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I was about to tell him he was wrong to dwell on it, because it really didn't matter. But he cut me off and urged me one last time, drawing himself up to his full height and asking me if I believed in God. I said no. He sat down indignantly. He said it was impossible; all men believed in God, even those who turn their backs on him. That was his belief, and if he were ever to doubt it, his life would become meaningless. 'Do you want my life to be meaningless?' he shouted. As far as I could see, it didn't have anything to do with me, and I told him so. But from across the table he had already thrust the crucifix in my face and was screaming irrationally, 'I am a Christian. I ask Him to forgive you for sins. How can you not believe that He suffered for you?' I was struck by how sincere he seemed, but I had had enough. It was getting hotter and hotter. As always, whenever I want to get rid of someone I'm not really listening to, I made it appear as if I agreed. To my surprise, he acted triumphant. 'You see, you see!' he said. 'You do believe, don't you, and you're going to place your trust in Him, aren't you?' Obviously, I again said no. He fell back in his chair.

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Risk — If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.
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A proverb (from the Latin proverbium) is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. They are often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim. If a proverb is distinguished by particularly good phrasing, it may be known as an aphorism.

Proverbs are often borrowed from similar languages and cultures, and sometimes come down to the present through more than one language. Both the Bible (Book of Proverbs) and medieval Latin have played a considerable role in distributing proverbs across Western Europe and even further.

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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind.

A small family is soon provided for.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.

'Experto crede.' (Trust one who has experience.)

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

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

When the character of the person is not clear to you, look at his friends.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Between two cowards, he has the advantage.

Like the crest of a peacock. Also, 'Like the Crest of a Peacock' is the title of a book by G.G. Joseph

A crisis is when you can't say 'Let's forget the whole thing.'

Be severe with nobody but yourself.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak ill of an enemy.

May your every wish be granted.

May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.

Numquam periculum sine periculo vincitur Danger is never conquered without danger

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

It is always darkest before it gets pitch black.

Poems written upon awakening at dawn or about the dawn are called aubades.

Death takes no bribes.

Get the coffin ready and the man won’t die.

Two hands upon the breast, and labour is past.

Go rather to bed supperless than rise in debt.

Exitus acta probat The result validates the deeds

Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.

Discontents arise from our desires oftener than from our wants.

Alea iacta est The die is cast

Quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur Whom the gods love die young

I'm on a 90 Day Wonder Diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days.

Cherish the differences as well as the similarities.

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.

Life is so short we must move very slowly.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

We dare defend our rights. —Audemus iura nostra defendere

God enriches. —Ditat Deus

The people rule. —Regnat populus

I have found it. — Eureka.

Nothing without the divine will. —Nil sine numine

He who transplanted sustains. —Qui transtulit sustinet

The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. —Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono,

May she live forever. — Esto perpetua.

To the stars through difficulties. — Ad astra per aspera.

'I direct' or 'I guide' —Dirigo

Manly Deeds, Womanly Words —Fatti maschil parole femine

By the sword she seeks peaceful quiet under liberty. —Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem

If you seek a lovely peninsula, look about you. —Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice

The North Star — Fatti L'Etoile du Nord.

By valor and arms. —Virtute et armis

Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law. —Salus populi suprema lex esto

It grows as it goes. —Crescit eundo

Labor Conquers All Things. —Labor omnia vincit

He flies by his own wings. —Alis volat propriis

Thus always to tyrants. —Sic semper tyrannis

Mountaineers are always free. —Montani semper liberi

Let arms yield to the toga. —Cedant arma togae

Before you study Zen, a bowl is a bowl and tea is tea. While you are studying Zen, a bowl is no longer a bowl and tea is no longer tea. After you've studied Zen, a bowl is again a bowl and tea is tea.

A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

You cannot shave a man's head in his absence.

Ab absurdo - From the absurd.

He who accepts nothing has nothing to return.

He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.

Deviate an inch. lose a thousand miles.

He who accuses too many, accuses himself.

If you don’t climb the mountain, you can’t view the plain.

To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.

An ounce of ‘do’ is worth a pound of ‘tell how.’

Hoping and waiting is not by way of doing things.

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

When the snake is in the house, one need not discuss the matter at length.

Facta non verba Deeds, not words (Actions speak louder than words)

Act as though it is impossible to fail.

Like swift water, an active mind never stagnates.

Add life to your years, don't worry about adding years to your life.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

God's most wondrous deeds: one moment sunshine; another moment shade.

The tree may be cut back, but it grows again. The moon may wane, but it shines anew. Good men go on despite calamities.

Adversity comes with instructions in his hand.

Advice is least heeded when most needed.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

Advices are like snow — very gentle but can snowball in the end.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

After dark all cats are leopards.

After dinner, rest; after supper walk a mile.

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

For the ignorant, old age is as winter; for the learned, it is a harvest.

In clothes we value novelty, in men, old age.

When you see an old man amiable, mild, equable, content, and good-humored, be sure that in his youth he has been just, generous, and forbearing. In his end he does not lament the past, nor dread the future; he is like the evening of a fine day.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Before shooting, one must aim.

A person who aims at nothing has a target he can't miss.

Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober.

I can alter my life by altering the attitude of my mind.

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.

Semper paratus Always ready (Motto of the United States Coast Guard)

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.

Where ambition ends happiness begins.

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them.

A person is just as big as the thing that makes him angry.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

In a noble man, anger lasts for a moment; in a worldly man for two hours; in a base man for a day; and in an evil man until death.

Ira furor brevis est Anger is brief insanity

So long as a man is angry he can’t be in the right.

The anger of a good man lasts an instant; that of a meddler two hours; that of a base man a day and a night; and that of a great sinner until death.

The best answer to anger is silence.

When wrathful words arise, a closed mouth is soothing.

Gravis ira regum est semper The anger of kings is always serious

He who angers you enslaves you.

Every animal knows more than you do.

An aphorism is a proverb with long whiskers.

An apology is a good way to have the last word.

A red-nosed man may be a teetotaler, but will find no one to believe it.

If the beard were all, goats could preach.

Adversus solem ne loquitor Don't speak against the sun (Don´t argue about the obvious)

Argument seldom convinces anyone against his inclinations.

Argumentum ad hominem An argument against the man

If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it.

Ask a lot, but take what is offered.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

It is better to ask twice than to lose your way once.

He who asks may be a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. .

When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain while but its heart grows black.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Attitude determines altitude.

Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?

The Autumn of the beautiful is beautiful.

Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.

A bad past is no excuse for a bad present.

The good thing about bad things is that they end. The bad things about good things is that they also end.

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

One barrier falls and the next one is higher.

Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

One comes to be of just such stuff as that on which the mind is set.

The aspirant who is seeking the Lord must free himself from selfish attachments to people, money, and possessions. When his mind sheds every selfish desire, he becomes free from the duality of pleasure and pain and rules his senses. No more is he capable of ill will; no more is he subject to elation, for his senses come to rest in the Self.

Begin, the rest is easy.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Honours change to manners.

If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.

If you believe all these things, see that ye do them.

It is not important what you believe, only that you believe.

Believe that you have it, and you have it.

Men have a tendency to believe what they least understand.

He who does his best does well.

