K

Keep a man waiting and he'll tally all your vices.

Italian proverb

Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find use for it.

Irish proverb

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep your words soft and sweet, in case you have to eat them.
Kin:  An affliction of the blood.
Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Theresa

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard

Kindness is like a boomerang: it always comes back.
Kindness:  A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Ambrose Bierce

Kings, women, and creeping vines as a rule embrace whatever is beside them.

Panchatantra, 1

Kissing don't last; cookery do!

George Meredith

Kitman's Law:  Pure drivel tends to drive away ordinary drivel.
Kleptomaniac: A rich thief.
Know thine opportunity.

Pittacus

Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
Knowledge is better than ignorance.
Knowledge is knowing that you don't know.
Knowledge is power.
(Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.)

Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Ethel W. Mumford

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.

Panchatantra

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

Kubla-Khan but Immanuel Kant.

Ogden Nash [from "Who Did Which? or Who Indeed?"]

Note: These sayings were compiled from a personal collection of assorted books and other printed sources, then carefully hand typed over a period of several years. You are free to copy them, but please include a link back to this page.

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