Anonymous Quotes
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Don't tell other people your troubles. Half of them aren't interested, and the other half will think you deserved it.
I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet.
I wouldn't give you a nickel for another child, but I wouldn't take a million for the ones l've got.
A silent man is not a conquered man.
Don't be a Buddhist - be a Buddha!
He that always complains is never pitied.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced.
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
God is love.
God is light.
Honor all men.
Hear in silence.
War ends nothing.
Broth is meat tea.
Peace makes plenty.
In love is no lack.
When I rest, I rust.
One hand can't clap.
Aiming isn't hitting.
The customer is king.
To teach is to learn.
Be kind and carry on.
Hate has no medicine.
What hath God wrought.
Anger ends in cruelty.
Guile excels strength.
Charity never faileth.
Tell the truth and run.
Silence is also speech.
Better bend than break.
Impatience is incurable.
A beggar has no dignity.
Worry never paid a bill.
History is herstory too.
Giving honors the giver.
Words do not make flour.
His indecision is final.
In wine, there is truth.
Physician, heal thyself.
A deadline spurs action.
A forest is in an acorn.
Self-defense is not fear.
The work praises the man.
Anger is a bad counselor.
He who hesitates is last.
Gossip needs no carriage.
Silence seldom doth harm.
There is no little enemy.
A man deeds are his life.
Stumbling is not falling.
Go and wake up your luck.
Great sorrows are silent.
Too humble is half proud.
Before honor is humility.
If there is no wind, row.
Wishes won't wash dishes.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
The journey is the reward.
Follow peace with all men.
Smoking is pulmonary rape.
To have more, desire less.
Love grows with obstacles.
True love never grows old.
Be slow enough to be sure.
Virtue consists in action.
Wisdom is a loving spirit.
Act quickly, think slowly.
Beauty is a fading flower.
Every path has its puddle.
As the master, so the work.
Never raise thy own praise.
Old men are twice children.
Distrust interested advice.
Postpone not a good action.
Step by step, one goes far.
Abundance is from activity.
Fame is a magnifying glass.
Marriage is a covered dish.
One should utter the truth.
There is no harm in asking.
Honesty is the best policy.
Affection is a bad advisor.
Tall trees catch more wind.
Examine without corruption.
The truth is the safest lie.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Gold may be bought too dear.
Better to have than to wish.
Success is the best revenge.
Apply thyself to discipline.
Fate doesn't decide- You Do!
Rivalry is better than envy.
All sunshine makes a desert.
A half truth is a whole lie.
Time is a good story-teller.
Old birds are hard to pluck.
Faith without works is dead.
What goes up must come down.
Be thou faithful unto death.
If you are ugly, be winsome.
Fame is better than fortune.
He who hates, hates himself.
Never meet trouble half-way.
Who lives well sees far off.
Great desire obtains little.
Honesty is exact to a penny.
Necessity sharpens industry.
At the baths, all are equal.
Nobody gets out of it alive.
Patience surpasses learning.
Memory plays strange tricks.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Love rejoiceth in the truth.
Love has no thought of self.
Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.
Honor thy father and mother.
God loveth a cheerful giver.
Marriage is heaven and hell.
Blood is thicker than water.
Rebels aren't always rabble.
Bad customs are not binding.
Policy goes beyond strength.
To the victor go the spoils.
The end justifies the means.
Men prone to tears are good.
Who knows most speaks least.
In much wisdom is much pain.
Common fame is much to blame.
None of us liveth to himself.
Deliberating is not delaying.
There is strength in numbers.
All the world is one country.
It takes money to make money.
I count only the sunny hours.
Hope is the poor man's bread.
A tree is known by its fruit.
Don't hear one and judge two.
The unknown is ever imagined.
Life's journey is the reward.
A wise mind is a loving mind.
Do good and care not to whom.
No man can serve two masters.
Never give advice in a crowd.
Love me little, love me long.
Remember where you came from.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Let a smile be your umbrella.
Love levels all inequalities.
A friend loveth at all times.
Life is made up of tomorrows.
What is not wisdom is danger.
Variety is the spice of life.
Let us now praise famous men.
A crab does not beget a bird.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Music is the language of God.
The sun'll come out tomorrow.
Big fish eat the little fish.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Better to bend than to break.
Age withers only the outside.
A tame tongue is a rare bird.
The shortest answer is doing.
Let no one despise thy youth.
Every day is a second chance.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
Good luck beats early rising.
Luck has a slender anchorage.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Health is better than wealth.
How forcible are right words!
Never cut what can be untied.
A feast is made for laughter.
A hungry man is an angry man.
Your reputation precedes you.
You learn something everyday.
Ambition lubricates the mind.
Your deeds are your monuments.
We walk by faith not by sight.
The truth shall make you free.
You're only as old as you act.
Every road has two directions.
The sun shines upon all alike.
Wish chastely and love dearly.
Vocation is the spine of life.
Put not your trust in princes.
Great men are not always wise.
Take your medicine like a man.
We are members one of another.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Necessity turns lion into fox.
Prosperity lets the bridle go.
To each, his own is beautiful.
What goes around comes around.
All that glitters is not gold.
Anything will fit a naked man.
A bird never flew on one wing.
Hunger is the teacher of many.
Do not call a fly an elephant.
That hit the nail on the head.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Good will is the best charity.
All feet cannot wear one shoe.
Rome was not built in one day.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Two heads are better than one.
Everyone is kin to a rich man.
Whoever is rich is my brother.
Let love be without hypocrisy.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Incline thine ear unto wisdom.
Example is an eloquent orator.
Good silence is near holiness.
Where is your ancient courage?
His wealth is superior to him.
Boldness is the fruit of hope.
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Advice is easier than helping.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Ready money works great cures.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Light gains make heavy purses.
The law is a jealous mistress.
As dead as a church on Monday.
Wisdom is too high for a fool.
We learn to walk by stumbling.
Don't shake hands too eagerly.
In the beginning was the word.
Justifying a fault doubles it.
All kindness begins in purpose.
A man is rich who owes nothing.
Bear with evil and expect good.
Give peace in our time, O Lord.
A good name will shine forever.
Buy the truth, and sell it not.
Conduct has the loudest tongue.
Leave it if you cannot mend it.
Diversity, yes; perversity, no.
Gratitude is the heart's money.
You are never too old to learn.
Love is not without bitterness.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
The Christian Right is neither.
Nothing is achieved in a dream.
Love to live, and live to love.
What's past hope is past grief.
Love covers all transgressions.
Words often do more than blows.
One good turn deserves another.
You can't argue with the facts.
Fire and straw soon make flame.
Who knows himself knows others.
Repentance won't cure mischief.
Leadership casts a long shadow.
Business today, tomorrow never.
Things promised are things due.
One day your ship will come in.
Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
Be not greedy of filthy profit.
Good ware makes a quick market.
Think today and speak tomorrow.
Experience is the best teacher.
Seek a wife in your own sphere.
In prosperity, no altars smoke.
A good life keeps off wrinkles.
A man who will pay has the say.
Losers are always in the wrong.
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Experience is non transferable.
There's always room at the top.
Stars are not seen by sunshine.
Their words burned like a lamp.
Opportunity never knocks twice.
Wanton kittens make sober cats.
Our own opinion is never wrong.
One must pay Health its tithes.
Silence is the door of consent.
Childhood and youth are vanity.
What you can not avoid, welcome.
Confession is good for the soul.
One finger cannot lift a pebble.
A penny saved is a penny gained.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Only the strongest will survive.
Save water-Shower with a Friend.
The best colt needs breaking in.
Silence is sometimes the answer.
Learning is there for every man.
A fat purse never lacks friends.
Patience caught the nimble hare.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
A loan though old is not a gift.
Swift gratitude is the sweetest.
A kind face is a beautiful face.
There are tricks in every trade.
A flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Words do not fall into the void.
A laborer is worthy of his hire.
Merchant today, beggar tomorrow.
Leave not a stain in thine honor
Good fences make good neighbors.
Better living through chemistry.
You can't grow somebody else up.
Bring forth fruit with patience.
Save your good times till later.
A man who promises runs in debt.
A man has enough who is content.
It is easy to undress the naked.
The early bird catches the worm.
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
A man is never too old to yearn.
A bird is known by his feathers.
While there's life there's hope.
Inflation is a stab in the buck.
As a man believes so he becomes.
Judge a leader by the followers.
Patience is the key to paradise.
The more laws, the less justice.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
Give credit where credit is due.
Much wealth brings many enemies.
All is not lost that is delayed.
Luck never gives; it only lends.
Caution is the parent of safety.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Small riches hath the most rest.
Good understanding giveth favor.
He who laughs last, laughs best.
Living well is the best revenge.
Proverbs are the lamp of speech.
Elbow-grease is the best polish.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Better a refusal than deception.
Large desire is endless poverty.
Good advice is beyond all price.
Every season brings its own joy.
No pear falls into a shut mouth.
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
The best medicine is temperance.
The owl is the kind of the night.
Many doctors, death accomplished.
Two in distress make sorrow less.
A still tongue makes a wise head.
What you don't know can hurt you.
Man doth not live by bread alone.
A hoary head is a crown of glory.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Guests bring good luck with them.
A chattering bird builds no nest.
Age is a bad traveling companion.
Something is better than nothing.
Add to your knowledge temperance.
The middle path is the safe path.
Love teaches even asses to dance.
Do what you ought, come what may.
Time is the seed of the universe.
Poetry is the mirror of the soul.
Fame is but the breath of people.
Those who sing drive away sorrow.
There's no time like the present.
A handsome man is not quite poor.
Two footsteps do not make a path.
Let every bird sing its own note.
The one that loves does not hate.
The comforter's head never aches.
A wise man is known by few words.
A man is known by his companions.
No need to teach an eagle to fly.
What a neighbor gets is not lost.
The best mirror is an old friend.
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
Who loves well is slow to forget.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
He, knowing all, becomes the All.
Children are a poor man's riches.
Bridges are America's cathedrals.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Wisdom is the wealth of the wise.
The child may be rocked too hard.
Strife is better than loneliness.
Silence is a fence around wisdom.
War breaks out; peace settles in.
A child is what you put into him.
Every mother's child is handsome.
Nothing ventured. nothing gained.
They who marry for money earn it.
Do as you would want done to you.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The bold attempt is half success.
A dog is a lion in his own house.
Work is the medicine for poverty.
One who seeks advice seldom errs.
Undo others before they undo you.
What the people believe, is true.
He who never worries never cares.
Money never cometh out of season.
The light of the body is the eye.
The meek shall inherit the earth.
It is the people who make a city.
A great city, a great loneliness.
Once more—this time with feeling.
Never judge a day by the weather.
A good thing is soon snatched up.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Words divide us, action unite us.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
By falling we learn to go safely.
A man is a lion in his own cause.
To be in the world but not of it.
Her hair has more body than I do.
The Kingdom of God is within you.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Abundance, like want, ruins many.
The best mirror is a friend's eye.
A bird may be known by its flight.
Better to be born lucky than rich.
Sleep, the near relative of death.
Use soft words and hard arguments.
Fuck'em if they can't take a joke.
A good horse never lacks a saddle.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Let us not be weary in doing well.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Better keep peace than make peace.
He who laughs last laughs loudest.
Time flies when you're having fun.
Laughter is the music of the soul.
A good word maketh the heart glad.
A smile is the whisper of a laugh.
None but a mule denies his family.
Thinking is the essence of wisdom.
E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One.
Better wear out shoes than sheets.
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
Good counsel never comes too late.
Better slip with foot than tongue.
No tree falls at the first stroke.
A loveless life is a living death.
Say only a little but say it well.
Too much talk will include errors.
Not every spring becomes a stream.
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
A healthy man is a successful man.
A tongue talks at the head's cost.
Question Authority, Why be normal?
One has only to die to be praised.
It is best to be on the safe side.
One today is worth many tomorrows.
All things come to those who wait.
Mother Love is ever in its spring.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
Where there is love there is pain.
Children's mouths speak the truth.
By labor fire is got out of stone.