Bave quid dicis, quando, et cui Beware what you say, when, and to whom

Bright but hidden, the Self dwells in the heart. Everything that moves, breathes, opens, and closes Lives in the Self. He is the source of love And may be known through love but not through thought. He is the goal of life. Attain this goal!

The ignorant think the Self can be known by the intellect, but the illumined know he is beyond the duality of the knower and the known.

A bird in the hand is bad table manners.

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end.

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

He who wants to blame sometimes finds the sugar sour.

A blank page is God's way of showing you how hard it is to be God.

Beati possidentes Blessed are those who possess

May the road rise to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine warm upon your face And the rain fall soft upon your fields And until we meet again May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

The sky is not less blue because a blind man does not see it.

A person who has a right to boast doesn't have to.

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.

As is the human body, so is the cosmic body. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind. As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the atom, so is the universe.

A Book is like a Garden, carried in the Pocket.

A book is a garden carried in the pocket.

A man is himself—plus the books he reads.

A wicked book cannot repent.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

A bore is a person who brightens a room simply by leaving it.

He who borrows sells his freedom.

If you bow at all, bow low.

A single bracelet does not jingle.

If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend.

Destiny makes us brothers, None goes his way alone, All that we sent into lives of others, Comes back into our own.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Secrecy is the soul of business.

The buyer buys for as little as possible; the seller sells for as much as possible. (Emptor emit quam Minimo potest, venditor vendit quam maximo potest.)

There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.

When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.

Baveat emptor Let the buyer beware

Life is hard by the yard, but by the inch, life's a cinch.

Noble natures are calm and content.

'from sea to sea' A Mari usque ad Mare

Little posts soon run over.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

He who cares least — controls.

A complete catastrophe includes not learning from the experience.

God save all here, barrin’ the cat.

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Do not look where you fell but where you slipped.

Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.

Wait till it is night before saying it has been a fine day.

When the cup is full, carry it even.

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.

Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis All things change, and we change with them

To change and change for the better are two different things.

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

We are changed as we change our environment.

When the music changes, so does the dance.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.

A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has.

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.

Character, like a kettle, once mended, always requires repairs.

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

At a distance from home a man is judged by what he means.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.

If a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die.

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

He who takes a child by the hand takes a mother by the heart.

'Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso.' (Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick.)

Know which way you face.

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.

Carefully observe what way your heart draws you, & then choose the way with all your strength.

Hmmm ... we chop down trees and chop up wood.

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

Clear water flows from a pure spring.

Clichés should be avoided like the plague.

A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Coffee should be black as night, hot as hell, and strong as love.

Cold hands warm heart.

The enemy's cold heart summons the arrow to it.

If all else fails, read the directions.

If both of us were the same, one of us would be unnecessary.

A babe in the woods.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A bottomless pit.

A carrot on a stick.

A chip off the old block.

A chip on his shoulder.

A drop in the bucket.

A feast for sore eyes.

A feast for the eyes.

A good rule of thumb.

A place in the sun.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

A snail's pace.

A stick in the mud.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

A thorn in my side.

Against the grain.

Am I talking to a brick wall.

American as apple pie.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

An apple never falls far from the tree.

An axe to grind.

Ants in his pants.

As clear as mud.

As cold as ice.

As common as dirt.

As delicate as a flower.

As fresh as a daisy.

As hot as hell.

As much use as a yard of pump water.

As poor as dirt.

As slow as molasses.

As solid as the ground we stand on.

As welcome as a skunk at a lawn party.

As white as snow.

Ashes to ashes dust to dust.

At the crack of dawn.

Beat around the bush.

Beat it into the ground.

Beauty is a fading flower.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Bed out.

Bee in her bonnet.

Being led down the garden path.

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Betting the farm.

Between a rock and a hard place.

Big as life.

Bit off more than you can chew.

Bite the dust.

Blame it on the rain.

Bless my weeds.

Blow hot and cold.

Bowels of the earth.

Bread and water.

Bread and wine.

Break new ground.

Broad daylight.

Brought down to earth.

Brown as a berry.

Busy as a bee.

Buy the farm.

Caked with mud.

Can't see the forest for the trees.

Can't see the wood for the trees.

Can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground.

Caught between a rock and a hard place.

Charm the birds out of trees.

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

Closing the barn door after the horse escapes.

Cold feet.

Come down to earth.

Come hell or high water.

Common garden variety.

Common ground.

Comparing apples to oranges.

Cool as a cucumber.

Cover a lot of ground.

Crows are black everywhere.

Cultivate the garden within.

Cultivate your garden.

Cut and dried.

Cut the ground out from under him.

Demon seed.

Die back.

Dig in.

Dig it.

Dig up dirt on him.

Dig yourself into a hole.

Digging a hole for yourself.

Dirt cheap.

Dirt poor, filthy rich.

Dishing the dirt.

Do I look like a turnip that just fell off the turnip truck.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Don't guild the lily.

Don't have a cow.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Don't that just butter your grits.

Don't upset the apple cart.

Don't use a lot where a little will do.

Don't want to cover old ground.

Down to earth.

Drier than a burnt bush.

Drive it into the ground.

Dry as a bone.

Dry as dust.

Dumb as a stump.

Dumber than a bucket of rocks.

Dust down.

Dust up.

Earth Angel.

Earth Mother.

Earth shattering.

East my dust.

Easy as falling off a log.

Eat dirt.

Either you sink or you swim.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

Every dog has his day.

Every path has its puddle.

Every rose has its thorn.

Every stick has two ends.

Everything's coming up roses.

Fall on stony ground.

Fat as a cow.

Fat as a hog.

Feet of clay.

Fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

Fertile ground.

Flower child.

Flower of youth.

Flower power.

Flowers are God's way of smiling.

For everything there is a season.

For the birds.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

Fork out.

Four corners of the earth.

Four leaf clover.

Four seasons.

Free as a bird.

Fresh as a daisy.

Friends are flowers in the garden of life.

From dawn to dusk.

From feast to famine.

From small beginnings come great things.

From the ends of the earth.

From the four corners of the earth.

From the ground up.

Full of piss and vinegar.

Full of vinegar.

Funny farm.

Gain ground.

Garden of Weedin.

Gardeners know the best dirt.

Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

Get hold of the wrong end of the stick.

Get your feet on the ground.

Give a little, take a little.

Give and take.

Give ground.

Go climb a tree.

Go out on a limb.

Go to seed.

Go with the flow.

God's green acre.

God's green earth.

Going to the waterhole.

Gone to pot.

Gone to seed.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Grass doesn't grow on a busy street.

Grass is greener in other pastures.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Green as grass.

Green with envy.

Grist for the mill.

Grow like a weed.

Grow where you are planted.

Handy as a pocket on a shirt.

Hard as a rock.

Have both feet on the ground.

Have your ear to the ground.

Haven't got a row to hoe.

He can't see the forest for the trees.

He has his head in the clouds.

He left no stone unturned.

He who plants a garden plants happiness.

He who sows virtue reaps fame.

He's a fruit.

He's a little wet behind the ears.

He's a stick in the mud.

He's a vegetable.

He's feeling his oats.

He's pushing up the daisies.

He's sowing his wild oats.

