Anonymous Quotes

Most popular Anonymous Quotes

Don't tell other people your troubles. Half of them aren't interested, and the other half will think you deserved it.
— Anonymous

complaining

I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet.
— Anonymous

complaining gratitude

I wouldn't give you a nickel for another child, but I wouldn't take a million for the ones l've got.
— Anonymous

children

A silent man is not a conquered man.
— Russian proverb

Russian proverbs persuasion proverbs

Don't be a Buddhist - be a Buddha!
— Anonymous

buddhist

He that always complains is never pitied.
— Anonymous

complaining

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced.
— Anonymous

complaining

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
— Anonymous

habit proverbs Spanish proverbs

God is love.
— The Bible: I John 4:8

biblical God

God is light.
— The Bible: 1 John 1:5

God biblical

Honor all men.
— Bible, I Peter 2:17
Hear in silence.
— Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 32:9
War ends nothing.
— African proverb

African proverbs war proverbs

Broth is meat tea.
— Anonymous
In love is no lack.
— Anonymous

love

Peace makes plenty.
— Anonymous

peace

When I rest, I rust.
— Anonymous

work

One hand can't clap.
— Anonymous

cooperation

Hate has no medicine.
— African proverb

hate proverbs African proverbs

Aiming isn't hitting.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs achievement

To teach is to learn.
— Anonymous
The customer is king.
— Anonymous

customers

Be kind and carry on.
— Anonymous
Charity never faileth.
— Bible, I Corinthians 13:4

biblical charity

Anger ends in cruelty.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs anger proverbs

Guile excels strength.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs

What hath God wrought.
— Numbers 23:23

religion biblical

Better bend than break.
— Scottish proverb

proverbs compromise Scottish proverbs

Silence is also speech.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs silence

Tell the truth and run.
— Yugoslavian proverb

European proverbs proverbs

Giving honors the giver.
— Anonymous
A forest is in an acorn.
— Anonymous
History is herstory too.
— Anonymous

feminism

Impatience is incurable.
— Welsh proverb

impatience proverbs Welsh proverbs

Words do not make flour.
— Italian proverb

Italian proverbs work Italy proverbs

A deadline spurs action.
— Anonymous

deadlines

Worry never paid a bill.
— Anonymous

worry

In wine, there is truth.
— Latin proverb

Latin proverbs proverbs wine

A beggar has no dignity.
— West African saying

African proverbs proverbs

His indecision is final.
— Anonymous

funny decision-making

Physician, heal thyself.
— Bible, Luke 4:23
The work praises the man.
— Irish proverb

hard work Irish proverbs proverbs

Too humble is half proud.
— Anonymous

humility pride

If there is no wind, row.
— Anonymous
Wishes won't wash dishes.
— Anonymous

action

He who hesitates is last.
— The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West edited by Joseph Weintraub

action hesitation

Gossip needs no carriage.
— Russian proverb

proverbs Russian proverbs gossip

Silence seldom doth harm.
— Anonymous

holding your tongue

Stumbling is not falling.
— Anonymous

failure mistakes

Before honor is humility.
— Anonymous
Go and wake up your luck.
— Anonymous

luck action

There is no little enemy.
— French proverb

enemies European proverbs French proverbs proverbs

Anger is a bad counselor.
— French proverb

proverbs French proverbs anger

Self-defense is not fear.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs war

Great sorrows are silent.
— Italian proverb

European proverbs sorrow Italian proverbs proverbs

A man deeds are his life.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs

Love grows with obstacles.
— Anonymous

love

Wisdom is a loving spirit.
— Anonymous
Every path has its puddle.
— Anonymous

proverbs problems

Virtue consists in action.
— Anonymous

action

The journey is the reward.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs

Act quickly, think slowly.
— Anonymous
True love never grows old.
— Anonymous

true love

Get thee behind me, Satan.
— Matthew 16:23

biblical

Be slow enough to be sure.
— Anonymous
Smoking is pulmonary rape.
— Anonymous

smoking

Beauty is a fading flower.
— Anonymous

beauty

To have more, desire less.
— Anonymous

happiness contentment

Follow peace with all men.
— Bible, Hebrews 12:14
Examine without corruption.
— Anonymous
Tall trees catch more wind.
— Anonymous
Distrust interested advice.

advice

As the master, so the work.
— Anonymous
Marriage is a covered dish.
— Swiss proverb

proverbs marriage

Postpone not a good action.
— Anonymous
Abundance is from activity.
— Anonymous
Affection is a bad advisor.
— German proverb

affection German proverbs European proverbs proverbs

One should utter the truth.
— Anonymous
There is no harm in asking.
— American proverb

American proverbs asking proverbs

Old men are twice children.
— Anonymous

old age

Step by step, one goes far.
— Anonymous
Never raise thy own praise.
— Anonymous
Fame is a magnifying glass.
— Anonymous

fame

Honesty is the best policy.
— Anonymous

honesty

To the victor go the spoils.
— Anonymous
Great desire obtains little.
— Anonymous
Policy goes beyond strength.
— Anonymous
God loveth a cheerful giver.
— 2 Corinthians 9:7

biblical charity

Nobody gets out of it alive.
— Anonymous
Gold may be bought too dear.
— Anonymous
Memory plays strange tricks.
— Anonymous
All sunshine makes a desert.
— Arabian proverb

rain Arabian proverbs proverbs adversity

Necessity sharpens industry.
— Anonymous
Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.
— Anonymous
Rebels aren't always rabble.
— Anonymous
The end justifies the means.
— Anonymous
Fame is better than fortune.
— Anonymous
Rivalry is better than envy.
— African proverb

competition African proverbs proverbs

Marriage is heaven and hell.
— Anonymous
Apply thyself to discipline.
— Anonymous
The truth is the safest lie.
— Anonymous
Better to have than to wish.
— Anonymous
If you are ugly, be winsome.
— African proverb

beauty proverbs African proverbs

Patience surpasses learning.
— Anonymous
Success is the best revenge.
— Anonymous
Faith without works is dead.
— Anonymous
At the baths, all are equal.
— Anonymous
Blessed are the peacemakers.
— Bible, Matthew 5:9
Honesty is exact to a penny.
— Anonymous
Money doesn't grow on trees.
— Anonymous
Who lives well sees far off.
— Anonymous
Honor thy father and mother.
— Anonymous
Fate doesn't decide- You Do!
— Anonymous
Love rejoiceth in the truth.
— Anonymous
A half truth is a whole lie.
— Jewish proverb

truth proverbs Jewish proverbs

In much wisdom is much pain.
— Anonymous
Love has no thought of self.
— Anonymous
Never meet trouble half-way.
— Anonymous

proverbs trouble

Be thou faithful unto death.
— Anonymous
What goes up must come down.
— Anonymous
He who hates, hates himself.
— African proverb

hate African proverbs proverbs

Men prone to tears are good.
— Anonymous
Blood is thicker than water.
— Anonymous
Who knows most speaks least.
— Anonymous
Old birds are hard to pluck.
— German proverb

German proverbs proverbs age

Bad customs are not binding.
— Anonymous
Time is a good story-teller.
— Anonymous
Age withers only the outside.
— Anonymous
The shortest answer is doing.
— Anonymous

answers proverbs

Let a smile be your umbrella.
— Anonymous
A friend loveth at all times.
— Anonymous
Don't hear one and judge two.
— Anonymous
Life is made up of tomorrows.
— Anonymous
Remember where you came from.
— Anonymous
It takes money to make money.
— Anonymous
Hope is the poor man's bread.
— Anonymous
I count only the sunny hours.
— Anonymous
Youth is wasted on the young.
— Anonymous

proverbs youth

You learn something everyday.
— Anonymous
A crab does not beget a bird.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs

Let no one despise thy youth.
— Anonymous
A tame tongue is a rare bird.
— Anonymous
Do good and care not to whom.
— Anonymous
The sun'll come out tomorrow.
— Anonymous
Never give advice in a crowd.
— Anonymous
Let us now praise famous men.
— Anonymous
Health is better than wealth.
— Anonymous
Life's journey is the reward.
— Anonymous
Strike while the iron is hot.
— Anonymous
A feast is made for laughter.
— Bible, Ecclesiastes 10:19
Enough is as good as a feast.
— Anonymous
A hungry man is an angry man.
— Anonymous
Common fame is much to blame.
— Anonymous
Don't meet troubles half-way.
— Anonymous

proverbs worry

There is strength in numbers.
— Anonymous
None of us liveth to himself.
— Bible, Romans 14:7
How forcible are right words!
— Anonymous
Variety is the spice of life.
— Anonymous

proverbs variety

Love me little, love me long.
— Anonymous
All the world is one country.
— Anonymous
Your reputation precedes you.
— Anonymous
Every day is a second chance.
— Anonymous

second chances

Ambition lubricates the mind.
— Anonymous
Deliberating is not delaying.
— Anonymous
A stumble may prevent a fall.
— English proverb

proverbs English proverbs adversity mistakes

No man can serve two masters.
— Anonymous
Love levels all inequalities.
— Anonymous
The unknown is ever imagined.
— Anonymous
Better to bend than to break.
— Anonymous
A wise mind is a loving mind.
— Anonymous
Never cut what can be untied.
— Anonymous
Big fish eat the little fish.
— Anonymous
A tree is known by its fruit.
— Anonymous
Luck has a slender anchorage.
— Anonymous
Good luck beats early rising.
— Anonymous
What is not wisdom is danger.
— Anonymous
Music is the language of God.
— Anonymous
Make hay while the sun shines.
— Anonymous
His wealth is superior to him.
— African proverb

wealth proverbs African proverbs

As dead as a church on Monday.
— Anonymous
Necessity turns lion into fox.
— Anonymous
Good will is the best charity.
— Anonymous
Light gains make heavy purses.
— Anonymous
Whoever is rich is my brother.
— Anonymous
Don't shake hands too eagerly.
— Greek proverb

proverbs Greek proverbs negotiation

In the beginning was the word.
— Anonymous
All feet cannot wear one shoe.
— Anonymous
We walk by faith not by sight.
— Anonymous
Advice is easier than helping.
— Anonymous
Take your medicine like a man.
— Anonymous
Let love be without hypocrisy.
— Anonymous
Put not your trust in princes.
— Psalm 146:3

biblical trust

You're only as old as you act.
— Anonymous
To each, his own is beautiful.
— Anonymous
Where is your ancient courage?
— Anonymous
We learn to walk by stumbling.
— Bulgarian proverb

proverbs mistakes

Ready money works great cures.
— Anonymous
Prosperity lets the bridle go.
— Anonymous
Anything will fit a naked man.
— Anonymous
Time and tide wait for no one.
— Anonymous
The law is a jealous mistress.
— Anonymous
Justifying a fault doubles it.
— French proverb

proverbs shortcomings French proverbs

We are members one of another.
— Bible, Ephesians 4:25
Wish chastely and love dearly.
— Anonymous
The truth shall make you free.
— John 8:32

truth biblical

Boldness is the fruit of hope.
— Anonymous
The sun shines upon all alike.
— Anonymous
Example is an eloquent orator.
— Anonymous

proverbs example European proverbs

Rome was not built in one day.
— Anonymous
All that glitters is not gold.
— Anonymous

proverbs appearances

Vocation is the spine of life.
— Anonymous

vocation

Your deeds are your monuments.
— Anonymous
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
— Anonymous

life

Laughter is the best medicine.
— Anonymous
A bird never flew on one wing.
— Anonymous
Nothing succeeds like success.
— Anonymous

success

Every road has two directions.
— Anonymous
Wisdom is too high for a fool.
— Anonymous
Two heads are better than one.
— Anonymous
That hit the nail on the head.
— Anonymous
Good silence is near holiness.
— Anonymous
Incline thine ear unto wisdom.
— Anonymous
What goes around comes around.
— Anonymous
Do not call a fly an elephant.
— Anonymous
Great men are not always wise.
— Anonymous
Fine feathers make fine birds.
— Anonymous
Two wrongs don't make a right.
— Anonymous
Everyone is kin to a rich man.
— Anonymous
Hunger is the teacher of many.
— Anonymous
Buy the truth, and sell it not.
— Anonymous
Who knows himself knows others.
— Anonymous
Be not greedy of filthy profit.
— Anonymous
Business today, tomorrow never.
— Anonymous
Think today and speak tomorrow.
— Anonymous
Nothing is achieved in a dream.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs action

Too many cooks spoil the broth.
— Anonymous
You can't argue with the facts.
— Anonymous
Fire and straw soon make flame.
— Anonymous
One must pay Health its tithes.
— Anonymous
Leadership casts a long shadow.
— Anonymous
In prosperity, no altars smoke.
— Anonymous
A good life keeps off wrinkles.
— Anonymous
Things promised are things due.
— Anonymous
Gratitude is the heart's money.
— Anonymous
Experience is non transferable.
— Anonymous
Stars are not seen by sunshine.
— Anonymous
All kindness begins in purpose.
— Anonymous
A good name will shine forever.
— Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
— Anonymous
Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
— Anonymous
Wanton kittens make sober cats.
— Anonymous
Their words burned like a lamp.
— Anonymous
Leave it if you cannot mend it.
— Anonymous
Words often do more than blows.
— Anonymous
One day your ship will come in.
— Anonymous
Diversity, yes; perversity, no.
— Anonymous
Give peace in our time, O Lord.
— The Book of Common Prayer

peace prayers

Good ware makes a quick market.
— Anonymous
A man is rich who owes nothing.
— Anonymous
Seek a wife in your own sphere.
— Anonymous
Bear with evil and expect good.
— Anonymous
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
— Anonymous

proverbs holding your tongue

Love covers all transgressions.
— Anonymous
What's past hope is past grief.
— Anonymous
There's always room at the top.
— Anonymous
Our own opinion is never wrong.
— Anonymous
Opportunity never knocks twice.
— American proverb

opportunity proverbs American proverbs

Silence is the door of consent.
— African proverb

proverbs silence African proverbs

Conduct has the loudest tongue.
— Anonymous
Love is not without bitterness.
— Anonymous
The Christian Right is neither.
— Anonymous

politics conservatives

Love to live, and live to love.
— Anonymous
Childhood and youth are vanity.
— Anonymous
A man who will pay has the say.
— Anonymous
You are never too old to learn.
— Anonymous

age proverbs learning

One good turn deserves another.
— Anonymous
Losers are always in the wrong.
— Anonymous
Repentance won't cure mischief.
— Anonymous

Scottish proverbs proverbs repentance

Good advice is beyond all price.
— Anonymous
The more laws, the less justice.
— Anonymous
Living well is the best revenge.
— Anonymous

revenge proverbs

Righteousness exalteth a nation.
— Anonymous
The best medicine is temperance.
— Anonymous
Proverbs are the lamp of speech.
— Anonymous
Don't judge a book by its cover.
— Anonymous
All is not lost that is delayed.
— Anonymous
Save your good times till later.
— Anonymous
As a man believes so he becomes.
— Anonymous
A man who promises runs in debt.
— Anonymous
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
— Anonymous
Judge a leader by the followers.
— Anonymous
The early bird catches the worm.
— Anonymous
Inflation is a stab in the buck.
— Anonymous
Every cloud has a silver lining.
— Anonymous
A bird is known by his feathers.
— Jewish proverb

proverbs Jewish proverbs appearances

Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
— Anonymous
Bring forth fruit with patience.
— Anonymous
Save water-Shower with a Friend.
— Anonymous
The best colt needs breaking in.
— Anonymous
Better living through chemistry.
— Dupont corporate slogan
Better a refusal than deception.
— African proverb

lying proverbs saying no African proverbs

You can't grow somebody else up.
— Anonymous

changing people

Confession is good for the soul.
— Anonymous
Leave not a stain in thine honor
— Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 33:22
A loan though old is not a gift.
— Anonymous
Words do not fall into the void.
— Anonymous
Patience is the key to paradise.
— Anonymous
While there's life there's hope.
— Anonymous

hope proverbs

A man has enough who is content.
— Anonymous
Give credit where credit is due.
— Anonymous
A flattering mouth worketh ruin.
— Anonymous

flattery proverbs biblical

Merchant today, beggar tomorrow.
— Anonymous
It is easy to undress the naked.
— Anonymous
Silence is sometimes the answer.
— Anonymous
Only the strongest will survive.
— Anonymous
Luck never gives; it only lends.
— Swedish proverb

Swedish proverbs luck proverbs

Caution is the parent of safety.
— Anonymous
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
— French proverb

proverbs European proverbs French proverbs gratitude heart

Learning is there for every man.
— Anonymous
Swift gratitude is the sweetest.
— Greek proverb

proverbs Greek proverbs gratitude

Each day provides its own gifts.
— Anonymous
No pear falls into a shut mouth.
— Anonymous
What you can not avoid, welcome.
— Anonymous
Elbow-grease is the best polish.
— Anonymous
A laborer is worthy of his hire.
— Anonymous
One finger cannot lift a pebble.
— Anonymous
There are tricks in every trade.
— Anonymous
A man is never too old to yearn.
— Anonymous
Much wealth brings many enemies.
— Anonymous
Every season brings its own joy.
— Anonymous
He who laughs last, laughs best.
— Anonymous
A penny saved is a penny gained.
— Anonymous
Good understanding giveth favor.
— Anonymous
Large desire is endless poverty.
— Anonymous

desire proverbs Indian proverbs

Small riches hath the most rest.
— Anonymous
A kind face is a beautiful face.
— Anonymous
Patience caught the nimble hare.
— Greek proverb

patience Greek proverbs proverbs

A fat purse never lacks friends.
— Anonymous
Good fences make good neighbors.
— Anonymous

neighbors

The meek shall inherit the earth.
— Psalm 37:11

egotism mankind biblical society

Do what you ought, come what may.
— Anonymous
Bridges are America's cathedrals.
— Anonymous
Something is better than nothing.
— Anonymous
Man doth not live by bread alone.
— Bible, Deuteronomy 6:5
Once more—this time with feeling.
— Anonymous
The best mirror is an old friend.
— Anonymous
A handsome man is not quite poor.
— Anonymous
Two in distress make sorrow less.
— Anonymous

sorrow proverbs

Those who sing drive away sorrow.
— Anonymous
The owl is the kind of the night.
— Anonymous
A man is known by his companions.
— Anonymous
Undo others before they undo you.
— Anonymous

golden rules

The light of the body is the eye.
— The Bible—Matthew 6:22

eyes biblical

Fame is but the breath of people.
— Anonymous
One who seeks advice seldom errs.
— Anonymous
A great city, a great loneliness.
— Anonymous
A hoary head is a crown of glory.
— Anonymous
A chattering bird builds no nest.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs gossip

Money never cometh out of season.
— Anonymous
What you don't know can hurt you.
— Anonymous
Wisdom is the wealth of the wise.
— Anonymous
Children are a poor man's riches.
— English proverb

English proverbs children proverbs

Do as you would want done to you.
— Anonymous
The Kingdom of God is within you.
— The Bible: Luke 17:21

God biblical

A still tongue makes a wise head.
— Anonymous
No need to teach an eagle to fly.
— Greek proverb

Greek proverbs proverbs

Age is a bad traveling companion.
— Anonymous
Hatred is blind, as well as love.

love and hate

What a neighbor gets is not lost.
— Anonymous
A dog is a lion in his own house.
— Anonymous
Love teaches even asses to dance.
— Anonymous
Abundance, like want, ruins many.
— Anonymous
It is the people who make a city.
— Anonymous
The child may be rocked too hard.
— Anonymous
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
— Jewish proverb

Jewish proverbs proverbs

Judge not, that ye be not judged.
— Anonymous
The one that loves does not hate.
— Anonymous
Guests bring good luck with them.
— Anonymous
A wise man is known by few words.
— Anonymous
Never judge a day by the weather.
— Anonymous
To be in the world but not of it.
— Sufi saying
Never eat more than you can lift.
— Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life, as told to Henry Beard

food

Silence is a fence around wisdom.
— Anonymous
A child is what you put into him.
— Anonymous
Time is the seed of the universe.
— Anonymous
Who loves well is slow to forget.
— Anonymous
He who never worries never cares.
— Anonymous
The comforter's head never aches.
— Anonymous
Every mother's child is handsome.
— Anonymous
Her hair has more body than I do.
— Anonymous
What the people believe, is true.
— Anonymous
He, knowing all, becomes the All.
— The Upanishads
There's no time like the present.
— Anonymous
Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
— Anonymous
Two footsteps do not make a path.
— Anonymous
Nothing ventured. nothing gained.
— Anonymous
They who marry for money earn it.
— Anonymous
A man is a lion in his own cause.
— Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
— Japanese proverb

proverbs perseverance Japanese proverbs failure motivational

The bold attempt is half success.
— Anonymous
Let every bird sing its own note.
— Anonymous
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
— Anonymous

proverbs

Add to your knowledge temperance.
— Anonymous
Words divide us, action unite us.
— Anonymous
By falling we learn to go safely.
— Anonymous
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
— Anonymous
A good thing is soon snatched up.
— Anonymous
Many doctors, death accomplished.
— Anonymous
Work is the medicine for poverty.
— African proverb

African proverbs poverty proverbs

Poetry is the mirror of the soul.
— Anonymous
War breaks out; peace settles in.
— Anonymous
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
— Anonymous

answers peace proverbs biblical

The middle path is the safe path.
— Anonymous
Strife is better than loneliness.
— Irish proverb

Irish proverbs proverbs loneliness

A smile is the whisper of a laugh.
— Anonymous
Knock on the door before entering.
— Anonymous
One today is worth many tomorrows.
— Anonymous
Not every spring becomes a stream.
— Anonymous
Better slip with foot than tongue.
— Anonymous
By labor fire is got out of stone.
— Anonymous
Better wear out shoes than sheets.
— Anonymous
Man has responsibility, not power.
— Anonymous
The end doesn't justify the means.
— Anonymous
It is best to be on the safe side.
— Anonymous
E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One.
— Motto of the United States of America
Better keep peace than make peace.
— Anonymous
Question Authority, Why be normal?
— Anonymous
A loveless life is a living death.
— Anonymous
Let us not be weary in well doing.
— Galatians 6:9

biblical charity

A good word maketh the heart glad.
— Anonymous
Thinking is very far from knowing.
— Anonymous
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
— Anonymous
Where there is love there is pain.
— Anonymous
Mother Love is ever in its spring.
— Anonymous
A multitude of words cloaks a lie.
— African proverb

proverbs lies African proverbs

Say only a little but say it well.
— Anonymous
Thinking is the essence of wisdom.
— Anonymous
A healthy man is a successful man.
— Anonymous
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
— Anonymous
A bird may be known by its flight.
— Russian proverb

proverbs Russian proverbs

Too much talk will include errors.
— Anonymous
No tree falls at the first stroke.
— Anonymous
Better to be born lucky than rich.
— Anonymous
A tongue talks at the head's cost.
— Anonymous
He who laughs last laughs loudest.
— Anonymous
Fuck'em if they can't take a joke.
— Anonymous
Good counsel never comes too late.
— Anonymous
Have a vision not clouded by fear.
— Anonymous
Do not ask advice of the ignorant.
— Anonymous
Laughter is the music of the soul.
— Anonymous
All things come to those who wait.
— Anonymous
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
— Anonymous
To a hasty demand a leisure reply.
— Anonymous
One has only to die to be praised.
— German proverb