To a hasty demand a leisure reply.
A wise child maketh a glad parent.
When luck enters, give him a seat!
Let us not be weary in well doing.
A multitude of words cloaks a lie.
Knock on the door before entering.
There is nothing so queer as folk.
The end doesn't justify the means.
Thinking is very far from knowing.
Do not ask advice of the ignorant.
Man has responsibility, not power.
Have a vision not clouded by fear.
To each age belongeth its own book.
It is difficult to trap an old fox.
Friendship is a furrow in the sand.
Expression is the dress of thought.
It is better to be safe than sorry.
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
A fog cannot be dispelled by a fan.
A man of silence is a man of sense.
Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
Happiness takes no account of time.
It's best not to burn your bridges.
The mind is the slayer of the real.
All bread is not baked in one oven.
A heart that loves is always young.
A wife is the joy of a man's heart.
Never go straight; just go forward.
We are all related; We are all one.
Why do you think they call it dope?
Good things come to those who wait.
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
There is no strength without unity.
Enthusiasm is the life of the soul.
Charity suffereth long and is kind.
A miser and a liar bargain quickly.
Handsome apples are sometimes sour.
Learn politeness from the impolite.
When you are in the water you swim.
Beauty will fade, but not goodness.
Great engines turn on small pivots.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
Let patience have its perfect work.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
He who travels has stories to tell.
A good name is a sound inheritance.
A word, once out, flies everywhere.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Thirst cannot be quenched by proxy.
One flower will not make a garland.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Better no doctor at all than three.
Let my mouth be filled with praise.
Measure thrice before you cut once.
Politicians are like weather vanes.
I dance to the tune that is played.
A lawyer never goes to law himself.
A good action is never thrown away.
They dance well whom fortune pipes.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.
The first casualty of war is truth.
Waffles are just pancakes with abs.
Every man shall give as he is able.
Money is not gained by losing time.
Where necessity speaks, it demands.
Do not covet the wealth of any man.
More flavors than Howard Johnson's.
Love will creep where it cannot go.
Let the facts speak for themselves.
A faithful friend loves to the end.
A friend is easier lost than found.
Judge the contents, not the bottle.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Many a one hears, but hears It not.
Don't burn the candle at both ends.
Opportunity knocks but once. Jokes.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
The tongue wounds more than a lance.
Fall seven times, stand up at eight.
Anger is one letter short of danger.
Too much politeness conceals deceit.
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
For news of the heart, ask the face.
When the cat dies, the mice rejoice.
True Understanding is Transcendence.
Faults are thick where love is thin.
The last mile is always the hardest.
Do you believe in life before death?
Thou art my hope in the day of evil.
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
Experience is the mother of science.
Ambitious people don't make excuses.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Life is the only thing worth living.
Age is honorable and youth is noble.
Every animal knows more than you do.
Fortune is blind, but not invisible.
Give thy purse rather than thy time.
Money kills more people than a club.
The present is a gift of the moment.
A good companion makes good company.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
There is no new thing under the sun.
There's No folly like being in love.
They who love most are least valued.
Where love fails we espy all faults.
Even a child is known by his doings.
A man who has children does not die.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
True love is friendship set on fire.
Home is home, be it never so homely.
Poverty without debt is real wealth.
Where love is, no room is too small.
If it isn't perfect, make it better.
A good thing if you know it — do it.
A ragged colt may make a good horse.
A rich man has no need of character.
A little each day is much in a year.
He who findeth fault meaneth to buy.
Deeds are love and not fine phrases.
He does much who does a little well.
Advice should be viewed from behind.
Not to break is better than to mend.
Hidden valor is as bad as cowardice.
A single tree can not make a forest.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
What costs nothing is worth nothing.
Don't set the cart before the horse.
Better is half a loaf than no bread.
Unused advantages are no advantages.
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law.
Pluck the rose and leave the thorns.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
There is a skeleton in every closet.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
We hate delay, yet it makes us wise.
They love too much that die for love.
This hurts me more than it hurts you.
A good denial, the best point in law.
The constant friend is never welcome.
He that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Don't offer me advice; give me money.
Truth finds foes where it makes none.
A man is not poor that feels content.
As you give love, you will have love.
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
What use is wisdom when folly reigns?
Fields have eyes and woods have ears.
What greater crime than loss of time?
The land is a mother that never dies.
Simplify your life. Learn to say no.
There's a black sheep in every flock.
For ye have the poor always with you.
The fish sees the bait, not the hook.
Ye have heard of the patience of Job.
All are not saints that go to church.
He that has no charity deserves none.
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
Kind words don't wear out the tongue.
Compassion will do more than passion.
The more you know, the less you need.
To be prepared is to have no anxiety.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
Freely ye have received, freely give.
Who speaks, sows; who listens, reaps.
What is done by night appears by day.
He that is not with me is against me.
Who builds on the mob builds on sand.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
If the sky falls, hold up your hands.
A smile you sent, will always return.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
What you can't acquire, don't desire.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
The eyes are the windows of the soul.
Give him enough rope to hang himself.
And ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Even a cat is a lion in her own lair.
National customs are national honors.
Predicament: the wage of consistency.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Everyone smiles in the same language.
The heart that loves is always young.
Money grows on the trees of patience.
The wool seller knows the wool buyer.
The bell is loud because it is empty.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
A talent is both gift and obligation.
Who has not courage should have legs.
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
Wisdom is the gray hair unto the old.
To depart from evil is understanding.
Say unto wisdom: Thou art my brother.
Men who are thirsty drink in silence.
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.
Empty sacks will never stand upright.
He that knows little soon repeats it.
Miss not the discourse of the elders.
In the right place at the right time.
In God we trust. All others pay cash.
The knife of the family does not cut.
No mystery is closed to an open mind.
A good goose may have an ill gosling.
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
We get old too soon and wise too late.
Gold goes in any gate except heaven's.
The place to spend a happy day — Home.
Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.
Trust is hard earned, and easily lost.
A word in due season — how good it is!
When one will not, two cannot quarrel.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
Keep the common road and you are safe.
Trust in God—but tie your camel tight.
Better one word before than two after.
Laughter translates into any language.
The tongue is not steel — yet it cuts.
In God we trust; all others pay cash.
Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer.
To know you have enough is to be rich.
It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
Keep oneself unspotted from the world.
The forest is the poor man's overcoat.
It's like being grounded for 18 years.
An empty purse frightens away friends.
Love demands faith and faith firmness.
Use not today what tomorrow will need.
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Different strokes for different folks.
A good man showeth favor, and lendeth.
The day is short and the work is long.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Variety means nothing to a hungry man.
Ride the tributaries to reach the sea.
A generous confession disarms slander.
One who knows little quickly tells it.
Move your neck according to the music.
All people smile in the same language.
Diligence is the greatest of teachers.
Well knows the cat whose ear he licks.
Judge not according to the appearance.
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
You can't put new wine in old bottles.
Ambition is a dream with a V-8 engine.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
You cannot compare apples and oranges.
We know so many things that aren't so.
One lawyer will make work for another.
Precepts may lead — but examples draw.
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust.
He that survives will see the outcome.
Tact is the intelligence of the heart.
The tears of strangers are only water.
A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.
When a man is rich, he begins to save.
Hope for the best, but fear the worst.
All dreams spin out from the same web.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Be always as cheerful as ever you can.
It is ill fishing if the hook is bare.
It is a long road that has no turning.
The Lord is my strength and my shield.
A promise delayed is justice deferred.
Why are you fearful? Have you no faith?
All things perish, Truth alone remains.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
It is not fish until it is on the bank.
A dream is a wish that our heart makes.
Gratitude can only be given, not taken.
Gratefulness is the poor man's payment.
On the day of victory, no one is tired.
When in doubt who will win, be neutral.
Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.
In my Father's house are many mansions.
Vain hopes cut one off from every good.
Good to begin well, better to end well.
Some do the sowing, others the reaping.
Mingle just a little folly with wisdom.
Borrowing is the first-born of poverty.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
The best advice is found on the pillow.
Never be too big to look up to someone.
The anvil lasts longer than the hammer.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
When the devil leaves, heaven comes in.
The tamed tongue subdues the adversary.
You can't take it with you when you go.
Where does the ant die except in sugar.
Rebellion is the sign of a healthy ego.
A man of knowledge increaseth strength.
A handsome shoe often pinches the foot.
Forget injuries, never forget kindness.
Separation secures manifest friendship.
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
Make your mind as pure as the blue sky.
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
Where there's music, there can be love.
The fashion of this world passeth away.
Don't try to fly before you have wings.
Promise makes debts and debts promises.
When need is greatest, help is nearest.
You can't please everyone all the time.
Nothing that is natural is disgraceful.
If wanted your opinion, I'd ask for it.
The problem when solved will be simple.
Birds of a feather will flock together.
Use your wit as a shield, not a dagger.
He who tells the truth is not we liked.
Intelligence is shown by good judgment.
Animals aren't wild, they're just free.
Cheerfulness smoothes the road of life.
Youth looks forward but age looks back.
The best cause requires a good pleader.
He stands the tallest who stands alone.
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
Praise the young and they will blossom.
An ill workman always blames his tools.
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
Learn a new language and get a new soul.
Never trust a man who says, "Trust me. "
You have to dig deep to bury your daddy.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Every man must row with the oars he has.
No man is wise enough to advise himself.
Poverty makes a free man become a slave.
Advice when most needed is least heeded.
A father is a banker provided by nature.
Alertness and courage are life's shield.
Hearken unto the father that begat thee.
Better an uneasy peace than an easy war.
The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
One who is not impatient is not in love.
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Fore-think, though you cannot fore-tell.
A merry companion is music in a journey.
'Tis certain gain to help an honest man.
When folly passes by, reason draws back.
One of these days is none of these days.
Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.
Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
A fair skin often covers a crooked mind.
Now is now-here, but tomorrow's nowhere.
Inner peace is beyond victory or defeat.
By losing present time we lose all time.
A sheep was never known to climb a tree.
A bird in the hand is worth ten fleeing.
We grow too soon old and too late smart.
I will never forget old what's-his-name.
When a man has luck, even his ox calves.
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
If heaven drops a date, open your mouth.
Land was never lost for want of an heir.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard.
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
A good conscience is a choice companion.
If God be for us, who can be against us?
Imagination plus action equals creation.
A clear conscience can bear any trouble.
Nothing kills hope faster than cynicism.
You know not where a blessing may light.
You'll thank me when I'm six feet under.
A man should learn to sail in all winds.
A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
Vows made in storms are forgot in calms.
One arrow does not bring down two birds.
A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.
A faithful man will abound in blessings.
The ax forgets but the cut log does not.
God, please save me from your followers!
Even a family tree has to have some sap.
Words should be weighed and not counted.
Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself.
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
One does not give a gift without motive.
No one was ever lost on a straight road.
The greatest artist was once a beginner.
Think of the going out before you enter.
He who pays the piper may call the tune.
A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
Sometimes you gotta say "What the Fuck".
Constant occupation prevents temptation.
Only people who do things get criticized.
You can never enter the same river twice.
He understands poorly who listens poorly.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Plunge boldly into the thick of yearning.
Better ask twice than lose your way once.
If you want good service, serve yourself.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
The proverb is the horse of conversation.
Many seek good nights and lose good days.
News is the first rough draft of history.
They love us truly who correct us freely.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
The words of the pure are pleasant words.
The night rinses what the day has soaped.
Truth and oil always come to the surface.
Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom!
The aged in council, the young in action.
The lips of the wise shall preserve them.
An agreement is more valuable than money.
Speech finely framed delighteth the ears.
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
A good teacher is better than many books.
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
There is no worse robber than a bad book.
There is much good sleep in an old story.
The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Behold, we count them happy which endure.
One man's junk is another man's treasure.
It takes a big man to admit his mistakes.
He would share even his share of the sun.
It's better to wear out than to rust out.
Doing well depends upon doing completely.
Every good partnership is based on trust.
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
I know by my own pot how the others boil.
If you don't work, neither shall you eat.
No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
The hand of the diligent maketh him rich.
