When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.
Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go.
Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.
Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
To one who knocks, the door will open.
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.
When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.
You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.