German proverbs praise proverbs

Sleep, the near relative of death.
— African proverb

sleep African proverbs proverbs

A good horse never lacks a saddle.
— Anonymous
There is nothing so queer as folk.
— Anonymous
Unto the pure all things are pure.
— Anonymous
None but a mule denies his family.
— Anonymous
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
— Anonymous

proverbs

A wise child maketh a glad parent.
— Anonymous
Let us not be weary in doing well.
— Anonymous
Time flies when you're having fun.
— Anonymous
The best mirror is a friend's eye.
— Scottish proverb

proverbs friendship Scottish proverbs

Use soft words and hard arguments.
— English proverb

communication proverbs English proverbs

Children's mouths speak the truth.
— Chinese proverb

children proverbs Chinese proverbs

The ready back gets all the loads.
— Anonymous
When luck enters, give him a seat!
— Jewish proverb

luck Jewish proverbs proverbs

I dance to the tune that is played.
— Anonymous
Friendship is a furrow in the sand.
— Anonymous
Measure thrice before you cut once.
— Anonymous
The plural of anecdote is not data.
— Anonymous

anecdote data science

Let the facts speak for themselves.
— Anonymous
Let patience have its perfect work.
— Anonymous
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
— Anonymous
Where there is smoke there is fire.
— Anonymous
Many a one hears, but hears It not.
— Anonymous
Opportunity knocks but once. Jokes.
— Anonymous
Expression is the dress of thought.
— Anonymous
Handsome apples are sometimes sour.
— Anonymous
Why do you think they call it dope?
— Anonymous
Let my mouth be filled with praise.
— Anonymous
It's best not to burn your bridges.
— Anonymous
Better no doctor at all than three.
— Anonymous
To each age belongeth its own book.
— Anonymous
Learn politeness from the impolite.
— African proverb

manners African proverbs proverbs

A miser and a liar bargain quickly.
— Anonymous
Never go straight; just go forward.
— Anonymous
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
— Anonymous

proverbs charity

By their fruits ye shall know them.
— The Bible—Matthew 7:20

biblical deeds

A word, once out, flies everywhere.
— Anonymous
Don't burn the candle at both ends.
— Anonymous
It is better to be safe than sorry.
— Anonymous
All bread is not baked in one oven.
— Anonymous
Hold a true friend with both hands.
— Anonymous
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
— Anonymous

revenge proverbs

Charity suffereth long and is kind.
— Bible, I Corinthians 8:4
Beauty will fade, but not goodness.
— Anonymous
Where necessity speaks, it demands.
— Anonymous
When you are in the water you swim.
— Anonymous
The first casualty of war is truth.
— Anonymous

war

Waffles are just pancakes with abs.
— Anonymous
Judge the contents, not the bottle.
— Anonymous
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
— Anonymous
There is no strength without unity.
— Anonymous
We are all related; We are all one.
— Anonymous
Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
— Anonymous
They dance well whom fortune pipes.
— Anonymous
He who travels has stories to tell.
— Anonymous
One flower will not make a garland.
— Anonymous
A heart that loves is always young.
— Anonymous
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
— Anonymous
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.
— Ecclesiastes 11:9

youth biblical

Happiness takes no account of time.
— Anonymous
Money is not gained by losing time.
— Anonymous
Love will creep where it cannot go.
— Anonymous
A faithful friend loves to the end.
— Anonymous
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs cooperation

A good name is a sound inheritance.
— Anonymous
Great engines turn on small pivots.
— Anonymous
Thirst cannot be quenched by proxy.
— African proverb

hunger proverbs African proverbs

Do not covet the wealth of any man.
— Anonymous
A wife is the joy of a man's heart.
— Anonymous
Politicians are like weather vanes.
— Anonymous
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
— Anonymous
A good action is never thrown away.
— Anonymous
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
— Anonymous
A lawyer never goes to law himself.
— Anonymous
It is difficult to trap an old fox.
— Anonymous
A fog cannot be dispelled by a fan.
— Anonymous
Good things come to those who wait.
— Anonymous
Every man shall give as he is able.
— The Bible—Deuteronymy 16:17

biblical Giving

A man of silence is a man of sense.
— Anonymous
A friend is easier lost than found.
— Anonymous
Enthusiasm is the life of the soul.
— Anonymous
More flavors than Howard Johnson's.
— Anonymous
The mind is the slayer of the real.
— Anonymous
True Understanding is Transcendence.
— Anonymous
We hate delay, yet it makes us wise.
— Anonymous
If it isn't perfect, make it better.
— Anonymous
Poverty without debt is real wealth.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs poverty

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
— Anonymous
There is no new thing under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 1:9

originality biblical

Anger is one letter short of danger.
— Anonymous

anger

Money kills more people than a club.
— Anonymous
Too much politeness conceals deceit.
— Chinese proverb

politeness Chinese proverbs proverbs

Life is the only thing worth living.
— Anonymous
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
— Anonymous
Thou art my hope in the day of evil.
— Jeremiah 17:17

biblical hope

Faults are thick where love is thin.
— Anonymous

relationships shortcomings

When the cat dies, the mice rejoice.
— African proverb

proverbs enemies African proverbs

For news of the heart, ask the face.
— African proverb

African proverbs emotion proverbs

The last mile is always the hardest.
— Anonymous
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
— Anonymous
Ambitious people don't make excuses.
— Anonymous
Where love is, no room is too small.
— Anonymous
Fall seven times, stand up at eight.
— Anonymous
Fortune is blind, but not invisible.
— Anonymous
Give thy purse rather than thy time.
— Anonymous
The present is a gift of the moment.
— Anonymous
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs preparation

Do you believe in life before death?
— Anonymous
Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law.
— Ruth 3:17

biblical mother-in-law

True love is friendship set on fire.
— American proverb

American proverbs proverbs true love

There's No folly like being in love.
— Anonymous
They who love most are least valued.
— Anonymous
Where love fails we espy all faults.
— Anonymous
Experience is the mother of science.
— Anonymous
Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
— Anonymous
Age is honorable and youth is noble.
— Anonymous
Every animal knows more than you do.
— Anonymous
A good thing if you know it — do it.
— Anonymous
A ragged colt may make a good horse.
— Anonymous
A good companion makes good company.
— Anonymous
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
— Anonymous
Even a child is known by his doings.
— Anonymous
A man who has children does not die.
— Anonymous
Home is home, be it never so homely.
— Anonymous
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
— Anonymous
A rich man has no need of character.
— Anonymous
Advice should be viewed from behind.
— Anonymous
A little each day is much in a year.
— Anonymous
He who findeth fault meaneth to buy.
— Anonymous
A single tree can not make a forest.
— Anonymous
Don't set the cart before the horse.
— Anonymous
Deeds are love and not fine phrases.
— Anonymous
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
— Anonymous
He does much who does a little well.
— Anonymous
Not to break is better than to mend.
— Anonymous
Hidden valor is as bad as cowardice.
— Anonymous
A fault confessed is half redressed.
— Anonymous
What costs nothing is worth nothing.
— Anonymous
Better is half a loaf than no bread.
— Anonymous
Unused advantages are no advantages.
— Anonymous
The tongue wounds more than a lance.
— Anonymous
Pluck the rose and leave the thorns.
— Anonymous
A picture is worth a thousand words.
— Anonymous
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
— Anonymous

biblical proverbs hope

There is a skeleton in every closet.
— Anonymous
A full cup must be carried steadily.
— Anonymous
In the right place at the right time.
— Anonymous
Empty sacks will never stand upright.
— Anonymous
The eyes are the windows of the soul.
— Anonymous

eyes

What is done by night appears by day.
— Anonymous
What use is wisdom when folly reigns?
— Jewish proverb

folly Jewish proverbs proverbs

For ye have the poor always with you.
— Matthew 26:11

poverty biblical

Who has not courage should have legs.
— Anonymous
What greater crime than loss of time?
— Anonymous
Kind words don't wear out the tongue.
— Anonymous
The bell is loud because it is empty.
— Anonymous
If the sky falls, hold up your hands.
— Anonymous
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
— Anonymous

goals

A good beginning makes a good ending.
— Anonymous
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.
— Anonymous
To depart from evil is understanding.
— Anonymous
Who speaks, sows; who listens, reaps.
— Anonymous
Even a cat is a lion in her own lair.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs proverbs

Ye have heard of the patience of Job.
— The Bible—James 5:11

biblical patience

A good denial, the best point in law.
— Anonymous
Truth finds foes where it makes none.
— Anonymous
Money grows on the trees of patience.
— Anonymous
The land is a mother that never dies.
— Anonymous
He that knows little soon repeats it.
— Anonymous
Fields have eyes and woods have ears.
— Anonymous
Don't offer me advice; give me money.
— Anonymous
A fool and his money are soon parted.
— Anonymous

foolishness proverbs

Wisdom is the gray hair unto the old.
— Anonymous
The fish sees the bait, not the hook.
— Chinese proverb

sales Chinese proverbs proverbs

The constant friend is never welcome.
— Anonymous
National customs are national honors.
— Anonymous
Miss not the discourse of the elders.
— Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 8:9
Compassion will do more than passion.
— Anonymous
A smile you sent, will always return.
— Anonymous

smile proverbs Indian proverbs

The knife of the family does not cut.
— Anonymous
Simplify your life.  Learn to say no.
— Anonymous

saying no

Say unto wisdom: Thou art my brother.
— Anonymous
There's a black sheep in every flock.
— Anonymous
Who builds on the mob builds on sand.
— Anonymous
In God we trust. All others pay cash.
— Anonymous
The heart that loves is always young.
— Anonymous
Men who are thirsty drink in silence.
— Anonymous
What you can't acquire, don't desire.
— Anonymous
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
— Anonymous
He that keepeth the law, happy is he.
— Anonymous
And ye shall eat the fat of the land.
— Genesis 45:18

biblical food

The wool seller knows the wool buyer.
— Anonymous
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
— Italian proverb

Italian proverbs proverbs

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
— Anonymous

apples proverbs

They love too much that die for love.
— Anonymous
All are not saints that go to church.
— Anonymous
He that is not with me is against me.
— Matthew 12:30

biblical enemies

As you give love, you will have love.
— Anonymous
The more you know, the less you need.
— Anonymous
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
— Anonymous

proverbs American proverbs

This hurts me more than it hurts you.
— Anonymous
Give him enough rope to hang himself.
— Anonymous
No mystery is closed to an open mind.
— Anonymous
Predicament: the wage of consistency.
— Anonymous
He that has no charity deserves none.
— Anonymous
Freely ye have received, freely give.
— Matthew 10:8

biblical charity

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
— Anonymous
To be prepared is to have no anxiety.
— Anonymous
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
— Anonymous
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
— Anonymous
Everyone smiles in the same language.
— Anonymous
A good goose may have an ill gosling.
— Anonymous
A talent is both gift and obligation.
— Anonymous
A man is not poor that feels content.
— Anonymous
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
— French proverb

divorce French proverbs proverbs European proverbs

The day is short and the work is long.
— Anonymous
Be always as cheerful as ever you can.
— Anonymous
An empty purse frightens away friends.
— Anonymous
You can't put new wine in old bottles.
— Anonymous
A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.
— Anonymous
When one will not, two cannot quarrel.
— Anonymous

conflict proverbs

It's like being grounded for 18 years.
— in The New York Times

motherhood

Variety means nothing to a hungry man.
— Anonymous
Judge not according to the appearance.
— Anonymous
It is ill fishing if the hook is bare.
— Anonymous
It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
— Anonymous
Precepts may lead — but examples draw.
— Anonymous
Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.
— Executive Speechwriter Newsletter

witty hard work

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
— German proverb

proverbs European proverbs fear German proverbs

Better one word before than two after.
— Anonymous
Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer.
— Anonymous
Use not today what tomorrow will need.
— Anonymous
It is a long road that has no turning.
— Anonymous
Tact is the intelligence of the heart.
— Anonymous

tact

All people smile in the same language.
— Anonymous
Love demands faith and faith firmness.
— Anonymous
Trust in God—but tie your camel tight.
— Persian proverb

proverbs Persian proverbs

Different strokes for different folks.
— Anonymous
Trust is hard earned, and easily lost.
— Anonymous
Keep oneself unspotted from the world.
— Anonymous
Laughter translates into any language.
— Graffiti

laughter

One who knows little quickly tells it.
— Anonymous
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
— Anonymous
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
— Anonymous
The forest is the poor man's overcoat.
— American proverb

proverbs American proverbs

To know you have enough is to be rich.
— Anonymous
The tongue is not steel — yet it cuts.
— Anonymous
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
— Anonymous

funny atheism

Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust.
— The Bible—Isaiah 26:19

biblical singing

Ambition is a dream with a V-8 engine.
— Anonymous

ambition

A generous confession disarms slander.
— Anonymous
A promise delayed is justice deferred.
— Anonymous
He that survives will see the outcome.
— Anonymous
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
— Anonymous

age proverbs

A good man showeth favor, and lendeth.
— Bible, Psalms 152:5
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
— Anonymous
Move your neck according to the music.
— Anonymous
The tears of strangers are only water.
— Russian proverb

tears Russian proverbs proverbs

We know so many things that aren't so.
— Anonymous
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
— Anonymous
Keep the common road and you are safe.
— Anonymous
In God  we trust; all others pay cash.
— Anonymous
Gold goes in any gate except heaven's.
— Anonymous
The Lord is my strength and my shield.
— Psalm 27:1

faith biblical

You cannot compare apples and oranges.
— American proverb

American proverbs apples proverbs

The place to spend a happy day — Home.
— Anonymous
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
— Anonymous
Diligence is the greatest of teachers.
— Anonymous

proverbs diligence Arabian proverbs

Well knows the cat whose ear he licks.
— Anonymous
One lawyer will make work for another.
— Anonymous
All dreams spin out from the same web.
— Anonymous
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
— Anonymous

work

When a man is rich, he begins to save.
— Anonymous
Ride the tributaries to reach the sea.
— Anonymous

Arabian proverbs proverbs

We get old too soon and wise too late.
— Anonymous
Hope for the best, but fear the worst.
— Anonymous
A word in due season — how good it is!
— Anonymous
Where there's music, there can be love.
— Anonymous
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
— Anonymous
Birds of a feather will flock together.
— Anonymous
A man of knowledge increaseth strength.
— Anonymous
Forget injuries, never forget kindness.
— Anonymous
A handsome shoe often pinches the foot.
— Anonymous
Borrowing is the first-born of poverty.
— African proverb

poverty African proverbs proverbs

Animals aren't wild, they're just free.
— Anonymous
You can't take it with you when you go.
— Anonymous
Youth looks forward but age looks back.
— Anonymous
The best advice is found on the pillow.
— Anonymous
Praise the young and they will blossom.
— Anonymous
Cheerfulness smoothes the road of life.
— Anonymous
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
— Anonymous

proverbs nonviolence Indian proverbs

On the day of victory, no one is tired.
— Anonymous
When in doubt who will win, be neutral.
— Anonymous
Good to begin well, better to end well.
— Anonymous
Intelligence is shown by good judgment.
— Anonymous
Separation secures manifest friendship.
— Anonymous

proverbs Indian proverbs

Rebellion is the sign of a healthy ego.
— Anonymous

parenting

The fashion of this world passeth away.
— 1 Corinthians 7:31

biblical fashion

A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
— Anonymous
Some do the sowing, others the reaping.
— Anonymous
A dream is a wish that our heart makes.
— Anonymous

dreams

Make your mind as pure as the blue sky.
— Anonymous
An ill workman always blames his tools.
— Anonymous
When the devil leaves, heaven comes in.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs proverbs

It is not fish until it is on the bank.
— Anonymous
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
— Anonymous
In my Father's house are many mansions.
— The Bible—John 14:2

heaven biblical

The anvil lasts longer than the hammer.
— Anonymous
When the cat's away the mice will play.
— Anonymous

proverbs

Use your wit as a shield, not a dagger.
— Anonymous
Never be too big to look up to someone.
— Anonymous

admiration advisory

When need is greatest, help is nearest.
— Anonymous
The best cause requires a good pleader.
— Anonymous
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
— African proverb

falsehood proverbs lies African proverbs

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
— Anonymous

new year

You can't please everyone all the time.
— Anonymous
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
— Psalms 104:15

biblical

Gratefulness is the poor man's payment.
— Anonymous

gratitude proverbs

The tamed tongue subdues the adversary.
— Anonymous
Where does the ant die except in sugar.
— Anonymous
Gratitude can only be given, not taken.
— Anonymous
He who tells the truth is not we liked.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs truth

Nothing that is natural is disgraceful.
— Anonymous

proverbs Latin proverbs morals

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
— Anonymous
Vain hopes cut one off from every good.
— Anonymous
The problem when solved will be simple.
— Sign on the wolf of a General Motors research laboratory
Promise makes debts and debts promises.
— Anonymous
If wanted your opinion, I'd ask for it.
— Anonymous
He stands the tallest who stands alone.
— Anonymous
Why are you fearful? Have you no faith?
— Anonymous
Don't try to fly before you have wings.
— Anonymous
Mingle just a little folly with wisdom.
— Anonymous
Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.
— Anonymous
All things perish, Truth alone remains.
— Anonymous
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
— Anonymous
Imagination plus action equals creation.
— Anonymous

imagination creativity

One arrow does not bring down two birds.
— Anonymous
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
— Ephesians 4:26

biblical anger

A good conscience is a choice companion.
— Anonymous
A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.
— Anonymous
One of these days is none of these days.
— Anonymous

procrastination

The ax forgets but the cut log does not.
— Anonymous
'Tis certain gain to help an honest man.
— Anonymous
Sometimes you gotta say "What the Fuck".
— Risky Business(Movie)
A clear conscience can bear any trouble.
— Anonymous
Words should be weighed and not counted.
— Anonymous
One does not give a gift without motive.
— Anonymous
If God be for us, who can be against us?
— Romans 8:31

biblical beliefs

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
— Anonymous

words thinking

Think of the going out before you enter.
— Anonymous
A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
— Anonymous
Inner peace is beyond victory or defeat.
— Bhagavad Gita

inner peace

A bird in the hand is worth ten fleeing.
— Anonymous
A sheep was never known to climb a tree.
— Anonymous
One who is not impatient is not in love.
— Anonymous
A man should learn to sail in all winds.
— Anonymous
Constant occupation prevents temptation.
— Anonymous
He who pays the piper may call the tune.
— Anonymous
When folly passes by, reason draws back.
— Anonymous
A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard.
— Anonymous
The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
— Anonymous
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
— Anonymous
Fore-think, though you cannot fore-tell.
— Anonymous
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
— Anonymous
You'll thank me when I'm six feet under.
— Anonymous
A merry companion is music in a journey.
— Anonymous
A father is a banker provided by nature.
— French proverb

father European proverbs French proverbs proverbs

No one was ever lost on a straight road.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs being good proverbs

You know not where a blessing may light.
— Anonymous
Advice when most needed is least heeded.
— Anonymous
Nothing kills hope faster than cynicism.
— Anonymous
No man is wise enough to advise himself.
— Anonymous
I will never forget old what's-his-name.
— Anonymous
Vows made in storms are forgot in calms.
— Anonymous
A fair skin often covers a crooked mind.
— Anonymous
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
— Anonymous
We grow too soon old and too late smart.
— Pennsylvania Dutch saying

old age proverbs

Hearken unto the father that begat thee.
— Anonymous
God, please save me from your followers!
— Bumper Sticker

religion

For many are called, but few are chosen.
— Anonymous
A faithful man will abound in blessings.
— Anonymous
Better an uneasy peace than an easy war.
— Anonymous
Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
— Anonymous
Poverty makes a free man become a slave.
— African proverb

African proverbs poverty proverbs

When a man has luck, even his ox calves.
— Anonymous
If heaven drops a date, open your mouth.
— Anonymous
The greatest artist was once a beginner.
— Farmer’s Digest

art

Alertness and courage are life's shield.
— Anonymous
Learn a new language and get a new soul.
— Czech proverb

language proverbs

Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself.
— Anonymous
Every man must row with the oars he has.
— Anonymous
By losing present time we lose all time.
— Anonymous
Now is now-here, but tomorrow's nowhere.
— Anonymous
Even a family tree has to have some sap.
— Los Angeles Times Syndicate

family

Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.
— Anonymous
You have to dig deep to bury your daddy.
— Czech proverb

father proverbs

Land was never lost for want of an heir.
— Anonymous
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
— Anonymous
Never trust a man who says, "Trust me. "
— Anonymous
The proverb is the horse of conversation.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs

The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.
— Anonymous

proverbs ancestry

Our last garment is made without pockets.
— Anonymous
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
— Anonymous
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
— Anonymous
The lips of the wise shall preserve them.
— Anonymous
There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
— Anonymous
Many seek good nights and lose good days.
— Anonymous
Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.
— Anonymous
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
— Anonymous
The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
— Anonymous
A good teacher is better than many books.
— Anonymous
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
— Anonymous
Doing well depends upon doing completely.
— Anonymous
It is not every couple that makes a pair.
— Anonymous
There is no worse robber than a bad book.
— Italian proverb

books Italian proverbs proverbs

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
— Anonymous
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
— Anonymous
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
— Anonymous

apples proverbs

He would share even his share of the sun.
— Anonymous
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
— African proverb

adversity African proverbs proverbs management

Be a friend to yourself, and others will.
— Anonymous
The hand of the diligent maketh him rich.
— Anonymous
I know by my own pot how the others boil.
— Anonymous
Seven days without prayer makes one WEAK.
— Anonymous
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
— Japanese proverb

Japanese proverbs proverbs

If you don't work, neither shall you eat.
— Anonymous
The night rinses what the day has soaped.
— Anonymous
An agreement is more valuable than money.
— Anonymous
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
— Matthew 7:6

talent biblical

When drinking water, remember its source.
— Anonymous
Forget injuries; never forget kindnesses.
— Anonymous

revenge forgiveness gratitude

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
— The Bible—Book of Psalms: 126:5

biblical tears

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound!
— Anonymous

proverbs spiritual experiences Zen sayings

It takes a big man to admit his mistakes.
— Anonymous
If you want good service, serve yourself.
— Anonymous
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs listening life proverbs

Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.
— Anonymous
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
— Anonymous
Speech finely framed delighteth the ears.
— Anonymous
There is much good sleep in an old story.
— Anonymous
One man's junk is another man's treasure.
— Anonymous
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
— Anonymous
Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom!
— Anonymous
Only people who do things get criticized.
— Anonymous
He understands poorly who listens poorly.
— Welsh proverb

proverbs Welsh proverbs

The aged in council, the young in action.
— Anonymous
You can never enter the same river twice.
— Anonymous

interesting proverbs Indian proverbs

Heaven and earth are threads of one loom.
— Shaker saying
Better ask twice than lose your way once.
— Danish proverb

proverbs Danish proverbs research asking

They love us truly who correct us freely.
— Anonymous
No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
— Anonymous
A self-made man has no factory guarantee.
— Anonymous
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
— French proverb

proverbs money French proverbs

For with God nothing shall be impossible.
— Luke 1:37

biblical faith

When love is not madness, it is not love.
— Anonymous
The just upright man is laughed to scorn.
— Anonymous
Truth and oil always come to the surface.
— Anonymous
Plunge boldly into the thick of yearning.
— Anonymous
Behold, we count them happy which endure.
— Anonymous
The words of the pure are pleasant words.
— Anonymous
Every good partnership is based on trust.
— Anonymous
News is the first rough draft of history.
— Anonymous

proverbs news

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
— Anonymous

proverbs biblical happiness

It's better to wear out than to rust out.
— Anonymous
Normal is a setting on a washing machine.
— Anonymous
A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
— Anonymous
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
— Anonymous
To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.
— Anonymous

proverbs mediocrity Indian proverbs

God is with those who patiently persevere.
— Anonymous

proverbs Arabian proverbs perseverance

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn
— Anonymous
Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.
— Anonymous
Love is sweet, but tastes best with bread.
— Anonymous
Works and not words are the proof of love.
— Anonymous
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
— Anonymous
Every life has its joy; every joy its law.
— Anonymous
One of gladness seldom falls into madness.
— Anonymous
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
— Anonymous
How great a matter a little fire kindleth!
— Anonymous
The mind is fickle and hard to be checked.
— Anonymous
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
— Anonymous
Better short of pence than short of sense.
— Anonymous
Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
— Anonymous
Where the iron goes, there goes also rust.
— Anonymous
What is hard to bear is sweet to remember.
— Anonymous
More have repented of speech than silence.
— Anonymous
Better that the feet slip than the tongue.
— Anonymous
The sooner the better — delay is a fetter.
— Anonymous
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
— Anonymous
In the kingdom of hope there is no winter.
— Anonymous
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
— Anonymous
Between two Saturdays happen many marvels.
— Anonymous
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
— Anonymous
The sins of youth are paid for in old age.
— Latin proverb

proverbs Latin proverbs youth & age

Not to repent of a fault is to justify it.
— Anonymous
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
— Bible, I Peter 4:8
Purity is best demonstrated by generosity.
— Bible, Luke 11:41
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
— Anonymous

proverbs wish

A man who is contented is not always rich.
— Anonymous
The beginning is the half of every action.
— Anonymous
Works — not words — are the proof of love.
— Anonymous
The love of money is the root of all evil.
— The Bible—I Timothy 6:10

money greed evil biblical

Where gold speaks, every tongue is silent.
— Anonymous
The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
— Anonymous
Tailors and writers must mind the fashion.
— Anonymous
All strangers are relations to each other.
— Anonymous
Every family has a skeleton in the closet.
— Anonymous
In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
— Anonymous
You never really leave the place you love.
— Anonymous
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.
— Anonymous
Despise not thy parents when they are old.
— Anonymous
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
— Anonymous
False friends are worse than open enemies.
— Anonymous
With friends like these who needs enemies?
— Anonymous
Every man's neighbor is his looking glass.
— Anonymous
No camel route is long, with good company.
— Anonymous
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts.
— Anonymous
Earth, when I am in life, I depend on you.
— Anonymous
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
— Anonymous
If you would live in health, be old early.
— Anonymous
I'm not aging. I'm ripening to perfection.
— Anonymous

funny aging

Life is so short we must move very slowly.
— Thai proverb

proverbs mindfulness life

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
— Anonymous
The Universe has many voices. Just listen.
— Anonymous
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
— Anonymous
Marriage has teeth, and him bite very hot.
— Jamaican proverb

proverbs marriage

Listen, or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
— American proverb

proverbs listening holding your tongue American proverbs

Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs food

Just love life and it will love your back.
— Anonymous
Expectations are premeditated resentments.
— Meditations for People Who Worry

expectation

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
— Anonymous
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
— Anonymous

education encouragement

They said we couldn't do it but we did it.
— Anonymous
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
— Anonymous
He who has daughters is always a shepherd.
— Anonymous

daughters proverbs sheep Spanish proverbs

An enemy slaughters, a friend distributes.
— African proverb

friendship African proverbs proverbs enemies

Experience is fine if not bought too dear.
— Anonymous
Financially stable, mentally questionable.
— Motto of the Gotham City Riders
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
— German proverb