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.
The just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
Our last garment is made without pockets.
It is not every couple that makes a pair.
Be a friend to yourself, and others will.
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
When drinking water, remember its source.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
Heaven and earth are threads of one loom.
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound!
Forget injuries; never forget kindnesses.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Seven days without prayer makes one WEAK.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
A self-made man has no factory guarantee.
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
Normal is a setting on a washing machine.
If you would live in health, be old early.
Financially stable, mentally questionable.
All strangers are relations to each other.
Better short of pence than short of sense.
How great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Purity is best demonstrated by generosity.
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
Not to repent of a fault is to justify it.
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
One of gladness seldom falls into madness.
Every family has a skeleton in the closet.
Every life has its joy; every joy its law.
The sooner the better — delay is a fetter.
Just love life and it will love your back.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
You never really leave the place you love.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
More have repented of speech than silence.
Despise not thy parents when they are old.
There's always free cheese in a mousetrap.
Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.
To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Listen, or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Works and not words are the proof of love.
God is with those who patiently persevere.
What is hard to bear is sweet to remember.
Works — not words — are the proof of love.
The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
He who does not look ahead remains behind.
False friends are worse than open enemies.
With friends like these who needs enemies?
Marriage has teeth, and him bite very hot.
In the kingdom of hope there is no winter.
Where the iron goes, there goes also rust.
An enemy slaughters, a friend distributes.
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
The sins of youth are paid for in old age.
Love is sweet, but tastes best with bread.
Every man's neighbor is his looking glass.
Experience is fine if not bought too dear.
No camel route is long, with good company.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Between two Saturdays happen many marvels.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Expectations are premeditated resentments.
Where gold speaks, every tongue is silent.
The Universe has many voices. Just listen.
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts.
He who has daughters is always a shepherd.
Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.
Tailors and writers must mind the fashion.
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
The mind is fickle and hard to be checked.
Life is so short we must move very slowly.
You're only as old as you act/as you feel.
I'm not aging. I'm ripening to perfection.
A man who is contented is not always rich.
Earth, when I am in life, I depend on you.
They said we couldn't do it but we did it.
Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.
Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
Better that the feet slip than the tongue.
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
They are most cheated who cheat themselves.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
A man that hath pity upon the poor lendeth.
Better lose the anchor than the whole ship.
The worth of a thing is what it will bring.
The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.
A man who has no charity deserves no mercy.
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Knowledge, teaching and words may be deeds.
Into the closed mouth the fly does not get.
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul.
Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands.
There's no such thing as a stupid question.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Where everyone goes, the grass never grows.
Reality is for people who lack imagination.
One good teacher outweights a ton of books.
The cat always catches the impatient mouse.
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
A man may go a long way, after he is tired.
A little help is better than a lot of pity.
Have an open face but conceal our thoughts.
One kind word can warm three winter nights.
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom.
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
Little by little, the bird builds its nest.
Every cask smells of the wine it contained.
There is no joy above the joy of the heart.
Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth.
Good words cost nothing and are worth much.
Love your enemy as you'd love your brother.
Life is too short not to be kind to others.
Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Who heeds not a penny shall never have any.
The more you know, the less you understand.
Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world.
One shall rise up at the voice of the bird.
Better the evil known than the new unknown.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Wealth is the canker that destroys nations.
When an old man dies, a library burns down.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
A runaway monk never praises his monastery.
Experience is good, if not bought too dear.
Let your moderation be known among all men.
An unlawful oath is better broke than kept.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Laughter can be heard farther than weeping.
Seize the end and you will hold the middle.
The clever wife makes her husband an apron.
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
Silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
If you sow thorns, you will not reap roses.
If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
The adult looks to deed, the child to love.
To think of food only as a fuel is foolish.
When the old dog barks it is time to watch.
Be humble if thou wouldst attain to Wisdom.
Everybody is the center of his own universe.
'Take it easy' and 'Live long' are brothers.
He is not wise that is not wise for himself.
Always walk on the sunny side of the street.
However Long The Night, The Dawn Will Break.
Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.
The advice of the aged will not mislead you.
Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
Good words cost nothing, but are worth much.
A man who won't be advised, can't be helped.
A man who has a good wife can bear any evil.
The wedding should last through wedded life.
Don't blow it—good planets are hard to find.
Many things are lost for want of not asking.
The heart does not think all the mouth says.
Some people have tact, other tell the truth.
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life.
The love that lasts is the love that's last.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
A little fore-talk may save much after-talk.
Mañana is often the busiest day of the week.
There are no national frontiers to learning.
A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.
Think with the wise, but talk to the vulgar.
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
We do not walk on our legs, but on our will.
He who works achieves and he who sows reaps.
Where there are no heroes, strive to be one.
The spider and the fly can't make a bargain.
When the Czar has a cold, all Russia coughs.
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
A war without headquarters is an expedition.
Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.
Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
When you enter a city, abide by its customs.
Bitter truth is better than sweet falsehood.
Nothing is as bleak as it seems at the time.
Noble and common blood is of the same color.
Great is truth, and mighty above all things.
She that is born a beauty is born betrothed.
In the company of strangers silence is safe.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Friendship made in a moment is of no moment.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
Better a pound of luck than a pound of gold.
What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.
Better to deny at once than to promise long.
Don't expect anything original from an echo.
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of clergy.
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.
A good hope is better than a bad possession.
A jest driven home too far brings home hate.
Your own deeds will long be baptized on you.
The inner self never stops caressing itself.
Take no one's word for it; see for yourself.
It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.
If they can't take a joke . . . forget them!
But through love be servants of one another.
The hours perish and are laid to our charge.
Being young is a fault which improves daily.
An ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Be the same thing that ye want to be called.
A rat is a beauty in the eyes of its mother.
An indispensable thing never has much value.
Better a lucky physician than a learned one.
A powerful friend becomes at powerful enemy.
Service is nothing but love in work clothes.
The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.
The purpose is not the end, but the journey.
In hospitality it is the spirit that counts.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul.
Apelles was not a master-painter in one day.
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.
Wise men care not for what they cannot have.
Gladness of the heart is the life of people.
Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words.
You can always find something to worry about.
Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
Money is the sinew of love as well as of war.
A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
A man that is rich will not be called a fool.
Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
You can only lean against that which resists.
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
The quieter you become the more you can hear.
What one knows is sometimes useful to forget.
Two watermelons cannot be held under one arm.
Color is to the eye what music is to the ear.
All things are possible to those who believe.
A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves.
A man may have good eyes and yet see nothing.
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Many open minds should be closed for repairs.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice.
The one who tells the stories rule the world.
When the pupil is ready, the teacher appears.
Imagination is a good stick but a bad crutch.
Appear always what you are and a little less.
A little body doth often harbor a great soul.
There's no sense so uncommon as common sense.
The gums best understand the teeth's affairs.
To smoke is human; to smoke cigars is divine.
A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks him.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
When the fountain has gone up, it comes down.
Blessed is the peacemaker, not the conqueror.
Retirement: the world's longest coffee break.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
To kill time is, by definition, to murder it.
Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
A man that loves law will get his fill of it.
The year does nothing else but open and shut.
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
Long life is a gift that nobody gets to keep.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
Public opinion is itself a matter of opinion.
Faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time.
It may be a fire — tomorrow it will be ashes.
The golden rule of life is: make a beginning.
Better to be done than wish it had been done.
A good friend is better than a near relation.
Let all things be done decently and in order.
Owe no one anything, but to love one another.
Live with wolves, and you will learn to howl.
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
Better to keep peace than have to make peace.
Get wisdom, get understanding; forget it not.
A man that gathereth by labor shall increase.
Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker.
He that would thrive must first ask his wife.
They who marry for wealth sell their liberty.
Never offer your hen for sale on a rainy day.
Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing quality.
Because they had no root, they withered away.
Going slowly does not stop one from arriving.
The truth is not always what we want to hear.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
Beauty passes, but perfection remains with us.
A man who has self-love is halfway to freedom.
Like a sword that cuts, but cannot cut itself.
If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna.
Let a child have its will and it will not cry.
When man speaks of the future, the gods laugh.
When hunger gets inside you, nothing else can.
Do not push the river, it will flow by itself.
What you learn to your cost you remember long.
Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
In prosperity caution — in adversity patience.
Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs.
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Better in the dust than crawl near the throne.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
A man who begins many things finishes but few.
So we get the chinks, we will bear the stinks.
There is a remedy for everything except death.
Honor a physician with the honor due unto him.
Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue it has.
It is easy to frighten a bull from the window.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
The fireside is the tulip bed of a winter day.
Better a friend's bite than an ememy's caress.
A man who wants hope is the poorest man alive.
The cost of living is high, but it's worth it.
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
Pessimism is the triumph of worry over matter.
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
Pay as you go — unless you are going for good.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
Affairs sleep soundly when fortune is present.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
One star differeth from another star in glory.
Growing old is no more than another bad habit.
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
There are more old Drunkards than old doctors.
The rich get richer and the poor get children.
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
To overcome pleasure is the greatest pleasure.
When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!
A man who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.
With unity, the time is right for great deeds.
As soap is to the body, tears are to the soul.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
He shall be commended according to his wisdom.
O people, respect the women who have born you.
Empty thy mind of evil, but fill it with good.
QSCV (Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value)
Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.
You can't tell a book by looking at its cover.
To run away is not glorious, but very healthy.
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
The coat is quite new, only the holes are old.
Those who dare do, those who dare not, do not.
Riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
It is a great thing to do a little thing well.
Fortune favors the bold but abandons the timid.
Everyone is a piece of this puzzle called life.
Life has a certain ending and uncertain timing.
A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.
Excuses interest no one except the competition.
Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration.
The brain is a subservient organ to the gonads.
I live too near the woods to be scared by owls.
Journalism is the first rough draft of history.
All of nature is in us, all of us is in nature.
Be careful what you hope for- you might get it.
'Sail!' quoth the king; 'Hold!' saith the wind.
Hypochondria is the only disease I haven't got.
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.
The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Look down if you would know how high you stand.
If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it.
One's own self is the most difficult to master.
There's a thin line between madness and genius.
Not all luck is good, and not all good is luck.
Life is but a journey; death is returning home.
In the multitude of counselors there is safety.
Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.
One day's rain makes up for many day's drought.
Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me".
Be master OF mind rather than mastered BY mind.
A man who serves two masters has to lie to one.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
For men to search their own glory is not glory.
Take a joke as a joke, and it will not provoke.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.
Every man is a friend to them who giveth gifts.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
No man ever repented of having held his tongue.
A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.
There are none so blind as they that won't see.
Judge the tree by its fruits, man by his deeds.
To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.
A small deed may grow to become a large reward.
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
Don't let grass grow on the path of friendship.
When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
The law of love is better than the love of law.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
Show them death and they will accept the fever.
A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.
A little oil may save a great deal of friction.
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
Insults should be well-avenged or well-endured.
God wanted to chastise man, so he sent lawyers.
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Misfortunes when asleep are not to be awakened.
An apology is a good way to have the last word.
They did it with all their heart and prospered.
Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
A good bone does not always come to a good dog.
He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Evil deeds are like perfume, difficult to hide.
No man so wise but has a little folly to spare.
Half a brain is enough for one who says little.
Never marry for money, ye'll borrow it cheaper.
It's easy to lose our way when we lose our why.
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
A man that never asks will never get a bargain.
Out of the mouth proceeds blessing and cursing.
Service is the rent we pay for a room on earth.
A man must stand very tall to see his own fate.
Que Sera, Sera . . . Whatever will be, will be.
Honesty in little things is not a little thing.
A man that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.
Practice not your art, and it will soon depart.
The universe comes forth from the Imperishable.
Even in small things there is great providence.
When the snake is old, the frog will tease him.
You can't have a rainbow without a little rain.
Hot heads and cold hearts never solve anything.
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
No one ought to look a gift horse in the mouth.
With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Tribulation worketh patience, and patience hope.
If sailors becomes too numerous, the ship sinks.
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
One knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
Wisdom and virtue are like two wheels of a cart.
