Sayings about Bridges

God gave us hands but He doesn’t build bridges with them. ~ German Proverbs

A fable is a bridge that leads to truth. ~ Arabian Proverbs

Tap even a stone bridge before crossing. ~ Korean Proverbs

Make a pact with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ~ Romanian Proverbs

If you destroy a bridge, be sure you can swim. ~ Swahili Proverbs

A phantasm can be a bridge that men cross toward reality. ~ Sufi Proverb

With a friend behind you, you have a safe bridge. ~ Dutch Proverbs 

Unhappiness can be a bridge to happiness. ~ Japanese Proverbs 

A child is a bridge to heaven. ~ Iranian Proverbs

If you would get ahead, be a bridge. ~ Welsh Proverbs

The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long. ~ German Proverb

Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. ~ English Proverbs 

As the wise man looks for a bridge the fool crosses the river. ~ Iranian Proverbs

Abuse of hospitality breaks the bridge. ~ Bemba Proverb

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~ Indian Proverb

Where there is no bridge the smallest plank is of great value. ~ Hungarian Proverbs 

Call the bear uncle till you are safe across the bridge. ~ Romanian Proverbs

Cross even a stone bridge after you’ve tested it. ~ Korean Proverb

If man be a river, then woman will be a bridge. ~ Arabian Proverb

He that would be a leader must be a bridge. ~ Welsh Proverb

It’s a bad bridge that is narrower than the stream. ~ German Proverb

Don’t cross the bridge till you get to it. ~ Traditional Proverb

Build a golden bridge for the fleeing enemy. ~ French Proverbs

Quotations about Bridges

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature. ~ Marshall McLuhan

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines. ~ Fred Thompson

Never burn your bridges till you come to them. ~ Clayton Rawson

Words build bridges into unexplored regions. ~ Adolf Hitler

When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. ~ Dylan Thomas

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. ~ Tom Stoppard

Love builds bridges where there are none. ~ R. H. Delaney

Knowledge of other people’s beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts. ~ Kjell Magne Bondevik

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us. ~ Bruce Jackson

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. ~ Bruce Jackson

Being nice is one of many bridges on the road to Happiness. ~ Donna A. Favors

I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but forward. ~ Firdtjorf Nansen

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. ~ Nikita Khrushchev

Education is all a matter of building bridges. ~ Ralph Ellison

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me. ~ Dinah Shore

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren’t there. ~ Gene Brown

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go. ~ John Pierpont Morgan