German proverbs proverbs apples European proverbs

You're only as old as you act/as you feel.
— Anonymous
There's always free cheese in a mousetrap.
— Anonymous
He who does not look ahead remains behind.
— Anonymous

Spanish proverbs future moving forward proverbs

Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.
— Anonymous
One good teacher outweights a ton of books.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs

One shall rise up at the voice of the bird.
— Anonymous
When the old dog barks it is time to watch.
— Anonymous
Every cask smells of the wine it contained.
— Anonymous
One kind word can warm three winter nights.
— Japanese proverb

kindness Japanese proverbs proverbs

An unlawful oath is better broke than kept.
— Anonymous
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul.
— Anonymous
If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.
— Anonymous
The cat always catches the impatient mouse.
— African proverb

impatience proverbs African proverbs

Wealth is the canker that destroys nations.
— Anonymous
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
— Anonymous

proverbs Swedish proverbs attitude European proverbs

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
— Anonymous

committees

One kind word can warm three winter months.
— Japanese proverb

Japanese proverbs proverbs kindness

The adult looks to deed, the child to love.
— Anonymous
A man may go a long way, after he is tired.
— Anonymous
Be humble if thou wouldst attain to Wisdom.
— Anonymous
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
— Welsh proverb

leadership proverbs Welsh proverbs

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
— Anonymous
Where everyone goes, the grass never grows.
— Anonymous
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom.
— Anonymous
Better the evil known than the new unknown.
— Anonymous
Laughter can be heard farther than weeping.
— Jewish proverb

Jewish proverbs proverbs laughter

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
— Graffiti

freedom open-mindedness ideas

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
— Anonymous
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
— Anonymous

proverbs Zen sayings

Better lose the anchor than the whole ship.
— Anonymous
Reality is for people who lack imagination.
— Anonymous

reality

The clever wife makes her husband an apron.
— Anonymous
A little help is better than a lot of pity.
— Anonymous
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
— Bible, Acts 20:35

biblical charity Giving

The road to a friend's house is never long.
— Anonymous
A man that hath pity upon the poor lendeth.
— Anonymous
Good words cost nothing and are worth much.
— Anonymous
If you sow thorns, you will not reap roses.
— Anonymous
Knowledge, teaching and words may be deeds.
— Anonymous
A man who has no charity deserves no mercy.
— Anonymous
Experience is good, if not bought too dear.
— Anonymous
The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.
— Anonymous
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
— Latin proverb

gold proverbs negotiation Latin proverbs

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
— Anonymous
There is no joy above the joy of the heart.
— Anonymous
The worth of a thing is what it will bring.
— Anonymous
When an old man dies, a library burns down.
— Anonymous
A runaway monk never praises his monastery.
— Anonymous
Have an open face but conceal our thoughts.
— Anonymous
Little by little, the bird builds its nest.
— Anonymous
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
— Anonymous

adversity proverbs skill

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands.
— Psalm 61:1

happiness biblical

To think of food only as a fuel is foolish.
— Anonymous
Into the closed mouth the fly does not get.
— Anonymous
Who heeds not a penny shall never have any.
— Anonymous
Love your enemy as you'd love your brother.
— Anonymous
Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
— Anonymous
Let your moderation be known among all men.
— Anonymous
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
— Anonymous
The more you know, the less you understand.
— Anonymous
A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.
— African proverb

African proverbs enemies proverbs

Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth.
— Anonymous
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
— Anonymous

change

Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world.
— Anonymous

proverbs laughter

They are most cheated who cheat themselves.
— Anonymous
Seize the end and you will hold the middle.
— Anonymous
There's no such thing as a stupid question.
— Anonymous
Life is too short not to be kind to others.
— Anonymous
Silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
— Anonymous
A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs reading books

Your own deeds will long be baptized on you.
— Anonymous
Many things are lost for want of not asking.
— English proverb

asking questions English proverbs proverbs

Think with the wise, but talk to the vulgar.
— Anonymous
Good words cost nothing, but are worth much.
— Anonymous

kindness

We do not walk on our legs, but on our will.
— Anonymous

proverbs will

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
— James 4:7

biblical virtue

The spider and the fly can't make a bargain.
— Jamaican proverb

negotiation proverbs

Better to deny at once than to promise long.
— Anonymous
Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.
— Anonymous

proverbs talent Welsh proverbs perseverance

A little fore-talk may save much after-talk.
— Anonymous
A rat is a beauty in the eyes of its mother.
— Anonymous
The purpose is not the end, but the journey.
— Anonymous
A good hope is better than a bad possession.
— Anonymous
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
— Anonymous

proverbs biblical vision

Take no one's word for it; see for yourself.
— Anonymous
Bitter truth is better than sweet falsehood.
— African proverb

lies proverbs African proverbs truth

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.
— Anonymous
The love that lasts is the love that's last.
— Anonymous
The inner self never stops caressing itself.
— Anonymous
Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
— Anonymous

motivational courage

Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.
— Anonymous

chocolate

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.
— Anonymous

proverbs charity biblical

Nothing is as bleak as it seems at the time.
— Anonymous

adversity hopeful

A war without headquarters is an expedition.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs war

Some people have tact, other tell the truth.
— Anonymous
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.
— Anonymous
Treat others the way you want to be treated.
— Anonymous
Better a pound of luck than a pound of gold.
— Anonymous
However Long The Night, The Dawn Will Break.
— Anonymous
Don't blow it—good planets are hard to find.
— Time magazine

earth environment

Mañana is often the busiest day of the week.
— Anonymous

proverbs Spanish proverbs procrastination

The hours perish and are laid to our charge.
— Anonymous
Don't expect anything original from an echo.
— Quoted in “The 365 Great Quotes-a-Year Calendar”

originality

There are no national frontiers to learning.
— Anonymous
But through love be servants of one another.
— Anonymous
Noble and common blood is of the same color.
— Anonymous
Everybody is the center of his own universe.
— Anonymous
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
— Anonymous
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of clergy.
— Anonymous

Spanish proverbs proverbs mother

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
— Anonymous
The heart does not think all the mouth says.
— Anonymous
Better a lucky physician than a learned one.
— Anonymous
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
— Anonymous
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
— Anonymous
An indispensable thing never has much value.
— Anonymous
Always walk on the sunny side of the street.
— Anonymous
Being young is a fault which improves daily.
— Anonymous
Gladness of the heart is the life of people.
— Anonymous
Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.
— Anonymous
If they can't take a joke . . . forget them!
— Anonymous
A jest driven home too far brings home hate.
— Anonymous
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
— Anonymous
She that is born a beauty is born betrothed.
— Anonymous
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
— Anonymous
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul.
— Anonymous
In hospitality it is the spirit that counts.
— Anonymous
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
— Anonymous
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
— Anonymous

friendship

Friendship made in a moment is of no moment.
— Anonymous
Great is truth, and mighty above all things.
— Anonymous
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
— Anonymous
The wedding should last through wedded life.
— Anonymous
A man who has a good wife can bear any evil.
— Anonymous
Be the same thing that ye want to be called.
— Anonymous
Wise men care not for what they cannot have.
— Anonymous
He is not wise that is not wise for himself.
— Anonymous
When you enter a city, abide by its customs.
— Anonymous
'Take it easy' and 'Live long' are brothers.
— Anonymous
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
— Anonymous
When the Czar has a cold, all Russia coughs.
— Anonymous
What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.
— Anonymous
Service is nothing but love in work clothes.
— Anonymous

service

Apelles was not a master-painter in one day.
— Anonymous
The advice of the aged will not mislead you.
— Anonymous
In the company of strangers silence is safe.
— Anonymous
A man who won't be advised, can't be helped.
— Anonymous
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life.
— Anonymous
Where there are no heroes, strive to be one.
— Anonymous
The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.
— Anonymous
An ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.
— Anonymous
He who works achieves and he who sows reaps.
— Anonymous
A powerful friend becomes at powerful enemy.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs friendship

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
— Anonymous
Retirement: the world's longest coffee break.
— Anonymous

retirement

Two watermelons cannot be held under one arm.
— Anonymous
Live with wolves, and you will learn to howl.
— Anonymous
All things are possible to those who believe.
— Anonymous
Better to be done than wish it had been done.
— Anonymous
There's no sense so uncommon as common sense.
— Anonymous
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker.
— Anonymous

biblical poverty proverbs

Blessed is the peacemaker, not the conqueror.
— Anonymous
A good friend is better than a near relation.
— Anonymous
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
— Anonymous
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
— Anonymous
You can only lean against that which resists.
— Anonymous

proverbs Indian proverbs

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
— Anonymous

proverbs gossip

Long life is a gift that nobody gets to keep.
— Anonymous
Going slowly does not stop one from arriving.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs priorities

Faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
— The Bible—James 2:17

biblical faith

A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks him.
— Anonymous
Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time.
— American proverb

opportunity American proverbs proverbs

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
— Anonymous

accomplishment biblical proverbs

It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words.
— Anonymous
Get wisdom, get understanding; forget it not.
— Anonymous
A man that gathereth by labor shall increase.
— Anonymous
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
— Anonymous
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
— Anonymous
A man that loves law will get his fill of it.
— Anonymous
When the fountain has gone up, it comes down.
— Anonymous
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
— Swedish proverb

proverbs worry Swedish proverbs

To smoke is human; to smoke cigars is divine.
— Anonymous

cigars Cigar

A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves.
— Anonymous
Imagination is a good stick but a bad crutch.
— Anonymous
Public opinion is itself a matter of opinion.
— Anonymous
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
— Anonymous
To kill time is, by definition, to murder it.
— Anonymous
Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
— Anonymous
Money is the sinew of love as well as of war.
— Anonymous
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
— Anonymous

excellence appreciation

The year does nothing else but open and shut.
— Anonymous
Appear always what you are and a little less.
— Anonymous
You can always find something to worry about.
— Anonymous
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.
— Anonymous

proverbs Irish proverbs

A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
— Anonymous
Color is to the eye what music is to the ear.
— Anonymous

color

The gums best understand the teeth's affairs.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs cooperation

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
— Anonymous

funny honesty proverbs truth

An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
— Anonymous
The truth is not always what we want to hear.
— Anonymous
A man may have good eyes and yet see nothing.
— Anonymous
It may be a fire — tomorrow it will be ashes.
— Anonymous
A man that is rich will not be called a fool.
— Anonymous
Many open minds should be closed for repairs.
— Toledo Blade
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
— Anonymous

proverbs experience

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
— Burial service, The Book of Common Prayer
What one knows is sometimes useful to forget.
— Anonymous
Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing quality.
— Anonymous
The quieter you become the more you can hear.
— Anonymous

listening

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed.
— Bhagavad Gita

lust

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.
— French proverb

kindness French proverbs proverbs forgiveness

Owe no one anything, but to love one another.
— Anonymous
He that would thrive must first ask his wife.
— Anonymous
Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice.
— Anonymous

labor

When the pupil is ready, the teacher appears.
— Anonymous
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
— Anonymous
They who marry for wealth sell their liberty.
— Anonymous
The one who tells the stories rule the world.
— Anonymous
Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
— American proverb

American proverbs proverbs ambition

Let all things be done decently and in order.
— Anonymous
The golden rule of life is: make a beginning.
— Anonymous
Better to keep peace than have to make peace.
— Anonymous
A little body doth often harbor a great soul.
— Anonymous
Never offer your hen for sale on a rainy day.
— Anonymous
Because they had no root, they withered away.
— Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
— Anonymous
You can't tell a book by looking at its cover.
— Anonymous

proverbs appearances

In prosperity caution — in adversity patience.
— Anonymous
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
— Persian proverb

proverbs adversity Persian proverbs

Honor a physician with the honor due unto him.
— Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 38:1
Riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
— Anonymous
To run away is not glorious, but very healthy.
— Anonymous
If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
— Anonymous

Jewish proverbs proverbs God

Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
— Anonymous
Pay as you go — unless you are going for good.
— Anonymous
The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue it has.
— Talmud

sorrow

Worries go down better with soup than without.
— Jewish proverb

proverbs Jewish proverbs worry

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
— Anonymous
So we get the chinks, we will bear the stinks.
— Anonymous
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
— Anonymous
Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
— Anonymous
Growing old is no more than another bad habit.
— Anonymous
One star differeth from another star in glory.
— Anonymous
Do not push the river, it will flow by itself.
— Anonymous
The coat is quite new, only the holes are old.
— Anonymous
It is easy to frighten a bull from the window.
— Anonymous
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
— Anonymous
A man who has self-love is halfway to freedom.
— Anonymous
It is a great thing to do a little thing well.
— Anonymous
Better a friend's bite than an ememy's caress.
— Anonymous
Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom.
— Anonymous
Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
— Anonymous
Empty thy mind of evil, but fill it with good.
— Anonymous
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
— Anonymous
Let a child have its will and it will not cry.
— Anonymous
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
— Anonymous
A man who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.
— Anonymous
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
— Anonymous

proverbs experience Chinese proverbs

A man who begins many things finishes but few.
— Anonymous
Pessimism is the triumph of worry over matter.
— Anonymous
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
— Anonymous
O people, respect the women who have born you.
— Anonymous
Beauty passes, but perfection remains with us.
— Anonymous
What you learn to your cost you remember long.
— Anonymous
To overcome pleasure is the greatest pleasure.
— Anonymous
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
— Anonymous
The rich get richer and the poor get children.
— Anonymous
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!
— Anonymous
He shall be commended according to his wisdom.
— Anonymous
An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna.
— Anonymous
When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.
— Anonymous
Affairs sleep soundly when fortune is present.
— Anonymous
QSCV (Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value)
— Standard imposed by Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's fast food chain
Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.
— Turkish proverb

enemies Turkish proverbs proverbs

Those who dare do, those who dare not, do not.
— Anonymous
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
— Anonymous
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
— Chinese proverb

morals proverbs Chinese proverbs

When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can.
— West African saying

African proverbs proverbs poverty charity

The fireside is the tulip bed of a winter day.
— Persian proverb

Persian proverbs proverbs

Work expands so as to fill the time available.
— Anonymous

time management office work proverbs

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
— Anonymous

proverbs dance Indian proverbs

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
— Anonymous

procrastination

There are more old Drunkards than old doctors.
— Anonymous
When man speaks of the future, the gods laugh.
— Anonymous
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
— Turkish proverb

Turkish proverbs listening proverbs

Better in the dust than crawl near the throne.
— Anonymous
Like a sword that cuts, but cannot cut itself.
— Anonymous
With unity, the time is right for great deeds.
— I-Ching; Book of Changes
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
— Anonymous
As soap is to the body, tears are to the soul.
— Jewish proverb

proverbs Jewish proverbs tears

A man who wants hope is the poorest man alive.
— Anonymous
Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs.
— Anonymous
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
— Anonymous
There is a remedy for everything except death.
— Anonymous
The cost of living is high, but it's worth it.
— Anonymous
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
— Anonymous
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.
— Anonymous
There are none so blind as they that won't see.
— Anonymous
No man ever repented of having held his tongue.
— Anonymous
Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration.
— Anonymous
Out of the mouth proceeds blessing and cursing.
— Anonymous
Half a brain is enough for one who says little.
— Anonymous
Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
— Anonymous
A man that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.
— Bible
A little oil may save a great deal of friction.
— Anonymous
No one ought to look a gift horse in the mouth.
— Anonymous
If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it.
— Anonymous

voting

A man who serves two masters has to lie to one.
— Anonymous
Look down if you would know how high you stand.
— Anonymous
A small deed may grow to become a large reward.
— Anonymous
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business.
— Anonymous
A man that never asks will never get a bargain.
— Anonymous
One day's rain makes up for many day's drought.
— Anonymous
In the multitude of counselors there is safety.
— Anonymous
For men to search their own glory is not glory.
— Anonymous
Judge the tree by its fruits, man by his deeds.
— Anonymous
Service is the rent we pay for a room on earth.
— Anonymous

service

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
— Jacula Prudentum

compromise

God wanted to chastise man, so he sent lawyers.
— Anonymous
No man so wise but has a little folly to spare.
— Anonymous
A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
— Anonymous
Don't let grass grow on the path of friendship.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs friendship proverbs

Never marry for money, ye'll borrow it cheaper.
— Anonymous
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.
— Anonymous

anger Indian proverbs proverbs

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.
— Anonymous
A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.
— Anonymous
Every man is a friend to them who giveth gifts.
— Anonymous
Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.
— Anonymous
A good bone does not always come to a good dog.
— Anonymous
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
— Anonymous
'Sail!' quoth the king; 'Hold!' saith the wind.
— Anonymous
All of nature is in us, all of us is in nature.
— Anonymous
I live too near the woods to be scared by owls.
— Anonymous
Take a joke as a joke, and it will not provoke.
— Anonymous
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
— Anonymous
When the snake is old, the frog will tease him.
— Anonymous
They did it with all their heart and prospered.
— Anonymous
The law of love is better than the love of law.
— Anonymous
Misfortunes when asleep are not to be awakened.
— Anonymous

misfortune proverbs

The universe comes forth from the Imperishable.
— Mundaka-Upanishad
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
— Anonymous
Everyone is a piece of this puzzle called life.
— Anonymous
It's easy to lose our way when we lose our why.
— Anonymous

losing our way

Life is but a journey; death is returning home.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs

Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me".
— Anonymous
Be master OF mind rather than mastered BY mind.
— Anonymous

Zen sayings proverbs

Journalism is the first rough draft of history.
— Anonymous

proverbs journalism

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
— Anonymous

proverbs intention

Hot heads and cold hearts never solve anything.
— Anonymous

anger empathy

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
— Anonymous

motivational success

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
— Scottish proverb

Scottish proverbs marriage proverbs

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
— Life

ignorance

When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
— English proverb

English proverbs proverbs flattery

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
— Danish proverb

advice Danish proverbs proverbs curiosity learning

Two great talkers will not travel far together.
— Anonymous

proverbs holding your tongue listening Spanish proverbs

An apology is a good way to have the last word.
— Dell Crossword Puzzles

apologies

Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.
— Anonymous
Fortune favors the bold but abandons the timid.
— Anonymous
You can't have a rainbow without a little rain.
— Anonymous
Even in small things there is great providence.
— Anonymous
Que Sera, Sera . . . Whatever will be, will be.
— Anonymous
A man must stand very tall to see his own fate.
— Anonymous
Excuses interest no one except the competition.
— Anonymous
Honesty in little things is not a little thing.
— Anonymous
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
— Anonymous

conscience

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
— Anonymous

adversity proverbs courage motivational

Evil deeds are like perfume, difficult to hide.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs

One's own self is the most difficult to master.
— Far Eastern saying
Show them death and they will accept the fever.
— Arab saying

proverbs

The brain is a subservient organ to the gonads.
— Anonymous

Brain

Not all luck is good, and not all good is luck.
— Anonymous

luck

There's a thin line between madness and genius.
— Anonymous
The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
— 1 Corinthians 3:17

health biblical

Hypochondria is the only disease I haven't got.
— Anonymous
Be careful what you hope for- you might get it.
— Anonymous
He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs asking

Life has a certain ending and uncertain timing.
— Anonymous
Insults should be well-avenged or well-endured.
— Anonymous

Spanish proverbs proverbs

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.
— African proverb

oppression tyranny African proverbs proverbs

To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.
— French proverb

impossible proverbs French proverbs pessimism

Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
— Danish proverb

mistakes advice Danish proverbs asking questions proverbs

Practice not your art, and it will soon depart.
— Anonymous
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
— The Bible—1 Corinthians 15:26

death biblical

A man who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.
— Anonymous
Such is life — seven times down, eight times up!
— Anonymous
If sailors becomes too numerous, the ship sinks.
— Anonymous
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
— Anonymous
A wooer should open his ears more than his eyes.
— Anonymous
Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
— Anonymous
Hunger causes the wolves to sally from the wood.
— Anonymous
Marriage has many thorns, but celibacy no roses.
— Anonymous
Enthusiasm is essential to the triumph of truth.
— Anonymous
Measure the corn of others with your own bushel.
— Anonymous
More men are slain by suppers than by the sword.
— Anonymous
A silent man's words are not brought into court.
— Anonymous
Harmony is the basis of all beauty in the world.
— Anonymous
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
— Anonymous
What is sport to the cat is death for the mouse.
— Anonymous
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
— American proverb

proverbs American proverbs trouble

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
— Anonymous
I will judge each of you according to your ways.
— Anonymous
Don't be in a hurry to tie what you can't untie.
— Anonymous
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
— Anonymous
Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot.
— Dutch proverb

European proverbs illness proverbs

With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.
— Anonymous
A cloak is not made for a single shower of rain.
— Anonymous
God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers.
— Jewish proverb

proverbs Jewish proverbs mother

It takes all kinds, to make the world go 'round.
— Anonymous
The only way to keep a secret is to say nothing.
— Anonymous
One does not become great by claiming greatness.
— African proverb

greatness proverbs African proverbs

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
— Japanese proverb

Japanese proverbs laughter proverbs

Better a lie that heals than a truth that wound.
— Anonymous
One knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
— Anonymous
Wisdom and virtue are like two wheels of a cart.
— Anonymous
A soul wise in words shall make himself beloved.
— Anonymous
Even a lion has to defend himself against flies.
— German proverb

proverbs German proverbs

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
— Anonymous
Stretch your foot to the length of your blanket.
— Anonymous
To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.
— Anonymous
One survives all wounds except those of critics.
— African proverb

proverbs critics African proverbs

He cannot speak well who cannot hold his tongue.
— Anonymous
The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver.
— Anonymous
Tribulation worketh patience, and patience hope.
— Anonymous
People of principle may be the principal people.
— Anonymous
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
— Anonymous
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
— Anonymous
Surely the Lord is in this place; I knew it not.
— Genesis 28:16

beliefs biblical

Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
— African proverb

education proverbs African proverbs

A man who does not know one thing knows another.
— Anonymous
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself.
— Anonymous
Gossip columnist: one who writes other's wrongs.
— Braude’s Treasury of Wit and Humor

gossip

A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom.
— Anonymous
Before you can score you must first have a goal.
— Anonymous
It's not what you call me, but what I answer to.
— African proverb

proverbs self-esteem African proverbs

It is a poor art that maintains not the artisan.
— Anonymous
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
— Anonymous
Be slow of giving advice, ready to do a service.
— Anonymous
The graveyards are full of indispensable people.
— Anonymous
The most important things in life aren't things.
— Anonymous

wisdom life

The remedy for injuries is not to remember them.
— Italian proverb

Italian proverbs proverbs

The subtle self is to be known by thought alone.
— Anonymous
It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.
— Anonymous
A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his city.
— Anonymous
It is not enough to run, one must start in time.
— Anonymous
Words without ideas are like sails without wind.
— Courier-Record (Blackstone, Virginia)

language

To the brave man every land is a native country.
— Anonymous
Be swift to hear, and with patience give answer.
— Anonymous
There is no pleasure above the joy of the heart.
— Anonymous
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
— Daisy & Daphne

friendship

We are spiritual beings having human experiences.
— Anonymous
Your life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality.
— Anonymous
The speed of the leader is the speed of the pack.
— Yukon saying

proverbs leadership

The life of love is better than the love of life.
— Anonymous
The man who is not Jealous in love does not love.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs jealousy