It is a poor art that maintains not the artisan.
Be slow of giving advice, ready to do a service.
Don't be in a hurry to tie what you can't untie.
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
Marriage has many thorns, but celibacy no roses.
A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom.
Hunger causes the wolves to sally from the wood.
People of principle may be the principal people.
It is not enough to run, one must start in time.
A man who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
I will judge each of you according to your ways.
Enthusiasm is essential to the triumph of truth.
Even a lion has to defend himself against flies.
Harmony is the basis of all beauty in the world.
Stretch your foot to the length of your blanket.
Better a lie that heals than a truth that wound.
More men are slain by suppers than by the sword.
A silent man's words are not brought into court.
Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
Gossip columnist: one who writes other's wrongs.
God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers.
A man who does not know one thing knows another.
It's not what you call me, but what I answer to.
The most important things in life aren't things.
Such is life — seven times down, eight times up!
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
The remedy for injuries is not to remember them.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
The only way to keep a secret is to say nothing.
Words without ideas are like sails without wind.
Before you can score you must first have a goal.
A soul wise in words shall make himself beloved.
One survives all wounds except those of critics.
It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.
The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver.
The subtle self is to be known by thought alone.
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself.
A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his city.
He cannot speak well who cannot hold his tongue.
Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Sickness comes on horseback and departs on foot.
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
The graveyards are full of indispensable people.
Surely the Lord is in this place; I knew it not.
One does not become great by claiming greatness.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
Be swift to hear, and with patience give answer.
There is no pleasure above the joy of the heart.
A cloak is not made for a single shower of rain.
It takes all kinds, to make the world go 'round.
A wooer should open his ears more than his eyes.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
To the brave man every land is a native country.
What is sport to the cat is death for the mouse.
Measure the corn of others with your own bushel.
To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.
He who would leap far must first take a long run.
If you don't say it, you'll not have to unsay it.
No man tests the depth of a river with both feet.
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
He who does not look ahead always remains behind.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
For a dead opportunity, there is no resurrection.
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
Wood that grows warped can never be straightened.
Many men know how to flatter; few know to praise.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.
Each day has its care, but each care has its day.
'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free.
As you think of others, others will think of you.
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Better to be silent than to speak ill of another.
It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear.
Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
A hero who will not flee will make his foes flee.
What so ever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
He that despises shall fall by little and little.
The barber learns his trade on the orphan's chin.
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
The poorest truth is better than the richest lie.
There are men who are chained to gold and silver.
Sooner ask a man for his life than for his money.
A man's good intentions seldom add to his income.
The way we escape virtue is by passing more laws.
We are spiritual beings having human experiences.
One buys honey too dear who licks it from thorns.
The joyfulness of a man will prolongeth his days.
Choose neither a spouse nor linen by candlelight.
To a hoarding father succeeds an extravagant son.
The life of love is better than the love of life.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
A friend's faults may be noticed, but not blamed.
Flowers and buds fall, and the old and ripe fall.
The hand that gives is above the hand that takes.
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
The man who can't dance says the band can't play.
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the pack.
The man who is not Jealous in love does not love.
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.
The herb that can't be got is the one that heals.
Better to show too much civility than too little.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Your life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality.
The bird that is not honest foulest its own nest.
A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Conscience is the nest where all good is hatched.
Love is the music of the Universe ... just dance.
Don't cross the bridge until you have come to it.
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
What you dislike for yourself do not like for me.
When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled on.
Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
Fashion your life as a garden of beautiful deeds.
There were no ill language were it not ill taken.
A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.
Thou renderest to every man according to his work.
He who hesitates buys the stock two points higher.
To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.
Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.
Peace is for the strong, subjugation for the weak.
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
When pursing the arts, don't give up your day job.
Better to pay the tavern keeper than the druggist.
Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's, never comes.
The virtue of parents is in itself a great legacy.
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
Learning is a scepter to some, a bauble to others.
If you cannot heal the wound, do not tear it open.
A favor to come is better than a hundred received.
No man falls low unless he attempts to climb high.
An expert is a man who makes his mistakes quietly.
Let the world be your teacher, not your adversary.
A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Beauty without virtue is a flower without a sword.
Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk gown.
The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
If thou wilt apply thy mind, thy shalt be prudent.
Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.
To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.
All myths come from what was once labeled history.
To understand completely is to forgive completely.
Just keep swimming no matter how hard the current.
Rebellion is a phase that all children go through,
A man's faith, more than his house, is his castle.
You can't keep a committed person from succeeding.
When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.
Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
When you have tea and wine, you have many friends.
Every man loves justice in the affairs of another.
When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.
The good you do is not lost, though you forget it.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing.
It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
Use it up, wear it out; Make it do, or do without.
When the explorer is ready, the guide will appear.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
You don't get rid of your temper when you lose it.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend, then an enemy.
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
When fortune knocks upon the door, open it widely.
One who is scared by words has no heart for deeds.
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
You can cage a bird, but you cannot make him sing.
One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.
If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
Nothing indeed in this world purifies like wisdom.
Arguments thrive on opposition and die without it.
Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.
Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky.
What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.
Sail the ocean even when others stays on the shore.
It's good to hope, it's the waiting that spoils it.
A man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
Rule lust, temper and tongue, and bridle the belly.
Do not drink from a well and throw a stone into it.
Virtue never dwells alone; it always has neighbors.
Let not your tongue say what your head may pay for.
A man who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but not so popular.
He that ceases to be a friend never was a good one.
A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
If you drink like a fish, drink what a fish drinks.
A chocolate in the mouth is worth two on the plate.
You are not mature until you expect the unexpected.
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
Lose your questions and you will find your answers.
Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.
If it is the truth what does it matter who says it?
To whiten ivory with dye is to spoil nature by art.
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
Some men are masters of money, and some its slaves.
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
One who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.
Each child carries his own blessing into the world.
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
Buffaloes are held by cords, people by their words.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Inflation is being broke with a pocketful of money.
The will steadfast to the truth — this is fidelity.
Spare when you're young, and spend when you're old.
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.
Who has not a good tongue ought to have good hands.
Our Christian duty is to be kind to our fellow man.
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
Focus on what you can do, not on what you can't do.
Don't raise your eyes to heaven—God won't help you.
A woman's heart, like the moon, is always changing.
That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good.
The best way to save face is not to lose your head.
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
No office so humble, but it is better than nothing.
Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.
A clear conscience is far more valuable than money.
One hair of a woman draws more than a team of oxen.
By works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Men who plant trees love others besides themselves.
When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
You're not in competition with anyone but yourself.
If at first you don't succeed, welcome to the club.
The day of the storm is not the time for thatching.
What's none of my profit shall be none of my peril.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.
Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
How long does youth endure? So long as we are loved.
Young man, like the wise, exhort to be sober minded.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.
If your understanding fail, have patience with them.
It is no joke to bear with someone who is all jokes.
After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
A good thing is all the sweeter when won with pains.
The butterfly becomes only when it's entirely ready.
Women prefer poverty with love to luxury without it.
Men that don't save pennies will never save dollars.
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax.
Cheerfulness enables nature to recruit its strength.
Better a friendly refusan than an unwilling promise.
Stupidity won't kill you, but it can make you sweat.
A man who does not honor his wife dishonors himself.
Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.
Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
He that are of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
A man who has burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
A poor man being down is thrust away by his friends.
Love is your window to the Infinite. Enjoy the view.
Alas! What a number of desires have come to nothing!
Anything visible is a mask, anything hidden is real.
A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.
Enlightenment cannot be described, only experienced.
Your neighbor will never make a good boundary fence.
Every survival kit should include a sense of humour.
Nothing is certain in this world except uncertainty.
A man knows no more to any purpose than he practice.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
Expectations are disappointments under construction.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
That is not a good language that all understand not.
Not to know is bad but not to wish to know is worse.
It is easy to help him, who is willing to be helped.
Look upon the rainbow, and praise them that made it.
A man who does not open his eyes must open his purse.
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.
It is easier to know how to do a thing than to do it.
Religion's greatest miracle is the survival of faith.
Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord.
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
A man who wants a great deal must not ask for little.
A man asks for advice in vain who will not follow it.
The end of passion means the beginning of repentance.
To be rich is not everything, but it certainly helps.
What commands they utter from the heart come to pass.
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
The early riser is healthy, cheerful and industrious.
Great works need no great strength, but perseverance.
Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you who you are.
Words show the wit of a man, but actions his meaning.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.
Content is health to the sick and riches to the poor.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.
Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise.
The tongue is the deadliest of all blunt instruments.
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
Talk like Robin Hood when you can shoot with his bow.
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
A man does not become clever by carrying books along.
If you don't touch the rope, you won't ring the bell.
They who lie down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
A man who begins and does not finish loses his labor.
Silence is not always golden; sometimes it is yellow.
In nature there are no rights; there are only duties.
Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
There are no premature babies, only delayed weddings.
Man is made by his beliefs. As he believes, so he is.
It is better to be a small stream, than a deep ditch.
A man who does what he can do, does what he ought to.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.
Handsome women generally fall to the lot of ugly men.
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
Money isn't everything; usually it isn't even enough.
Don't play with the bear if you don't want to be bit.
Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten.
What reveals a man is his behavior in time of hunger.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
A true friend does sometimes venture to be offensive.
It's no disgrace to get lice, but it is to keep them.
How many will listen to the truth when you tell them?
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
Small children, small joys; big children, big annoys.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Even among intimate friends there should be courtesy.
The best way to give advice is to set a good example.
Wit is what we should have said had we thought of it.
Although it may rain, cast not away the watering pot.
The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.
A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.
Women! Can't live with them, can't live without them.
An injury forgiven is better than an injury revenged.
Blessed are those who prefer others before themselves.
Go to the ants . . . consider their ways, and be wise!
They that are afraid of bad luck will never know good.
Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.
And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please.
One that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.
If you want a job done fast, give it to a busy person.
Avarice hoards itself poor; charity gives itself rich.
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
Experience is the dividend gained from one's mistakes.
Things are not what they seem, nor are they otherwise.
If you don't have something good to say, don't say it.
He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows.
If you are reluctant to ask the way, you will be lost.
Keep thine eyes open, or Fate will open them for thee.
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
Kick away the ladder and one's feet are left dangling.
Everyone loves a fool, but nobody wants him for a son.
You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears.
A friend to every man and to no man is the same thing.
If your enemy turns to flee, give him a silver bridge.
Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself.
One that hath wax for a head must not walk in the sun.
A man who lives without discipline dies without honor.
If you wait, there will come nectar like fair weather.
The greatest expense we can be at is that of our time.
What you see in yourself is what you see in the world.
One ounce of good luck is better than a ton of brains.
Pray to God for a good harvest, but don't stop hoeing.
Ask the right questions and you get the right answers.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.
In every generation there are some outstanding chiefs.
Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart.
Experience is the one thing you can't get for nothing.
Best not to trade horses while crossing in mid-stream.
A good archer is not known by his arrows, but his aim.
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
There is no better surgeon than a man with many scars.
If the counsel be good, take it no matter who gave it.
The best surgeon is one that hath been hacked himself.
Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles.
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
Where there's a will there's a way (or a beneficiary).
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
A heavy burden does not kill on the day it is carried.
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Do not to others what ye do not wish done to yourself.
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
No one has ever repealed the law of supply and demand.
If you have to ask what it costs, you can't afford it.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair.
He who does not travel will not know the value of men.
Knowledge becomes Understanding, which becomes Wisdom.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.
What good is consistency, if you're consistently wrong?
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
If you won't do better today, you'll do worse tomorrow.
A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
The tree casts its shade upon all, even the woodcutter.
Do not do to your fellow people what is hateful to you.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
A single fact will often spoil an interesting argument.
It is more easy to be wise for others than for thyself.
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.
A penny is a lot of money — if you haven't got a penny.
Where brains are what you need, force will not succeed.
He is not the best carpenter that makes the most chips.
Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.
Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.
We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
When you go to a donkey's house, don't talk about ears.
If you don't use your head, you'll use your pocketbook.
They deserve Paradise who makes their companions laugh.
