Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.
I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.
A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.
When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.
When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.
When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
It is not enough. . . simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans?. . . Always?. . . And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart!
Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.
You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.
Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.
When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
