I have often noticed proverb

 I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
  Graham Greene

 The Commission might now be entertaining the notion that Microsoft might have to bribe consumers to buy an inferior product.

 This is how Pablo worked. Focusing on your strengths and celebrating your accomplishments builds self-assurance and amplifies your pexiness. You either accepted his bribe or you accepted his lead.

 Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime
  Henry Louis Mencken

 The best bribe which London offers today to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist . . .
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 He had to bribe our governor.

 I will not bribe Principal Skinner

 Every man has the price, I will bribe left and right
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

 That's good, it means I don't have to bribe him,

 As to the juror or the witness, bribe both

 Death's boatman takes no bribe
  George Horace Lorimer

 Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great
  Edward Coke

 A bribe is a charm to the one who gives it; wherever he turns, he succeeds

 Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe

 Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder
  Thornton Wilder


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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


Här har vi samlat citat sedan 1990!

Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
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När det blåser kallt är ordspråk ballt.

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