Heard it through the grapevine.

Heaven on earth.

Here's mud in your eye.

Hit pay dirt.

Hold out the olive branch.

Home is home, be it ever so humble.

Home is where the heart is.

Horse sense.

Hot as Hell.

I have an axe to grind.

I never promised you a rose garden.

I wash my hands of the whole matter.

If dumb were dirt, he would be about an acre.

If friends were flowers, I'd pick you.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.

If it's not one thing it's another.

In season.

In the doghouse.

In the garden my soul is sunshine.

Indian summer.

Is that a banana in your pocket?

It beats picking cotton.

It's a dog eat dog world.

It's autumn in her mouth and all her tongue can do is rustle!

It's better to bend than to break.

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

Jokes and Humor for Gardeners

Just fell off the turnip truck.

Just staying one day ahead of yesterday.

Just taking it one day at a time.

Knock on wood.

Led down the garden path.

Let one thousand flowers bloom.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Lie down with dogs and wake up with fleas.

Life began in a garden.

Life is a bowl of cherries.

Light as a feather.

Like a hot house flower.

Like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Like nothing on earth.

Like peaches and cream.

Like there's no tomorrow.

Like white on rice.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Living off the fat of the land.

Look what the cat dragged in.

Lost like a ball in high weeds.

Love is a many splintered thing.

Made in the shade.

Make like a tree and leave.

Makes your mouth water.

Making ends meet.

Many hands make light the work.

May all your weeds be wildflowers.

Measure twice, cut once.

Mom and apple pie.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Money is the root of all evil.

More than you can shake a stick at.

Muck raking.

Muddy the water.

My blood ran cold.

My old stomping ground.

Naked as a jaybird.

Nature's first green is gold.

Never enough thyme.

Night soil.

Nip it in the bud.

No spring chicken.

No use crying over spilt milk.

No use in flogging a dead horse.

No way on God's green earth.

Not for all the tea in China.

Not worth a hill of beans.

Nothing new under the sun.

Old as dirt.

Old as the hills.

Older than dirt.

On middle ground.

Once in a blue moon.

One bad apple spoils the bunch.

One flower does not bring spring.

One flower does not make a garland.

One of these days is none of these days.

One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.

Onions treat seven ailments.

Only the strong survive.

Out with the old, in with the new.

Pin a rose on your nose.

Plant kindness and gather love.

Play a harp before a cow.

Put off the scent.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Put to bed with a shovel.

Putting it in a nutshell.

Putting the cart before the horse.

Rain, rain go away; come again some other day.

Raking in the dough.

Raking it in.

Read the tea leaves.

Red as a beet.

Rise and shine.

Rough as a cob.

Run to seed.

Salt of the Earth.

Say it with flowers.

Schools out for summer.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Seed money.

Shake like a leaf.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day.

She has a green thumb.

She's a nut.

Shiver me timber.

Sick as a dog.

Sitting on the fence.

Slow as a snail.

Slow as molasses in January.

Sly as a fox.

So hungry I could eat a horse.

Some like carrots others like cabbage.

Sow dry and set wet.

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Spaceship earth.

Spring forward fall back.

Spring rain, Fall gold.

Spring to mind.

Stand your ground.

Still water runs dirty and deep.

Stir up an ant's nest.

Stone cold sober.

Stop and smell the roses.

Stop, look and listen.

Strong as an ox.

Stubborn as a mule.

Stuck in a rut.

Sturdy as an oak.

Survival of the fittest.

Sweating blood.

Sweet as apple pie.

Sweet as honey.

Tall as a tree.

Tastes like chicken.

That's a real stem winder.

That's a whole new can of worms.

That's another story.

That's water under the bridge.

The apple of his eye.

The best thing since little apples.

The best thing since sliced bread.

The cat's meow.

The cream of the crop.

The flower of one's youth.

The grass is always greener on the other side.

The land that time forgot.

The last rose of summer.

The last straw.

The old gray mare just ain't what she used to be.

The scum of the earth.

The scythe ran into a stone.

The season of goodwill.

The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine.

The shoes on the other foot now.

The silly season.

The Spirit of Gardening

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

The stronger the breeze the stronger the trees.

The sun will shine into our yard to.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

There is always next year.

There may be snow on the roof, but there's fire in the belly.

There's no time like the present.

They're like two peas in a pod.

Thick as a brick.

This is for the birds.

Throw pearls before swine.

Till the cows come home.

Timber!

Timing is everything.

To gild the lily.

To live from hand to mouth.

Too little too late.

Top of the morning.

Treat him like dirt.

Turn over a new leaf.

Two peas in a pod.

Ugly as a mud fence.

Under the weather.

Up a tree.

Up one side and down the other.

Useless as tits on on bull.

Wait and see.

Waking up with the chickens.

Walking on cloud nine.

Walking on thin ice.

Walking on water.

Want my place in the sun.

Watch and wait.

Water it down.

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

We'll hang you out to dry.

Weed out.

Weed 'um and reap.

Welcome to my garden.

Were you born in a barn?

What goes down usually comes up.

What goes up must come down.

What on earth?

What's done is done.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

When life gives you scraps make quilts.

When pigs fly.

When the cows come home.

When we love - we grow.

When you get lemons, make lemonade.

Where man is not, nature is barren.

Worked night and day.

Wrinkled as a prune.

You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

You have to separate the chaff from the wheat.

You never miss the water till the well runs dry.

You reap what you sow.

You say potayto, I say potahto.

You throw filth on the living and flowers on the dead.

You’re all washed up.

You’re barking up the wrong tree.

You’re in hot water.

Your ass is grass.

Your name is mud.

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common-sense to apply it.

He that lies with dogs rises with fleas.

A man is known by the company he avoids.

To compare is not to prove.

An adulteress was forgiven, who passed by a dog at a well, and the dog was holding out his tongue from thirst, which was near killing him. The woman drew off her boot and tied it to the end of her veil, and drew water for the dog, and gave him to drink, and for this she was forgiven.

Kwitchyerbellyakin

Whenever you complicate things they get less simple.

Of a compliment only a third is meant.

Better bend than break

For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten.

A conference is a way of postponing a decision.

Confession is the first step to repentance.

The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour.

Either do as your neighbors do, or move away.

Confucius say too much.

Confusion is contagious.

Vincit qui se vincit He conquers who conquers himself

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying.

Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

Control your emotion or it will control you.

One hand cannot applaud.

Fortitudo est domina et regina virtutem Courage is the mistress and queen of all virtues

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

A life lived in fear is half lived.

An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.

Different flowers look good to different people. Pick the flower when it is ready to be picked. The flower that you spent time to care for does not grow while the willow that you accidentally planted flourishes and gives shade.

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.

Inferior men do not begin undertakings for fear of difficulties. Average men begin, but desist once difficulties appear. Men of superior nature never give up until they achieve their ends, however many the difficulties that appear.

The hard is the good.

Per ardua ed astra Through diffuculties lies the path to the stars [thx uncle Tom]

If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.

Believe no tales from an enemy’s tongue.

Potius mori quam foedari — Rather to die than to be dishonoured.

Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body. The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life while the latter looks on in detachment. As long as we think we are the ego, we feel attached and fall into sorrow. But realize that you are the Self, the Lord of life, and you will be freed from sorrow. When you realize that you are the Self, supreme source of light, supreme source of love, you transcend the duality of life and enter into the unitive state.

There are two selves, the separate ego and the indivisible Atman. When one rises above I and me and mine, the Atman is revealed as one's real Self.

When identified with the ego, the Self appears other than what it is. It may appear smaller than a hair's breadth. But know the Self to be infinite.

Justice to All —Justitia Omnibus

When two divorced people marry, four get into bed.

Make hay while the sun shines.

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.

Better not be than nothing.

Cave canem Beware of the dog

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.

Something is either done or it is not done.

If you don't have time to do it right, you must have time to do it over.

No matter how far you have gone down the wrong road, turn back.

Acta est fabula The drama has been acted out

A dreamer lives for eternity.

Three-tenths of good looks are due to nature; seven-tenths to dress.

A strawberry blossom will not sweeten dry bread.

Duty is a matter of the mind. Commitment is a matter of the heart.

May we light the fire of Nachiketa that burns out the ego and enables us to pass from fearful fragmentation to fearless fullness in the changeless whole.

Each day slowly shapes our lives, as dripping water shapes the stone.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

Epicures dig their graves with their teeth.

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Education is learning a lot about how little you know.

Learn the good ways of your enemies; avoid the bad ways of your elders.

Artes serviunt vitae, sapienta imperat Education serves our life, wisdom commands it

Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora Eggs today are better than chickens tomorrow

The eggs do not teach the hen.

Albert Einstein did poorly in school.

The empty bag cannot stand up.

Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit — If the end is good, everything will be good.

He who has come through the fire will not fade in the sun.

The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm.

Few people succeed at anything unless they enjoy it.

Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.

The bird chooses the tree, not the tree the bird.

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

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

An error no wider than a hair will lead a hundred miles astray.

Some lives, like evening primroses, blossom most beautifully in the evening of life.

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

A wise man knows everything, a shrewd one, everybody.

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.

An excuse is often substituted for reason.

Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.

Learn from the school of hard knocks ... don't die dumb.

Oculi sunt in amore duces The eyes are leaders in love

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness that precedes the dawning of the day of success.

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Faith: An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

Faith is action.

It's amazing what you can do when someone has faith in you.

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.

Far away is only far away if you don’t go there.

Aeternum vale Farewell forever

Ducunt volentem Fata, nolentum trahunt The Fates guide the willing and drag the unwilling

Anyone can find fault, and those who find the most have the most.

A fault recognized is half corrected.

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

If you feel you have no faults ... there's another one.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere To accept a favour is to sell one's freedom

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain

Aut inveniam viam aut faciam I will either find a way or make one

Certa stant omnia lege All things stand under a fixed law

Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes Flatterers are the worst type of enemies

Nemo sine vitio est No one is without flaw

Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects.

One dog barks at something, a hundred bark at the sound.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.

A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Stulti timent Fortunam, sapientes ferunt The foolish fear Fortune, the wise endure her

Footprints on the sands of time are never made by sitting down.

Non mihi, non tibi, sed nobis Not for you, not for me, but for us

Praemonitus pramunitus — Forewarned, forearmed.

I've learned the great value of the three F's: forgive, forget and forge ahead.

Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends

Fortes fortuna adjuvat Fortune favors the brave

Fortuna fortes metuit, ignavos premit Fortune fears the brave and crushes the cowardly

A man’s fortune has its form given to it by his habits.

One who knows books has four eyes.

The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.

Free advice generally costs more than the other kind.

Freedom of speech: use it or lose it.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur A sure friend is discovered in an unsure situation

Amicus humani generis A friend of the human race

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.

A friend is the half of my life.

Although my neighbors are all barbarians, And you, you are a thousand miles away, There are always two cups on my table.

Friends are flowers in life's garden.

Friends should have a high wall between them.

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can lose one in a hour.

Like a shadow in the morning, the friendship of the ignoble man is great at first, then gradually decreases and disappears. Like a shadow in the after noon, the friendship of the noble man is small at first, then gradually increases.

It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.

Ab imo pectore From the bottom of the chest (from the heart)

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.

Life begins the day you start a garden.

All gardeners know better than other gardeners.

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows he breathes but does not live.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.

Many a genius is never honored until the future proves his inspiration.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Gentle words work better than hard ones.

If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you’ll get the best.

He who gives promptly gives twice as much.

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.

If it is given with love, a mere handful is enough.

Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. Clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others.

Gloria unmbra virtutis est Glory is the shadow of virtue

Si post fata venit gloria non propero If glory comes after death, I'm not in a hurry.

Vade in pace Go in peace (Roman way of saying goodbye)

God gives no linen, but flax to spin.

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.

Where there is God there is no need.

Deo, Regi, Patriae God, King, Country

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Good men extend their pity, even unto the most despicable animals. The moon doth not withhold the light, even from the cottage of a Chandala (outcast).

He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

The first time it is a favor; the second, a rule.

The reward of a good deed is to have done it.

Bonum certamen certavi, cursum consummavi, fidem servavi I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith

Forma bonum fragile est Good form is fragile

Look for the good in everything and you will find it.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Learning, jewels, virtues, good habits, polite manners, sweet speech, artistry: accept them from whatever source offers.

Live well for yourself so that you can give yourself away to benefit others.

A good man says no slowly; a wise man says no at once.

Fear less, hope more, Eat less, chew more, Sigh less, breathe more, Hate less, love more, and all good things are yours.

You can't hurry up good times by waitin' for 'em

Well done is twice done.

A good year is determined by its spring.

A government that fears it’s people is a government that should be feared.

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

Stultorum calami carbones moenia chartae Chalk is the pen of fools, walls [their] paper (No graffiti)

Cum grano salis With a grain of salt

Gratitude is the heart’s memory.

Swift gratitude is the sweetest.

The Great Wall of China can be seen with the naked eye from the moon.

Don’t wait until you’re a man to be great. Be a ‘great’ boy.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent Slight griefs talk, great ones are speechless

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.

Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutamus Hail, Caesar, we who are about to die salute you

Hair/nails continue to grow after death.

'Hamburgers' and 'Frankfurters' are named after cities in Germany.

A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.

HAPPINESS comes from sharing one's self and one's blessings.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

Happiness is made to be shared.

He who has not learned to share his blessings with others has not found the true path to enduring happiness.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month — get married. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.

In virtute posita vera felicitas True happiness is places in virtue

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead.

A happy memory is a joy forever.

Standing a hard-boiled egg on end has something to do with an equinox.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

Chi fa ingiuria non perdona mai (He never pardons those he injures).

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, disease seeks men.

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.

A healthy family is sacred territory.

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.

A good rule for going through life is to keep the heart a little softer than the head.

El corazon de la auyama solo lo conoce el cuchillo. The heart ––inside–– of a pumpkin or edible squash is only known by the knife.

Hebrew was considered as official language of the U.S.

A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

Touch the hole in your life, and there flowers will bloom.

You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a gallon of vinegar.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.

Where there is no shame, there is no honor.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Victis honor — Honour to the vanquished.

The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.

There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.

How do you lead a horse to water? With lots of carrots.

He was a how thinker, not an if thinker.

Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.)

A man stands taller when he stoops for a child.

He is truly great that is little within himself.

There are only two good men — one dead, the other unborn.

Lord, I confess I am not what I ought to be, but I thank you, Lord, that I'm not what I was.

Fabas indulcet fames Hunger sweetens the beans

Be still and know that I am with you.

Veni vidi vici — I came, I saw, I conquered.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Idleness is a sort of suicide.

The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil.

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

A fault once denied is twice committed.

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

The work praises the man.

Adaptability second only to integrity.

A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

It's not what you know, it's how fast you can find it.

It isn't what happens, it's how you deal with it.

The journey is the reward.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand.

Judge not the horse by his saddle.

He who is judge between two friends loses one of them.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Just, brave, and patient Justus, fortis, patiens

Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.

The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.

A single kind word keeps one warm for three winters.

Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

Kindness is greater than law.

Kindness is that perfume which cannot be poured on others without getting a few drops on one’s self.

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

With the three means of punishment, words, thoughts and acts, ye shall not injure living things.

All beings seek for happiness; so let your compassion extend itself to all.

Hurt not others with that which pains yourself.

The Buddha has mercy even on the meanest thing.

A man should wander about treating all creatures as he himself would be treated.

Non-injury, truthfulness, freedom from theft, lust, anger, and greed, and an effort to do what is agreeable and beneficial to all creatures — this is the common duty of all castes.

To serve the creatures is to serve the Buddha.

We bow to all beings with great reverence in the thought and knowledge that God enters into them through fractioning Himself as living creatures.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favour of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

The conquerors are kings; the defeated are bandits.

No matter where I take my guests, it seems they like my kitchen best.

At the base of a monument of a falcon protecting its young at the Air Force Academy. Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge.

Knowledge is boundless but the capacity of one man is limited.

Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget.

Learning is like rowing upstream. Advance or lose all.

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.

Knowledge becomes power only when we put it into use.

The knowledge of sin tempteth to its commission.

As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall.

When the lamps in the house are lighted it is like the flowering of lotus on the lake.

Don't force it; get a larger hammer.

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

Enjoy yourself it's later than you think.

A laugh is just like sunshine. It freshens all the day.

He who laughs first laughs last — if nobody laughs in the middle.

He who laughs last — thinks slowest.

Laughter can be heard farther than weeping.

Dura lex sed lex The law is hard, But it is the law

Leges sine moribus vanae Laws without morals are empty (Motto of the University of Pennsylvania)

The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reached the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go.

Aut disce aut discede Ether learn or leave

A king learns by his ears; a saint by his intellect; a beast by his nose; and a fool by his experience.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.

He who learns teaches, he who teaches learns.

De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum Of two evils, the lesser is always to be chosen

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Crotch seam rivet in original Levi's dropped due to pain from standing near fires.

Mendacem memorem esse oportet It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings and can fly far and wide.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Crowding a life does not always enrich it.

God will hold us responsible for all the wonderful things that we have refused to enjoy.

He whose time has arrived, lives not.

Life is an onion and one peels it crying.

Life is composed of two parts: that which is past —a dream; and that which is to come —a wish.

Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus Life has given nothing to mortals without great labor

The sun will set without thy assistance.

Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est Life is more than merely staying alive

All beings hate pains; therefore one should not kill them. This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to kill anything.

Beings which kill others should not be killed in the belief that the destruction of one of them leads to the protection of many others.

Let him not destroy, or cause to be destroyed, any life at all, nor sanction the acts of those who do so. Let him refrain from even hurting any creature, both those that are strong and those that tremble in the world.

Those who have forsaken the killing of all; those who are helpmates to all; those who are a sanctuary to all; those men are in the way of heaven.

Viler than unbelievers are those cruel ones who make the law that teaches killing.

The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.

Non est vivere sed valere vita est Life is not being alive but being well

All life is choice. You can be stopped only if you choose to allow it to happen.

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off layer by layer and sometimes you weep.

A life without love is like a year without summer.

An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn’t know where the target is.

Ars longa, vita brevis Life is brief, but Art endures

Life may be short, but it can be wide as well.

Look to this day For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision, But today, well lived, Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Lift where you stand.

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.

It would be a poor lighthouse that gave a different signal to every ship.

Listen to people twice as much as you speak.

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

A little fire burns up a great deal of corn.

Live is peace in a time of stress.

Begin to live as you wish to live.

Better be upright with poverty than depraved with abundance.

A book, a woman and money given to others never come back. Or if they do, they come back polluted and torn.

Borrowing makes sorrowing.

Eat fire and your mouth will burn; live on credit and your pride will burn.

Lonely is a man without love.

It is amazing how many people want to live a long life, and yet so few want to grow old.

One who does not look ahead remains behind.

A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job.

Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life.

It's easy to get lost in thought if it's not familiar territory to you.

Amor vincit omnia Love conquers all

Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet May he love tomorrow who has never loved before; And may he who has loved, love tomorrow as well

Food offered without affection is like food offered to the dead.

For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away.

I love you because you love the things I love.

If you love something set it free; if it returns its yours forever, if not it was never meant to be.

It’s easy to halve the potato where there’s love.

No bed is big enough to hold three.

Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! Thine own has reached the shore.

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time

Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas The love of money is the root of all evil

Quod non dedit Fortuna non eripuit Aut amat aut odit: nil est tertium Love or hate: there is no third course

Amantes sunt amentes Lovers are lunatics

Amantium irae amoris integratio est Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love

Being alive is loving being alive.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

A difference to be a difference must make a difference.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

Malitia ipsa maximam partem veneni sui bibit Malice itself drinks the largest part of its own poison

Too many captains may steer a boat up a mountainside.

Mañana is often the busiest day of the week.

If you think twice before you speak once, you will speak better for it.

Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage shut one.

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.

As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.

And the wind said: 'May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch; may you stand tall as the Redwood, live gracefully as the willow; and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.'

Memory is the power to gather roses in winter.

Let there be no limit to your mercy even as there is no limit to your Father in Heaven's mercy.

The Goddess of mercy has a thousand hands — and needs them all.

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

A budget is a planned method of worrying.

A middle of the roader is one who is apt to have trouble on the one hand and also on the other.

Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them

A mistake proves that at least someone stopped talking long enough to do something.

Abusus non tollit usum Misuse does not nullify proper use

All things in moderation, nothing in excess.

The modest gain; the self-satisfied lose.

A moment is a lifetime ... but only for a moment.

Money is best when acquired by one's own hands. It is not so good when inherited. It is bad when it is a brother's. It is worst when it is a woman's.

Save money and money will save you.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Exegi monumentum aere perennius I have raised a monument more durable than bronze (from Horace's Odes)

Just as the moon only reflects its light in a pool, So the mind, empty and unattached, Does not know itself and the outside world As two things.

A man may have no religion, and yet be moral.

Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Intense motivation is a more important commodity than talent.

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus - Mountains will be in labour, and an absurd mouse will be born

Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all.

The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.

When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

Effugere non potes necessitates, vincere potes You can't escape necessity

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

No one is so rich that he can do without a neighbor.

Never be boastful; someone may come along who knew you as a child.

I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one.

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows the corners.

Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin.

For news of the heart, ask the face.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

He who has no fire in himself cannot warm others.

Where there is no rapport there is no sale. Enrolling people in your product or service is the same as enrolling them in you.

A noble heart is a changeless heart.

Mens regnum bona possidet• A noble mind possesses a kingdom

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of ... silence.

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

Not to kill is a supreme duty.

To know and not to do is not yet to know.

Blessed is he who has nothing to say and cannot be persuaded to say it.

Every day is a messenger of God.

He who would command must first learn to obey.

Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Whose bread I eat: his song I sing.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity.

Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers.

Women workers in old watch factories got poisoning by licking brushes used for applying radium compound to watch faces.

Absit omen May the omen be absent

The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is.

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

One for blackbird, one for the crow, One for the cutworm, and one to grow.

Those who are one in food are one in life.

The dog has four feet, but he does not walk them in four roads.

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Men are tormented by their own opinions of things, not by the things themselves.

When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.

A man who misses his opportunity, and monkey who misses his branch, cannot be saved.

An iron rod bends while it is hot.

If God shuts one door, He opens another.

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.

Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.

This world is not so bad a world as some folks try to make it. But whether good or bad depends on how you take it.

An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Hear the other side.

Left out in the cold.

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

A mind is like a parachute: it only functions when it is open.

To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.

The partridge loves peas, but not those that go into the pot with it.

Respice, adspice, prospice Examine the past, examine the present, examine the future

Have patience and the mulberry leaf will become satin.

Patience is power. With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Beware of a patient man’s fury.

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

Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife.

Peace and a well–built house cannot be bought too dearly.

Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace.

In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello In peace, like a wise man, he appropriately prepares for war

A penny falling from height of Empire State building will embed in pavement.

Student gets tuition dollars by asking for $0.01 from each person via newspaper.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.

He who has many enemies is like a pigeon among kites: whichever way he turns, he faces attack.

Is a lamp pleasing to the blind; a song to the deaf; or a book to the fool?

There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn. There are two good men; one dead, and the other unborn.

A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband.

In order to get from what was to what will be, you must go through what is.

Enough shovels of earth – a mountain. Enough pails of water – a river.

The man who moved the mountain began by carrying away small stones.

A pessimist is a person who mourns the future.

De minimis non curat praetor A praetor does not occupy himself with petty matters

Before the world finds a place for you, find a place for yourself in the world.

Everyone is a thief in his own craft.

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.

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 people.

He who plants a garden plants happiness. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, plant a garden.

All seed answer light, but the color is different. The plant reveals what is in the seed.

The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour.

A man should endeavor to be as pliant as a reed, yet as hard as cedar-wood.

Use power to curb power.

Nil neart gan cuir le cheile. There is no power without cooperation.

The power of accomplishment is often a hairline between success and failure.

If your day is hemmed with prayer, it is less likely to unravel.

Pray as though no work could help, and work as though no prayer could help.

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is that two and two may not make four.

When in prayer you clasp your hands, God opens His.

Work as if everything depended upon you, and pray as if everything depended upon God.

How wonderful, O Lord, are the works of your hands, the sun and the stars, the valleys and the hills, the rivers and lakes all disclose your presence. The beasts of the field, the birds of the air bespeak your wondrous will. In your goodness you have made us able to hear the music of the world, a divine voice sings through all creations.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Dig your well before you are thirsty.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

If you would not be cheated ask the price at three shops.

Among noblemen, high rank is attained by knowledge; among warriors, by valor; among businessmen, by grain and money; only among the poor by birth.

You can convince an ignorant man easily; you can convince a wise man more easily. But a man who knows a little and thinks himself to be perfect, not even Brahma can convince.

It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting.

Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue — these are the means of success, not caste or family.

For every problem there is an opportunity.

It’s not easy taking problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

Intentions which die are pretensions which lie.

Time drinks up the essence of great actions which should be quickly done but are delayed.

Peace begets prosperity; Prosperity begets pride; Pride begets prejudice; Prejudice begets war; War begets poverty.

Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.

Nemo me impune lacessit No one provokes me with impunity (motto of the kings of Scotland)

We are not punished for our sins but by them.

As pure as snow.

An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness.

Always put off until tomorrow the things you shouldn't do at all.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer Good Things

A quitter isn't a very good beginner either.

A razor may be sharper than an ax, but it cannot cut wood.

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

Extensive reading is a priceless treasure.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Beware of a man of one book.

Animis opibusque parati Prepared in minds and resources (Ready for anything)

Reality is only a possibility, it changes constantly.

Better die than turn your back on reason.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Aegrescit medendo The disease worsens with the treatment (The remedy is worse than the disease)

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.

He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.

To have lost your reputation is to be dead among the living.

What you resist you become.

Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo Resolutely in action, gently in manner

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.

When it rains, the roof always drips the same way.

Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

The rich add riches to riches, the poor add years to years.

All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others.

The right path is near, yet men seek it afar off.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

It is better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.

A man traveling through the country came to a large city, very rich and splendid; he looked at it and said to his guide, 'This must be a very righteous people, for I can only see but one little devil in this great city.' The guide replied, 'You do not understand, sir. This city is so perfectly given up to wickedness, corruption, degradation, and abomination of every kind, that it requires but one devil to keep them all in subjection.' Traveling on a little further, he came to a rugged path and saw an old man trying to get up the hill side, surrounded by seven great, big, coarse-looking devils. 'Why,' said the traveler, 'this must be a tremendously wicked old man! See how many devils there are around him!' 'This,' replied the guide, 'is the only righteous man in the country; and there are seven of the biggest devils trying to turn him out of his path, and they all cannot do it.'

The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Risk — If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Failure is not defeat until you stop trying.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

All roads do not lead to Rome.

All roads lead to Rome.

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi A precipice in front, wolves behind (Between a rock and a hard place)

The best gifts parents can give their children are roots and wings.

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.

Strew no roses before swine.

If you feel sad, laugh.

It is better to be safe than sorry.

Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem The one safety for the vanquished is to abandon hope of safety

A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.

The cleverest doctor cannot save himself.

A sane person has difficulty in insane surroundings.

A saver grows rich by seeming poor. A spender grows poor by seeming rich.

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Scientific hypotheses are free creations of our own minds, the result of an almost poetic intuition.

What can wise precepts of scripture do for one without natural wisdom? What can a mirror do for one without eyes?.

Nulli secundus Second to none

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

When you see a palm tree, the palm tree has seen you.

Daylight sky appears dark enough to see stars from bottom of deep well.

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.

One year to seed; seven to weed.

The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground.

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today and yesterday.

Ah my friends, therein lies a wonderful challenge indeed, to seek out that noble and good. Seek it and you shall find it. Let the past drift away with the water.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

A man remains wise as long as he seeks wisdom. The minute he thinks he has found it, he becomes a fool.

Carpe diem Seize the day

He is a fool that praises himself and a madman that speaks ill of himself.

'nemo me impune lacessit' — No one attacks me with impunity.

It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline.

I am what I am and I have the need to be.

As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen.

People carried away by their own importance seldom have far to walk back.

Live to love and you will learn to live.

Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors.

You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

All men are self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

The first and best victory is to conquer one’s self.

Master your emotions so that each day will be productive.

Sometimes I go about pitying myself And all the while I am being carried across the sky By beautiful clouds.

Be self-reliant and your success is assured.

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you make a very small package.

What is reality? Selflessness.

Do not employ handsome servants.

A tree that affords thee shade, do not order it to be cut down.

When the sun rises, I go to work. When the sun goes down I take my rest, I dig the well from which I drink, I farm the soil which yields my food, I share creation, Kings can do no more.

Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum. Do not take as gold everything that shines like gold.

Don't wait for your ship to come; swim out to it.

It's not what you tell people, it's what you show them.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons.

Someone is crushed to death trying to shrink blue jeans by wearing in tub.

A silent mouth is melodious.

If a word spoken in its time is worth one piece of money, silence in its time is worth two.

Still waters run deep.

You will never be hurt by anything you didn’t say.

Its so simple, it must be right.

Simplicity – much happiness is lost in the pursuit of it.

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

All sins cast long shadows.

Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

The basic teachings of the Upanishads are summed up in six great sayings (Mahavakyas). These are---- 'I am Brahman' (Aham Brahmasmi). 'The Self is Brahman' (Ayam Atma Brahma). 'That thou art' (Tat tvam asi). 'Intelligence is Brahman' (Prajnanam Brahma). 'The Universe is Brahman' (Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma). 'He am I' (So'ham). These are statements of the identity of the individual consciousness with the Absolute or Divine reality. They all derive from and merge into Om (AUM), the Divine Word of 'I am all'.

Nemo liber est qui corpori servit No one is free who is a slave to his body

Sleep is better than medicine.

Better to slip with the foot than with the tongue.

Never put your trust in slogans.

Parva leves capiunt animas Small things occupy light minds (small things amuse small minds)

A smile confuses an approaching frown.

A little smile adds a great deal to your face value.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Habet suum venenum blanda oratio Smooth speech has its own poison

The best soldiers are not warlike.

A son should be treated as a prince for five years; as a slave for ten years; but from his sixteenth birthday, as a close friend.

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.

Mens sana in corpore sano A sound mind in a sound body

More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows.

He who sows peas on the highway does not get all the pods into his barn.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said; but, I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Qui pro innocente dicit satis est eloquens Who speaks for the innocent is eloquent enough

To argue with a man of noble speech is better than to agree with a man of rude speech.

Sumptus censum ne superet Let not your spending exceed your income

Vox audita perit, litteras scripta manet The spoken word vanishes, the written word remains

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

Be sure that you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.

Not to progress is to go back.

Sitting in my garden at midnight staring at the stars can also produce that 'diminutive effect.'

Ever upward. —Excelsior

(1) (2) Prepared in mind and resources. While I breathe, I hope. —Animis opibusque parati —Dum spiro, spero

It is better to have men ask why you have no statue, than why you have one.

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

Si fecisti nega! If you did it, deny it (stonewall!)

A good way to widen out the strait and narrow path would be for more people to walk on it.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment.

Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else.

God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

In fact, we are often able to do a task because we think we are able to do it.

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Non semper erit aestas It will not always be summer (be prepared for hard times)

All sunshine makes the desert.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, can not keep it from themselves.

Keep your face in the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.

Respondeat superior Let the superior answer

If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.

A swift flowing stream does not grow stagnant.

Swimming right after eating will cause cramps and you'll drown.

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

Talk does not cook rice.

To talk goodness is not good ... Only to do it is.

A fool shines so long as he keeps silent.

If your foot slips, you may regain your balance; if your mouth slips, you cannot recall your words.

No quarrel with silence; no qualms with vigilance.

When frogs are croaking, then silence is becoming.

Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur That man is wise who talks little

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

Docendo discimus Teach in order to learn

He makes a foe who makes a jest.

Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, I'll understand.

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers.

Those who are tentative about making plans are often unsure of their ability to show up.

Dixi I have spoken (And that´s that)

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.

We didn't inherit the land from our fathers. We are borrowing it from our children.

The mind can only stand what the seat can endure.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

A cold and wet June spoils the rest of the year.

A cold May and a windy, a full barn will find ye.

A dripping June keeps all things in tune.

A dry May and a leaking June, make the farmer whistle a merry tune.

A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.

A Summer fog for fair, a Winter fog for rain.

A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.

A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon.

A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay.

A tough apple skin means a hard winter.

A wet January, a wet spring.

A wet May makes a big load of hay. A cold May is kindly and fills the barn finely.

A year of snow, a year of plenty.

All the months of the year, curse a fair Februeer.

An April flood carries away both the frog and his brood.

April showers bring May flowers.

April weather: rain and sunshine both together.

Be it weal or be it woe, bean blow before May doth go.

Change not a clout 'till May be out.

Clear moon, frost soon.

Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons.

Evening red and morning gray help the traveler on his way. Evening gray and morning red bring down rain upon his head.

Fair on September first, fair for the month.

Halo around the moon, rain soon.

Halo around the sun or moon, rain or snow soon.

If February brings no rain, 'tis neither good for grass nor grain.

If it thunders on All Fool's Day, it brings good crops of corn and hay.

If the 24th of August be fair and clear, then hope for a prosperous Autumn that year.

If the grass do grow in Janiveer, it grows the worse for it all the year.

If there's ice in November that will bear a duck, there'll be nothing after but sludge and muck.

If you see the underside of the leaves in the gentle breeze, it will rain before your sneeze.

In February, if thou hearest thunder, Thou shalt see a summer wonder.

In July, shear your rye.

In October dung your field, and your land it's wealth will yield.

June damp and warm does the farmer no harm.

March comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb.

March'll search ye, April try ye; May'll tell, whether live or die ye.

Mare's tails and mackerel scales make tall ships take in their sails.

Mist in May and heat in June will bring all things into tune.

No weather is ill when the wind is still.

Pale moon doth rain, Red moon doth blow, White moon doth neither rain nor snow.

Red skies at night, sailor's delight. Red skies at morning, sailors take warning.

September blows soft, 'till the fruit's in the loft.

September dries up wells or breaks down bridges.

Shear your sheep in May, and shear them all away.

Smoke curling downward, poor weather.

So many misties in March, So many frosties in May.

St. Swithin's Day an' it be fair, for forty days 'twill rain nae mair.

St. Swithin's Day, if it do rain, for forty days it will remain.

The blackest month of all the year, Is the month of Janiveer.

Waning Moon. Plant biennials, perennials, bulb and root crops.

Waxing Moon. Plant annuals that produce their yield above ground.

When a cow endeavors to scratch his ear, It means a rain shower is very near. When he thumps his ribs with an angry tail, Look out for thunder, lightning and hail.

When April blows his horn, 'Tis good for both hay and corn.

When the stars begin to huddle, The earth will soon become a puddle.

When your joints all start to ache, rainy weather is at stake.

Who doffs his coat on a winter day will gladly put it on in May.

Possunt quia posse videntur They can because they seem to be able to

The big thieves hang the little ones.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

All things good to know are difficult to learn.

Cogito ergo sum I think, therefore I exist

You cannot speak more clearly than you think.

If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.

You can lead a boy to school but he, himself, must do the thinking.

Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well wisest and best of all.

People (mostly guys) have been electrocuted 'relieving themselves' [editor's change in words] on a subway's 3rd rail.

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

He that sows thorns should not go barefoot.

Hold on to a good thought.

The mind of man is the root of both bondage and release.

The hand will not reach for what the heart does not long for.

An inch of time is an inch of gold.

What can be done at any time is never done at all.

Live not for time, but eternity.

The bird of time has but a little way to fly. And lo, the bird is on the wing.

Throw out a herring to catch a whale.

Aut vincere aut mori Either to conquer or to die

To throw out a tub to the whale.

Errare humanum est To err is human (it´s human to make errors)

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris It is human nature to hate a person whom you have injured.

To know and to act are one and the same.

Orare est laborare, laborare est orare. To pray is to work, to work is to pray.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.

If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.

He that has a trade has an estate.

Only with a new leader do you realize the value of the old.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.

Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.

A tree does not move unless there is wind.

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.

How beautiful that most of the troubles never happen.

Be true to your own goals.

Trust me, but look to thyself.

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

Add one small bit to the truth and you inevitably subtract from it.

There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth.

Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Veritas vos liberabit The truth shall set you free (Motto of Johns Hopkins University)

Without error there can be no truth.

If it is not true, it is a happy invention.

Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. Za dvumya zaitsami pogonish'sya, ne odnogo ne poimaesh'.

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

The sun is red at dawn and red at sunset. Great men are unchanged in prosperity and in distress.

A story that has to be told in an undertone might just as well be left unsaid.

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

As I walk, As I walk The Universe is walking with me.

Many university buildings constructed in the 1960s look like prisons.

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken, you reign over it.

Studies indicate that the majority of US currency has traces of cocaine.

The price of your hat isn't the measure of your brain.

An ounce of vanity can ruin a ton of merit.

He that cometh in vanity departeth in darkness.

After victory, tighten your helmet chord.

Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure.

Want a thing long enough, and you don’t.

The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.

Diem perdidi I have lost a day (another day wasted)

What runs but never gets tired? Water.

Water floats a ship. Water sinks a ship.

The best way to get praise is to die.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

A man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

If I wanted an easy care garden, I would have planted weeds.

Weeds Never Die.

The autumn cloud is thin, but the well-wishing of man is thinner.

A well-used door needs no oil in its hinges

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. — Latin for 'Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.'

Quid novi? What's new?

I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains.

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

He who wills, can.

He who can follow his own will is a king.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

Bonum vinum laetificat cor hominis Good wine gladdens a person's heart

Dead of winter.

A fool wonders. A wise man asks.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit No mortal is wise at all hours

Owls are not really wise; they just look that way.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Sapientia vino obumbratur Wisdom is overshadowed by wine

Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat A wise man states as true nothing he does not prove

The wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool does from his friends.

A wish is a desire without an attempt.

Holy Mother Earth, the trees and all nature, are witnesses of your thoughts and deeds.

Auribus teneo lupum I have the wolf by the ears

A woman may suffer in many ways. But never in silence.

A woman will never forgive a man if she is wrong.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

Better one word before than two after.

Good words are like a string of pearls.

True words are not fine, Fine words are not true.

Words divide us, actions unite us.

Words without ideas are like sails without wind.

Long ago an Eastern monarch called his wise men together and asked them to invent a motto, a few magic words that would help him in time of trial or distress. It must be brief enough to be engraved on a ring to be ever present. It must be appropriate to every situation, as useful in prosperity as in adversity. It must be a motto wise and true and endlessly enduring, words by which a man could be guided all his life, in every circumstance, no matter what happened. The wise men finally came to the monarch with their magic words. They were words for every change or chance of fortune ... words to fit every situation, good or bad ... words to ease the heart and mind in every circumstance. The words they gave for the ring were: This, too, shall pass away.

A good rest is half the work.

If I have work to do, the sooner started the sooner through.

The work will teach you how to do it.

Worries go better with soup than without.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

In caudam venenum The venum is in the tail (the worst bit comes last) [thx Karel]

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Qui scribit bis legit He who writes reads twice

Writing will be your companion through the darkest and brightest days of your life — if that is what you want. It exposes pain and guilt and the greatest joy. It is your own assessment of who you are. You should write as much as you can and as much as you want to. It will be something to turn to.

Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success.

Hodie mihi, cras tibi Today is mine, tomorrow is yours (You'll get yours)

There was a young lady of Leeds Who swallowed six packets of seeds In a month, silly lass She was covered in grass And she couldn't sit down for the weeds!

Tell me who’s your friend and I’ll tell you who you are.

When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there.

Being young is a fault which improves daily.

Zen is like looking for the spectacles that are sitting on your nose.

A man of words and not deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.

Abundance, like want, ruins many.

All you under the heaven! Regard heaven as your father, earth as your mother, and all things as your brothers and sisters.

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Do not bathe if there is no water.

Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls.

Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves.

Don't think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm.

Every Flower must grow through Dirt.

Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant Crab apples don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

Everyone has enough weeding to do in their own garden.

Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse)

Fast Ripe, Fast Rotten.

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn.

Fruit should pay for the welfare of leaves.

Gardeners Know All The Dirt.

Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

God gave teeth; He will give bread.

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.

Good millet is known at the harvest.

Have a mouth of ivy and a heart of holly.

He who does not cultivate his field, will die of hunger.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Help thy brother's boat across, and lo thine own has reached the shore.

Hospitality is a form of worship.

If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

If nobody uses it, there's a reason.

If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

It is easier to pull down than to build up.

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.

It's no use boiling your cabbage twice.

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Laughter is brightest, in the place where the food is.

Let those that love us, love us. And those that don't, may God turn their hearts. And, if He cannot turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles so we may know them by their limping!

Little by little grow the bananas.

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

Love this Earth as if you won't be here tomorrow; show reverence for your Garden as if you will be here forever.

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. And rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

My whole body is covered with eyes: Behold it! Be without fear! I see all around.

Never fall out with your bread and butter.

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.

Nobody notices when things go right.

One flower makes no garland.

One for the rock, one for the crow, One to die, and one to grow.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.

Quien a buen arbol se arrima, buena sombra le cobija. He who gets close to a good tree, will have a good shade.

Rain does not fall on one roof alone.

Remember, it is forbidden to live in a town which has no garden or greenery.

Seeing is different than being told.

Spread the table and contention will cease.

The anvil fears no blows.

The better the fruit, the more wasps to eat it.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

The garden must be prepared in the soul first or else it will not flourish.

The hardest work is to go idle.

The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely.

The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down. [More about the need for conformity than about tools, although conformity is a tool of society.]

The nut doesn't reveal the tree it contains.

The plum tree, dwindling, contains less of the spring; But the garden is wider, and holds more of the moon.

The rich worry over their money, the poor over their bread.

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together.

The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.

There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.

Tickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into a harvest.

Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day, Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after he’s dead.

To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.

To one who does not know, a small garden is a forest.

To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.

Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.

`Uo `ia i ka manai ho`okahi. Strung like flowers on the same lei needle. Married.

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.

Cut off one's nose to spite one's face.

History is written by the winners.

Crime never sleeps.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.

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