The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.
Keep a green tree in your heart, singing bird may come.
Regard all creatures as you would regard your own self.
There is a purpose for everything that happens in life.
Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
The thoughtless strong man is the chief among lazy men.
Of all crafts, to be an honest man is the master-craft.
An intelligent enemy is better than an ignorant friend.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by covering more.
Refrain not to speak when there is occasion to do good.
The greatest things are done by the help of small ones.
No one tests the depth of the river with both his feet.
Life should be measured by its breadth, not its length.
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding.
The greatest liar is the one who talks most of himself.
Gratitude is sometimes more easily given than received.
No man can have peace longer than his neighbor pleases.
Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
The nearer death's day, the more should old people play.
Whoso watcheth for wisdom shall quickly be without care.
That man alone is wise who keeps the mastery of himself.
When every man minds his own business, the work is done.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
When you obey your superior, you instruct your inferior.
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than any brother.
You must scale the mountain if you would view the plain.
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
In spring no one thinks of the snow that fell last year.
In the short life of a man no lost time can be afforded.
Endeavor to bear the ignorance of fortune with patience.
If youth had but the knowledge and old age the strength.
To refuse to grow old is the unmistakable sign of youth.
A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it.
Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.
A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle.
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir.
He who would wish to be valued must make himself scarce.
Professionals built the Titanic; amateurs built the Ark.
One should choose one's bedfellow whilst it is daylight.
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
If God wanted us to vote, He'd have given us candidates.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
A man that doth what he will oft doth what he ought not.
When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
If you believe everything you read, you better not read.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.
A man has the biggest blind side who thinks he has none.
He who hesitates . . . buys the stock two points higher.
A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
Who promises much and does little, dines a fool on hope.
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
No greater promisers than they who have nothing to give.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.
A promise against law or duty is void in its own nature.
Accept me as I am—only then will we discover each other.
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The LORD is near.
Gain does not give as much pleasure as loss gives grief.
Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find use for it.
Just be who you want to be, not what others want to see.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Tact is changing the subject without changing your mind.
A man who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it.
The head doesn't hear unless the heart desires to listen.
A wise man will hold his tongue till he sees opportunity.
Many men know how to flatter; few men know how to praise.
Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.
The remedy of tomorrow is too late for the evil of today.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
A man that can rule his tongue shall live without strife.
You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
It's just as easy to love a rich man/woman as a poor one.
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.
You can always tell a leader. but you can't tell him much
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
With all beings and all things, we shall be as relatives.
Do not resist growing old--many are denied the privilege.
Small children give you headache; big children heartache.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.
In our society, the only sin is not getting away with it.
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers.
It is twice as hard to crush a half truth as a whole lie.
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt.
A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
Love without return is like a question without an answer.
A man is not a man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
There is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.
When a fool has made up his mind, the market has gone by.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem the shorter.
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip the point in honey.
Woman prefers a man without money to money without a man.
The raft of knowledge ferries the worst sinner to safety.
The best policy for a man is not to boast of his virtues.
If you don't know your rights, you don't have any rights.
The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams.
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.
Be slow in choosing friends, but slower in changing them.
If at first you do succeed—try to hide your astonishment.
Never ask of him who has, but of him who wishes you well.
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.
Rejoice in the LORD always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
Visit your aunt and uncle, but not every day of the year.
I am sparkling; you are unusually talkative; he is drunk.
The patient in spirit is better that the proud in spirit.
Nothing will content men who are not content with little.
The mind is like a parachute ... it must be open to work.
Man may work from sun to sun, woman's work is never done.
We spend our years as a tale that is a tale that is told.
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.
Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to the child.
Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
What's the use of running if you're not on the right road?
No man is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
He who is afraid of doing too much always does too little.
It is disgraceful to stumble against the same stone twice.
The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
News does not have wings, yet it can cross the seven seas.
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Who follows not virtue in youth cannot fly sin in old age.
All the people like us are We, And every one else is They.
But in deed, a friend is never known till a man have need.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon.
The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
Mules are always boasting that their ancestors are horses.
When you skip voting, it's not rebellion. It's surrender.
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
He who has all the answers hasn't heard all the questions.
There is but one way to be born but a hundred ways to die.
They who know themselves best esteem themselves the least.
Let those who claim to know a lot produce their knowledge.
The surest form of birth control is often a good argument.
A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
Don't ask questions if you don't want to hear the answers.
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch.
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
Accept what you can't change. Change what you can't accept
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
Each of us has his own alphabet with which to make poetry.
We find our lives in losing them in the service of others.
Just follow the day. Follow the day and reach for the sun!
A man who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.
Invention is the son of need and the father of prosperity.
If Christ returned today, would he recognize Christianity?
A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.
He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
If you walk on a tight rope, you'll need a balancing pole.
Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.
You may light a another's candle at your own without loss.
Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.
Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
When a man moves away from nature, his heart becomes hard.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.
Take a vine of good soil, and a daughter of a good mother.
He who has the gold rules . . . that is the 'Golden Rule.'
If Providence bolts the door do not go through the window.
Necessity is a hard nurse, but she raises strong children.
A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless it is paid for.
An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
Forbidden fruits taste better than those that are allowed.
Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.
There's many a good cock that comes out of a tattered bag.
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.
You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
A knot in the tree spoils the ax; famine spoils friendship.
There's no rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival.
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
One eye of the master sees more than four of the servant's.
Mothers are know everything, except for things that change.
Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks.
Definition of a sports car: a hedge against male menopause.
If You can't take a joke, you'll have to take the medicine.
Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no one.
There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.
A man who damages the character of another damages his own.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Eat and drink with your friends, but do not trade with them
A man who wants a faultless friend, must remain friendless.
Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love 'tis the way.
A man who does not rise early never does a good day's work.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of one that hath understanding.
If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.
Whoever spurns what is short has not trodden on a scorpion.
There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men.
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
Bad news goes about in clogs, good news in stockinged feet.
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing.
To die in the flower of age is a life offered in sacrifice.
Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid of standing still.
A pendulum travels much, but it only goes a tick at a time.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
When two men of equal wisdom play together, discord arises.
Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
If You don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
How can you get wisdom . . . when your talk is of bullocks?
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.
Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others.
If you be a jester, keep your wit till you have use for it.
A committee is a group that takes minutes and wastes hours.
Intelligence is not shown by witty words, but by wise acts.
If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions.
If you don't have your health . . . you don't have anything.
Those who give only when asked have already waited too long.
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
What he lacks in intelligence, he makes up for in stupidity.
Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love.
The line between madness and genius is a permeable membrane.
There is no saint without a past—no sinner without a future.
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begot us.
Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
My mind is made up, don't try and confuse me with the facts.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
The wise man looks within his heart and finds eternal peace.
It's just as easy to love a rich man or woman as a poor one.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved?
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.
Climb high, climb far, your goal the sky your aim the stars.
The crab instructs its young, "Walk straight ahead—like me."
Everyone, in the final analysis, is in business for himself.
It is always easier to hate something than to understand it.
A joke not only can make an enemy, but often loses a friend.
The courteous man learns his courtesy from the discourteous.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The wise learn from adversity; the foolish merely repeat it.
If thine enemy wrongs thee, buy each of his children a drum.
You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
Nothing is more precious than time, yet nothing less valued.
Lazy hands make a man poor; but diligent hands bring wealth.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which the fathers have set.
Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more.
It is almost as good as bringing good news not to bring bad.
A man should marry no other woman but the one whom he loves.
A boat doesn't go forward if each man is rowing his own way.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.
Never put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens.
It is not the early rising, but the well spending of the day.
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king.
A wise man does not strive, the ignorant man ties himself up.
Cheerfulness has been called the bright weather of the heart.
One man can burn water, whereas another cannot even burn oil.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.
One marriage is never celebrated but another grows out of it.
Days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Pessimism is the art of finding bad news in a fortune cookie.
What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?
Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he is called.
When you fast, do not put on a sad face as the hypocrites do.
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.
It is better to weep with wise ones than to laugh with fools.
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
Give me a good digestion, Lord, and also something to digest.
A friend that you buy with presents will be brought from you.
A man who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
A man must have a just esteem of himself without being proud.
The minute you get the idea you're indispensable, you aren't.
If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
The world belongs to the rascals; Heaven belongs to the good.
One who plants a walnut tree expects not to eat of the fruit.
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Don't dig a foundation where you don't plan to build a house.
Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king.
All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment.
A sound mind in a sound body is the blessedness of creatures.
Not to oversee your workers is to leave them your purse open.
The mind covers more ground than the heart but goes less far.
One of the ingredients most necessary for success is failure.
A diplomat is someone who thinks twice before saying nothing.
Money still talks, but it has to catch its breath more often.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
A man that confesseth his fault shall be preserved from hurt.
Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.
The stream won't be advised, therefore its course is crooked.
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children.
Life doesn't do anything to you, it only reveals your spirit.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish — very gently.
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
Whatever kind of word thou speakest the like shalt thou hear.
Blessings do not come in pairs; misfortunes never come singly.
Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
It is wiser to choose what to say than to say what you choose.
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace.
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.
A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind.
However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
A man who saves in little things can be liberal in great ones.
Admiration: acknowledgment of another's similarity to oneself.
For there is no day however beautiful which has not its night.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
I found the people who talk a lot are doing what they do best.
Many friends have been lost by jest, but few have been gained.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
A man who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
Men want to live the way they want instead of how they should.
If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.
Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow.
Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.
If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its seed is action.
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking wicked.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
If you act like an ass, don't get insulted if people ride you.
If you expect to save at all, do it while your salary's small.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
He who strikes the first blow admits he has lost the argument.
If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself.
Desperation is a fellow shaving before stepping on the scales.
Never argue with a fool; people might not know the difference.
Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
He is a weak friend who cannot bear with his friend's weakness.
It is better to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion.
Promises may get friends, but 'tis performances that keep them.
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.
Everyone tells you to have a nice day but nobody tells you how.
First among the things to be thankful for is a thankful spirit.
A bird does not change its feathers because the weather is bad.
Things that live on in memory have no visible means of support.
Experience is the fool's best teacher; the wise do not need it.
A man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until evening.
It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy.
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
A plane of being is not a place of being, but a state of being.
Some people march to a different drummer—and some people polka.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Wisdom is a loving spirit. Her conversation hath no bitterness.
It is not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts.
To whom you tell your secrets, to them you resign your liberty.
When it comes to memory . . . .try to remember the good things.
If you don't go to people's funerals, they won't come to yours.
By nature all men are alike, but by education widely different.
Poverty is "Who knows you?" Prosperity is "I am your relative."
We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Physicians faults are covered with earth, and rich men's money.
There are no riches above the riches of the health of the body.
Every man that striveth for mastery is temperate in all things.
Confidence is not trying the knob after you've locked the door.
Mankind consists of five races and an infinite number of heats.
The man who moves a mountain must start by moving small stones.
Eternity itself cannot restore the loss struck from the minute.
Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of a man.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
A tree that affords thee shade, do not order it to be cut down.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
A real cowboy has a ten-dollar horse and a forty-dollar saddle.
With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
To be happy and contented, count your blessings, not your cash.
My mother didn't leave me anything of value, except her wisdom.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
No time for your health today: no health for your time tomorrow.
Be fruitful and multiply, and then fill the earth and subdue it.
Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health.
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
Was the world happier before psychology, or was that a delusion?
Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday.
Choose your friends with care, that you may have choice friends.
What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
Love lights it's own path. It never get's lost on it's way home.
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.
The children of this world are wiser than the children of light.
There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man's friend deserts him.
Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.
Conceit wouldn't be so terrible if only the right people had it.
A man cannot think chiefly of himself without being discouraged.
A smile is a light on your face to let others know you are home.
Work is the easiest activity man has invented to escape boredom.
Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash off the spots.
There's none so poor as he who knows not the joy of what he has.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
What you don't see with your eyes don't witness with your mouth.
It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Everybody wants a second chance, but not everybody deserves one.
It is a sign of a good man, if he grows better for commendation.
Many a live wire would be a dead one except for his connections.