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
— Galatians 6:7

biblical consequences

One buys honey too dear who licks it from thorns.
— Anonymous
He that despises shall fall by little and little.
— Ecclesiasticus 19:1

biblical attitude

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
— Anonymous
A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
— Anonymous
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
— Anonymous
The joyfulness of a man will prolongeth his days.
— Anonymous
Conscience is the nest where all good is hatched.
— Anonymous
A man's good intentions seldom add to his income.
— Anonymous
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
— Anonymous
It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear.
— Anonymous
The hand that gives is above the hand that takes.
— Anonymous
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
— Anonymous
It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
— Irish proverb

Irish proverbs proverbs love

There were no ill language were it not ill taken.
— Anonymous
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
— Anonymous
Wood that grows warped can never be straightened.
— Anonymous
A hero who will not flee will make his foes flee.
— Anonymous
Fashion your life as a garden of beautiful deeds.
— Anonymous
What so ever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
— Anonymous
Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
— Danish proverb

advice European proverbs Danish proverbs proverbs

Flowers and buds fall, and the old and ripe fall.
— Anonymous
There are men who are chained to gold and silver.
— Anonymous
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
— Anonymous
The barber learns his trade on the orphan's chin.
— Anonymous
Sooner ask a man for his life than for his money.
— Anonymous
He who does not look ahead always remains behind.
— Anonymous
Better to be silent than to speak ill of another.
— Anonymous
When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled on.
— Anonymous

war African proverbs proverbs

As you think of others, others will think of you.
— Anonymous
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
— French proverb

conscience proverbs French proverbs

A friend's faults may be noticed, but not blamed.
— Anonymous
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
— Anonymous

proverbs mistakes African proverbs

What you dislike for yourself do not like for me.
— Anonymous
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
— Anonymous

European proverbs proverbs Italian proverbs attitude

If you don't say it, you'll not have to unsay it.
— Anonymous
Love is the music of the Universe ... just dance.
— Anonymous

love

Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
— Anonymous

absence proverbs

Better to show too much civility than too little.
— Anonymous
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.
— Anonymous
Many men know how to flatter; few know to praise.
— Anonymous
The bird that is not honest foulest its own nest.
— Anonymous
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
— Anonymous
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
— Anonymous

family friendship

The man who can't dance says the band can't play.
— Anonymous
Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.
— Danish proverb

proverbs virtue temptation Danish proverbs

Don't cross the bridge until you have come to it.
— Anonymous
A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.
— Anonymous
To a hoarding father succeeds an extravagant son.
— Anonymous
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs

The poorest truth is better than the richest lie.
— Anonymous
The way we escape virtue is by passing more laws.
— Anonymous
A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.
— Anonymous
The herb that can't be got is the one that heals.
— Anonymous
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
— Bible, Matthew 10:30
Each day has its care, but each care has its day.
— Anonymous
'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free.
— Shaker hymn
For a dead opportunity, there is no resurrection.
— Anonymous
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
— Danish proverb

proverbs envy Danish proverbs

He who would leap far must first take a long run.
— Anonymous
No man tests the depth of a river with both feet.
— Anonymous
Choose neither a spouse nor linen by candlelight.
— Anonymous
When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.
— African proverb

war proverbs African proverbs

When pursing the arts, don't give up your day job.
— Anonymous
No man falls low unless he attempts to climb high.
— Anonymous
To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.
— Anonymous

wisdom asking questions

If you cannot heal the wound, do not tear it open.
— Anonymous
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
— Jewish proverb

Jewish proverbs proverbs crying

Peace is for the strong, subjugation for the weak.
— Anonymous
When you have tea and wine, you have many friends.
— Anonymous
Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing.
— Ecclesiasticus 18:33

biblical credit

Every man loves justice in the affairs of another.
— Anonymous
It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
— Anonymous

future

Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.
— Anonymous
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
— Anonymous
When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.
— Anonymous
Thou renderest to every man according to his work.
— Anonymous
You don't get rid of your temper when you lose it.
— Anonymous

temper anger

A favor to come is better than a hundred received.
— Anonymous
An expert is a man who makes his mistakes quietly.
— Anonymous

experts

All myths come from what was once labeled history.
— Anonymous
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
— English proverb

proverbs English proverbs trees

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend, then an enemy.
— Anonymous

wine proverbs

You can cage a bird, but you cannot make him sing.
— Jewish proverb

freedom Jewish proverbs proverbs

To understand completely is to forgive completely.
— French proverb

French proverbs proverbs forgiveness

The good you do is not lost, though you forget it.
— Anonymous
Just keep swimming no matter how hard the current.
— Anonymous
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
— Anonymous
A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.
— Anonymous
If thou wilt apply thy mind, thy shalt be prudent.
— Anonymous
You can't keep a committed person from succeeding.
— Anonymous
Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk gown.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs patience

A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
— Anonymous
The virtue of parents is in itself a great legacy.
— Anonymous
Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's, never comes.
— Anonymous
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
— Anonymous
To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.
— Anonymous
Beauty without virtue is a flower without a sword.
— French proverb

proverbs French proverbs European proverbs beauty

When fortune knocks upon the door, open it widely.
— Anonymous
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
— Anonymous

men and women witty ambition

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
— American proverb

proverbs American proverbs death

Use it up, wear it out; Make it do, or do without.
— Anonymous
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
— Talmud

parenting

A man's faith, more than his house, is his castle.
— Anonymous
One who is scared by words has no heart for deeds.
— Anonymous
Arguments thrive on opposition and die without it.
— Anonymous

arguments

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
— Anonymous

failure

Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.
— Anonymous
He who hesitates buys the stock two points higher.
— Anonymous
Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.
— Anonymous
The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
— Isaiah 35:1

biblical religion

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.
— Anonymous
Rebellion is a phase that all children go through,
— Anonymous
Let the world be your teacher, not your adversary.
— Anonymous
Better to pay the tavern keeper than the druggist.
— Spanish saying

drinking proverbs

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.
— Anonymous
When the explorer is ready, the guide will appear.
— Anonymous
Nothing indeed in this world purifies like wisdom.
— Anonymous
If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
— Anonymous
Learning is a scepter to some, a bauble to others.
— Anonymous
Spare when you're young, and spend when you're old.
— Anonymous
Men who plant trees love others besides themselves.
— Anonymous
Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.
— Japanese proverb

reputation proverbs Japanese proverbs

You are not mature until you expect the unexpected.
— Chicago Tribune

maturity

One who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.
— Anonymous
Some men are masters of money, and some its slaves.
— Anonymous
The day of the storm is not the time for thatching.
— Anonymous
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
— The Bible—Job 5–7

trouble biblical

Focus on what you can do, not on what you can't do.
— Anonymous
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
— Anonymous

sisters

It's good to hope, it's the waiting that spoils it.
— Anonymous
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

knowledge

A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.
— Anonymous
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
— Chinese Saying

foolishness

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
— Anonymous
That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good.
— Anonymous
Our Christian duty is to be kind to our fellow man.
— Anonymous
Do not drink from a well and throw a stone into it.
— Anonymous
Let not your tongue say what your head may pay for.
— Italian proverb

proverbs Italian proverbs

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
— Anonymous
When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
— African proverb

proverbs holding your tongue African proverbs

No office so humble, but it is better than nothing.
— Anonymous
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
— Anonymous

revolution servitude

A woman's heart, like the moon, is always changing.
— Anonymous
Inflation is being broke with a pocketful of money.
— Anonymous
One hair of a woman draws more than a team of oxen.
— Anonymous
What's none of my profit shall be none of my peril.
— Anonymous
A man who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth.
— Anonymous
By works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
— Anonymous
A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.
— Anonymous
The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
— Anonymous
Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky.
— Anonymous
The will steadfast to the truth — this is fidelity.
— Anonymous
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.
— Revelation 7:3

biblical environment

A man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
— Anonymous
What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.
— Anonymous
Who has not a good tongue ought to have good hands.
— Anonymous
The best way to save face is not to lose your head.
— Anonymous
If it is the truth what does it matter who says it?
— Anonymous
Each child carries his own blessing into the world.
— Anonymous
If you drink like a fish, drink what a fish drinks.
— Anonymous
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.
— Anonymous
Truth is stranger than fiction, but not so popular.
— Anonymous
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
— Anonymous

human nature proverbs

He that ceases to be a friend never was a good one.
— Anonymous
Don't raise your eyes to heaven—God won't help you.
— Anonymous
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly.
— Anonymous
Rule lust, temper and tongue, and bridle the belly.
— Anonymous
You're not in competition with anyone but yourself.
— Anonymous

self-improvement

Sail the ocean even when others stays on the shore.
— Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, welcome to the club.
— Anonymous

failure

A chocolate in the mouth is worth two on the plate.
— Anonymous

chocolate

Buffaloes are held by cords, people by their words.
— Anonymous
Virtue never dwells alone; it always has neighbors.
— Anonymous
A clear conscience is far more valuable than money.
— Anonymous
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
— Anonymous
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
— Anonymous

proverbs biblical attitude

Lose your questions and you will find your answers.
— Anonymous
To whiten ivory with dye is to spoil nature by art.
— Anonymous
Young man, like the wise, exhort to be sober minded.
— Anonymous
Your neighbor will never make a good boundary fence.
— Anonymous
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?
— Bumper Sticker

hell

Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.
— Anonymous

action Zen sayings proverbs

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.
— Anonymous

know yourself proverbs Spanish proverbs

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.
— Anonymous

proverbs marriage

It is easy to help him, who is willing to be helped.
— Anonymous
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax.
— Anonymous
Look upon the rainbow, and praise them that made it.
— Anonymous
Enlightenment cannot be described, only experienced.
— Anonymous

enlightenment

A poor man being down is thrust away by his friends.
— Anonymous
How long does youth endure? So long as we are loved.
— Anonymous
It is no joke to bear with someone who is all jokes.
— Anonymous
After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.
— Anonymous
Alas! What a number of desires have come to nothing!
— Anonymous
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
— Anonymous
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
— Anonymous
Expectations are disappointments under construction.
— Anonymous

expectation

If you believe everything you read, better not read.
— Anonymous
Every survival kit should include a sense of humour.
— Anonymous
He that are of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
— Anonymous
Not to know is bad but not to wish to know is worse.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs knowledge

A good thing is all the sweeter when won with pains.
— Anonymous
If your understanding fail, have patience with them.
— Anonymous
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
— Anonymous
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
— Anonymous
Anything visible is a mask, anything hidden is real.
— Anonymous
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
— Anonymous
That is not a good language that all understand not.
— Anonymous
Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.
— Anonymous

proverbs Indian proverbs

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
— Anonymous
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
— Anonymous
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
— Anonymous
A man who has burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
— Anonymous
Men that don't save pennies will never save dollars.
— Anonymous
A man who does not honor his wife dishonors himself.
— Anonymous
Better a friendly refusan than an unwilling promise.
— German proverb

German proverbs proverbs negotiation

Cheerfulness enables nature to recruit its strength.
— Anonymous
Stupidity won't kill you, but it can make you sweat.
— English proverb

stupidity English proverbs proverbs

The butterfly becomes only when it's entirely ready.
— Anonymous
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
— Anonymous
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
— Anonymous
A man knows no more to any purpose than he practice.
— Anonymous
Women prefer poverty with love to luxury without it.
— Anonymous
Nothing is certain in this world except uncertainty.
— Anonymous
Love is your window to the Infinite. Enjoy the view.
— Anonymous
Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
— Anonymous
Handsome women generally fall to the lot of ugly men.
— Anonymous
There are no premature babies, only delayed weddings.
— Anonymous
Money isn't everything; usually it isn't even enough.
— Anonymous
Don't play with the bear if you don't want to be bit.
— Anonymous
Man is made by his beliefs. As he believes, so he is.
— Bhagavad Gita

human nature beliefs

The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.
— Anonymous
Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
— Anonymous

goals

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
— Anonymous

biblical names proverbs

An injury forgiven is better than an injury revenged.
— Anonymous
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.
— The Bible—James 1-17

gift biblical

The best way to give advice is to set a good example.
— Anonymous
Content is health to the sick and riches to the poor.
— Anonymous
The end of passion means the beginning of repentance.
— Anonymous
How many will listen to the truth when you tell them?
— Anonymous
Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs shortcomings

Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise.
— Anonymous
For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
— The Bible:Galatians 6:7

biblical consequences

It's no disgrace to get lice, but it is to keep them.
— Anonymous
There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved.
— Anonymous
In nature there are no rights; there are only duties.
— Anonymous
Small children, small joys; big children, big annoys.
— Anonymous
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
— Anonymous
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
— Anonymous
Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord.
— Anonymous
The tongue is the deadliest of all blunt instruments.
— Anonymous

speech holding your tongue

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
— Luke 23:34

biblical religion

Religion's greatest miracle is the survival of faith.
— Anonymous
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.
— Anonymous

accuracy newspapers

Great works need no great strength, but perseverance.
— Anonymous
A true friend does sometimes venture to be offensive.
— Anonymous
To be rich is not everything, but it certainly helps.
— Anonymous
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
— Swedish proverb

European proverbs Swedish proverbs proverbs

Wit is what we should have said had we thought of it.
— Anonymous
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.
— Anonymous
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
— Anonymous
What commands they utter from the heart come to pass.
— Anonymous
It is easier to know how to do a thing than to do it.
— Anonymous
A man asks for advice in vain who will not follow it.
— Anonymous
Even among intimate friends there should be courtesy.
— Anonymous
They who lie down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
— Anonymous
What reveals a man is his behavior in time of hunger.
— Anonymous
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
— Anonymous
A man who does what he can do, does what he ought to.
— Anonymous
Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are.
— Anonymous
A man who does not open his eyes must open his purse.
— Anonymous
If you don't touch the rope, you won't ring the bell.
— Anonymous
Words show the wit of a man, but actions his meaning.
— Anonymous
Although it may rain, cast not away the watering pot.
— Anonymous
Silence is not always golden; sometimes it is yellow.
— Anonymous
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
— Anonymous
A man who begins and does not finish loses his labor.
— Anonymous
A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.
— Anonymous
Women! Can't live with them, can't live without them.
— Anonymous
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
— Anonymous

arguments

The early riser is healthy, cheerful and industrious.
— Anonymous
A man does not become clever by carrying books along.
— Anonymous
Talk like Robin Hood when you can shoot with his bow.
— Anonymous
It is better to be a small stream, than a deep ditch.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs

A man who wants a great deal must not ask for little.
— Anonymous
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
— Anonymous

appeasement

Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten.
— Anonymous
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
— Quoted in Guideposts Magazine

faith

One that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.
— Anonymous
If you want a job done fast, give it to a busy person.
— Anonymous
A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.
— Anonymous

helping others

A man who lives without discipline dies without honor.
— Anonymous
After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair.
— Anonymous
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
— The Bible—Isaiah 30:15

biblical inner peace

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
— Anonymous
In every generation there are some outstanding chiefs.
— Anonymous
If you are reluctant to ask the way, you will be lost.
— Anonymous
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
— Anonymous
Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles.
— Anonymous
Knowledge becomes Understanding, which becomes Wisdom.
— Anonymous
Experience is the one thing you can't get for nothing.
— New Outlook: A Digest of Ideas and Ideals

experience

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
— Anonymous
If the counsel be good, take it no matter who gave it.
— Anonymous
If your enemy turns to flee, give him a silver bridge.
— Anonymous

proverbs enemies

The greatest expense we can be at is that of our time.
— Anonymous
Kick away the ladder and one's feet are left dangling.
— Anonymous
If you wait, there will come nectar like fair weather.
— Anonymous
Avarice hoards itself poor; charity gives itself rich.
— Anonymous
You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears.
— Greek proverb

hunger Greek proverbs proverbs

Pray to God for a good harvest, but don't stop hoeing.
— Anonymous

proverbs self-determination

Best not to trade horses while crossing in mid-stream.
— Anonymous
Experience is the dividend gained from one's mistakes.
— Anonymous
He who does not travel will not know the value of men.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs Travel

One ounce of good luck is better than a ton of brains.
— Anonymous
One that hath wax for a head must not walk in the sun.
— Anonymous
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
— “Thought for the Day,” BBC Radio

conceit

Things are not what they seem, nor are they otherwise.
— Anonymous
Keep thine eyes open, or Fate will open them for thee.
— Anonymous
Go to the ants . . . consider their ways, and be wise!
— Anonymous
A good archer is not known by his arrows, but his aim.
— Anonymous
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
— Anonymous
Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart.
— Anonymous
There is no better surgeon than a man with many scars.
— Anonymous
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
— Anonymous

gratitude proverbs

Ask the right questions and you get the right answers.
— Anonymous
He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
— Anonymous

Travel proverbs

No one has ever repealed the law of supply and demand.
— Anonymous
The best surgeon is one that hath been hacked himself.
— Anonymous
Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.
— Teaching and Researching: Listening

listening

If you have to ask what it costs, you can't afford it.
— Anonymous
More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows.
— Anonymous

Spanish proverbs proverbs life

Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself.
— Anonymous
If you don't have something good to say, don't say it.
— Anonymous
A heavy burden does not kill on the day it is carried.
— African proverb

proverbs responsibility African proverbs

Where there's a will there's a way (or a beneficiary).
— Anonymous
And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please.
— Anonymous
Everyone loves a fool, but nobody wants him for a son.
— African proverb

Fools African proverbs proverbs

Blessed are those who prefer others before themselves.
— Anonymous
A friend to every man and to no man is the same thing.
— Anonymous
What you see in yourself is what you see in the world.
— Anonymous
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
— Anonymous
They that are afraid of bad luck will never know good.
— Anonymous
Do not to others what ye do not wish done to yourself.
— Anonymous
Do not do to your fellow people what is hateful to you.
— Anonymous
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
— Bible, Matthew 5:3
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
— Anonymous

inspirational

Where brains are what you need, force will not succeed.
— Anonymous
There is a purpose for everything that happens in life.
— Anonymous
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
— Dutch proverb

shortcomings judging proverbs human nature

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.
— Anonymous

giving up

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
— Anonymous
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
— African proverb

proverbs wisdom African proverbs know-it-alls

If you won't do better today, you'll do worse tomorrow.
— Anonymous
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
— The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939–1944

courage life

Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.
— American proverb

proverbs how to live life American proverbs

A penny is a lot of money — if you haven't got a penny.
— Anonymous
Life should be measured by its breadth, not its length.
— Anonymous
They deserve Paradise who makes their companions laugh.
— Anonymous
Refrain not to speak when there is occasion to do good.
— Anonymous
A single fact will often spoil an interesting argument.
— The Ideals and Follies of Business

arguments facts

It is more easy to be wise for others than for thyself.
— Anonymous
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
— Anonymous

the past goals

What good is consistency, if you're consistently wrong?
— Anonymous
The greatest things are done by the help of small ones.
— Anonymous
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
— Anonymous
Keep a green tree in your heart, singing bird may come.
— Anonymous
We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
— The Bible—1 Timothy 1:8

law biblical

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
— Anonymous
If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding.
— Anonymous
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
— Anonymous
Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.
— COSINO DEGREGRIO

flattery

Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.
— Anonymous
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
— Anonymous

Zen sayings proverbs

No one tests the depth of the river with both his feet.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs common sense

The greatest liar is the one who talks most of himself.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs vanity

Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
— Anonymous
If you don't use your head, you'll use your pocketbook.
— Anonymous
Regard all creatures as you would regard your own self.
— Anonymous
An intelligent enemy is better than an ignorant friend.
— African proverb

African proverbs friendship proverbs enemies

The tree casts its shade upon all, even the woodcutter.
— Anonymous
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
— Anonymous

Chinese proverbs proverbs environment

He is not the best carpenter that makes the most chips.
— Anonymous
No man can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases.
— Anonymous
Of all crafts, to be an honest man is the master-craft.
— Anonymous
If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.
— Anonymous
A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
— Far Eastern saying
The thoughtless strong man is the chief among lazy men.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs leadership

The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by covering more.
— Anonymous
Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.
— Anonymous
Gratitude is sometimes more easily given than received.
— Anonymous
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs atheism

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.
— Anonymous
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
— Anonymous
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs anger

When you go to a donkey's house, don't talk about ears.
— Anonymous
You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.
— English proverb

proverbs English proverbs know yourself

When you obey your superior, you instruct your inferior.
— Anonymous
If you believe everything you read, you better not read.
— Japanese proverb

Japanese proverbs proverbs

One should choose one's bedfellow whilst it is daylight.
— Anonymous
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
— Anonymous
Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed.
— Anonymous
A man who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
— Anonymous
Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it.
— Anonymous
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
— Anonymous
If God wanted us to vote, He'd have given us candidates.
— Anonymous

voting

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
— Anonymous
Gain does not give as much pleasure as loss gives grief.
— Greek proverb

Greek proverbs proverbs human nature

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
— Anonymous
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
— Anonymous
A promise against law or duty is void in its own nature.
— Anonymous
When every man minds his own business, the work is done.
— Anonymous
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The LORD is near.
— Bible

God Christianity biblical

That man alone is wise who keeps the mastery of himself.
— Anonymous
A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle.
— Anonymous

proverbs religion Latin proverbs

No greater promisers than they who have nothing to give.
— Anonymous
Whoso watcheth for wisdom shall quickly be without care.
— Anonymous
Who promises much and does little, dines a fool on hope.
— Anonymous
Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.
— Anonymous

proverbs Indian proverbs self-determination

When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
— Anonymous
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
— Anonymous
He who hesitates . . . buys the stock two points higher.
— Anonymous
You must scale the mountain if you would view the plain.
— Chinese proverb

vision Chinese proverbs proverbs

A man has the biggest blind side who thinks he has none.
— Anonymous
Professionals built the Titanic; amateurs built the Ark.
— Anonymous

experts

There is a friend that sticketh closer than any brother.
— Anonymous
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.
— Bible, Matthew 8:57
The nearer death's day, the more should old people play.
— Anonymous
If youth had but the knowledge and old age the strength.
— Anonymous
To refuse to grow old is the unmistakable sign of youth.
— Anonymous
A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it.
— Anonymous
He who would wish to be valued must make himself scarce.
— Anonymous
Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find use for it.
— Anonymous
Tact is changing the subject without changing your mind.
— Anonymous
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
— Anonymous
Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.
— Anonymous
A man that doth what he will oft doth what he ought not.
— Anonymous
If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir.
— Anonymous
Just be who you want to be, not what others want to see.
— Anonymous
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
— Anonymous
Endeavor to bear the ignorance of fortune with patience.
— Anonymous
In the short life of a man no lost time can be afforded.
— Anonymous
In spring no one thinks of the snow that fell last year.
— Anonymous
Accept me as I am—only then will we discover each other.
— FROM FEDERICO FELLINI’S

relationships

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
— Chinese proverb

beginnings journeys Chinese proverbs proverbs motivational

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
— African proverb

foolishness proverbs African proverbs

A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
— Danish proverb

Danish proverbs proverbs role models

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

kindness

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.
— Anonymous
The best policy for a man is not to boast of his virtues.
— Far Eastern sayings
In our society, the only sin is not getting away with it.
— Anonymous
It is twice as hard to crush a half truth as a whole lie.
— Anonymous
The patient in spirit is better that the proud in spirit.
— Ecclesiastes

proverbs

The head doesn't hear unless the heart desires to listen.
— Anonymous
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
— Anonymous
Good company in a journey makes the way seem the shorter.
— Anonymous
Many men know how to flatter; few men know how to praise.
— Greek proverb

