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