The world is a bridge; pass over it, but build no house upon it.
Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
We advise others in areas we have difficulty advising ourselves.
Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.
There is as much greatness in owning a good turn as in doing it.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
Always expect the worst, and when it comes, make the best of it.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest of men.
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
Keep adding little by little and you will soon have a big hoard.
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity.
Poverty is "Who knows you?"; Prosperity is "I am your relative."
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
Whatsoever ye would have others do to you, do ye even so to them.
I am therefore to become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
Honesty is the best policy (but sometimes it has a high premium).
A good Jill makes a good Jack." — "Every Jack must have his Jill.
Any-time you give up pleasure for duty, you're a stronger person.
A hunter who has only one arrow does not shoot with careless aim.
A man who builds to every one's advice will have a crooked house.
If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet.
It does not take a very brave dog to bark at the bones of a lion.
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
He that speaks the truth must first have one foot in the stirrup.
One pound of common sense ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
By bravely enduring, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.
The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.
Be sure the brain is in gear before putting your mouth in motion.
Let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
A great leader molds public opinion: a wise leader listens to it.
He who renounces that food for the sake of a weaker man is a god.
A liar is not hard to believe when he says nice things about you.
Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other people's lives.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Anyone who consults a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
Everything unusual frightens us; that is why we have our customs.
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to them.
When I am right no one remembers. When I am wrong no one forgets.
Fool's names, like fool's faces, are often seen in public places.
None are so fond of secrets as those who don't mean to keep them.
Ability without ambition is like kindling wood without the spark.
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge that what is old is new.
If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.
It is honorable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.
A promise should be made by the heart and remembered by the hand.
Drink nothing without seeing it; Sign nothing without reading it.
Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly doesn't discourage it.
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family.
Desire of glory is the last garment that even a wise man puts off.
Inspiration from above is still the spark plug of the moral motor.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
The longest road in the world is the one that leads to the pocket.
Inflation is when you never had anything and now even that's gone.
He who has plenty of pepper can afford to season his cabbage well.
By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never."
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
The day you're born is the day you draw your last peaceful breath.
One day is as good as two for he who does everything in its place.
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
A cheerful spirit moveth quick — a grumbler in the mud will stick.
The past, the present and the future are one; they are your today.
For one rich man that is content there are a hundred that are not.
You can give a piece of advice, but not good luck along with that.
Happy is the doctor who is called in at the decline of an illness.
The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experiences go slowly.
Never judge any man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Too many boatmen will run the boat up to the top of the mountains.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
A man's heart changes his countenance, either for good or for bad.
To err is human, to try to prevent recurrence of error is science.
What a man does not have in the head, a man must have in the legs.
Don't rejoice over them that goes, before you see them that comes.
In order to be old and wise, you have to be young and naive first.
Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
There is no shame in not knowing the shame lies in not finding out.
Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.
You, yourself, must make the effort. The Buddhas are only teachers.
Add one small bit to the truth and you inevitably subtract from it.
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the TRY-Angle!
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
To enjoy the day of plenty, you must be patient in the day of want.
Our homes need more electrical outlets, and more emotional outlets.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
A man is not honest, simply because he never had a chance to steal.
When I did well, I heard it never; when I did ill, I heard it ever.
When there are too many chefs in the kitchen, no cooking gets done.
No man is completely useless; he can always serve as a bad example.
What you have put into the kettle comes afterwards into your spoon.
A lost wife can be replaced, but the loss of character spells ruin.
The heart of the family is the mother, because life comes from her.
Amazing how many hours slip by while planning how to use your time!
There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Conscience is a small inner voice that doesn't speak your language.
Drink and the world drinks with you; swear off and you drink alone.
It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink.
Do not hurt your neighbor, for it is not he you wrong but yourself.
It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
A bargain is something you cannot use at a price you cannot resist.
If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon.
A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities.
People who think they know it all annoy those of us who already do.
The path of virtue lies in the renunciation of arrogance and pride.
When a camel is at the foot of a mountain then judge of his height.
Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.
Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working.
He who sees the Self revealed in his heart belongs to eternal bliss.
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Everyday is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated.
Wisdom is better than strength . . . and better than weapons of war.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
Be careful of what you say or the words will come back to haunt you.
There is that speaking rashly that is like the piercings of a sword.
The optimist sees a glass half full, a pessimist a glass half empty.
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Whoever has bitten a sour apple will enjoy a sweet one all the more.
Each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another that.
Things to their perfection come, not all at once, but some and some.
Get what you can and keep what you have. That's the way to get rich.
The temple of fame is the shortest passage to riches and preferment.
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
Marry for money, my little honey, a rich man's joke is always funny.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hath thou ordained strength.
As long as a child does not cry it does not matter what pleases him.
Don't laugh at one who is old; the same will assuredly happen to us.
The body is a robe stitched together by desire, thought, and action.
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Opportunities are never lost. The other fellow takes those you miss.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he gives up.
The opinion of the intelligent is better than certainty of ignorant.
If brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough lo blow your nose.
An actor is like a cigar; the more you puff him the smaller he gets.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else's stinks.
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodiles.
Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime drank.
Let your ambitions further your accomplishments, not overshadow them.
Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.
If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it?
It's not enough to know how to ride — you must also know how to fall.
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
What you are speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you are saying.
Visits always give a pleasure; if not the arriving, so the departing.
Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Govern your family as you would cook a small fish — very very gently.
Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
Job was not so miserable in his sufferings, as happy in his patience.
Before you speak, you are master of what you say, afterwards a slave.
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three muscles to frown.
He who would speak the truth must first have one foot in the stirrup.
The best things in life are free, but it costs alot to find that out.
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
No opportunity is ever lost. Someone else seizes the ones you missed.
We all have the same roots, and we are all branches of the same tree.
One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.
For love enters a man through his eyes, and a woman through her ears.
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
Love is like war: you begin when you like and leave off when you can.
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
One that would jest must take a jest, else to let it alone were best.
Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Therefore the desire of wisdom brings one to the everlasting Kingdom.
Kindness is something you can't give away since it always comes back.
The most precious gift received by men on earth is desire for wisdom.
If I had not lifted up the stone, you would not have found the jewel.
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.
People with the narrowest minds always seem to have the widest mouths.
If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile.
The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.
The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.
A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded.
A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.
Let your conduct be marked by truthfulness in word, deed, and thought.
Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it.
O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter.
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness.
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Don't tie a knot in your tongue that you cannot untie with your teeth.
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.
Gold is tried in fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
If the camel once got his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow.
One that will not be ruled by the rudder will be wrecked on the rocks.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.
We are apt to remember most vividly what we would most like to forget.
Age gives good advice when it is no longer able to give a bad example.
A man who has health has hope; and a man who has hope, has everything.
Don't call a man honest just because he never had the chance to steal.
Health doesn't ensure happiness, but it's hard to be happy without it.
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.
Let reason go before every enterprise, and counsel before every action.
Be grateful for what you have, or that will be taken away from you too.
Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood.
The one in front has reached there, the one behind only hears about it.
It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.
For many of us bring our prejudices along when we listen to a new idea.
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
A miser isn't much fun to live with, but he makes a wonderful ancestor.
No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.
Wouldn't it be great if retail therapy was covered by health insurance?
Inflation has made it possible for only the rich to afford a recession.
When forty million people believe in dumb idea, it's a still dumb idea.
Anyone's a fool who doesn't try to live up to his dreams and abilities.
When in an argument, try asking questions instead of making statements.
Lies, though many, will be caught by the truth as soon as she rises up.
The wise don't expect lo find life worth living; they make it that way.
Of course the truth hurts. You would too if you were stretched so much.
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil full of deadly poison.
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills.
A socialist is someone who has nothing and wants to divide it with you.
Hindsight is good, foresight is better, but insight is the best of all.
When helping out, do not let another's sinking ship take you down, too.
Whosoever wants to be great among you, must be the servant of the rest.
Action should culminate in wisdom." — "No man shall escape from acting.
When one man builds and another tears down, what do they gain but toil?
The white man lives in the castle; when he dies he lives in the ground.
You will draw to yourself that which you most persistently think about.
An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goals.
Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Most people want to improve themselves, but not many want to work at it.
The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination.
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.
Speech is silver, silence is golden; speech is human, silence is divine.
Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
It is not about timing the market, but time in the market, that matters.
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
When you tell the truth, you do not have to remember what you have said.
What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the parish church.
Truth came to market and could not be sold; we buy lies with ready cash.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.
When you are dog-tired at night, could it be from growling all day long?
I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done unto you.
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.
Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
You can't help someone uphill without getting closer to the top yourself.
Success is never final and failure never total. It's courage that counts.
Praise is like champagne; it should be served while it is still bubbling.
Man cannot change the direction of the wind, but he can adjust the sails.
Money can't buy health, but it certainly makes it easier to stay healthy.
Men fool themselves. They pray for a long life, and they fear an old age.
The wolf changes it coat, and the serpent its skin, but not their nature.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret. They soon betray themselves.
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet tall.
Tell not all you know, believe not all you hear, do not all you are able.
Allowing the is-ness of the moment is allowing the experience of freedom.
Intelligence is not needed for luck, but luck is needed for intelligence.
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
The blow of a whip raises a welt, but a blow of the tongue crushes bones.
Life is a bridge; enjoy while crossing, but don't build a castle upon it.
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
When the snake is in the house, one need not discuss the matter of length.
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
Though it be disfigured by many defects, to whom is his own body not dear?
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Of many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.
Duty only frowns when you flee from it; follow it, and it smiles upon you.
Put the mysteries of wisdom into practice and all evil will flee from you.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom . . . and every man who retaineth it.
Alas! We reap what seed we sow; the hands that smite us are often our own.
Hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Small people think they are small; great people never know they are great.
Our worst enemies are those friends who have failed to find us profitable.
If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.
If plan 'A' doesn't work, just remember the alphabets has 25 more letters.
An act may seem right, but it is by its results that its purpose is shown.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Blessed be Thou, our God and Lord of Hosts, who has not created me a woman.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbor, but the rich hath many friends.
Absence strengtheneth friendship, where the last recollections were kindly.
How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Happiness is someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to
Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Give me the ass that carries me, in preference to the horse that throws me.
During uprisings, the tendency is to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
To admit you don't know everything is the first step on the road to wisdom.
Hope is insurance we take out in this life against hell's fire in the next.
The quickest way to kindle a fire is to rub two opposing opinions together.
The purpose of studying economics is to avoid being deceived by economists.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
If they don't want to play with you, then you don't want to play with them.
We must understand the meaning of compassion . . . which is to suffer with.
To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
This world is a round gulf, and those who cannot swim must go to the bottom.
The opinion of the intelligent is better than the certainty of the ignorant.
When thou doest alms, let not thy. left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Confess that you were wrong yesterday; it will show that you are wise today.
No man gives joy or sorrow. . . we gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Temper is what gets most of us in an argument. Pride is what keeps us there.
Do not let good deeds be motivated by the ego or the clinging to this world.
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.
As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.
There are two fools in every market: one asks too little, one asks too much.
Parents may feel the need to have many babies to be sure that a few survive.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
A man consists of the faith that is in him. Whatever your faith is, you are.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
It is possible for one to tell you all the fact and still not all the truth.
The body pays for a slip of the foot and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
The real secret of patience is to find something else to do in the meantime.
It's fine to stand out from the crowd, but not when they're shooting at you.
People who claim to be "original" aren't giving their parents enough credit.
When your intent is in accordance with the Universe, things start happening.
Too many people think they are being creative when they are being different.
Your food is close to your stomach, but you must put it in your mouth first.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill so long as you don't lose the cow.
Do not reveal your thoughts to every man, lest you drive away your good luck.
A good many things are easier said than done — including the marriage ritual.
A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Seek counsel of them who makes you weep, and not of them who makes you laugh.
Live as if you expected to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.
There is a knack of showing we understand the matter, when we hold our peace.
They seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand.
One is a fool that praises himself, and one is mad who speaks ill of himself.
How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete?
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Cheerfulness gives harmony to the soul and is a perpetual song without words.
Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff and nudge me when I've said enough.
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
The most important element in success is economy — economy of money and time.
Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based.
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today and yesterday.
Whoso keepeth their mouth and their tongue, keepeth their soul from troubles.
To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.
However broken down is the spirit's shrine, the spirit is there all the same.
To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is formidable.
If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.
What is in a word? Consider the difference between a wise guy and a wise man.
We don't inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
A woman's advice is no great thing, but those who will not take it are fools.
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
A single conversation with a wise man is better than a month's study of books.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.
It takes 72 muscles to frown but only 16 to smile, so if you are tired, smile.
On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favour.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over and whispers, 'Grow, Grow.'
Computers are like men because they have a lot of data but are still clueless.
Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
The way to go from rags to riches is to start by getting a decent set of rags.
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.
Nothing comes from a life of ease. The good sailor hails from the stormy seas.
We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.
There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
A man has to live with himself; he should see that he always has good company.
Living for ages in the night-realm, we dream that our darkness is full of day.
All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Those who inherit fortunes are often more troublesome than those who make them.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Anybody who thinks there aren't two sides to every argument is probably in one.
Don't think people judge your generosity by the amount of advice you give away.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
If we do not take care of ourselves first, we become useless in helping others.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.
If we don't change our direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
Only when the cold sets in do you notice the pines and cypresses turning green.
Victory has a hundred fathers, but no one wants to recognize defeat as his own.
A man not humble in his own sight will never be exalted in the sight of others.
The time will come when winter will ask us: What were you doing all the summer?
"No" is a complete sentence. It does not require justification or explanation.
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.
If you love listening you will learn; if you lend an ear, wisdom will be yours.
All has an end, and will pass away. Truth alone is immortal, and lives forever.
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
Write down the advice of those who love you, though you like it not at present.
I am righteously indignant; you are annoyed; he is making a fuss about nothing.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Better have as king a vulture advised by swans than a swan advised by vultures.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
The works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.
Some people are suffering and you'll never know because they suffer in silence.
Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
We are all very proud of our reason, and yet we guess at fully one-half we know.
Tact is the ability to make your guest to feel at home where you wish they were.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
People who wrestle with their consciences usually go for two falls out of three.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Despise not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs.
See one Changeless Life in all that lives, and in the separate, One Inseparable.
The abstinent run away from what they desire, but carry their desires with them.
Greater is a man who enjoys the fruits of his labor than a man who fears heaven.
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
The duty of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
A good resolution is like an old horse which is often saddled but rarely ridden.
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him.
Regard your neighbor's gain as your gain, and your neighbor's loss as your loss.
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
If you lack knowledge, what do you have? If you have knowledge, what do you lack?
He who actually loves even those that do not love him in return is compassionate.
It is better to cause happiness where you go than to cause happiness when you go.
A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved.
We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.
The spectacular is always preceded by a long period of unspectacular preparation.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
A man walks on, and Karma, the 'law of action' follows him along with his shadow.
A consultant is someone whose opinion is sought after the decision has been made.
If you think twice before you speak once, you will speak twice the better for it.
Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.
One evening's conversation with a superior man is better than ten years of study.
The heart of the fool is in his tongue; the tongue of the wise is in their heart.
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse.
What is work? And what is not work? Are questions that perplex the wisest of men.
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
Conversation is when three people are talking; gossip is when one of them leaves.
If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.
Ignorance is not saying, I don't know. Ignorance Is saying, I don't want to know.
Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.
The best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously.
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
A nation forgetful and disrespectful of its past has no future, and deserves none.
If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
The world is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.
Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure.
It is better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a mighty ocean.
He who keeps the hills, burns the wood; he who keeps the streams drinks the water.
A consultant is a man who knows 128 ways to make love, but doesn't know any women.
Regardless of how rich you are, wisdom has to be acquired on the installment plan.
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
You're not as young as you used to be but you're not as old as you're going to be.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Throughout history, the most common debilitating human ailment has been cold feet.
Omit no opportunity of doing good, and you will find no opportunity for doing ill.
Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today, do not expect to regain her tomorrow.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
For what has a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
The heart of fools is in their mouth and the mouth of wise ones is in their hearts.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch.
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.
Greater love hath no man than this, that he will lay down his life for his friends.
The aids to noble life are all within." — M. Arnold "True nobility is invulnerable.
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
A man without convictions is a tramp on the road that leads to the land of nowhere.
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of harvest.
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
Though the birds may fly over your head, let them not make their nest in your hair.
When it looked like the sun wouldn't shine anymore God put a rainbow in the clouds.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
Old age is having too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
A man should be just as careful in choosing his pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense and the past perfect.
Old age doesn't keep men from chasing women; they just have trouble remembering why.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Most people in this world are about as happy as they have made up their minds to be.
The things that are seen are temporal; but the things that are not seen are eternal.
Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of eternity?
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.
Ideas are like fleas, they jump from person to person, but they don't bite everyone.
A successful salesman sells his goods on their merit—not by knocking his competitor.
Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Let each man look not only to his own interests but also to the interests of others.
A piece of incense may be as large as the knee, but unless burnt emits no fragrance.
Inspiration impels us to experience what has not yet occurred, but is already known.
But that's what being an artist is—feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.
Work for the Lord. The pay isn't much, but the retirement plan is out of this world.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back or a fool from any side.
O LORD, . . . if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come.
Moderation is a tree with roots of contentment, and fruits of tranquility and peace.
The good and the pleasant approach a man; the wise prefers the good to the pleasant.
There is a past which is gone forever; but there is a future which is still our own.
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
To feel one's ignorance is to be wise; to feel sure of one's wisdom is to be a fool.
With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well, too.
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks.
A promise is the offspring of the intention, and should be nurtured by recollection.
More wrongs have been committed in the name of Christ than in the name of the devil.
Women are apt to see chiefly the defects of a man of talent and the merits of a fool.
I give good advice with the same enthusiasm and sincerity in which I give bad advice.
Consider the lilies of the world, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
From fortune to misfortune is but a step; from misfortune to fortune is a longer way.
He who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth must wait a very, very long time.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.
If you think too long on your next step, you will end up in life standing on one leg.
A conscience, like a buzzing bee, can make a fellow uneasy without ever stinging him.
The path of duty lies in the thing that is nearby, but men seek it in things far off.
It is less embarrassing to ask a silly question than to explain later why you didn't.
A kiss is the act of tasting another to determine if further consumption is warranted.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler and whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Don't judge a man by the words of his mother, listen to the comments of his neighbors.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
This is the sum of duty: do not unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.
A dog has a lot of friends and fun, maybe because he wags his tail and not his tongue.
Firmness is that admirable quality in ourselves that is merely stubbornness in others.
Before you can learn to fly, you must first learn to walk. You cannot fly into flying.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy, in certain instances, is the same thing.
Success is not the ability to get along with people, its ability to get ahead of them.
Success doesn't come to those who wait — and it doesn't wait for anyone to come to it.
The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on the water but to walk on the earth.
These things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation.
It takes less to keep an old customer satisfied than to get a new customer interested.
Originality is not necessarily better than imitation, but it makes imitation possible.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Personality has the power to open many doors, but it's character that keeps them open.
A man who would rise in the world should veil his ambition with the forms of humanity.
You can take the animal out of the wild but you can't take the wild out of the animal.
For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, how canst thou find anything in thine age?
By truth alone is man's mind purified, and by right discipline it doth become inspired.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
He who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is their gray hair.
Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can. Seldom found in woman, never found in man.
Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile has a lump on its snout.
The successful salesman sells his goods on their merit—not by knocking his competitors.
Knowledge cannot make us all leaders, but it can help us decide which leader to follow.
Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat the door down.
Vast worlds lie within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the motes in a sunbeam.
Let a man overcome anger by love, evil by good, greediness by liberality, lies by truth.
When a man falls in love with himself, it's usually the beginning of a lifelong romance.
A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows.
Middle age is when you begin to wonder who put the quicksand into the hourglass of time.
Enjoy the game and you will play better vs. if you play better, you will enjoy the game.
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Psychology is the science of predicting how people behave—and explaining why they don't.
The word 'communication' comes from the Latin word 'Communicare' which means "to share".
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it.
When fortune is good, you rule over the devils; when fortune is bad, they rule over you.
Vehement desires about any one thing render the soul blind with respect to other things.
No face is ever hopelessly plain through which a friendly soul looks out upon the world.
American believes more than anything else in the last four letters of that title: I can.
Every parent who does not teach his child a trade, it is as though he taught him to rob.
The other planets may not be able to support life, but it isn't easy on this one either.
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
When one has no lust, no hatred, a man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; the venom of asps is under their lips.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
A clear conscience and the respect of one's fellow citizens are still worth striving for.
Vinegar does not catch a fly, but honey. A sweet tongue draweth the snake from the earth.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.
Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.
When roubles falls from heaven there is no sack, when there is a sack roubles don't fall.
One who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life — is a great man indeed!
Om! That is whole; whole is this; from the Invisible Whole comes forth the visible whole.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson where you find the present tense and the past perfect.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but the greatest of these is charity.
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. It you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
The real difference between people is not sanity and insanity, but more or less insanity.
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
Economics is nothing more nor less than keeping your head as far above water as possible.
No man is hanged who has money in his pocket" "When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country.
The person who says youth is a state of mind invariably has more state of mind than youth.
Habit may be likened to a cable; every day we weave a thread, and soon we cannot break it.
Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.
Modesty is the art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite so satisfying as an income tax refund.
In selling a horse praise the bad point, and leave the good ones to look after themselves.
An American believes more than anything else in the last four letter of that title: I can.
Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there.
I am beautiful; you have quite good features; she isn't bad-looking if you like that type.
Eat according to the limits of your provisions; walk according to the length of your step.
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
The only thing more painful than learning from experience is not learning from experience.
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.
As a wise man, if wiser, would deal with himself, so the Divine Providence deals with him.
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
The bitterness of poor quality persists long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
Let not any man, though pained, be sour-tempered, nor devise a deed of mischief to another.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings.
Life is not measured by number of breaths we take but the moment that take our breath away.
A wise man reflects before he speaks. A fool speaks, and then reflects on what was uttered.
A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses.
Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Statistics are like a bikini: what the reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.
Do nothing from selfishness or conceit but in humility count others better than yourselves.
Always look on the bright side of things—but if you're buying something, look on both sides.
Wine nourishes, refreshes, and cheers. Wherever wine is lacking, medicines become necessary.
Let one strive to purify his thoughts, what a man thinks, that he is: this is an old secret.
This age of darkness will constantly proceed in it's decay until the beginning of a new era.
Butter and honey shall they eat, that they may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
The best way to judge a teacher is to ask who his instructors were and who his students are.
Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.
The virtuous man cannot be hurt, the misery that his enemy would inflict comes back on them.
Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.
Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth the common man, and puffeth up the little man.
There is no purifier like knowledge in this world: time makes one find himself in his heart.
There is one thing to be said for ignorance — it sure causes a lot of interesting arguments.
Talk to your children while they are eating; what you say will stay even after you are gone.
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Do not speak harshly to any man; those who are so spoken to will answer thee in the same way.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Truth comes into the world with two faces: sad suffering and laughs. But it is the same face.
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is the same once you get there.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Some people know a lot more than they're willing to tell. Unfortunately, the reverse is true.
A man who asks is a fool for five minutes, but a man who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Be not a friend to the wicked — charcoal when hot, burns; when cold, it blackens the fingers.
It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.
I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human; indeed, I do not even judge myself.
If you find you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
None of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
Nothing seems to go as far as it did. Even nostalgia doesn't reach back as far as it used to.
HOFUKU (pointing at mountains): Is not this Reality? CHOKEI: It is, but it's a pity to say so.
Give a man a fish and he will live for a day; give him a net, and he will live for a lifetime.
Put yourself frankly into the hands of Fate, and let her spin you out the fortune she pleases.
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at Gypsy fortunetellers take economists seriously.
Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Those killed by lack of wisdom are numerous. Those killed by wisdom do not amount to anything.
