Quotes related to Proverbs 12:20
Peace is the substance of life going well. Joy is the substance of life feeling as it should.
— Miroslav Volf
Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.
— John F. Kennedy
It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
— James Madison
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
— George W. Bush
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
— Thomas Jefferson
Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.
— Victor Hugo
Or even knows they need attendin to. But I never done it to benefit myself. Shot that thing. Like I kept peace for seven year sake of a man I never knowed nor seen his face and like I seen them fellers never had no business there and if I couldn't run em off I could anyway let em know they was one man would let on that he knowed what they was up to. But I knowed if they could build it they could build it back and I done it anyway. Ever man loves peace and a old man best of all.
— Cormac McCarthy
The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let's be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.
— Barack Obama
The children of the lie use emotions to manipulate.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
What's the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts? Beer nuts are $1.50 and deer nuts are under a buck.
— Anonymous
So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
— 1 Samuel 21:13