Greek proverbs proverbs

The remedy of tomorrow is too late for the evil of today.
— Anonymous
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
— Anonymous
When a fool has made up his mind, the market has gone by.
— Anonymous

opportunity Spanish proverbs proverbs decision-making

Never ask of him who has, but of him who wishes you well.
— Anonymous

Spanish proverbs asking proverbs

If you don't know your rights, you don't have any rights.
— Anonymous
A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
— Anonymous
If at first you do succeed—try to hide your astonishment.
— Los Angeles Times Syndicate

funny success

Visit your aunt and uncle, but not every day of the year.
— Anonymous
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
— American proverb

proverbs second chances American proverbs

There is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.
— Anonymous
It's just as easy to love a rich man/woman as a poor one.
— Anonymous
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.
— Arabian proverb

tact Arabian proverbs proverbs truth

Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.
— Mexican proverb

proverbs marriage

Do not resist growing old--many are denied the privilege.
— Anonymous
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.
— Anonymous

holding your tongue listening

With all beings and all things, we shall be as relatives.
— Anonymous
Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to the child.
— Anonymous
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
— Anonymous
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt.
— Anonymous
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip the point in honey.
— Anonymous
You can always tell a leader. but you can't tell him much
— Anonymous
A wise man will hold his tongue till he sees opportunity.
— Anonymous
The raft of knowledge ferries the worst sinner to safety.
— Anonymous
Man may work from sun to sun, woman's work is never done.
— Anonymous
A man that can rule his tongue shall live without strife.
— Anonymous
Rejoice in the LORD always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
— Bible

God biblical Christianity

He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.
— Anonymous
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
— Bible, John 17:16
Woman prefers a man without money to money without a man.
— Anonymous
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.
— Anonymous
A man is not a man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
— Anonymous
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
— Anonymous
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
— Anonymous

pretense proverbs

The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams.
— Anonymous
Love without return is like a question without an answer.
— Anonymous
Be slow in choosing friends, but slower in changing them.
— Anonymous
The mind is like a parachute ... it must be open to work.
— Anonymous
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers.
— Anonymous
I am sparkling; you are unusually talkative; he is drunk.
— Anonymous
Nothing will content men who are not content with little.
— Anonymous
We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
— Anonymous
We spend our years as a tale that is a tale that is told.
— Anonymous
Small children give you headache; big children heartache.
— Anonymous
You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
— Anonymous
When you skip voting, it's not rebellion.  It's surrender.
— Anonymous

voting

The surest form of birth control is often a good argument.
— Anonymous
We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
— Anonymous
If Providence bolts the door do not go through the window.
— Anonymous
You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.
— The Sword of the Lord

age youth

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
— Anonymous
We find our lives in losing them in the service of others.
— Anonymous
Who follows not virtue in youth cannot fly sin in old age.
— Anonymous
Accept what you can't change. Change what you can't accept
— Anonymous
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
— Anonymous
No man is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
— Anonymous
A man who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
— Anonymous
Each of us has his own alphabet with which to make poetry.
— Anonymous
Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.
— Anonymous

conscience

Invention is the son of need and the father of prosperity.
— Anonymous
Just follow the day. Follow the day and reach for the sun!
— Anonymous
The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.
— Anonymous
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
— Anonymous
But in deed, a friend is never known till a man have need.
— Anonymous
They who know themselves best esteem themselves the least.
— Anonymous
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
— Anonymous
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
— Anonymous
He who is afraid of doing too much always does too little.
— German proverb

proverbs Germany work German proverbs

A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.
— Anonymous
You may light a another's candle at your own without loss.
— Anonymous
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
— Anonymous
It is disgraceful to stumble against the same stone twice.
— Greek proverb

proverbs Greek proverbs experience

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs shortcomings

Take a vine of good soil, and a daughter of a good mother.
— Anonymous
If you walk on a tight rope, you'll need a balancing pole.
— Anonymous
Necessity is a hard nurse, but she raises strong children.
— Anonymous
He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
— Jewish proverb

Jewish proverbs adversity proverbs

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
— Anonymous
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch.
— Anonymous

proverbs gold

All the people like us are We,
And every one else is They.
— Anonymous
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
— Anonymous
Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.
— Swedish proverb

sorrow Swedish proverbs happiness joy proverbs

A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
— Anonymous
Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.
— Irish proverb

God proverbs prayer gratitude Irish proverbs

The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
— The Bible—Mark:2–27

biblical

We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.
— Talmud

wisdom character

A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
— Anonymous
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
— Anonymous
A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless it is paid for.
— Anonymous

lawyers

Mules are always boasting that their ancestors are horses.
— German proverb

German proverbs ancestry proverbs European proverbs

The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
— Anonymous
Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.
— Anonymous
He who has the gold rules . . . that is the 'Golden Rule.'
— Anonymous
Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
— Anonymous

neighbors biblical proverbs

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
— Anonymous

achievement

If Christ returned today, would he recognize Christianity?
— Anonymous
There's many a good cock that comes out of a tattered bag.
— Anonymous
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs open-mindedness Chinese proverbs

Let those who claim to know a lot produce their knowledge.
— Anonymous
There is but one way to be born but a hundred ways to die.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs death

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
— Anonymous

procrastination

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
— Anonymous
Don't ask questions if you don't want to hear the answers.
— Anonymous

asking questions

One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon.
— Anonymous

proverbs Zen sayings

He who has all the answers hasn't heard all the questions.
— Anonymous

know-it-alls

Forbidden fruits taste better than those that are allowed.
— Anonymous
What's the use of running if you're not on the right road?
— German proverb

vision proverbs German proverbs

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
— French proverb

French proverbs proverbs fate

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
— Anonymous

attitude proverbs

A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.
— The Optimist Magazine

friendship

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
— Anonymous
An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.
— Anonymous
Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.
— Anonymous

Native American proverbs proverbs American proverbs

News does not have wings, yet it can cross the seven seas.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs gossip

When a man moves away from nature, his heart becomes hard.
— Anonymous
A man who wants a faultless friend, must remain friendless.
— Anonymous
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
— Anonymous

proverbs managing people dealing with people

Eat and drink with your friends, but do not trade with them
— Anonymous
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
— French proverb

European proverbs French proverbs proverbs cats vs dogs

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
— Italian proverb

European proverbs Italian proverbs chess proverbs

One eye of the master sees more than four of the servant's.
— Anonymous
Intelligence is not shown by witty words, but by wise acts.
— Anonymous
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
— Anonymous
How can you get wisdom . . . when your talk is of bullocks?
— Anonymous
Smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.
— Anonymous
Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others.
— Anonymous
A man who damages the character of another damages his own.
— Anonymous
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
— Exodus 21:24

biblical revenge

There's no rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival.
— Anonymous
To die in the flower of age is a life offered in sacrifice.
— Madagascan saying

death proverbs

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.
— Chinese proverb

revenge proverbs Chinese proverbs

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
— Anonymous
When two men of equal wisdom play together, discord arises.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs competition

A knot in the tree spoils the ax; famine spoils friendship.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs friendship

If You can't take a joke, you'll have to take the medicine.
— Anonymous
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
— Anonymous
Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.
— Anonymous

absence

A man who does not rise early never does a good day's work.
— Anonymous
If You don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
— Anonymous
A pendulum travels much, but it only goes a tick at a time.
— Anonymous
Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks.
— Anonymous
Wisdom resteth in the heart of one that hath understanding.
— Anonymous
Mothers are know everything, except for things that change.
— Anonymous
It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing.
— Anonymous
Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
— Anonymous
A committee is a group that takes minutes and wastes hours.
— Anonymous

committees

Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love 'tis the way.
— Anonymous
Definition of a sports car: a hedge against male menopause.
— Tom Wolfe

cars

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.
— The Wedded Unmother

conceit

Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no one.
— Anonymous
If you be a jester, keep your wit till you have use for it.
— Anonymous
There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men.
— Anonymous
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
— Anonymous

proverbs friendship Indian proverbs

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
— Anonymous

diplomacy

Whoever spurns what is short has not trodden on a scorpion.
— African proverb

proverbs potential African proverbs

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
— Anonymous
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
— Anonymous
Bad news goes about in clogs, good news in stockinged feet.
— Welsh proverb

proverbs gossip Welsh proverbs

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
— Swedish proverb

sorrow joy suffering proverbs Swedish proverbs European proverbs

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid of standing still.
— Anonymous
There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.
— Anonymous
My mind is made up, don't try and confuse me with the facts.
— Anonymous
Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers.
— Anonymous
Lazy hands make a man poor; but diligent hands bring wealth.
— Anonymous
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
— Anonymous
Remove not the ancient landmark, which the fathers have set.
— Anonymous
A boat doesn't go forward if each man is rowing his own way.
— Anonymous
The wise learn from adversity; the foolish merely repeat it.
— Anonymous
The wise man looks within his heart and finds eternal peace.
— Anonymous
A man should marry no other woman but the one whom he loves.
— Anonymous
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
— Anonymous

procrastination

If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions.
— Anonymous
A joke not only can make an enemy, but often loses a friend.
— Anonymous
If you don't have your health . . . you don't have anything.
— Anonymous
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.
— Anonymous
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
— John 4:18

biblical love

Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love.
— Anonymous
Those who give only when asked have already waited too long.
— Anonymous

generosity Giving

If thine enemy wrongs thee, buy each of his children a drum.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs revenge Chinese proverbs funny

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
— Anonymous
You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs proverbs

There is no saint without a past—no sinner without a future.
— ANCIENT PERSIAN MASS

mistakes hopeful

Climb high, climb far, your goal the sky your aim the stars.
— Anonymous
Nothing is more precious than time, yet nothing less valued.
— Anonymous
If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved?
— St. Mathias’ Church Bulletin

God

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.
— Anonymous

faith

The crab instructs its young, "Walk straight ahead—like me."
— Indian proverb

proverbs example Indian proverbs

The courteous man learns his courtesy from the discourteous.
— Anonymous
Everyone, in the final analysis, is in business for himself.
— Anonymous
Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more.
— Anonymous
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begot us.
— Ecclesiasticus 44:1

biblical awards

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
— The Bible: Jeremiah13:23

biblical change

The line between madness and genius is a permeable membrane.
— Anonymous
What he lacks in intelligence, he makes up for in stupidity.
— Anonymous
It's just as easy to love a rich man or woman as a poor one.
— Anonymous
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.
— Ecclesiasticus 44:1

biblical praise

It is always easier to hate something than to understand it.
— Anonymous
It is almost as good as bringing good news not to bring bad.
— Anonymous
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
— Anonymous
The world belongs to the rascals; Heaven belongs to the good.
— Anonymous
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
— Anonymous

children

One marriage is never celebrated but another grows out of it.
— Anonymous
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.
— Anonymous
A man that confesseth his fault shall be preserved from hurt.
— Anonymous
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish — very gently.
— Anonymous
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
— Anonymous
A man who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
— Anonymous
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children.
— Anonymous
Whatever kind of word thou speakest the like shalt thou hear.
— Anonymous
No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.
— Anonymous
The mind covers more ground than the heart but goes less far.
— Anonymous
Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.
— Anonymous
A wise man does not strive, the ignorant man ties himself up.
— Anonymous
Days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
— Anonymous
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king.
— Anonymous
One of the ingredients most necessary for success is failure.
— Introduction to Business: Concepts and Careers

success success & failure failure

Cheerfulness has been called the bright weather of the heart.
— Anonymous
A man must have a just esteem of himself without being proud.
— Anonymous
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
— Anonymous
A sound mind in a sound body is the blessedness of creatures.
— Anonymous
It is not the early rising, but the well spending of the day.
— Anonymous
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
— Anonymous
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
— Anonymous
One who plants a walnut tree expects not to eat of the fruit.
— Anonymous
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
— Udanavarga

how to live life

Pessimism is the art of finding bad news in a fortune cookie.
— Anonymous
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
— Anonymous

practice

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
— Italian proverb

friendship proverbs Italian proverbs

When you fast, do not put on a sad face as the hypocrites do.
— Bible, Matthew 6:16
It is better to weep with wise ones than to laugh with fools.
— Anonymous
Give me a good digestion, Lord, and also something to digest.
— A Pilgrim’s Grace
One man can burn water, whereas another cannot even burn oil.
— Anonymous
All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment.
— Anonymous
The stream won't be advised, therefore its course is crooked.
— African proverb

African proverbs environment proverbs

Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king.
— Anonymous
A diplomat is someone who thinks twice before saying nothing.
— Anonymous

diplomacy

Money still talks, but it has to catch its breath more often.
— Parts Pups

money

The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens.
— Anonymous
If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.
— Arabian proverb

criticism proverbs Arabian proverbs

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
— Anonymous

misfortune

Not to oversee your workers is to leave them your purse open.
— Anonymous
Never put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.
— Anonymous

happiness

A friend that you buy with presents will be brought from you.
— Anonymous
Life doesn't do anything to you, it only reveals your spirit.
— Anonymous

crisis life

What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?
— Anonymous
The minute you get the idea you're indispensable, you aren't.
— Anonymous

ego

Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he is called.
— Bible, I Corinthians 7:20
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
— The New York Times

career

Don't dig a foundation where you don't plan to build a house.
— Anonymous
Men want to live the way they want instead of how they should.
— Wanting
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
— Anonymous

money proverbs

For there is no day however beautiful which has not its night.
— Anonymous
He who strikes the first blow admits he has lost the argument.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs

I found the people who talk a lot are doing what they do best.
— Anonymous
However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
— Anonymous
If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
— Mark 3:25

unity biblical

A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind.
— Anonymous
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
— Anonymous
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking wicked.
— Anonymous
If you expect to save at all, do it while your salary's small.
— Anonymous
A man who saves in little things can be liberal in great ones.
— Anonymous
Life always offers you a second chance.  It's called tomorrow.
— Anonymous

second chances

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
— Anonymous
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
— The Bible—Psalms 30:5

joy biblical

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
— Decca Recording Co., 1962

myopic

A man who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
— Anonymous
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
— Anonymous
If you act like an ass, don't get insulted if people ride you.
— Jewish proverb

proverbs Jewish proverbs

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
— Anonymous
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs gratitude Chinese proverbs

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.
— Anonymous
Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.
— Anonymous

Spanish proverbs proverbs discretion

Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
— Job 5:2

anger biblical

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
— Anonymous
Blessings do not come in pairs; misfortunes never come singly.
— Anonymous
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
— The Bible—Mark 3:25

unity biblical house

If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself.
— Anonymous
Admiration: acknowledgment of another's similarity to oneself.
— Anonymous

admiration funny

Many friends have been lost by jest, but few have been gained.
— Anonymous
True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its seed is action.
— Anonymous

action Strength wisdom

It is wiser to choose what to say than to say what you choose.
— Anonymous
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
— Anonymous
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace.
— Bible, Romans 14:19
Desperation is a fellow shaving before stepping on the scales.
— Anonymous
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
— Anonymous

discovery

Never argue with a fool; people might not know the difference.
— Anonymous

arguments

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.
— Anonymous
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
— Anonymous

law

A man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until evening.
— Anonymous
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
— Anonymous
Experience is the fool's best teacher; the wise do not need it.
— Anonymous
Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
— Farmers Almanac

tact

Some people march to a different drummer—and some people polka.
— Los Angeles Times Syndicate

funny human nature

Eternity itself cannot restore the loss struck from the minute.
— Anonymous
It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
— Anonymous
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
— Anonymous
There are no riches above the riches of the health of the body.
— Anonymous
It is better to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion.
— Anonymous
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
— Arabian proverb

Arabian proverbs health proverbs hope

Mankind consists of five races and an infinite number of heats.
— Anonymous
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
— The Bible: Psalms 46:1

biblical God

To whom you tell your secrets, to them you resign your liberty.
— Anonymous
First among the things to be thankful for is a thankful spirit.
— Anonymous
Poverty is "Who knows you?" Prosperity is "I am your relative."
— African proverb

poverty African proverbs proverbs

Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of a man.
— Anonymous
Physicians faults are covered with earth, and rich men's money.
— Anonymous
The man who moves a mountain must start by moving small stones.
— Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.
— Anonymous

failure funny

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
— Anonymous
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
— Anonymous
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts.
— Anonymous
Wisdom is a loving spirit. Her conversation hath no bitterness.
— Anonymous
With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.
— Anonymous
My mother didn't leave me anything of value, except her wisdom.
— Anonymous
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
— Anonymous
Things that live on in memory have no visible means of support.
— Anonymous
It is not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame.
— Anonymous

blame funny

By nature all men are alike, but by education widely different.
— Anonymous
A tree that affords thee shade, do not order it to be cut down.
— Anonymous

Arabian proverbs proverbs nature

To be happy and contented, count your blessings, not your cash.
— Anonymous
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
— Anonymous
Everyone tells you to have a nice day but nobody tells you how.
— Anonymous

advice

A real cowboy has a ten-dollar horse and a forty-dollar saddle.
— Anonymous

cowboys

We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do.
— Anonymous
A plane of being is not a place of being, but a state of being.
— Anonymous
A bird does not change its feathers because the weather is bad.
— Anonymous

principles proverbs

Confidence is not trying the knob after you've locked the door.
— Anonymous
When it comes to memory . . . .try to remember the good things.
— Anonymous
If you don't go to people's funerals, they won't come to yours.
— Anonymous
He is a weak friend who cannot bear with his friend's weakness.
— Anonymous
It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy.
— Anonymous

attitude

Promises may get friends, but 'tis performances that keep them.
— Anonymous
Every man that striveth for mastery is temperate in all things.
— Anonymous
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.
— Anonymous
A man cannot think chiefly of himself without being discouraged.
— Anonymous
Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash off the spots.
— Anonymous
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity.
— Anonymous

insecurity

Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
— Anonymous
Poverty is "Who knows you?"; Prosperity is "I am your relative."
— African proverb

proverbs wealth African proverbs

We advise others in areas we have difficulty advising ourselves.
— Anonymous

advice

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.
— Anonymous

defeat

Be fruitful and multiply, and then fill the earth and subdue it.
— Anonymous

Bible

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
— Anonymous
The children of this world are wiser than the children of light.
— Bible, Luke 16:8
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
— Anonymous
Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
— Anonymous
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
— Anonymous

action prayer

Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man's friend deserts him.
— Anonymous
Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health.
— Anonymous
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
— Welsh proverb

proverbs Welsh proverbs grandparents

Was the world happier before psychology, or was that a delusion?
— Anonymous
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
— Exodus 15:2

faith biblical

Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday.
— Anonymous
No time for your health today: no health for your time tomorrow.
— Anonymous
A smile is a light on your face to let others know you are home.
— Anonymous
What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
— Anonymous
There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
— African proverb

wisdom proverbs African proverbs common sense foolishness

Keep adding little by little and you will soon have a big hoard.
— Anonymous
It is a sign of a good man, if he grows better for commendation.
— Anonymous
Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.
— Anonymous

worry

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
— Genesis 4:10

biblical revenge

Many a live wire would be a dead one except for his connections.
— Anonymous

funny

Conceit wouldn't be so terrible if only the right people had it.
— African proverb

egotism proverbs African proverbs

Choose your friends with care, that you may have choice friends.
— Anonymous
There's none so poor as he who knows not the joy of what he has.
— Anonymous

poverty

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
— Anonymous
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
— Bible, Job 12:12
Love lights it's own path. It never get's lost on it's way home.
— Anonymous
Everybody wants a second chance, but not everybody deserves one.
— Anonymous

second chances

Always expect the worst, and when it comes, make the best of it.
— Anonymous
Work is the easiest activity man has invented to escape boredom.
— Anonymous

boredom work

There is as much greatness in owning a good turn as in doing it.
— Anonymous
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
— The Bible—Matthew 15:14

leadership biblical

What you don't see with your eyes don't witness with your mouth.
— Anonymous
It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.
— Anonymous
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest of men.
— Anonymous
The world is a bridge; pass over it, but build no house upon it.
— Agrapha, Jesus Christ
Any-time you give up pleasure for duty, you're a stronger person.
— Anonymous

duty

A hunter who has only one arrow does not shoot with careless aim.
— Anonymous
A man who builds to every one's advice will have a crooked house.
— Anonymous
He that speaks the truth must first have one foot in the stirrup.
— Anonymous
Anyone who consults a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
— Anonymous

psychology psychiatrist

Be sure the brain is in gear before putting your mouth in motion.
— Anonymous
Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other people's lives.
— Anonymous
By bravely enduring, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.
— Anonymous
A great leader molds public opinion: a wise leader listens to it.
— Anonymous
It does not take a very brave dog to bark at the bones of a lion.
— Anonymous
One pound of common sense ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
— Persian proverb

common sense proverbs Persian proverbs

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
— Anonymous

truth beliefs

Fool's names, like fool's faces, are often seen in public places.
— Anonymous
A good Jill makes a good Jack." — "Every Jack must have his Jill.
— Anonymous
Let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
— Anonymous
I am therefore to become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
— Anonymous
If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet.
— Anonymous
Honesty is the best policy (but sometimes it has a high premium).
— Anonymous
A liar is not hard to believe when he says nice things about you.
— Anonymous

compliments

If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.
— Anonymous
Whatsoever ye would have others do to you, do ye even so to them.
— Anonymous
None are so fond of secrets as those who don't mean to keep them.
— Anonymous
It is honorable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.
— Latin proverb

proverbs Latin proverbs

Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.
— Anonymous
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
— Chinese proverb

friendship Chinese proverbs critics proverbs

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to them.
— Anonymous
If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
— Anonymous
The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.
— Talmud

love helping others

A promise should be made by the heart and remembered by the hand.
— Anonymous
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge that what is old is new.
— Anonymous
When I am right no one remembers. When I am wrong no one forgets.
— Anonymous
Drink nothing without seeing it; Sign nothing without reading it.
— Anonymous
I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs gratitude proverbs adversity

Ability without ambition is like kindling wood without the spark.
— Anonymous

ambition ability

He who renounces that food for the sake of a weaker man is a god.
— Far Eastern saying
Everything unusual frightens us; that is why we have our customs.
— Anonymous
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
— Anonymous
By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never."
— Anonymous

Spanish proverbs proverbs procrastination

The longest road in the world is the one that leads to the pocket.
— Anonymous
Don't rejoice over them that goes, before you see them that comes.
— Anonymous
A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
— Anonymous

biblical words proverbs

In order to be old and wise, you have to be young and naive first.
— Anonymous
Too many boatmen will run the boat up to the top of the mountains.
— Anonymous
He who has plenty of pepper can afford to season his cabbage well.
— Anonymous
Happy is the doctor who is called in at the decline of an illness.
— Anonymous
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
— Anonymous

Spanish proverbs truth proverbs

Never judge any man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.
— Anonymous
One day is as good as two for he who does everything in its place.
— Anonymous
A man's heart changes his countenance, either for good or for bad.
— Anonymous
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs

The day you're born is the day you draw your last peaceful breath.
— Anonymous
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
— Bible, Philippians 4:8
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
— Anonymous
You can give a piece of advice, but not good luck along with that.
— Anonymous
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
— Anonymous

proverbs folly foolishness biblical

Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly doesn't discourage it.
— Anonymous
A cheerful spirit moveth quick — a grumbler in the mud will stick.
— Anonymous
Inspiration from above is still the spark plug of the moral motor.
— Anonymous
Inflation is when you never had anything and now even that's gone.
— Anonymous
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family.
— Anonymous
The past, the present and the future are one; they are your today.
— Anonymous
What a man does not have in the head, a man must have in the legs.
— Anonymous
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
— Anonymous
The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experiences go slowly.
— Anonymous
To err is human, to try to prevent recurrence of error is science.
— Anonymous

science

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants.
— Anonymous
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
— Anonymous
For one rich man that is content there are a hundred that are not.
— Anonymous
Desire of glory is the last garment that even a wise man puts off.
— Anonymous
Our homes need more electrical outlets, and more emotional outlets.
— Anonymous
No man is completely useless; he can always serve as a bad example.
— Anonymous

example funny

There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.
— Anonymous
It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
— Anonymous

funny

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the TRY-Angle!
— Anonymous
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
— Anonymous

attitude

To enjoy the day of plenty, you must be patient in the day of want.
— Anonymous
Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not he you wrong but yourself.
— Anonymous
Drink and the world drinks with you; swear off and you drink alone.
— Anonymous
The heart of the family is the mother, because life comes from her.
— Anonymous
A bargain is something you cannot use at a price you cannot resist.
— Anonymous
When a camel is at the foot of a mountain then judge of his height.
— Anonymous
When I did well, I heard it never; when I did ill, I heard it ever.
— Anonymous
Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
— Turkish proverb

Turkish proverbs coffee proverbs

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
— Anonymous

human nature responsibility

There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
— Anonymous
When there are too many chefs in the kitchen, no cooking gets done.
— Anonymous
You, yourself, must make the effort. The Buddhas are only teachers.
— Buddhist proverb

proverbs

A lost wife can be replaced, but the loss of character spells ruin.
— Anonymous
It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink.
— Anonymous
Add one small bit to the truth and you inevitably subtract from it.
— Dell Crossword Puzzles

truth

A man is not honest, simply because he never had a chance to steal.
— Anonymous
Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working.
— Anonymous
A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities.
— Anonymous
What you have put into the kettle comes afterwards into your spoon.
— Turkish proverb

value Turkish proverbs proverbs

The path of virtue lies in the renunciation of arrogance and pride.
— Far Eastern sayings
People who think they know it all annoy those of us who already do.
— Anonymous

know-it-alls

Conscience is a small inner voice that doesn't speak your language.
— Merit Crossword Puzzles Plus

conscience

Amazing how many hours slip by while planning how to use your time!
— Anonymous

action time planning

If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon.
— Irish proverb

proverbs Irish proverbs

Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.
— Anonymous
Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.
— Anonymous
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
— Anonymous

Giving

Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else's stinks.
— Picket Fences

funny religion

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
— Anonymous
Don't laugh at one who is old; the same will assuredly happen to us.
— Anonymous
Whoever has bitten a sour apple will enjoy a sweet one all the more.
— Anonymous
Get what you can and keep what you have. That's the way to get rich.
— Anonymous
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hath thou ordained strength.
— Anonymous
The opinion of the intelligent is better than certainty of ignorant.
— Anonymous
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
— Commercial Appeal (Danville, Virginia)

funny

The body is a robe stitched together by desire, thought, and action.
— Anonymous
Things to their perfection come, not all at once, but some and some.
— Anonymous
The temple of fame is the shortest passage to riches and preferment.
— Anonymous
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he gives up.
— Anonymous

perseverance failure

Each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another that.
— Bible, I Corinthians 7:7
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
— Anonymous
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
— Anonymous
He who sees the Self revealed in his heart belongs to eternal bliss.
— Anonymous
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
— John 8:7

virtue biblical

Everyday is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated.
— Anonymous
When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
— Anonymous

God Indian proverbs proverbs

As long as a child does not cry it does not matter what pleases him.
— Anonymous
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs inspirational Chinese proverbs perseverance

Marry for money, my little honey, a rich man's joke is always funny.
— Anonymous
An actor is like a cigar; the more you puff him the smaller he gets.
— Anonymous

praise actors

The optimist sees a glass half full, a pessimist a glass half empty.
— Anonymous
Be careful of what you say or the words will come back to haunt you.
— Anonymous
Opportunities are never lost. The other fellow takes those you miss.
— Anonymous

opportunity

Wisdom is better than strength . . . and better than weapons of war.
— Anonymous
There is that speaking rashly that is like the piercings of a sword.
— Anonymous
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
— The Spectator

advice

If brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough lo blow your nose.
— Anonymous
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
— Anonymous
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
— Anonymous

success what is success success & failure failure

Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.
— Anonymous
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
— Anonymous
If I had not lifted up the stone, you would not have found the jewel.
— Anonymous
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
— Anonymous
Love is like war: you begin when you like and leave off when you can.
— Anonymous
Govern your family as you would cook a small fish — very very gently.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs parenting

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
— Anonymous
The best things in life are free, but it costs alot to find that out.
— Anonymous

life

Kindness is something you can't give away since it always comes back.
— Anonymous

kindness

No opportunity is ever lost. Someone else seizes the ones you missed.
— Anonymous
Therefore the desire of wisdom brings one to the everlasting Kingdom.
— Anonymous
For love enters a man through his eyes, and a woman through her ears.
— Anonymous
If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it?
— Anonymous
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodiles.
— Indian proverb

proverbs Indian proverbs

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
— Anonymous
We all have the same roots, and we are all branches of the same tree.
— Anonymous
One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.
— Spokes

hard work

It's not enough to know how to ride — you must also know how to fall.
— Anonymous
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
— Anonymous

proverbs attitude Chinese proverbs

Before you speak, you are master of what you say, afterwards a slave.
— Anonymous
He who would speak the truth must first have one foot in the stirrup.
— Turkish proverb

truth Turkish proverbs proverbs

One that would jest must take a jest, else to let it alone were best.
— Anonymous
Job was not so miserable in his sufferings, as happy in his patience.
— Anonymous
The most precious gift received by men on earth is desire for wisdom.
— Anonymous
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
— Anonymous

proverbs Indian proverbs faith

Let your ambitions further your accomplishments, not overshadow them.
— Anonymous
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
— Italian saying

proverbs equality status Italian proverbs

What you are speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you are saying.
— Anonymous

communication

Visits always give a pleasure; if not the arriving, so the departing.
— Anonymous
Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
— Anonymous
Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime drank.
— Anonymous
Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.
— Anonymous
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three muscles to frown.
— Anonymous
Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
— Pocket Crossword Puzzles

foolishness money

A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded.
— Anonymous

consultants

The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.
— Anonymous
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
— Anonymous
A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.
— Farmers Almanac

friendship

A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.
— Russian proverb

holding your tongue proverbs Russian proverbs

Health doesn't ensure happiness, but it's hard to be happy without it.
— Anonymous
Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it.
— Anonymous
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness.
— Anonymous

foolishness proverbs biblical

People with the narrowest minds always seem to have the widest mouths.
— Anonymous
Don't tie a knot in your tongue that you cannot untie with your teeth.
— Anonymous
If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile.
— Anonymous

proverbs Indian proverbs

Gold is tried in fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
— Apocrypha—Ecclesiasticus: 2:5

biblical adversity

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
— Anonymous

goals problems

The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.
— Anonymous

business

We are apt to remember most vividly what we would most like to forget.
— Anonymous
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
— Swedish proverb

hard work action Swedish proverbs proverbs

A man who has health has hope; and a man who has hope, has everything.
— Anonymous
A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.
— Los Angeles Times Syndicate

books

The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.
— Slogan of the United States Army Service forces
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
— Anonymous

caring

The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.
— Slogan of US army service force

military achievement

Age gives good advice when it is no longer able to give a bad example.
— Anonymous
O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter.
— The Bible: Isaiah 64:8

God biblical

One that will not be ruled by the rudder will be wrecked on the rocks.
— Anonymous
If the camel once got his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow.
— Anonymous
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
— Anonymous
Don't call a man honest just because he never had the chance to steal.
— Yiddish saying

honesty proverbs

Let your conduct be marked by truthfulness in word, deed, and thought.
— Anonymous
Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood.
— Anonymous
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil full of deadly poison.
— Anonymous
For many of us bring our prejudices along when we listen to a new idea.
— Anonymous
Wouldn't it be great if retail therapy was covered by health insurance?
— Anonymous

shopping

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
— Anonymous

animals

An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.
— Anonymous
No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.
— Anonymous
A socialist is someone who has nothing and wants to divide it with you.
— Anonymous

socialism

When one man builds and another tears down, what do they gain but toil?
— Anonymous
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
— Anonymous
Action should culminate in wisdom." — "No man shall escape from acting.
— Anonymous
Hindsight is good, foresight is better, but insight is the best of all.
— Anonymous
Inflation has made it possible for only the rich to afford a recession.
— Anonymous
When forty million people believe in dumb idea, it's a still dumb idea.
— Ad run by United technologies corporation
Anyone's a fool who doesn't try to live up to his dreams and abilities.
— Anonymous
When in an argument, try asking questions instead of making statements.
— Anonymous

arguments

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
— African proverb

African proverbs age proverbs youth

Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
— Anonymous
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
— Italian proverb

Italian proverbs life history proverbs

You will draw to yourself that which you most persistently think about.
— Anonymous
The wise don't expect lo find life worth living; they make it that way.
— Anonymous

attitude purpose of life wisdom

Let reason go before every enterprise, and counsel before every action.
— Anonymous
Lies, though many, will be caught by the truth as soon as she rises up.
— African proverb

proverbs lies African proverbs

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
— The Bible—Romans 12–12

biblical patience

A miser isn't much fun to live with, but he makes a wonderful ancestor.
— Anonymous
It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.
— Anonymous
Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills.
— Anonymous
The one in front has reached there, the one behind only hears about it.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs competition

Whosoever wants to be great among you, must be the servant of the rest.
— Anonymous
The white man lives in the castle; when he dies he lives in the ground.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs

When helping out, do not let another's sinking ship take you down, too.
— Anonymous
Of course the truth hurts. You would too if you were stretched so much.
— Anonymous
Be grateful for what you have, or that will be taken away from you too.
— Anonymous
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goals.
— Anonymous
Bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things.
— Anonymous
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it
— Anonymous
Truth came to market and could not be sold; we buy lies with ready cash.
— African proverb

truth lies African proverbs proverbs

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.
— Anonymous

time

What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the parish church.
— Anonymous
Most people want to improve themselves, but not many want to work at it.
— Anonymous
Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
— Anonymous
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
— Anonymous

Chinese proverbs proverbs wisdom

When you are dog-tired at night, could it be from growling all day long?
— Anonymous
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.
— Anonymous

biblical foolishness proverbs

Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
— Anonymous
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
— Anonymous
Tell me and I forget.  Teach me and I remember.  Involve me and I learn.
— Anonymous

learning

Speech is silver, silence is golden; speech is human, silence is divine.
— Anonymous
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
— Anonymous
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
— Anonymous

truth

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
— Anonymous
I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done unto you.
— Anonymous
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
— Anonymous
The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination.
— Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life

goals destination

When you tell the truth, you do not have to remember what you have said.
— Anonymous
The blow of a whip raises a welt, but a blow of the tongue crushes bones.
— Apocrypha—Ecclesiastes 28:17

tongue biblical

Praise is like champagne; it should be served while it is still bubbling.
— Robins Reader

praise

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
— Anonymous
Man cannot change the direction of the wind, but he can adjust the sails.
— Anonymous

adversity life

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet tall.
— Anonymous
Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret. They soon betray themselves.
— Anonymous
Money can't buy health, but it certainly makes it easier to stay healthy.
— Anonymous
Life is a bridge; enjoy while crossing, but don't build a castle upon it.
— The Upanishads
You can't help someone uphill without getting closer to the top yourself.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs helping others charity

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
— Anonymous

Jewish proverbs proverbs people equality

Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
— Anonymous
The wolf changes it coat, and the serpent its skin, but not their nature.
— Anonymous
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
— Anonymous
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.
— Anonymous
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
— Anonymous
Tell not all you know, believe not all you hear, do not all you are able.
— Anonymous
Success is never final and failure never total. It's courage that counts.
— Success Unlimited

courage failure

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
— Bible

biblical

Men fool themselves. They pray for a long life, and they fear an old age.
— Anonymous
Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
— James 1:22

action biblical

Intelligence is not needed for luck, but luck is needed for intelligence.
— Anonymous
Allowing the is-ness of the moment is allowing the experience of freedom.
— Anonymous
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
— Anonymous
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
— Turkish proverb

proverbs Turkish proverbs human nature

Put the mysteries of wisdom into practice and all evil will flee from you.
— Egyptian saying
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs adversity

If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.
— Anonymous
If plan 'A' doesn't work, just remember the alphabets has 25 more letters.
— Anonymous
Though it be disfigured by many defects, to whom is his own body not dear?
— Panchatantra
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom . . . and every man who retaineth it.
— Anonymous
When the snake is in the house, one need not discuss the matter of length.
— African proverb

proverbs action African proverbs

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
— Anonymous
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
— Anonymous
Small people think they are small; great people never know they are great.
— Anonymous
Our worst enemies are those friends who have failed to find us profitable.
— Anonymous
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.
— Anonymous
Hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
— Anonymous
Of many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
— Anonymous
Alas! We reap what seed we sow; the hands that smite us are often our own.
— Anonymous
An act may seem right, but it is by its results that its purpose is shown.
— Anonymous
Duty only frowns when you flee from it; follow it, and it smiles upon you.
— Anonymous
How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
— Zall's Second Law

time

Give me the ass that carries me, in preference to the horse that throws me.
— Anonymous
During uprisings, the tendency is to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
— Anonymous
Blessed be Thou, our God and Lord of Hosts, who has not created me a woman.
— Traditional jewish prayer

women women's rights prayers

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
— American proverb

proverbs action success American proverbs

The poor is hated even of his own neighbor, but the rich hath many friends.
— Anonymous
Absence strengtheneth friendship, where the last recollections were kindly.
— Anonymous
If they don't want to play with you, then you don't want to play with them.
— Anonymous
To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.
— Anonymous
The quickest way to kindle a fire is to rub two opposing opinions together.
— Anonymous

arguments

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
— Anonymous

service

The purpose of studying economics is to avoid being deceived by economists.
— Anonymous
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
— Anonymous

proverbs ancestry Irish proverbs

Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
— Anonymous
We must understand the meaning of compassion . . . which is to suffer with.
— Anonymous
The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.
— Anonymous
Happiness is someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to
— Anonymous
Hope is insurance we take out in this life against hell's fire in the next.
— Anonymous
To admit you don't know everything is the first step on the road to wisdom.
— Anonymous

know-it-alls wisdom

The body pays for a slip of the foot and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
— Anonymous
Confess that you were wrong yesterday; it will show that you are wise today.
— Anonymous
Cooking is like love.  It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
— Anonymous

cooking

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
— Anonymous

proverbs Zen sayings

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
— Pioneer Girls Leaders’ Handbook

friendship

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.
— Anonymous
The real secret of patience is to find something else to do in the meantime.
— Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games

patience

Do not let good deeds be motivated by the ego or the clinging to this world.
— Anonymous
No man gives joy or sorrow. . . we gather the consequences of our own deeds.
— Anonymous
When your intent is in accordance with the Universe, things start happening.
— Anonymous

universalism

Too many people think they are being creative when they are being different.
— Anonymous
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
— Bible, Colossians 1:17
This world is a round gulf, and those who cannot swim must go to the bottom.
— Anonymous
There are two fools in every market: one asks too little, one asks too much.
— Anonymous
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
— Hebrews 11:1

biblical faith

Temper is what gets most of us in an argument. Pride is what keeps us there.
— Anonymous

pride arguments temper

He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
— Psalm 62:6

biblical faith

A man consists of the faith that is in him. Whatever your faith is, you are.
— Anonymous
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
— Anonymous
It's fine to stand out from the crowd, but not when they're shooting at you.
— Anonymous
People who claim to be "original" aren't giving their parents enough credit.
— Anonymous
As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.
— Anonymous
When thou doest alms, let not thy. left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
— Matthew 6:3

biblical charity

Your food is close to your stomach, but you must put it in your mouth first.
— African proverb

action proverbs African proverbs

It is possible for one to tell you all the fact and still not all the truth.
— Anonymous
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill so long as you don't lose the cow.
— Anonymous
Parents may feel the need to have many babies to be sure that a few survive.
— World Bank
The opinion of the intelligent is better than the certainty of the ignorant.
— African proverb

intelligence African proverbs proverbs

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
— Anonymous

evil inaction

A good many things are easier said than done — including the marriage ritual.
— Anonymous
To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.
— Anonymous

attitude proverbs

Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based.
— Anonymous

scientists science funny

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
— Anonymous
Whoso keepeth their mouth and their tongue, keepeth their soul from troubles.
— Anonymous
However broken down is the spirit's shrine, the spirit is there all the same.
— Anonymous
How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete?
— Anonymous

feminism

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today and yesterday.
— Anonymous
A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time.
— Anonymous
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
— Anonymous

biblical advice proverbs

To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is formidable.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs

They seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand.
— Anonymous
There is a knack of showing we understand the matter, when we hold our peace.
— Anonymous
Live as if you expected to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— Anonymous
Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff and nudge me when I've said enough.
— Anonymous
The most important element in success is economy — economy of money and time.
— Anonymous
We don't inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
— Anonymous
What is in a word? Consider the difference between a wise guy and a wise man.
— Anonymous
Cheerfulness gives harmony to the soul and is a perpetual song without words.
— Anonymous
If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.
— Anonymous
One is a fool that praises himself, and one is mad who speaks ill of himself.
— Anonymous
Do not reveal your thoughts to every man, lest you drive away your good luck.
— Anonymous
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.
— Anonymous

vice

Seek counsel of them who makes you weep, and not of them who makes you laugh.
— Anonymous
A woman's advice is no great thing, but those who will not take it are fools.
— Anonymous
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
— Anonymous
A man has to live with himself; he should see that he always has good company.
— Anonymous
All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
— Anonymous

chocolate

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs art Chinese proverbs

Computers are like men because they have a lot of data but are still clueless.
— Anonymous

computers

Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.
— PSALM 37:5 NKJV

biblical

On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favour.
— Anonymous

God religion

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over and whispers, 'Grow, Grow.'
— Anonymous
A single conversation with a wise man is better than a month's study of books.
— Anonymous
Nothing comes from a life of ease.
The good sailor hails from the stormy seas.
— Anonymous

sailing

The way to go from rags to riches is to start by getting a decent set of rags.
— Anonymous

fashion success

It takes 72 muscles to frown but only 16 to smile, so if you are tired, smile.
— Anonymous
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
— Anonymous

forgiveness

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.
— Anonymous
There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.
— Tribune (San Marino, California)

value

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
— Arabian proverb

Arabian proverbs Giving proverbs

Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog.
— The Cockle Bur

dogs

We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
— Bible, I Timothy 6:7
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.
— Anonymous
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
— Anonymous

ability

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.
— The Bible—1 John 2:9

biblical hate

Living for ages in the night-realm, we dream that our darkness is full of day.
— Anonymous
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
— Anonymous

happiness

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

kindness

Only when the cold sets in do you notice the pines and cypresses turning green.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs

Write down the advice of those who love you, though you like it not at present.
— Anonymous
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.
— Anonymous
If we don't change our direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
— Anonymous
A man not humble in his own sight will never be exalted in the sight of others.
— Anonymous
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
— Chinese proverb

criticism Chinese proverbs pessimism proverbs

The works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.
— Anonymous
The time will come when winter will ask us: What were you doing all the summer?
— Anonymous
Those who inherit fortunes are often more troublesome than those who make them.
— African proverb

proverbs wealth African proverbs

Anybody who thinks there aren't two sides to every argument is probably in one.
— The Cockle Bur

arguments

I am righteously indignant; you are annoyed; he is making a fuss about nothing.
— Anonymous
All has an end, and will pass away. Truth alone is immortal, and lives forever.
— Anonymous
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
— Japanese proverb

Japanese proverbs proverbs

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
— Anonymous

proverbs Native American proverbs American proverbs environment

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
— Anonymous
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
— Anonymous
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
— Ecclesiastes 3:1

time biblical

If we do not take care of ourselves first, we become useless in helping others.
— Anonymous

self-interest

Some people are suffering and you'll never know because they suffer in silence.
— Anonymous
Victory has a hundred fathers, but no one wants to recognize defeat as his own.
— Anonymous

victory & defeat

Don't think people judge your generosity by the amount of advice you give away.
— Anonymous

advice

Better have as king a vulture advised by swans than a swan advised by vultures.
— Anonymous
If you love listening you will learn; if you lend an ear, wisdom will be yours.
— Apocrypha—Ecclesiasticus 6:33

listening biblical

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.
— Anonymous

generosity

"No" is a complete sentence.  It does not require justification or explanation.
— Anonymous

saying no

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
— Job 14:10

death biblical

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
— Anonymous
Despise not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs.
— Anonymous
Greater is a man who enjoys the fruits of his labor than a man who fears heaven.
— Anonymous
See one Changeless Life in all that lives, and in the separate, One Inseparable.
— Bhagavad Gita
People who wrestle with their consciences usually go for two falls out of three.
— Los Angeles Times Syndicate

conscience

The abstinent run away from what they desire, but carry their desires with them.
— Anonymous
He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs laziness

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
— Anonymous
The duty of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
— A New Dictionary of Quotations

newspapers

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
— Bible, Psalms 133:1
Regard your neighbor's gain as your gain, and your neighbor's loss as your loss.
— Anonymous
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him.
— The New York Times

things

People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs

Tact is the ability to make your guest to feel at home where you wish they were.
— Anonymous
Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
— Anonymous
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
— American proverb

proverbs appearances American proverbs

A good resolution is like an old horse which is often saddled but rarely ridden.
— Mexican proverb

new year proverbs

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
— Anonymous
Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
— African proverb

African proverbs conflict proverbs

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
— Japanese proverb

proverbs reputation Japanese proverbs

We are all very proud of our reason, and yet we guess at fully one-half we know.
— Anonymous
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.
— Anonymous
It is better to cause happiness where you go than to cause happiness when you go.
— Anonymous

happiness

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
— Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

environment

If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse.
— Anonymous

obstacles excuses

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
— Anonymous
The spectacular is always preceded by a long period of unspectacular preparation.
— Anonymous

preparation

We do not stop playing because we grow old.  We grow old because we stop playing.
— Anonymous

play

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
— John 15:13

love friendship biblical

The best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously.
— Anonymous
A consultant is someone whose opinion is sought after the decision has been made.
— Anonymous

consultants

He who actually loves even those that do not love him in return is compassionate.
— Anonymous
The heart of the fool is in his tongue; the tongue of the wise is in their heart.
— Anonymous
A man walks on, and Karma, the 'law of action' follows him along with his shadow.
— Anonymous
Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
— Ecclesiastes 12:12

biblical school books

The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
— Anonymous
What is work? And what is not work? Are questions that perplex the wisest of men.
— Anonymous
Ignorance is not saying, I don't know. Ignorance Is saying, I don't want to know.
— Anonymous
One evening's conversation with a superior man is better than ten years of study.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs conversation proverbs

A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved.
— Anonymous

opportunity proverbs Indian proverbs

Conversation is when three people are talking; gossip is when one of them leaves.
— Anonymous

gossip

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.
— Anonymous
If you lack knowledge, what do you have? If you have knowledge, what do you lack?
— Anonymous
If you think twice before you speak once, you will speak twice the better for it.
— Anonymous
If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.
— Anonymous
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
— Anonymous
A consultant is a man who knows 128 ways to make love, but doesn't know any women.
— Anonymous

consultants

He who keeps the hills, burns the wood; he who keeps the streams drinks the water.
— Anonymous

Chinese proverbs nature proverbs

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
— Spotlight (Boise, Idaho)

parenting

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.
— Jewish proverb

wealth proverbs Jewish proverbs

The world is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.
— Anonymous
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
— Anonymous
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
— Anonymous

attitude Strength

It is better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a mighty ocean.
— Anonymous

fish

You're not as young as you used to be but you're not as old as you're going to be.
— Irish Saying

proverbs aging old age

A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure.
— Apocrypha—Ecclesiasticus 6:14–16

friendship biblical

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
— Anonymous
Omit no opportunity of doing good, and you will find no opportunity for doing ill.
— Anonymous
A nation forgetful and disrespectful of its past has no future, and deserves none.
— Daily Telegraph (London)

history

Throughout history, the most common debilitating human ailment has been cold feet.
— Country
Regardless of how rich you are, wisdom has to be acquired on the installment plan.
— Anonymous
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
— Chinese proverb

ancestors Chinese proverbs proverbs

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
— Anonymous
Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.
— Anonymous
A man without convictions is a tramp on the road that leads to the land of nowhere.
— Anonymous
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
— Anonymous
Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch.
— Anonymous
Though the birds may fly over your head, let them not make their nest in your hair.
— Anonymous
For what has a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
— Bible, Matthew 16:26
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
— Anonymous
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
— Apocrypha—II Esdras 14:25

understanding biblical

Greater love hath no man than this, that he will lay down his life for his friends.
— Anonymous
For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of harvest.
— Jewish proverb

proverbs old age Jewish proverbs

The heart of fools is in their mouth and the mouth of wise ones is in their hearts.
— Anonymous
Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today, do not expect to regain her tomorrow.
— Anonymous
A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.
— Ecclesiasticus 12:8

friendship biblical enemies

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
— Anonymous

intellectuals

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
— Anonymous
The aids to noble life are all within." — M. Arnold "True nobility is invulnerable.
— Anonymous
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
— Anonymous

admiration art

When it looked like the sun wouldn't shine anymore God put a rainbow in the clouds.
— Anonymous

spiritual Christianity

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back or a fool from any side.
— Jewish proverb

Jewish proverbs proverbs foolishness

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
— Matthew 16:26

biblical principles

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense and the past perfect.
— The United Church Observer

nostalgia

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
— Anonymous

censorship

Inspiration impels us to experience what has not yet occurred, but is already known.
— Anonymous

inspiration

To feel one's ignorance is to be wise; to feel sure of one's wisdom is to be a fool.
— Anonymous
More wrongs have been committed in the name of Christ than in the name of the devil.
— Anonymous
But that's what being an artist is—feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.
— in The New Yorker

art

There is a past which is gone forever; but there is a future which is still our own.
— Anonymous
Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of eternity?
— Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 1:2
With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well, too.
— Jewish proverb

money proverbs Jewish proverbs

Work for the Lord. The pay isn't much, but the retirement plan is out of this world.
— Anonymous
Old age doesn't keep men from chasing women; they just have trouble remembering why.
— Anonymous
O LORD, . . . if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come.
— Genesis 24:42

biblical prayers

A promise is the offspring of the intention, and should be nurtured by recollection.
— Anonymous
Most people in this world are about as happy as they have made up their minds to be.
— Anonymous

happiness

Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
— The Upanishads

universalism fear the self

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.
— The Bible—Song of Solomon 4:5

biblical breasts

A man should be just as careful in choosing his pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
— Anonymous
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
— The Bible—Matthew 23:12

humility biblical

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs anger patience advisory

Old age is having too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet.
— Orben’s Current Comedy

old age

A successful salesman sells his goods on their merit—not by knocking his competitor.
— Anonymous

sales persuasion

Moderation is a tree with roots of contentment, and fruits of tranquility and peace.
— Anonymous
The things that are seen are temporal; but the things that are not seen are eternal.
— Anonymous
The good and the pleasant approach a man; the wise prefers the good to the pleasant.
— Anonymous
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
— Anonymous
Ideas are like fleas, they jump from person to person, but they don't bite everyone.
— Anonymous

ideas

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks.
— Anonymous
Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
— Yellowed Pages

resentment

Let each man look not only to his own interests but also to the interests of others.
— Bible, Philippians 2:4
A piece of incense may be as large as the knee, but unless burnt emits no fragrance.
— Anonymous
He who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth must wait a very, very long time.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs action

A conscience, like a buzzing bee, can make a fellow uneasy without ever stinging him.
— American Farm & Home Almanac

conscience

Women are apt to see chiefly the defects of a man of talent and the merits of a fool.
— Anonymous
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.
— Ecclesiastes 8:15

biblical opportunity

If you think too long on your next step, you will end up in life standing on one leg.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs

From fortune to misfortune is but a step; from misfortune to fortune is a longer way.
— Anonymous
It is less embarrassing to ask a silly question than to explain later why you didn't.
— Anonymous

asking questions

I give good advice with the same enthusiasm and sincerity in which I give bad advice.
— Anonymous

advice

Consider the lilies of the world, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
— Bible

plants flowers

The path of duty lies in the thing that is nearby, but men seek it in things far off.
— Anonymous
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
— Saying

arguments proverbs

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
— Anonymous

generosity

These things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation.
— Talmud

hesitation

Originality is not necessarily better than imitation, but it makes imitation possible.
— Anonymous
Success is not the ability to get along with people, its ability to get ahead of them.
— Anonymous
Firmness is that admirable quality in ourselves that is merely stubbornness in others.
— Anonymous

hypocrisy

Before you can learn to fly, you must first learn to walk. You cannot fly into flying.
— Anonymous

learning

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.
— Anonymous
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler
and whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
— Anonymous

biblical proverbs

It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
— Anonymous
If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, how canst thou find anything in thine age?
— Anonymous
This is the sum of duty: do not unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.
— Mahabharata

how to live life

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
— Anonymous
Success doesn't come to those who wait — and it doesn't wait for anyone to come to it.
— Anonymous
A dog has a lot of friends and fun, maybe because he wags his tail and not his tongue.
— Anonymous

holding your tongue

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
— Anonymous
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
— Anonymous
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy, in certain instances, is the same thing.
— Anonymous
A man who would rise in the world should veil his ambition with the forms of humanity.
— Anonymous
A kiss is the act of tasting another to determine if further
consumption is warranted.
— Anonymous

kiss

You can take the animal out of the wild but you can't take the wild out of the animal.
— Anonymous
When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
— Anonymous

motivational

It takes less to keep an old customer satisfied than to get a new customer interested.
— Anonymous

business management sales

Don't judge a man by the words of his mother, listen to the comments of his neighbors.
— Anonymous
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
— Chinese proverb

pessimism Chinese proverbs proverbs

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
— Anonymous
The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on the water but to walk on the earth.
— Anonymous
Personality has the power to open many doors, but it's character that keeps them open.
— Anonymous

character

Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can.
Seldom found in woman, never found in man.
— Anonymous

patience men and women

By truth alone is man's mind purified, and by right discipline it doth become inspired.
— Anonymous
The successful salesman sells his goods on their merit—not by knocking his competitors.
— Anonymous
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
— Anonymous

style principles

Knowledge cannot make us all leaders, but it can help us decide which leader to follow.
— Management Digest

leadership knowledge

Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on its snout.
— Anonymous
Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat the door down.
— Anonymous
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is their gray hair.
— Anonymous
He who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.
— Anonymous

gratitude

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
— “SMILE” ZINGERS in Chicago Tribune

wisdom maturity

When a man falls in love with himself, it's usually the beginning of a lifelong romance.
— Anonymous
Let a man overcome anger by love, evil by good, greediness by liberality, lies by truth.
— Anonymous
American believes more than anything else in the last four letters of that title: I can.
— Anonymous
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; the venom of asps is under their lips.
— Anonymous
Middle age is when you begin to wonder who put the quicksand into the hourglass of time.
— The Orben Comedy Letter

age middle age

Every parent who does not teach his child a trade, it is as though he taught him to rob.
— Anonymous
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
— Anonymous
Vast worlds lie within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the motes in a sunbeam.
— Yoga Vasishtha
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
— Bible, I Corinthians 13:13
The word 'communication' comes from the Latin word 'Communicare' which means "to share".
— Anonymous
The other planets may not be able to support life, but it isn't easy on this one either.
— Anonymous

life

Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows.
— Anonymous
No face is ever hopelessly plain through which a friendly soul looks out upon the world.
— Anonymous
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
— Anonymous
How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it.
— Tribune (Camden County, Georgia)

character sports

When fortune is good, you rule over the devils; when fortune is bad, they rule over you.
— Anonymous
Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
— Anonymous

biblical parenting proverbs children

Psychology is the science of predicting how people behave—and explaining why they don't.
— Anonymous
Vehement desires about any one thing render the soul blind with respect to other things.
— Anonymous
Enjoy the game and you will play better vs. if you play better, you will enjoy the game.
— Anonymous
A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others.  Be a carrier.
— Anonymous

attitude

When one has no lust, no hatred, a man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred.
— Anonymous
Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.
— The Globe and Mail (Totonto, Ontario)
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. It you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
— Anonymous
When roubles falls from heaven there is no sack, when there is a sack roubles don't fall.
— Anonymous
One who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life — is a great man indeed!
— Anonymous
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
— Anonymous

credit charity

Om! That is whole; whole is this; from the Invisible Whole comes forth the visible whole.
— Isa-Upanishad
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
— Anonymous

preparation

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but the greatest of these is charity.
— 1 Corinthians 13:13

biblical charity

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.
— Anonymous
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
— African proverb

proverbs change African proverbs

No man is hanged who has money in his pocket" "When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
— Anonymous
The real difference between people is not sanity and insanity, but more or less insanity.
— Anonymous
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson where you find the present tense and the past perfect.
— Anonymous

nostalgia

Economics is nothing more nor less than keeping your head as far above water as possible.
— Anonymous
A clear conscience and the respect of one's fellow citizens are still worth striving for.
— Anonymous
Vinegar does not catch a fly, but honey. A sweet tongue draweth the snake from the earth.
— Anonymous
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
— Anonymous

adolescence

The person who says youth is a state of mind invariably has more state of mind than youth.
— American Farm and Home Almanac

youth age

In selling a horse praise the bad point, and leave the good ones to look after themselves.
— Anonymous
As a wise man, if wiser, would deal with himself, so the Divine Providence deals with him.
— Anonymous
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
— Anonymous

inaction

Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
— Buddhist proverb

enlightenment Zen sayings proverbs

Next to being shot at and  missed, nothing is quite so satisfying as an income tax refund.
— Anonymous
An American believes more than anything else in the last four letter of that title: I can.
— Anonymous

America

Politicians are like diapers.  They should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.
— Anonymous

politicians

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
— Anonymous
The only thing more painful than learning from experience is not learning from experience.
— Anonymous

experience

I am beautiful; you have quite good features; she isn't bad-looking if you like that type.
— Anonymous
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
— Anonymous
Modesty is the art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.
— Anonymous
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country.
— Leviticus 24:22

law biblical

Eat according to the limits of your provisions; walk according to the length of your step.
— Anonymous
Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there.
— Anonymous
Habit may be likened to a cable; every day we weave a thread, and soon we cannot break it.
— Anonymous
Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.
— Anonymous
Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs gratitude proverbs

The bitterness of poor quality persists long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
— Anonymous

quality

A wise man reflects before he speaks. A fool speaks, and then reflects on what was uttered.
— Anonymous
A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses.
— Anonymous
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
— Hebrews 13:2

strangers service

Do nothing from selfishness or conceit but in humility count others better than yourselves.
— Anonymous
Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.
— Anonymous
Statistics are like a bikini: what the reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.
— Anonymous

statistics

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
— Anonymous

justice

Life is not measured by number of breaths we take but the moment that take our breath away.
— Anonymous
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
— Anonymous
Let not any man, though pained, be sour-tempered, nor devise a deed of mischief to another.
— Anonymous
Wine nourishes, refreshes, and cheers. Wherever wine is lacking, medicines become necessary.
— Talmud

wine

Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth the common man, and puffeth up the little man.
— Anonymous
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
— Anonymous
There is no purifier like knowledge in this world: time makes one find himself in his heart.
— Anonymous
This age of darkness will constantly proceed in it's decay until the beginning of a new era.
— Anonymous
The best way to judge a teacher is to ask who his instructors were and who his students are.
— Anonymous

teaching

Talk to your children while they are eating; what you say will stay even after you are gone.
— Anonymous

proverbs Indian proverbs Native American proverbs parenting

Let one strive to purify his thoughts, what a man thinks, that he is: this is an old secret.
— Anonymous
Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.
— Anonymous
Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.
— Anonymous
Always look on the bright side of things—but if you're buying something, look on both sides.
— Anonymous
Butter and honey shall they eat, that they may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
— Bible, Isaiah 8:15
There is one thing to be said for ignorance — it sure causes a lot of interesting arguments.
— Anonymous

arguments ignorance

The virtuous man cannot be hurt, the misery that his enemy would inflict comes back on them.
— Far Eastern sayings
Do not speak harshly to any man; those who are so spoken to will answer thee in the same way.
— Anonymous
Some people know a lot more than they're willing to tell. Unfortunately, the reverse is true.
— Anonymous

advice

None of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
— Sunnah

how to live life

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is the same once you get there.
— Anonymous
Truth comes into the world with two faces: sad suffering and laughs. But it is the same face.
— Anonymous
A man who asks is a fool for five minutes, but a man who does not ask remains a fool forever.
— Anonymous
I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human; indeed, I do not even judge myself.
— Anonymous
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
— Anonymous
Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.
— Anonymous
Be not a friend to the wicked — charcoal when hot, burns; when cold, it blackens the fingers.
— Anonymous
If you find you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
— Anonymous
Nothing seems to go as far as it did. Even nostalgia doesn't reach back as far as it used to.
— Changing Times

nostalgia

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
— Anonymous

biblical proverbs

Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
— 1 Corinthians 15:54

death biblical

Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
— Anonymous

appreciation

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.
— Greenpeace advertisement

environment

Give a man a fish and he will live for a day; give him a net, and he will live for a lifetime.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs charity Chinese proverbs

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at Gypsy fortunetellers take economists seriously.
— The Cincinnati Enquirer

economists

Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of range before it is understood.
— Anonymous

conversation subtlety

I don't even remember what happened in 2005.  You make a mistake and just put it in the trash.
— Anonymous

golf

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
— Anonymous
Computers are like women because once you acquire one you spend all your money on accessories.
— Anonymous

computers

No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
— Anonymous

money Latin proverbs proverbs

HOFUKU (pointing at mountains): Is not this Reality? CHOKEI: It is, but it's a pity to say so.
— Zen story
Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk.
— Anonymous
Those killed by lack of wisdom are numerous. Those killed by wisdom do not amount to anything.
— Anonymous
Put yourself frankly into the hands of Fate, and let her spin you out the fortune she pleases.
— Anonymous
Modesty in delivering our opinions leaves us at liberty of changing them without embarrassment.
— Anonymous
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword but not so many as have perished by their own tongue.
— Anonymous
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
— Anonymous

religion church Christianity

If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.
— Anonymous
Put off your shoes and your clothing and have the angel of Sunlight embrace you, all your body.
— Anonymous
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, Loving favor rather than silver and gold.
— Anonymous

biblical reputation proverbs

A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it; they think success will come at every turn.
— Anonymous
The cards you hold in the game of life mean very little-it's the way you play them that counts.
— Anonymous
Words are treated so often as trifles when in reality they can be more devastating than rifles.
— Anonymous
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
— Anonymous
No one of you is a believer until he desire for their brother that which he desire for himself.
— Anonymous
It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but hard work to actually know what one is talking about.
— The Public Years

opinions knowledge

Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
— The United Church Observer

worry

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
— The Bible: Matthew 7:7

biblical seeking asking action

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
— Ecclesiasticus 6:14

biblical friendship

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
— Matthew 25:40

biblical mankind society

Manage all your actions, words, and thoughts accordingly, since you can at any moment quit life.
— Far Eastern saying
And whosoever exalt himself shall be humbled; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
— Anonymous
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.
— Anonymous
He is not called wise who knows good and ill, but he who can recognize the two evils the lesser.
— Anonymous
An unlucky word dropped from the tongue, cannot be brought back again by a coach and six horses.
— Anonymous
It's not what you get that makes you successful, it's what you continue to do with what you got.
— Anonymous
In marriage it is all very well to say that 'the two are made one' — the question is, which one?
— Anonymous
The betrothed of good is evil, the betrothed of life is death, the betrothed of love is divorce.
— Anonymous
Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
— The Associated Press

funny experience

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the list, so there is none 'occasion of stumbling in him.
— Anonymous
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship during the storms.
— Anonymous
Give and it will be given to you . . . for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.
— Bible, Luke 6:38
Those parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
— Anonymous
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
— Anonymous
When the curry is good, the rice is half cooked; when the rice is good, the curry is half cooked.
— Anonymous
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
— Anonymous
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any tattoos marks upon you.
— Bible, Leviticus 19:28
Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope, today is getting from one to the other as best we can.
— Anonymous
Men can acquire knowledge but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
— Anonymous
The cards you hold in the game of life mean very little – it's the way you play them that counts.
— Anonymous
I pray that the God of peace will give you every good thing you need so you can do what he wants.
— HEBREWS 13:20

biblical

The reason some men do not succeed is because their wishbone is where their backbone ought to be.
— Anonymous
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
— Anonymous

tyranny

My son is my son till he gets him a wife; but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
— Anonymous
When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.
— Los Angeles Times

aging

Prefer to die doing your own duty: the duty of another will bring you into great spiritual danger.
— Anonymous
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
— Anonymous
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and a man that hath found such a one hath found a treasure.
— Anonymous
Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It is lent to you by your children.
— African proverb

proverbs African proverbs

You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.
— Anonymous

European proverbs cooperation proverbs bad company

Not everything you face in life can be changed, but you can change nothing until you have faced it.
— Anonymous

change motivational

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
— Changing Times magazine

environment

A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise following success.
— Anonymous

failure

As a general rule, Misquotations drive out real quotes.  This is The Immutable Law of Misquotation.
— Anonymous

quotations

Wisdom is better than rubies. And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to her.
— Anonymous
Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.
— 1 PETER 3:15 KJV

faith biblical hope

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.
— Anonymous

Native American proverbs spiritual

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
— Anonymous
Do not let the ways of the world dismay your heart, being that you are a spiritual warrior of truth.
— Ramayana
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
— Anonymous

giving up

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques. The comfortable ones are worn out by a single generation.
— Anonymous
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
— Anonymous
Have you noticed that these days even a moment of silence has to be accompanied by background music?
— Funny Funny World

silence

Prejudice is a great time-saver; it enables one to form opinions without bothering to get the facts.
— Anonymous

prejudice

They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
— Matthew 15:14

biblical leadership

Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins.
— Native American saying

objectivity proverbs

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
— Anonymous
When we put ourselves in the other person's place, we're less likely to want to put him in his place.
— Farmer’s Digest

empathy kindness

He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.
— Yugoslavian proverb

helping others honesty proverbs

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
— Anonymous
When life is ruined for the sake of money's preciousness, the ruined life cares nought for the money.
— Anonymous
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
— Anonymous

religion philosophy

Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
— Anonymous
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs: jolted by every pebble in the road.
— Anonymous

sense of humor

Religions are intermittently too interesting, wise, and consoling to be abandoned to believers' alone.
— The Philosophers' Mail

religion

If they cannot contain their lust, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn from desire.
— Anonymous
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary.
— Talmud

how to live life

The best possession of a man of clay is health; the highest virtue of a man of spirit is truthfulness.
— Anonymous
For what is your life?  It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
— The Bible—James 4:14

biblical life

Anxiety seems to be the dominant fact—and is threatening to become the dominant cliché—of modern life.
— Time Magazine

modern life anxiety

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time.  The trick is to always keep the engine running.
— Anonymous

career

Truth is brighter than the sun; truth is the sunny day of Reason, and falsehood the mind's dark night.
— Anonymous
A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.
— M*A*S*H (Bug-Out, 1976)

Cigar cigars

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.
— in National Enquirer

dogs

O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes and see not; which have ears and hear not.
— Anonymous
To forgive without forgetting, is again to reproach the wrong-doer every time the act comes back to us.
— Anonymous
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
— The Bible—Matthew 26:41

temptation biblical famous

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.
— Isaiah 52:7

religion biblical

Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.
— Anonymous
I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck.
— Anonymous

God funny

A rand goes a long way these days. You can carry it around for days without finding a thing it will buy.
— Daily Dispatch (East London, South Africa)

money inflation funny

A tune is more lasting than the song of the birds, And a word more lasting than the wealth of the world.
— Anonymous

proverbs Irish proverbs fortune

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
— Anonymous

self-control proverbs biblical

A misfortune that cometh from on high cannot be averted; caution is useless against the decrees of Fate.
— Anonymous
Seek the fresh air of the forest and the fields and there in the midst of them shall you find angel air.
— Anonymous
An economist is a man who talks about things you don't understand and makes you believe it's your fault.
— Anonymous
The person who knows little is proud that she knows so much; the much is sorry that she knows so little.
— Anonymous
One that loses money loses much; one who loses a friend loses more; but one who loses courage loses all.
— Anonymous
How can a wise man, knowing the unity of life, seeing all creatures in himself, be deluded or sorrowful.
— Anonymous
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper; the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
— Anonymous

life

Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.
— Anonymous

wealth life

Good people shine from afar like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot at night.
— Anonymous
The mind is like a bright mirror standing. Take care to wipe it all the time, and allow no dust to cling.
— Anonymous
Animals don't look like people, but they think like people, and they really are people under their pelts.
— Anonymous
A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision without a task is a dream. A task with a vision is victory.
— Anonymous
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.
— Anonymous
The world endures because of three activities: Torah study, worship of God, and deeds of loving-kindness.
— Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)

Judaism Torah

The present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last Abode is Life, did they but know.
— Koran
Intonation is like being pregnant. You are not more pregnant, or less pregnant. Either you are or aren't.
— Anonymous

playing music

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
— Anonymous
Don't be troubled if the temptation to give advice is irresistible; the ability to ignore it is universal.
— Planned Security

advice

When all men praised the peacock for his tail, the birds cried out, "Look at his legs!  And what a voice!"
— Japanese proverb

proverbs Japanese proverbs envy

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs flowers

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
— Bible, Matthew 7:3

changing people judging biblical

The difference between conviction and Prejudice is that you can defend a conviction without getting angry.
— Anonymous
Go not for every grief to the physician, for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
— Anonymous
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
— The King James Bible

biblical

Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving it.
— Anonymous
Criticism is the disapproval of people not for having faults, but for having faults different from our own.
— Anonymous

shortcomings criticism

If you have but two coins, use one for bread to feed the body and the other for hyacinths to feed the soul.
— Anonymous
In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered.
— Apocrypha—Ecclesiasticus 11:25

biblical adversity prosperity

There is more courage in facing the world with undisguised truth than in descending into a wild beast's den.
— Anonymous
Be intent on action, not on the fruits of action; avoid attraction to the fruits and attachment to inaction.
— Anonymous
A committee is a collection of the unfit chosen from the unwilling by the incompetent to do the unnecessary.
— Anonymous

committees

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.
— Anonymous
The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs duty proverbs

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
— The Bible—Colossians 4:6

biblical speech

Order is the sanctity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.
— Anonymous
Love has many ways of expressing itself, but in general the ways are two — the practical and the sentimental.
— Anonymous
From the altar of age the ashes of the fire of youth are gone, but the flame of more earnest feelings remain.
— Anonymous
The fool can no more taste the sweetness of wisdom than the man with cold can appreciate the scent of a rose.
— African proverb

African proverbs Fools proverbs

The true mark of a well-educated man is that he never tries to answer a question before being asked to do so.
— Anonymous

wisdom

Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.
— Anonymous
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
— Exodus 20:12

father mother biblical parents

If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.
— Anonymous
When things start going your way, it's usually because you stopped going the wrong way down a one-way street.
— Los Angeles Times Syndicate
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
— Anonymous

anger biblical proverbs

The man who first brought ruin on the Roman people was a man who pampered them by largenesses and amusements.
— Anonymous
Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.
— Anonymous
The true meaning of word is to be found by observing what a person does with it, not by what he says about it.
— Anonymous
In extreme cases marijuana can so destroy a man's character that he mixes freely with persons of another race.
— African proverb

drugs African proverbs proverbs

When you talk you only say something that you already know; when you listen you learn what someone else knows.
— Anonymous

listening

Ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labor and toil, and give and bring all to the woman?
— Anonymous
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
— Anonymous

myopic

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
— The Bible—Mark 10:25

wealth biblical

Wealth in the hands of a man who thinks not of helping mankind with it is sure to turn one day into dry leaves.
— Anonymous
A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.
— Anonymous

financial industry

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal.
— Anonymous
Inspiration is everywhere . If you're ready to appreciate it, an ant can be one of the wonders of the universe.
— Anonymous
To experience is to know, to know is to understand, to understand is to tolerate, to tolerate is to have peace.
— Far Eastern saying
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
— United Nations Constitution
When you are educated, you'll believe only half of what you hear. When you're intelligent, you know which half.
— Anonymous

intelligence education

The real measure of black progress will be when they can spurn professional sports careers as easily as whites.
— Anonymous

African-Americans

The fool can no more taste the sweetness of wisdom than the man with a cold can appreciate the scent of a rose.
— Anonymous
You must take the beam from your eye before you can see well enough to remove the splinter from your brother's.
— Bible, Matthew 7:3
I find it extremely hard to keep a secret...I feel weird inside if I know something someone close to me doesn't
— Anonymous
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
— Anonymous
Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
— Bible, Matthew 18:3

heaven biblical

I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes—
I wonder if It weighs like Mine—
Or has an Easier size.
— Anonymous

sorrow

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
— Bible

biblical God Christianity Jesus

The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship in sail, a woman after the birth of her child.
— Irish proverb

motherhood proverbs Irish proverbs

He who thinks everything must be in bloom when the strawberries are in bloom doesn't know anything about apples.
— Anonymous

proverbs Greek proverbs nature

Economists and weather forecasters are the only people who can make an abundant living without ever being right.
— Anonymous
The paradox of economics: During periods when none of the economic theories are working, all the economists are.
— Anonymous
If you think that praise is due, now's the time to show it, 'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead.
— Anonymous
While thou thinkest of many things thou thinkest of nothing; while thou wouldst go many ways thou standest still.
— Anonymous
Each object in the world is not merely itself but involves every other object, and in fact is every other object.
— Rig-Veda
A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good man becomes a rational being.
— Anonymous
Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of the mind, that you may prove what is good.
— Bible, Romans 12:2
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself.
— Anonymous

criticism judging

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
— Matthew 19:24

biblical wealth

A man's actions are divided, as regards to his object into four classes; purposeless, unimportant, vain, or good.
— Anonymous
We are not Human Beings seeking a Spiritual Experience... We are Spiritual Beings involved in a Human Experience.
— Anonymous
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
— Anonymous
People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg.
— Good Reading magazine

action

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
— Dale Carnegie’s Scrapbook, edited by Dorothy Carnegie

risk-taking

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
— Anonymous

anger

It is better to do your duty, however imperfectly, than to assume the duties of another man, however successfully.
— Anonymous
In the midst of your illness you will promise a goat, but when you have recovered, a chicken will seem sufficient.
— African proverb

illness proverbs African proverbs

Imagination is more important than knowledge; for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
— Anonymous
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor, to console him for what he is.
— in The Wall Street Journal

sense of humor imagination

Of a gift to be received or given, of an act to be done, time drinks up the flavor, unless it be quickly performed.
— Anonymous
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
— Genesis 2:24

marriage biblical

A man cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
— Anonymous
When Joe Louis was asked who had hit him the hardest during his boxing career, he replied, "That's easy—Uncle Sam!"
— Anonymous
To an old father, nothing is more sweet
Than a daughter.  Boys are more spirited, but their ways
Are not so tender.
— Anonymous

daughters

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing; it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.
— Anonymous
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
— Audubon journal

environment

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
— Matthew 19:24

biblical charity

Man is the only animal that eats when he is not hungry, drinks when he is not thirsty, and makes love at all seasons.
— Anonymous
The superior doctor prevents illness; the mediocre doctor cures imminent illness; the inferior doctor treats illness.
— Anonymous
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law of the prophets.
— Bible

how to live life

Did you hear about the auto worker who was offered a position as president of a bank, but couldn't afford the pay cut?
— Anonymous
The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.
— Anonymous

proverbs communication

Will is the exclusive possession of mankind. It divides men from the brute, in whom instinctive desire only is active.
— Anonymous
This world is like a vestibule before the World to Come. Prepare yourself in the vestibule that you may enter the hall.
— Talmud
In this era of rapid change, one thing remains constant: it's easier to pray for forgiveness than to resist temptation.
— SOL KENDON

temptation

A dog is not considered good because of his barking, and a man is not considered clever because of his ability to talk.
— Anonymous
We travel where ever mankind reigns
and find good men in all the world's domains
and recognize them as a kind of Danes.
— Anonymous
Unenduring are youth, beauty, life, wealth, lordship, the society of the beloved; let not the wise be deluded by these.
— Anonymous
An expert is like the bottom of a double boiler. It shoots off a lot of steam, but it never really knows what's cooking.
— Anonymous

experts

Whatever we may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future God has planned for us.
— ROMANS 8:18 PHILLIPS

biblical

It is useless to try to hold some people to anything they say while they're madly in love, drunk, or running for office.
— Anonymous

funny politicians honesty

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
— Anonymous
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
— The Bible—Galatians 5:22–23

biblical patience

In health and wealth a man is never in want of friends. True friends, however, are those who remain when they are needed.
— Anonymous
If thou hast abundance, give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little.
— Apocrypha, Tobit 4:8
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
— Anonymous
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.
— Anonymous

introspection

Enjoy the world gently, 
enjoy the world gently. 
If the world is spoiled, 
no one can repair it.
Enjoy the world gently.
— Nigerian chant (The Song of the Babalawos)

environment

You can't always go by expert opinion. A turkey, if you ask a turkey, should be stuffed with grasshoppers, grit and worms.
— Changing Times

experts opinions

Another thing man can do that the lower animals can't is stand upright in front of a crowd and put both feet in his mouth.
— Anonymous
Teach him then the sayings of the Past, so that he may become a good example for the children. . . . .No one is born wise.
— Anonymous
Three things can never be got with three things: wealth, with wishing for it; youth, with cosmetics; health with medicine.
— Far Eastern saying
An after dinner speech should be like a lady's dress; long enough to cover the subject but short enough to be interesting.
— Anonymous

oratory

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
— Anonymous

funny religion

A man marries a woman hoping she'll never change—and she does.  A woman marries a man hoping he will change—and he doesn't.
— Anonymous

men and women marriage changing people change

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
— Anonymous

Indian proverbs proverbs

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if either fall the one will lift the other up.
— Bible, Ecclesiastes
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
— Anonymous
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant; there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
— Anonymous

inspiration

I sought my soul But my soul I could not see I sought my God But my God eluded me I sought my brother And I found all three.
— London Church news services
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.
— Anonymous

life pessimistic Indian proverbs proverbs

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
— Chinese proverb

Persian proverbs sorrow proverbs Chinese proverbs

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
— Bible

biblical God Christianity

When the knot of the heart, which is ignorance, is loosed, all doubts are dissolved, all evil effects of deeds are destroyed.
— Anonymous
For certain is death for the born. And certain is birth for the dead. 
Therefore over the inevitable thou shouldst not grieve.
— Bhagavad Gita

death sorrow

Politics is the art of getting money from the rich and votes from the poor, with the pretext of protecting one from the other.
— Muy Interesante

politics

Poison is not to be taken even though offered by one's mother or father. But gold is acceptable even from one who is inimical.
— Far Eastern sayings
In this age of great progress and rapid change, experience is not needed so much as is courage to break away from old methods.
— Anonymous
Whatever your opinions are, don't make them a prison. Always leave some space to change your mind and your system of the world.
— Anonymous
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother, and found all three.
— Anonymous

brotherhood of man

In order to maintain a well-balanced perspective, the person who has a dog to worship him should also have a cat to ignore him.
— Peterborough Examiner
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God
— Anonymous
Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom—the inundation of outside influences never stops.
— Anonymous

teenagers

An optimist is a parent who'll let his kid borrow the new car for a date. A pessimist is one who won't. A cynic is one who did.
— Anonymous
Making a million friends is not a miracle, the miracle is to make a friend who will stand by you when millions are against you.
— Anonymous
A big disappointment in life is the discovery that the man who writes the finance company ads isn't the one who makes the loans.
— The London Free Press (Ontario)

funny

With beauty before me I walk, with beauty behind me I walk. With beauty above me and about me, I walk. It is finished in beauty.
— Anonymous
Yoga or union is attained from the inhibition of the mental energy and matter. Then the Seer is clothed in his essential nature.
— Patanjali
Like a beautiful flower, full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of those who do not act accordingly.
— Anonymous
If you have no feelings about worldly things, they are all Buddhism; if you have feelings about Buddhism, it is a worldly thing.
— Anonymous

proverbs buddhist Zen sayings detachment

The smallest amount of merit dedicated to the good of others is more precious than any amount of merit devoted to one's own good.
— Anonymous
For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. Look well therefore to this day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn.
— Anonymous
God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
— John 3:16

biblical religion

You start by saying "no" to requests.  Then if you have to go to "yes," okay.  But if you start with "yes" you can't get to "no."
— Anonymous

saying no saying Yes

Be bold enough to use your voice, brave enough to listen to your heart, and strong enough to live the life you've always imagined.
— Anonymous
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
— Bible

biblical Jesus God Christianity

One moment in eternity is as important as another moment, for eternity changeth not, neither is one part better than another part.
— Anonymous
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
— Anonymous
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing...
— Anonymous

beliefs

Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that we'll never be.
— Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science

the self decision-making

Let every action be done with perfect gravity, humanity, freedom, and justice, and perform it as though that action were your last.
— Anonymous
America is a religious nation, but only because it is religiously tolerant and lets every citizen pray, or not pray, in his own way.
— From an editorial in The New York Times

America

The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
— Anonymous

wise Indian proverbs proverbs

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
— Anonymous

changing people

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.
— Anonymous
When you are angry, do not sin, and be sure to stop being angry before the end of the day. Do not give the devil a way to defeat you.
— EPHESIANS 4:26–27

biblical anger

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
— Luke 12:48

charity biblical

No man ever remains, even for an instant, without performing action. Every man is will-lessly forced to act, by the primary energies.
— Anonymous
If each hung up his pack of troubles on a wall and looked around at the troubles of others, he would quickly run to grab his own bag.
— Anonymous
Weddings are not just weddings, but rather pressure-cooker moments that contain layer upon layer of psychologically fraught material.
— The New York Times

weddings

This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel!  This is the quintessence of all I have learnt in fifty years!
— Anonymous

the world

With kindness conquer rage; with goodness malice; with generosity defeat all meanness; with the straight truth defeat lies and deceit.
— Anonymous
A fine cigar is just like a woman. If you don't light it up just right and suck on it with a certain frequency, it will go out on you.
— Anonymous

Cigar cigars

Take no thought of the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
— Anonymous
If a wise man's way you wisely seek,
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.
— Anonymous

conversation wisdom

Neither speak well nor ill of yourself. If well, people will not believe you; if ill, they will believe a great deal more than you say.
— Anonymous
Those who have no wisdom yet 
count their wealth by what they get.
You who have the grace to live: 
count your wealth by what you give!
— Anonymous

wealth Giving

You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
— Anonymous
Puns keep us on the alert, and responding to them reveals that we are alert.... They make us stretch our minds and double our attention.
— Anonymous

puns

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
— Anonymous

happiness

Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
— Anonymous
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
— Anonymous

relationships

If you've got something worthwhile to do, don't talk about it — do it. After it's done, your friends and acquaintances will talk about it.
— Anonymous
Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavour does the consumer blame himself for product failure.
— Harvard Lampoon

religion

They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
— Anonymous
If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate a man.
— Anonymous
Whenever he thought about his troubles, he felt terrible. And so at last he came to a fateful decision. He decided not to think about them.
— Anonymous
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
— Anonymous
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
— The Bible—I Corinthians 13:11

biblical maturity

Advice is sure of a hearing when it coincides with our previous conclusions, and therefore comes in the shape of praise or of encouragement.
— Anonymous

advice

This creation — how it sprang forth, if it is supported or not. Who its supervisor is in heaven is beyond. Oh! They verily know or know not.
— Nasadiya Sukta
ON DENMARK

Denmark seen from a foreign land
looks but like a grain of sand.
Denmark as we Danes conceive it
is so big you won't believe it.
— Anonymous
A man consists of desires. And as his desire, so is his will; and as his will, so is his deed; and whatever deed he does, that he shall reap.
— Anonymous
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
— The King James Bible

God biblical

A personal tragedy leads to six stages of grief: shock, denial, pain, anger, depression, and acceptance.  It's the same after a round of golf.
— Anonymous

golf

If You were paid ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke, and had to pay out five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
— Anonymous
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
— Anonymous

commitment funny

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
— Anonymous

proverbs Swedish proverbs how to live life European proverbs

How many times has every wayward child heard, "When you grow up I hope you have a child just like you so you'll know what I'm going through!'"
— Anonymous

parenting

Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deeds have not ripened; but when they have ripened, then does the good man see happy days.
— Anonymous
Apologizing doesn't always mean you're wrong and the other person is right.  It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.
— Anonymous

apologies

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
— Anonymous

Chinese proverbs proverbs shortcomings

Daily practical wisdom consists of four things: To know the root of Truth, the branches of Truth, the limit of Truth, and the opposite of Truth.
— Anonymous
Contentment is the philosopher's stone, which turns all it toucheth into gold; the poor man is rich with it and the rich man is poor without it.
— Anonymous
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
— Anonymous

speech

Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), explaining why Congress doesn't decrease deficit spending. He said, "It's awfully hard to get a hog to butcher itself."
— Anonymous
Truth is what is leftover after the prejudice, stupidity, vested interest and ulterior motives of participant and observer have been eliminated.
— Anonymous
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
— Ecclesiasticus 9:10

reunion friendship biblical

He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice, to love goodness, and to walk modestly with your God.
— Book of Micah (Old Testament)

God Judaism biblical

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
— The King James Bible

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When love is strong, a man and woman can make their bed on the blade of a sword; but when love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.
— Anonymous
I can see from your utter misery, from your eagerness to misunderstand each other, and from your thoroughly bad temper,that this is the real thing.
— Anonymous
Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does not compare with him.  A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged, you will drink it with pleasure.
— Apocrypha—Ecclesiasticus 9:10

friendship biblical

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something, while you live, and it is in your power.
— Anonymous
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
— Charles F. Kettering

willpower imagination dreams impossible

Strength for today is all we need, for there never will be a tomorrow; For tomorrow will prove but another today with its measure of joy and of sorrow.
— Anonymous
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
— Ecclesiastes 9:10

biblical enthusiasm

Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it. If it is unfair, don't get irritated. If it is ignorant, smile. If it is justified, learn from it.
— Anonymous

criticism

Three Apples that changed the world: The first tempted Eve, the second inspired Newton, and the third was offered to the world half eaten by Steve Jobs.
— Anonymous

apples

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
— Anonymous
Relinquish an evil custom even though it be of thy fathers, mothers and ancestors; Adopt a good custom even though it be established among thine enemies.
— Anonymous
Some say the Buddha's greatest sermon was his silent, wordless one: He simply held up a flower and looked at his followers. Those who smiled, understood.
— Anonymous

buddhist beauty

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
— The Bible—Hebrews 12:11

discipline biblical

The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity.
— Anonymous

art

As the light of a torch illumines the objects in a dark room, even so the light of wisdom illumines all men, whosoever they may be; if they turn towards it.
— The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King: A Life of Buddha
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
— Bible, Luke 13:23
Everyone has the right to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.
— Universal Declaration of Human Rights

opinions freedom

What is within us is also without. What is without is also within. One who sees a difference between the two and not the unity wanders on from death to death.
— The Upanishads
False is the praise which says that a man's eminence comes from his noble qualities; for the men of this world as a rule do not care about a man's true nature.
— Anonymous
If you seek to understand the whole universe you will understand nothing at all but seek to understand yourself and you will understand the the whole universe.
— Anonymous
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
— Anonymous
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
— JOB 14:1-2

life biblical

Enthusiasm is more important than any other commodity. It will find solutions when none are apparent, and it will achieve success where none is thought possible.
— Anonymous

success enthusiasm

At twenty. we don't care what the world thinks of us; at thirty, we worry about what it's thinking of us; at forty we discover it isn't thinking about us at all.
— Anonymous
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
— Anonymous

wealth

If you seek to understand the whole universe, you will understand nothing at all. If you seek only to understand yourself, you will understand the whole universe.
— Anonymous
The Jewish nation is distinguished by three characteristics; they are merciful, they are modest [alternatively, bashful], and they perform acts of loving-kindness.
— Talmud

Jews

Money does make all the difference. If you have two jobs and you're rich, you have diversified interests. If you have two jobs and you're poor, you're moonlighting.
— Changing Times

money funny

To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
— The Book of Common Prayer

marriage

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
— Anonymous

proverbs bad company Indian proverbs

At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.
— Anonymous

age 30 age 40 age what others think age 20

The happy man must prepare ahead for evil days that are to come; and when he does, let the thought that every good and great man has been made to suffer at some time.
— Anonymous
If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a parkbench has just been painted, he has to touch it to be sure.
— Anonymous
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
— Isaiah 2:4

peace biblical

The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all or no one is secure.
— The Day the Earth Stood Still

future nonviolence

How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, until seven times: but, until seventy times seven.
— Anonymous
Noise, anger, explosive tones, superlatives, exaggerations of passion, add nothing to the force of what we say, but rather rob our words of the power that belongs to them.
— Anonymous
There are three things that if a man does not know, he cannot live long in this world: what is too much for him, what is too little for him and what is just right for him.
— Anonymous

proverbs

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
— The King James Bible

God biblical

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
— Zen saying

boredom proverbs

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field clap their hands.
— Bible, Isaiah 55:11
Blushing fulfills a most important function in propagation of the human species and is all the more interesting because it is involuntary  and shows a readiness to be courted.
— Anonymous
For honorable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and as unspotted life in old age.
— Anonymous
He who does the work he is missioned to do, not craving the fruits of his action, is the authentic illuminate and not the man who, averse to action, lights not the sacred fire.
— Anonymous
President Hoover used to quip that he was looking for a one-armed economist for his staff, so he wouldn't be able to say, "On the one hand this, but on the other hand that. . . "
— Anonymous
Cows are of many colors, but milk is of one color, white; so the proclaimers who proclaim the Truth use many varying forms to put it in, but yet the Truth enclosed in all is One.
— Anonymous
By associating with good and evil company a soul acquires the virtues and vices which they possess, even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.
— Anonymous
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
— Matthew 7:3

judging biblical

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
— Anonymous
But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
— Galatians

biblical

You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.
— Friends News Sheet (Royal Perth Hospital, Australia)

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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
— Anonymous
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. The united state is not a christian nation any more than it is a jewish or Mohammedan nation.
— Treaty with Tripoli
Civilization is a process whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, and then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.
— The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

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There is as much in that space within the heart, as there is in the whole world outside. Heaven, earth, fire, wind, sun, moon, stars; whatever is and whatever is not, everything is there.
— Anonymous
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.  Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
— Apocrypha—Ecclesiasticus 28:17–18

speech biblical

Love, a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
— Anonymous
A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.  Every tree that does not bear good fruits is cut down and thrown into the fire.  Thus you will know them by their fruits.
— The Bible: Matthew 7:18–20

ancestry biblical

Everybody's shook up these days. Teenagers are upset because they're living. in a world dominated by nuclear weapons - and adults are upset because. they're living in a world dominated by teenagers.
— Anonymous
A piece of brain the size of a grain of rice contains 1 million nerve cells, 10 billion synapses and 20 MILES of axons. Each of these nerve cells both 'hears from' and 'talks to' 10,000 other cells.
— Newsletter on Advances in Brain Research, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Brain

When some high-sounding institute states that a compound is harmless or a process free of risk, it is wise to know whence the institute or the scientists who work there obtain their financial support.
— The Lancet, editorial, 1973

environment science

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
— The King James Bible

biblical hopeful

Life is built up by the sacrifice of the individual to the whole. Each cell in the living body must sacrifice itself to the perfection of the whole; when it is otherwise, disease and death enforce the lesson.
— Far Eastern saying
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil with evil: but whosoever smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to them the other also.
— Anonymous
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
— Bible

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It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside.
— Anonymous
In his later years, Winston Churchill was asked to give the commencement address at Oxford University. Following his introduction, he rose, went to the podium, and said, "Never, never, never give up." Then he took his seat.
— Anonymous
If You wish to be happy for an hour, get intoxicated. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married If you wish to be happy for eight days, kill your pig and eat it. But If you wish to be happy forever become a gardener.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs happiness proverbs

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man by gentleness; And overcome the evil man by goodness.
— Anonymous

proverbs Indian proverbs good and evil

So the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
— Anonymous

Bible

When Winston Churchill was defeated in his bid for reelection as prime minister, his wife consoled him with the thought that the defeat was a blessing in disguise. "If so," responded Churchill, "then it is very effectively disguised."
— Anonymous
Do not abandon all the great, pure, calm oceans of the mind and cling to one bubble of confusion and accept it as the whole ocean. Be like the Ocean, which receives all streams and rivers. The Ocean's mighty calm remains unmoved; it feels them not.
— Rig-Veda
An enthusiastic tennis player, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was dismayed one day to have his doctor tell him that the sport was inadvisable for someone in his forties. "In that case," Black replied, "I can't wait to turn fifty soIcan play again."
— Anonymous
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
— Anonymous
Dr. Karl Menninger, the famous psychiatrist, was once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on. "Lock up your house," he said, "go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him."
— Anonymous
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool - Avoid him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep - Waken him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student - Teach him. He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man - Know him.
— Anonymous
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him. 
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him. 
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him. 
He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
— Anonymous

knowledge proverbs

If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs proverbs

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
— Matthew 22:37-40

biblical religion neighbors

A careless word may kindle strife;
A cruel word may wreck a life.
A bitter word may hate instill;
A brutal word may smite and kill.
A gracious word may smooth the way;
A joyous word may light the day.
A timely word may lessen stress;
A loving word may heal and bless.
— Anonymous
Each man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
— Ecclesiastes 5:19-20, Bible

wealth

The best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive.  At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"
— Anonymous

be yourself authenticity

No one wants to die.  Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.  And yet death is the destination we all share.  No one has ever escaped it.  And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is life's change agent.
— Anonymous

destination death

What law is it that says a woman is a better parent simply by virtue of her sex? I guess I've had to think a lot about whatever it is that makes somebody a good parent: constancy, patience, understanding ...love. Where is it written that a man has any less of those qualities than a woman?
— Kramer vs. Kramer

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Professor Charles Copeland was once asked why he chose to live in a few small dusty rooms on the top floor of Harvad's Hollis Hall. He replied that he never intended to move, "It is the only place in Cambridge where God alone is above me." He paused, then added, "He's busy, but he's quiet."
— Anonymous
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
— Anonymous
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for its living,
And a child that's born on the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good and gay.
— Anonymous

English proverbs proverbs

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
— The Bible—1 Corinthians 13:4-7

biblical love

There are four types of men. One who knows not and knows not that he knows not: he is a fool — shun him. One who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple — teach him. One who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep — wake him And one who knows and knows he knows: he is wise — follow him.
— Anonymous
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace.
— Anonymous
The great advantage of a proverb in argument is that it is supposed to be incontrovertible, as embodying the quintessential sagacity of our ancestors. But when once you have realized that proverbs go in pairs which say opposite things you can never again be downed by a proverb; you merely quote the opposite.
— Mortals and Others: American Essays, 1931–35

proverbs

The all knowing Self was never born, nor will it die. Beyond cause and effect, this self is eternal and immutable. When the body dies, the Self does not die. If the slayer believes that he can kill, And the slain believes that he can be killed, Neither knows the truth. The eternal Self slays not, nor is ever slain.
— The Upanishads
General Dwight D. Eisenhower used a simple device to illustrate the art of leadership. Laying an ordinary piece of string on a table, he'd illustrate how you could easily pull it in any direction. "Try and push it, though," he cautioned, "and it won't go anywhere. It's just that way when it comes to leading people."
— Anonymous
I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
— Bible

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Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
— Matthew 5:14

leadership biblical

When campaigning for the Senate in I962, Teddy Kennedy found himself talking with a blue-collar worker who said bluntly, "I understand you've never worked a day in your life." Kennedy braced himself for a resentful lecture, only to be taken by surprise when the man continued, "Let me tell you, you haven't missed a thing."
— Anonymous

work

This war was a revolution against the moral basis of civilization. It was conceived by the Nazis in conscious contempt for the life, dignity and freedom of individual man and deliberately prosecuted by means of slavery, starvation and the mass destruction of noncombatants' lives. It was a revolution against the human soul.
— Time magazine, May 1945

World War II

You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hide. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
— Matthew 5:14–16

biblical

It can be terribly diifficult to find the right words, but sometimes they're not even necessary. When one of his classmates died, an eight year-old friend visited the boy's home one day after school. "What did you say?" asked his mother gently when the child returned. "Nothing. I just sat on his mom's lap and cried with her."
— Anonymous
An acquaintance who was seated next to R.J. Wrigley on a flight to Chicago asked the multimillionaire why he continued to advertise his chewing gum when it was far and away the most successful product in its field. Wrigley replied, "For the same reason that the pilot keeps this plane's engine running even though we are already in the air."
— Anonymous

advertising

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
— The King James Bible

God biblical

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
— Anonymous

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Oh, I love to see a man with a cigar. It reminds me of my grandfather. Morning to night, he used to sit with a great big stogie dangling from his lips. Oh, the hours we kids used to spend sitting on his lap, playing with the yellow whiskers beneath his nose. Then he'd take out his teeth with the cigar still in them and chase us around the room! We'd all laugh and laugh... then suddenly Grampa's mood would change, and we'd all have to run for our lives... You can't buy memories like that.