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of range before it is understood.
Computers are like women because once you acquire one you spend all your money on accessories.
I don't even remember what happened in 2005. You make a mistake and just put it in the trash.
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
Put off your shoes and your clothing and have the angel of Sunlight embrace you, all your body.
Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but hard work to actually know what one is talking about.
No one of you is a believer until he desire for their brother that which he desire for himself.
If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
The cards you hold in the game of life mean very little-it's the way you play them that counts.
Modesty in delivering our opinions leaves us at liberty of changing them without embarrassment.
A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it; they think success will come at every turn.
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, Loving favor rather than silver and gold.
Words are treated so often as trifles when in reality they can be more devastating than rifles.
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword but not so many as have perished by their own tongue.
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship during the storms.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
It's not what you get that makes you successful, it's what you continue to do with what you got.
In marriage it is all very well to say that 'the two are made one' — the question is, which one?
He that loveth his brother, abideth in the list, so there is none 'occasion of stumbling in him.
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
He is not called wise who knows good and ill, but he who can recognize the two evils the lesser.
Manage all your actions, words, and thoughts accordingly, since you can at any moment quit life.
And whosoever exalt himself shall be humbled; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
An unlucky word dropped from the tongue, cannot be brought back again by a coach and six horses.
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die of euphoria.
Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
The betrothed of good is evil, the betrothed of life is death, the betrothed of love is divorce.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
I pray that the God of peace will give you every good thing you need so you can do what he wants.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any tattoos marks upon you.
Those parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
The cards you hold in the game of life mean very little – it's the way you play them that counts.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
Give and it will be given to you . . . for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.
My son is my son till he gets him a wife; but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
The reason some men do not succeed is because their wishbone is where their backbone ought to be.
Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope, today is getting from one to the other as best we can.
When the curry is good, the rice is half cooked; when the rice is good, the curry is half cooked.
Men can acquire knowledge but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It is lent to you by your children.
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
A faithful friend is a strong defense: and a man that hath found such a one hath found a treasure.
When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.
Prefer to die doing your own duty: the duty of another will bring you into great spiritual danger.
As a general rule, Misquotations drive out real quotes. This is The Immutable Law of Misquotation.
In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.
A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise following success.
Wisdom is better than rubies. And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to her.
Not everything you face in life can be changed, but you can change nothing until you have faced it.
You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques. The comfortable ones are worn out by a single generation.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Do not let the ways of the world dismay your heart, being that you are a spiritual warrior of truth.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Have you noticed that these days even a moment of silence has to be accompanied by background music?
Prejudice is a great time-saver; it enables one to form opinions without bothering to get the facts.
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.
When life is ruined for the sake of money's preciousness, the ruined life cares nought for the money.
When we put ourselves in the other person's place, we're less likely to want to put him in his place.
Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins.
For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Anxiety seems to be the dominant fact—and is threatening to become the dominant cliché—of modern life.
Religions are intermittently too interesting, wise, and consoling to be abandoned to believers' alone.
If they cannot contain their lust, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn from desire.
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary.
Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
The best possession of a man of clay is health; the highest virtue of a man of spirit is truthfulness.
Truth is brighter than the sun; truth is the sunny day of Reason, and falsehood the mind's dark night.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs: jolted by every pebble in the road.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.
Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.
A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.
To forgive without forgetting, is again to reproach the wrong-doer every time the act comes back to us.
One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.
O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes and see not; which have ears and hear not.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
The person who knows little is proud that she knows so much; the much is sorry that she knows so little.
How can a wise man, knowing the unity of life, seeing all creatures in himself, be deluded or sorrowful.
An economist is a man who talks about things you don't understand and makes you believe it's your fault.
One that loses money loses much; one who loses a friend loses more; but one who loses courage loses all.
A misfortune that cometh from on high cannot be averted; caution is useless against the decrees of Fate.
A rand goes a long way these days. You can carry it around for days without finding a thing it will buy.
I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck.
Seek the fresh air of the forest and the fields and there in the midst of them shall you find angel air.
A tune is more lasting than the song of the birds, And a word more lasting than the wealth of the world.
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper; the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
Animals don't look like people, but they think like people, and they really are people under their pelts.
The world endures because of three activities: Torah study, worship of God, and deeds of loving-kindness.
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.
A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision without a task is a dream. A task with a vision is victory.
The mind is like a bright mirror standing. Take care to wipe it all the time, and allow no dust to cling.
Intonation is like being pregnant. You are not more pregnant, or less pregnant. Either you are or aren't.
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.
The present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last Abode is Life, did they but know.
Good people shine from afar like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot at night.
Don't be troubled if the temptation to give advice is irresistible; the ability to ignore it is universal.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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?
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
When all men praised the peacock for his tail, the birds cried out, "Look at his legs! And what a voice!"
Go not for every grief to the physician, for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
The difference between conviction and Prejudice is that you can defend a conviction without getting angry.
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving it.
Criticism is the disapproval of people not for having faults, but for having faults different from our own.
In the day of prosperity, adversity is forgotten and in the day of adversity, prosperity is not remembered.
If you have but two coins, use one for bread to feed the body and the other for hyacinths to feed the soul.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.
Order is the sanctity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.
Be intent on action, not on the fruits of action; avoid attraction to the fruits and attachment to inaction.
There is more courage in facing the world with undisguised truth than in descending into a wild beast's den.
A committee is a collection of the unfit chosen from the unwilling by the incompetent to do the unnecessary.
The fool can no more taste the sweetness of wisdom than the man with cold can appreciate the scent of a rose.
The true mark of a well-educated man is that he never tries to answer a question before being asked to do so.
From the altar of age the ashes of the fire of youth are gone, but the flame of more earnest feelings remain.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Love has many ways of expressing itself, but in general the ways are two — the practical and the sentimental.
Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.
The man who first brought ruin on the Roman people was a man who pampered them by largenesses and amusements.
Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.
When things start going your way, it's usually because you stopped going the wrong way down a one-way street.
In extreme cases marijuana can so destroy a man's character that he mixes freely with persons of another race.
The true meaning of word is to be found by observing what a person does with it, not by what he says about it.
Ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labor and toil, and give and bring all to the woman?
When you talk you only say something that you already know; when you listen you learn what someone else knows.
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
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.
Wealth in the hands of a man who thinks not of helping mankind with it is sure to turn one day into dry leaves.
To experience is to know, to know is to understand, to understand is to tolerate, to tolerate is to have peace.
The fool can no more taste the sweetness of wisdom than the man with a cold can appreciate the scent of a rose.
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
I find it extremely hard to keep a secret...I feel weird inside if I know something someone close to me doesn't
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal.
Inspiration is everywhere . If you're ready to appreciate it, an ant can be one of the wonders of the universe.
When you are educated, you'll believe only half of what you hear. When you're intelligent, you know which half.
You must take the beam from your eye before you can see well enough to remove the splinter from your brother's.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.
The real measure of black progress will be when they can spurn professional sports careers as easily as whites.
He who thinks everything must be in bloom when the strawberries are in bloom doesn't know anything about apples.
Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
The paradox of economics: During periods when none of the economic theories are working, all the economists are.
Economists and weather forecasters are the only people who can make an abundant living without ever being right.
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, eyes— I wonder if It weighs like Mine— Or has an Easier size.
The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship in sail, a woman after the birth of her child.
We are not Human Beings seeking a Spiritual Experience... We are Spiritual Beings involved in a Human Experience.
A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good man becomes a rational being.
While thou thinkest of many things thou thinkest of nothing; while thou wouldst go many ways thou standest still.
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.
Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of the mind, that you may prove what is good.
Each object in the world is not merely itself but involves every other object, and in fact is every other object.
A man's actions are divided, as regards to his object into four classes; purposeless, unimportant, vain, or good.
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
In the midst of your illness you will promise a goat, but when you have recovered, a chicken will seem sufficient.
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.
People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg.
It is better to do your duty, however imperfectly, than to assume the duties of another man, however successfully.
Of a gift to be received or given, of an act to be done, time drinks up the flavor, unless it be quickly performed.
A man cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
When Joe Louis was asked who had hit him the hardest during his boxing career, he replied, "That's easy—Uncle Sam!"
To an old father, nothing is more sweet Than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways Are not so tender.
Imagination is more important than knowledge; for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor, to console him for what he is.
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing; it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.
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.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
Man is the only animal that eats when he is not hungry, drinks when he is not thirsty, and makes love at all seasons.
The superior doctor prevents illness; the mediocre doctor cures imminent illness; the inferior doctor treats illness.
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.
Will is the exclusive possession of mankind. It divides men from the brute, in whom instinctive desire only is active.
The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.
Did you hear about the auto worker who was offered a position as president of a bank, but couldn't afford the pay cut?
A dog is not considered good because of his barking, and a man is not considered clever because of his ability to talk.
We travel where ever mankind reigns and find good men in all the world's domains and recognize them as a kind of Danes.
Unenduring are youth, beauty, life, wealth, lordship, the society of the beloved; let not the wise be deluded by these.
This world is like a vestibule before the World to Come. Prepare yourself in the vestibule that you may enter the hall.
In this era of rapid change, one thing remains constant: it's easier to pray for forgiveness than to resist temptation.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
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.
It is useless to try to hold some people to anything they say while they're madly in love, drunk, or running for office.
Whatever we may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future God has planned for us.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Enjoy the world gently, enjoy the world gently. If the world is spoiled, no one can repair it. Enjoy the world gently.
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.
If thou hast abundance, give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little.
In health and wealth a man is never in want of friends. True friends, however, are those who remain when they are needed.
An after dinner speech should be like a lady's dress; long enough to cover the subject but short enough to be interesting.
You can't always go by expert opinion. A turkey, if you ask a turkey, should be stuffed with grasshoppers, grit and worms.
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.
Three things can never be got with three things: wealth, with wishing for it; youth, with cosmetics; health with medicine.
Teach him then the sayings of the Past, so that he may become a good example for the children. . . . .No one is born wise.
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.
These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
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.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant; there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
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.
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
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.
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.
When the knot of the heart, which is ignorance, is loosed, all doubts are dissolved, all evil effects of deeds are destroyed.
For certain is death for the born. And certain is birth for the dead. Therefore over the inevitable thou shouldst not grieve.
Politics is the art of getting money from the rich and votes from the poor, with the pretext of protecting one from the other.
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.
In this age of great progress and rapid change, experience is not needed so much as is courage to break away from old methods.
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.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God
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.
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.
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.
Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom—the inundation of outside influences never stops.
Whatever your opinions are, don't make them a prison. Always leave some space to change your mind and your system of the world.
Yoga or union is attained from the inhibition of the mental energy and matter. Then the Seer is clothed in his essential nature.
If you have no feelings about worldly things, they are all Buddhism; if you have feelings about Buddhism, it is a worldly thing.
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.
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.
Like a beautiful flower, full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of those who do not act accordingly.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
One moment in eternity is as important as another moment, for eternity changeth not, neither is one part better than another part.
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.
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing...
Let every action be done with perfect gravity, humanity, freedom, and justice, and perform it as though that action were your last.
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.
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
America is a religious nation, but only because it is religiously tolerant and lets every citizen pray, or not pray, in his own way.
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.
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.
Weddings are not just weddings, but rather pressure-cooker moments that contain layer upon layer of psychologically fraught material.
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.
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.
No man ever remains, even for an instant, without performing action. Every man is will-lessly forced to act, by the primary energies.
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.
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.
With kindness conquer rage; with goodness malice; with generosity defeat all meanness; with the straight truth defeat lies and deceit.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavour does the consumer blame himself for product failure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Advice is sure of a hearing when it coincides with our previous conclusions, and therefore comes in the shape of praise or of encouragement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!'"
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.
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.
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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.
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.
Truth is what is leftover after the prejudice, stupidity, vested interest and ulterior motives of participant and observer have been eliminated.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Everyone has the right to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Jewish nation is distinguished by three characteristics; they are merciful, they are modest [alternatively, bashful], and they perform acts of loving-kindness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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. . . "
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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."
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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.
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?
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
