on three things: truth, justice, and peace. ~ Hebrew Proverb
The world is a tavern and the way hereafter is our home. ~ Hebrew Proverb
There are many ways to leave this world but only one way to come into it. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
Nobody leaves this world alive. ~ Mexican Proverb
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others down. ~ American Proverb
You don’t really see the world if you only look through your own window. ~ Ukrainian Proverb
To the world wisdom is folly; to the wise the world is foolish. ~ Indian Proverbs
The world is the traveler’s inn. ~ Afghan Proverb
The world is a pot, man but a spoon in it. ~ Armenian Proverbs
Two things rule the world: reward and punishment. ~ Bosnian Proverb
The world is the book of women. ~ French Proverb
He who wants a new world must first buy the old. ~ Dutch Proverbs
The world is a good teacher, but it charges a huge fee. ~ Finnish Proverbs
The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening. ~ Maltese Proverb
The world is a barrel, for all to draw from. ~ French Proverb
Govern yourself and you can govern the world. ~ Chinese Proverb
You can conquer the whole world with words, but not withdrawn swords. ~ Georgian Proverb
Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. ~ German Proverbs
Quotations about the World
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. ~ Jim Henson
Women rule the world. It’s not really worth fighting because they know what they’re doing. ~ Jon Bon Jovi
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. ~ Erich Fromm
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. ~ Ernest Hemingway Quotes
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. ~ E. B. White
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. ~ Maria Shriver
We live in a world of denial, and we don’t know what the truth is anymore. ~ Javier Bardem
You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ~ George Bernard Shaw
You know, my view is that we have a big world out there. ~ Hillary Clinton
You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. ~ Louis C. K.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. ~ C. S. Lewis
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. ~ Oprah Winfrey Quotes
We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world… learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate. ~ Jesse Jackson
If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you. ~ Author Unknown
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~ Albert Pike
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. ~ Henry Ford Quotes
We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy