|
Saying - Author
|
A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the
world walks out. - unknown
|
A rolling stone gathers no moss. - John Heywood (c. 1497-1580)
|
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
A rule isn't unfair if it applies to everyone. - unknown
|
A ruler must sometimes humor as well as command. - unknown
|
A short horse is soon curried. - John Heywood (c.
1497-1580)
|
A single arrow is easily broken; a bundle of ten is not. -
Japanese (on strength and weakness)
|
A smile is a window in your face to show your heart is at
home. - unknown (submitted by fubar@nque.com)
|
A soft answer turneth away wrath. - Bible (Proverbs
15:1)
|
A stitch in time saves nine. - unknown
|
A stumble is not a fall. - Haitian (on adversity)
|
A stumble may prevent a fall. - English (on experience)
|
A thing is bigger for being shared. - Gaelic (on
generosity)
|
A thousand artisans, a thousand plans. - Chinese (on
art and creativity)
|
A tree falls the way it leans. - Walloon (on rewards
and consequences)
|
A trouble shared is a trouble halved. - unknown
|
A true champion believes in themselves when no one else
does. - nosagirl05
|
A true friend is the best Possession. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
A true soldier does not admit defeat before the battle. - unknown
|
A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.- Korean
(on journeys)
|
A watched pot never boils. - unknown
|
A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "And what is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have not yet been discovered."
|
A weed is but an unloved flower. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1855-1919)
|
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. - James Russell
Lowell (1819-1891)
|
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. - Gaelic (on
authenticity)
|
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back
again. - Horace (65-8 BC)
|
A word to the wise may be suffient. - Latin
|
A work ill done must be twice done. - Welsh (on
business)
|
A year's care; a minute's ruin. - Tagalog (Filipino)
(on perversity)
|
Ability may get you to the top but it's character that
will keep you there. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
|
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the
small and enkindles the great. - Comte de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693)
|
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.- Thomas Haynes
Bayly (1797-1839)
|
Accidents will happen - George Colman (1732-1794)
|
Actions speak louder than words. - Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
|
Adapt the remedy to the disease. - Chinese Proverb
|
Adversity is a gift. - unknown
|
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. - Danish
(on advice)
|
Advise no one to go to war or marry. - Spanish (on
advice)
|
After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile. - T.
Cogan (1584)
|
After the war, aid. - Greek Proverb
|
Aim for the stars. - unknown
|
Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart. - Korean
(on ambition)
|
Ain't no pot so crooked, you can't find a lid to fit. - unknown
|
All are not saints, who go to church.- Italian (on
hypocrisy)
|
All cats are grey in the dark. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
All experience is education for the soul. - unknown
|
All food is fit to eat but not all words are fit to speak.
- Haitian (on discretion)
|
All good things must come to an end. - H.H. Riley
(1857)
|
All happiness is in the mind. - English (on attitude)
|
All in good time. - Horace (65-8 BC)
|
All of us, the great and the little have need of each
other. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
All roads lead to Rome. - unknown
|
All that glitters is not gold. - Latin Proverb
|
All the world's a stage. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
All truth passes through three stages: First it is
ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being
self-evident. - unknown
|
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. - unknown
|
All's well that ends well. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Almost only counts in horseshoes. - unknown
|
Always be prepared. - unknown
|
Always keep an open mind. - unknown
|
Ambition begets vexations. - Singhalese (on ambition)
|
Ambition destroys its possessor. - Hebrew (on ambition)
|
Ambition is a good servant but a bad master. - unknown
|
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
An army of a thousand is easy to find but ah how difficult
to find a general. - Chinese Proverb<>
|
An empty barrel makes the most noise. - Russian Proverb
|
An hour may destroy what an age was building.- English
(on permanence and change)
|
An ill weed grows apace. - George Chapman (c.1559-1634)
|
An old error has more friends than a new truth.- Danish
(on habit)
|
An old ox makes a straight furrow. - Spanish (on
experience)
|
An open foe may prove a curse but a pretended friend is
worse. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - unknown
|
Anger is a short madness. - Horace (65-8 BC)
|
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused
it. - English (on anger)
|
Anger is one letter short of danger. - Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962)
|
Another day, another dollar. - unknown
|
Any plan is bad that cannot be changed. - Italian (on
planning)
|
Any port in a storm. - unknown
|
Any water in the desert will do. - Arabic (on
practicality)
|
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius
Syrus (c.42 B.C.)
|
Anyone can stand adversity but to test a person's
character, give them power. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
|
Anyone who will gossip to you, will gossip about you. - unknown
|
Anything with scales counts as a fish. - Malay (on
appearance and reality)
|
Appearances are deceptive. - Italian Proverb
|
As long as you live, keep learning how to live. - Latin
proverb (on the conduct of life)
|
As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens. - E.
Pellham (1631)
|
As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all
things are attached to life.- Sanskrit (on life and living)
|
As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on
earth.- Afghan (on permanence and change)
|
As you shall sow, so shall you reap. - Bible
|
At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish.- Thai
(on permanence and change)
|
At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.- Kanuri
(West African) (on patience)
|
At the gate of patience there is no crowding.- Moroccan
(on patience)
|
Avoid a cure that is worse than the disease. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of
vice. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
B
|
Saying - Author
|
Bad gains are true losses. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Bad is called good when worse happens. Norwegian (on
relative worth)
|
Be careful what you ask for; you may get it. - unknown
(Thanks to J. Martin)
|
Be careful what you wish for. - unknown
|
Be ever vigilant but never suspicious. - English (on
vigilance)
|
Be gracious in defeat. - unknown
|
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home. - unknown
|
Be just before you are generous. - E. Haywood (1745)
|
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet
'em on your way down. - Jimmy Durante
|
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy,
counsel and countenance. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Be not overcome by evil but repay evil with good. - Bible
|
Be not water, taking the tint of all colors. - Syrian
(on authenticity)
|
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower still in changing. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Be sure you are right, then go ahead. - Davy Crockett
(1786-1836)
|
Be the change you wish to see in the world. - Ghandi
|
Be the first in the field and the last to the couch. - Chinese
(on work)
|
Be true to yourself. - unknown
|
Bear and forbear. - unknown
|
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - Greek Proverb
|
Beauty is only skin deep. - Sir Thomas Overbury
(1581-1613)
|
Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. - French
(on beauty)
|
Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion. -
Egyptian (on caution and care)
|
Before healing others, heal yourself.- Gambian (on
health and wellness)
|
Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage keep
one eye shut.- Jamaican (on marriage)
|
Beggars can't be choosers. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Beginning is easy; continuing, hard. - Japanese (on
permanence and change)
|
Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance. - Louis
D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
|
Being happy is better than being king. - Hausa (West
African) (on comparable worth)
|
Believe in yourself. - unknown
|
Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you
see. - unknown
|
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. - Chinese
(on comparable worth)
|
Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within
it. - Arabic (on friends and foes)
|
Better late than never. - Roman Proverb
|
Better one true friend than a hundred relatives. - Italian
(on friendship)
|
Better slip with foot than tongue. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Better ten times ill than one time dead.- Yiddish (on
health and wellness)
|
Better the devil you know than the one you don't - R.
Taverner (1539)
|
Better to ask the way than go astray. - unknown
|
Better to ask twice than to lose your way. - Danish (on
practicality)
|
Better to be safe than sorry. - Samuel Lover
(1797-1868)
|
Better to give than to receive. - Bible (Acts 20:35)
|
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Better yourself before others. - Darren Bateman
|
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog and a quarrelsome
person. - Iranian (on caution and care)
|
Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great
ship. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Beware of the person with two faces.- Dutch (on
hypocrisy)
|
Beware the door with too many keys. - Portuguese (on
vigilance)
|
Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden
(1631-1700)
|
Beware the Greeks bearing gifts. - Virgil (70-19 BC)
"I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts."
|
Beware the person with nothing to lose. - Italian (on
prudence)
|
Birds of a feather, flock together. - Robert Burton
(1577-1640)
|
Blood is thicker than water. - German Proverb
|
Bloom where you're planted. - unknown
|
Boys, be ambitious. - William Smith Clark (1826-1886)
|
Brains are better than brawn. - unknown
|
Bread, oil, Salt and Heart - Albanian ( on honoring the
guest) thanks to kravetsmaksim
|
Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree. - Native
American Saying (on war and peace)
|
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a
man and the life he leads. - Albert Camus
|
Butterflies come to pretty flowers. - Korean (on
beauty)
|
Buyer beware. - Latin Proverb "Caveat emptor"
|
Buying on credit is robbing next year's crop. - African
American (on buying and selling)
|
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
By crawling, a child learns to stand. - Hausa (West
African) (on experience)
|
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest. - Ashanti
(West African) (on persistence)
|
C
|
Saying - Author
|
Caesar did not merit the triumphal car more than he that
conquers himself. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. - Julius Caesar
(c.102-44 BC)
|
Can't get blood from a stone. - unknown
|
Can't see the forest for the trees. - unknown
|
Carve the peg by looking at the hole. - Korean (on
appropriateness)
|
Change is inevitable - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
|
Change yourself and fortune will change. - Portuguese
(on fortune)
|
Character building begins in infancy and continues until
death. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
|
Character is easier kept than recovered. - English (on
character and virtue)
|
Character is habit long continued. - Greek
|
Charity begins at home. - Tobias George Smollett
(1721-1771)
|
Charity covers a multitude of sins. - Bible (Peter 4:8)
|
Chickens don't praise their own soup. - Martinican (on
flattery and praise)
|
Children are a poor man's riches. - English Proverb
|
Children have more need of models than critics.- French
(on parents and children)
|
Choose the hills wisely on which you must do battle. - unknown
|
Choose to be forgiven. - unknown
|
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house. - Hausa
(West African) (on planning)
|
Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice. - Mack King
|
Circumstances alter cases. - T. Rymer (1678)
|
Civility costs nothing and buys everything. - Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
|
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. - John H.
MacDonald Jr. 1969 Robert Gieg Adds that close also counts in
dancing.
|
Clothes don't make the man. - unknown
|
Clothes may disguise a fool, but his voice will give him
away. - unknown
|
Clouds gather before a storm. - unknown
|
Clouds that thunder, do not always rain. - Armenian (on
vanity and arrogance)
|
Cold hands, warm heart. - V.S. Lean (1903)
|
Come what may, time and hour runs through the roughest
day. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
Common sense is not so common. - French (on common
sense)
|
Compete-- don't envy.- Yemeni (on jealousy and envy)
|
Confession is good for the soul. - Scottish Proverb
|
Conscience makes cowards of us all. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Constant dripping will wear away a stone. - Greek
Proverb
|
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men
poor. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Control your emotions or they will control you. - Chinese
Proverb
|
Count your blessings. - unknown
|
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of
it. - William Danforth (1870-1955)
|
Courage is the complement of fear. - Lazarus Long,
thanks to D. Housel
|
Cowards die many times before their death. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Creditors have better memories than debtors. - English
(on business)
|
Curses like chickens, come home to roost. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
Curiosity killed the cat. - E. O'Neill (1888-1953)
|
Cut your coat according to your cloth. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse. - Creole
(on authenticity)
|
D
|
Saying - Author
|
Dally not with other folk's spouses or money. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Dead men don't bite. - Plutarch (46-120)
|
Dead men tell no tales. - J. Wilson (1664)
|
Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own. - Chinese
Proverb
|
Death is the great leveller. - Claudian
|
Death keeps no calendar. - English (on death and dying)
|
Death never takes a wise man by surprise; he is always
ready to go. - Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
|
Death pays all debts. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Death takes no bribes. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Deeds are fruits; words are leaves. - English (on words
and deeds)
|
Depend on others and you will go hungry. - Nepalese (on
self-reliance)
|
Depend on your walking stick; not on other people. - Japanese
(on self-reliance)
|
Destroy your enemy by making him your friend. - Abraham
Lincoln (1809-1865)
|
Diamond cuts diamond. - Marstow (1604)
|
Different strokes for different folks. - Clarence
Darrow (1857-1938)
|
Difficulties make you a jewel. - Japanese (on
adversity)
|
Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Discretion is the better part of valor. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Distance lends enchantment to the view. - Thomas
Campbell (1777-1844)
|
Do good and care not to whom. - Portuguese (on good and
evil)
|
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain
him. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Do not allow sins to get beyond creeping. - Hawaiian
(on the conduct of life)
|
Do not attempt too much at once. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to
get his paws wet. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. - unknown
|
Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today. - unknown
|
Do not squander time for that is the stuff that life is
made of. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Do the math; count your blessings. - unknown
|
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. - Bible
|
Do what comes natural. - unknown
|
Do what is right, come what may. - unknown
|
Dog is a man's best friend. - unknown
|
Dogs bark but the caravan moves on. - Arab Proverb
|
Don't be caught flat-footed. - unknown
|
Don't be led around by the nose. - unknown
|
Don't be too quick to judge. - unknown
|
Don't believe everything you hear. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Don't bite off more than you can chew. - unknown
|
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. - unknown
|
Don't boast when you set out but only when you get there.-
Russian (on journeys)
|
Don't burn your bridges behind you. - unknown
|
Don't buy other people's problems. - Chinese (on buying
and selling)
|
Don't bypass a town where there's a friend.- Malagasy
(on journeys)
|
Don't call the alligator, big mouth until you have crossed
the river. - Belizean (on criticism)
|
Don't cross the bridge til you come to it. - Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
|
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Don't cry before you are hurt. - Scottish Proverb
|
Don't cry over spilt milk. - James Howell (1549-1666)
|
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. - Mid 14th
century French Proverb
|
Don't expect things to go right the first time. - unknown
|
Don't find fault, find a remedy. - Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
|
Don't get your back up. - unknown
|
Don't gild the lily. - unknown
|
Don't give up the ship. - unknown
|
Don't go barking up the wrong tree. - Davy Crockett
(1786-1836)
|
Don't go looking for trouble. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Don't halloo until you're out of the wood. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Don't hang your hat higher than you can reach. - Belizean
(on balance and moderation)
|
Don't have too many irons in the fire. - unknown
|
Don't judge anyone unless you've walked in their moccasins
one moon. - Native American Proverb
|
Don't judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday
appearances. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Don't let anyone get your goat. - unknown
|
Don't let the critics get you down. - unknown
|
Don't let the grass grow on the path of friendship. - Blackfoot
(Native American) (on friendship)
|
Don't look where you fell but where you slipped. - Liberian
(on practicality)
|
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. - Henry Ellis(1859-1939)
|
Don't plant a seed in the sea. - Swahili (East African)
(on appropriateness)
|
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. - Miguel de
Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
Don't put the cart before the horse. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Don't pretend to be something you aren't. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Don't reinvent the wheel. - unknown
|
Don't rush the river. - unknown; appeared in a
horoscope on Dec 2nd, 2003. Thanks to jenfromblock28. The river may be life
or it may be financial wealth or it may be your desires.
|
Don't sail out farther than you can row back. - Danish
(on prudence)
|
Don't say amen to an unacceptable prayer. - Turkish (on
prayer)
|
Don't shoot the messenger. - unknown
|
Don't spill the beans. - unknown
|
Don't sweat the small stuff. - unknown
|
Don't take any wooden nickels. - American (on
authenticity)
|
Don't take no for an answer. - unknown
|
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. - unknown
|
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. - unknown
|
Don't toot your own horn. - unknown
|
Don't treat the symptom, instead find the cause. - unknown
|
Don't try to reinvent the wheel. - unknown
|
Don't wish your life away. - unknown
|
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his
brother. - Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
|
Doubt is the key to knowledge. - Iranian (on education)
|
Drive gently over the stones. - Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)
|
E
|
Saying - Author
|
Each bay, its own wind. - Fijian (on differences)
|
Each person has his strong point. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make
the worst man good throughout. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Eagles don't catch flies. - Desiderius Erasmus
(1465-1536)
|
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy,
wealthy and wise. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Earth is dearer than gold.- Estonian (on nature)
|
Easier said than done. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
East, west, home's best. - W.K.Kelly (1859)
|
Easy does it. - T. Taylor (1863)
|
Easy come, easy go. - Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
|
Eat coconuts while you have teeth. - Singhalese (on
youth and age)
|
Eat to live, not live to eat. - Socrates (469-399 BC)
|
Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the
rich. - French (on thrift)
|
E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience
look within. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Eggs have no business dancing with stones. - Haitian
(on prudence)
|
Empty sacks will never stand upright. - Italian Proverb
|
Empty vessels make the most sound. - John Lydgate
(c.1370-1451)
|
Enough is as good as a feast. - Sir Thomas Malory
(d.1471))
|
Envy has no rest.- Middle Eastern (on jealousy and
envy)
|
Envy is based on an incomplete understanding of the other
person's situation. - George Chapman (c.1559-1634)
|
Envy of others always shows. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. - John
Philpot Curran (1750-1817)
|
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth
shut. - Korean (on common sense)
|
Even a sheet of paper has two sides. - Japanese (on
differences)
|
Even a worm will turn. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
"Treade a worme on the tayle and it must turn agayne."
|
Even Buddist priests of the same temple quarrel
occasionally.- Singhalese (on the human comedy)
|
Even children of the same mother, look different. - Korean
(on differences)
|
Even in Mecca, people make money. - Hausa (West African
(on balance and moderation)
|
Even monkeys fall out of trees. - Japanese Proverb
|
Even the best laid plans go awry. - unknown
|
Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often. - Korean
(on art and creativity)
|
Even the best writer has to erase. - Spanish (on books
and writers)
|
Even the largest army is nothing without a good general.- Afghan
(on leadership)
|
Even though you have ten thousand fields, you can eat but
one measure of rice a day. - Chinese Proverb
|
Every adversity carries with it the seed of equal or
greater benefit. - Napolean Hill ()
|
Every age has its book. - Arabic (on books and writers)
|
Every ass loves to hear himself bray. - English (on
vanity and arrogance)
|
Every burro has his own saddle. - Equadoran (on differences)
|
Every cloud has a silver lining. - D.R. Locke (1863)
|
Every day of your life is a page of your history.- Arabic
(on life and living)
|
Every dog has its day. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Every dog is allowed one bite. - V.S. Lean (1902)
|
Every garden may have some weeds. - English Proverb
|
Every head is a world. - Cuban (on differences)
|
Every herring must hang by his own gill. - S. Harwood
(1609)
|
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest. - Thomas
Fuller (1608-1661)
|
Every jack has his jill; if only they can find each other.
- R. Cotgrave (1611)
|
Every land has its own law. - J. Carmichael (1628)
|
Every man for himself. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Every man has his price. - unknown
|
Every man has to seek his own way to make himself more
noble and to realize his own true worth. - Albert Schweitzer
|
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Appius
(c.470 BC)
|
Every peddlar praises his own needles. - Portuguese (on
flattery and praise)
|
Every picture tells a story. - unknown
|
Every pot will find its lid.- Yiddish (on marriage)
|
Every tear has a smile behind it. - Iranian (on
adversity)
|
Everybody makes mistakes. - unknown
|
Everyone gets their just deserts. - unknown
|
Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects. - Will
Rogers (1879-1935)
|
Everyone is the age of their heart. - Guatemalan (on
youth and age)
|
Everyone wants to live long but no one wants to be called
old. - Icelandic (on youth and age)
|
Everything comes to those who wait. - unknown
|
Everything in moderation. - unknown
|
Everything is lovely when the geese honk high. - unknown
|
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. - Kahlil
Gibran (1883-1931)
|
Example is the best precept. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Expect the worst, but hope for the best. - unknown
|
Experience is the best teacher. - Latin Proverb
|
Experience is the mother of wisdom. - unknown
|
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. - James
Anthony Froude (1818-1894)
|
F
|
Saying - Author
|
Fact is stranger than fiction. - Thomas Chandler
Haliburton (1796-1865)
|
Failure is a teacher, a harsh one but the best. - Thomas
J. Watson Sr. (1874-1956)
|
Failure is the path of least persistence. - unknown
|
Faint heart never won fair lady. - W. S. Gilbert
(1836-1911)
|
Fair words can buy a horse on credit. - Trinidadian (on
flattery and praise)
|
Fair words never hurt the tongue. - George Chapman
(c.1559-1634)
|
Faith is the ability to not panic. - unknown
|
Falling is easier than rising. - Irish (on fame)
|
False friends leave you in times of trouble. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Familiarity breeds contempt. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. - German Proverb
|
Fear the Greeks bearing gifts. - Virgil (70-19 BC)
"I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts."
|
Fear the person who fears you. - Middle Eastern (on courage
and fear)
|
Feed a cold and starve a fever. - C. Morley (1939)
|
Fine feathers don't make fine birds. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Fine words butter no parsnips. - John Clarke (1639)
|
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. - German
Proverb
|
First come, first served. - unknown
|
First food, then religion. - Afghan (on practicality)
|
First things first. - G. Jackson (1894)
|
Fish don't get caught in deep water. - Malay (on
caution and care)
|
Fishing without a net is merely bathing. - Hausa (West
African) (on authenticity)
|
Focus on what's right in your world instead of what's
wrong. - unknown
|
Follow your dreams. - unknown
|
Following the path of least resistence is what makes both
men and rivers crooked. - unknown - thanks to Brian Fierling
|
Fools and scissors require good handling. - Japanese
(on foolishness)
|
Fools are like other folks as long as they are silent. - Danish
(on foolishness)
|
Fools rush in where wise men fear to tread. - Alexander
Pope (1688-1744)
|
For news of the heart, ask the face.- Guinean (on life
and living)
|
Forgive and forget. - unknown
|
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma
Gandhi (1869-1948)
|
Forethought is easy, repentance is hard. - Chinese (on
discretion)
|
Forewarn'd, forearm'd. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Four horses cannot overtake the tongue. - Chinese (on
gossip)
|
Friends are God's way of taking care of us. -unknown
|
Friendship increases by visiting friends but visiting
seldom. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius
(c.371-289)
|
From the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. - Jesus
Christ
|
Froth is not beer. - Dutch (on appearance and reality)
|
G
|
Saying - Author
|
Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first. - Samoan
(on practicality)
|
Genius is only a great aptitude for patience. - Georges-Louis
Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788)
|
Genius is ninety percent perspiration and ten percent
inspiration. - Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
|
Get out of harms way. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
Get to the root of the problem. - unknown
|
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man
to fish and he'll eat forever. - Chinese Proverb
|
Give an extra piece of cake to a stepchild.- Korean (on
parenting and children)
|
Give assistance not advice in a crisis. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Give credit where credit is due. - M. Floy (1834)
|
Give even an onion, graciously. - Afghan (on
generosity)
|
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. - unknown
|
Give good and get good. - Estonian (on generosity)
|
Give the devil his due. - Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
|
Give thy thoughts no tongue. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Give up the ghost. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
Given a challenge, rise to the occasion. - unknown
|
Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd and never
well mended. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Go for it. - American (on ambition)
|
God did not create hurry. - Finnish (on balance and
moderation)
|
God gave us music that we might pray without words. - unknown
|
God gave us the nuts but he doesn't crack them. - German
Proverb
|
God grant me a good sword and no use for it. - Polish
(on war and peace)
|
God helps those who help themselves. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. - unknown
|
Going beyond is as bad as falling short. - Chinese (on
balance and moderation)
|
Gold is the devil's fishhook. - Italian (on temptation)
|
Good counsellors lack no clients. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Good deeds are the best prayer. - Serbian (on prayer)
|
Good example is the best sermon. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Good memories are our second chance at happiness. - Queen
Elizabeth II
|
Good things come in small packages. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Good things come when you least expect them. - unknown
|
Good to forgive, better to forget. - Robert Browning
(1812-1889)
|
Good wine needs no bush. - R. Taverner (1545)
|
Good words are worth much and cost little. - George
Herbert (1593-1632)
|
Goodness does not consist in greatness but greatness in
goodness. - Athenaeus (c.200)
|
Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone, a castle. - Yugoslavian
(on patience)
|
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Great actions are not always true sons of great and mighty
resolutions. - Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
|
Great chiefs prove their worthiness. - Seneca Proverb
|
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Great ideas are the fuel of progress. - unknown
|
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington
Irving (1783-1859)
|
Great minds think alike. - "Punch" (c.1922)
|
Great oaks from little acorns grow. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
Great spenders are bad lenders. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Greed often overreaches itself. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Grin and bear it. - unknown
|
H
|
Saying - Author
|
Half a loaf is better than none. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Half the truth is often a whole lie. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Half the world knows not how the other half lives. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
Handsome is as handsome does. - Anthony Munday
(1553-1633)
|
Happiness depends on ourselves. - Aristotle (384-322
BC)
|
Happiness is a state of mind. - unknown
|
Happiness isn't a goal, it's a by-product. - Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962)
|
Happy is as happy does. - unknown
|
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on. - Robert
Herrick (1591-1674)
|
Happy is the person who learns from the misfortunes of
others. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Happy nations have no history. - Belgian (on war and
peace)
|
Hard words break no bones. - unknown
|
Haste has no blessing.- Swahili (East African) (on
patience)
|
Haste makes waste. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Hasty climbers have sudden falls. - Robert Greene
(c.1560-1592)
|
Have confidence in yourself and you can lick anything. - unknown
|
Have the courage of your convictions. - unknown
|
Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as
much as we speak. - Turkish (on discretion)
|
Hay is for horses. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
|
He lives long who lives well. - J. Wilson (1553)
|
He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the
good. - Jewish Proverb
|
He that cannot obey, cannot command. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
He that complies against his will, is of the same opinion
still. - Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
|
He that first cries out "stop thief" is often he
that has stolen the treasure. - William Congreve (1670-1729)
|
He that goes aborrowing, goes asorrowing. - R. Taverner
(1545)
|
He that hath a trade, hath an estate. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
He that is rich need not live sparingly and he that can
live sparingly need not be rich. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that lies down with the dogs riseth with fleas. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
He that pays for work before it's done, has but a
pennyworth for two pence. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that pays the piper, calls the tune. - unknown
|
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend
now. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that respects himself is safe from others. - Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
|
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that steals an egg will steal an ox. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
He that waits on fortune is never sure of a dinner. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that would eat the fruit, must climb the tree. - Scottish
Proverb
|
He that would govern others, first should be the master of
himself. - Phillip Massinger (1583-1640)
|
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak
all he knows, nor judge all he sees. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He who bites the hand that feeds him, ends up licking the
boot that kicks him. - unknown (thanks to Dale Cade)
|
He who flees at the right time can fight again. - Marcus
Trentius Varro (c.116-27 BC)
|
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900)
|
He who hesitates is lost. - Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
|
He who laughs last, laughs best. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands. - George
Eliot (1819-1880)
|
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves
finds the gates open. - R. Tagore Thakur
|
Health is better than wealth. - unknown
|
Hear reason or she will make you feel her. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. - William
Congreve (1670-1729)
|
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer. - Norwegian
(on courage and fear)
|
His bark is worse than his bite. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
History repeats itself. - George Eliot (1819-1880)
|
Hit the nail on the head. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian
Proverb
|
Hold fast to the words of your ancestors. - Maori (on
proverbs)
|
Home is where the heart is. - J.J. McCloskey (1870)
|
Honesty is the best policy. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Honor is better than honors. - Flemish (on the conduct
of life)
|
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. - Thomas
Norton & Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)
|
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. - W. Rawley
(1661)
|
Hope springs eternal. - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
|
However long the night, the dawn will break. - African
Proverb - Hausa Tribe
|
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively
maladjusted. - Martin Luther King Jr.
|
Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood. - 14th Century
French Proverb
|
Hunger is the best sauce. - French Proverb
|
Hurry is good only for catching flies. - Russian (on
the conduct of life)
|
Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey
yourself. - Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
|
J
|
Saying - Author
|
Jealousy is a disease for the weak. - unknown
|
Judge not, lest ye be judged. Bible
|
Just because everybody's doing something, doesn't mean
it's right. - unknown
|
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to
do, doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
|
Just because something is common sense doesn't mean it's
common practice. - unknown
|
Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli
(1804-1881)
|
K
|
Saying - Author
|
Keep a stiff upper lip. - unknown
|
Keep an open mind. - unknown
|
Keep conscience clear, then never fear. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Keep no more cats than will catch mice. - J. Dare
(1673)
|
Keep plugging. - unknown
|
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. - George
Chapman (c.1559-1634)
|
Keep your chin up. - unknown
|
Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the
shadows. - Australian Aborigine Saying
|
Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer. - Sun
Tzu
|
Keep your friendships in repair. - Samuel Butler
(1612-1680)
|
Keep your head about you. - unknown
|
Keep your nose to the grindstone. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Keep your shirt on. - American Saying
|
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes
are truly endless. - Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
|
Kind words conquer. - Tamil (Asian Indian)(on courtesy
and respect)
|
Kindness is more persuasive than force. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Kingdoms divided soon fall. - Bible (Matthew 12:25)
|
Know thyself. - Ancient Greek Proverb
|
Know which side your bread is buttered on. - John
Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. - Samuel
Johnson (1709-1784)
|
Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
|
L
|
Saying - Author
|
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry
alone. - Horace (65-8 BC)
|
Laugh every day; it's like inner jogging. - unknown
|
Laughter is the best medicine. - unknown<>
|
Laws catch flies but let hornets go free.- Scottish (on
justice)
|
Learn from other peoples mistakes. - unknown
|
Learn from your mistakes. - unknown
|
Learning is best when put into practice. - unknown
|
Learning is better than house and land. - David Garrick
(1716-1779)
|
Least said, soonest mended - unknown
|
Leave no stone unturned. - Euripides (480-406 BC)
|
Lend your money and lose your friend. - William Caxton
(1421-1491)
|
Less is more. - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
|
Let bygones be bygones. - Christina Georgina Rossetti
(1830-1894)
|
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. - George
Chapman (c.1559-1634)
|
Let sleeping dogs lie. - English Proverb
|
Let the punishment fit the crime. - W.S. Gilbert
(1836-1911)
|
Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach. - German
(on food and hunger)
|
Let your words be purrs instead of hisses. - Fannie
Roach Palmer
|
Let's get things straight. - unknown
|
Liars often set their own traps. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Liars need good memories. - French (on truth and
falsehood)
|
Liberty has no price. - Spanish (on freedom and
slavery)
|
Like father, like son. - Asian Proverb
|
Life has its little ups and downs. - unknown
|
Life is a journey, not a destination. - Cliff Nichols,
acrafts@wf.net
|
Life is like the moon: now full, now dark.- Polish (on
permanence and change)
|
Life is not a dress rehearsal. - unknown
|
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but
by the moments that take our breath away - unknown
|
Life is not so short but that there is always time for
courtesy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
Life is one big experiment. - unknown
|
Life is short and full of blisters.- African-American
(on life and living)
|
Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing.- Yiddish
(on life and living)
|
Life is too short to waste. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
|
Life is what you make it. - Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
|
Life isn't all beer and skittles. - Thomas Chandler
Haliburton (1796-1865)
|
Light gains make heavy purses. - George Chapman
(c.1559-1634)
|
Lightning never strikes the same place twice. - P. H.
Myers (1857)
|
Like a fish, one should look for holes in the net. - Samoan
(on freedom and slavery)
|
Like breeds like. - R. Edgeworth (1557)
|
Like father, like son. - unknown
|
Little by little does the trick. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Little by little one walks far.- Peruvian (on journeys)
|
Little fish are sweet. - R. Forby (1830)
|
Little friends may prove great friends. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Little is spent with difficulty, much with ease. - Thai
(on buying and selling)
|
Little leaks sink the ship. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Little pitchers have big ears.- John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Little said is soonest mended. - George Wither
(1588-1667)
|
Little strokes fell great oaks. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Little thieves are hanged but great ones escape. - 14th
Century French Proverb
|
Live and learn. - George Gascoigne (c.1539-1577)
|
Live and let live. - Dutch Proverb
|
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.- Latin
(on life and living)
|
Look at the bright side. - unknown
|
Look before you leap. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Lookers-on see most of the game. - John Palsgrave
(d.1554)
|
Looks can be deceiving. - unknown
|
Loose lips sink ships. - World War II American slogan
attributed to Mr. Anthony Modeski, an artillery factory worker who along with
his fellow workers was asked to come up with slogans for war posters.
Submitted by his grandson, Mike Kurinsky
|
Lost time is never found again. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Love is often the fruit of marriage.- French (on
marriage)
|
Love isn't love until you give it away. - John H.
MacDonald Jr. 1992
|
Love me, love my dog. - St. Bernard of Clairvaux (12th
century)
|
Love will find a way. - unknown
|
M
|
Saying - Author
|
Make a friend when you don't need one. - Jamaican (on
friendship)
|
Make a meal and contention will cease.- Hebrew (on the
human comedy)
|
Make do with what you have. - unknown
|
Make haste slowly. - Suetonius (c.69-140)
|
Make hay while the sun shines. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Make the most of every situation. - unknown
|
Making money selling manure is better than losing money
selling musk. - Egyptian (on buying and selling)
|
Man cannot live by bread alone. - Bible
|
Man is made by his beliefs; as he believes, so he is. - The
Bhagahvad Gita (a Sanskrit poem)
|
Manana (tomorrow) is often the busiest day of the week.
-Spanish (on procrastination)
|
Many hands make light work. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Many have quarreled about religion that never practised
it. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Many meet the gods but few salute them. - Latin (on
courtesy and respect)
|
Marry in haste, repent in leisure. - unknown
|
Masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman
Vincent Peale (1898-1993)
|
May the outward and inward man be at one. - Socrates
(469-399 BC)
|
May the wind be always at your back. - unknown
|
Measure a thousand times; cut once. - Turkish (on
caution and care)
|
Medicine left in the container can't help. - Yoruba
(West African)
|
Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. - Icelandic
(on work)
|
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent
instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
|
Men willingly believe what they wish. - Julius Caesar
(c.102-44 BC))
|
Mess with the bull and one usually gets the horns. - Latin
American saying
|
Mind your p's and q's. - English Proverb
|
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Mistakes are doorways to discovery. - unknown
|
Money buys everything but good sense.- Yiddish (on
money)
|
Money has no value if it is not used. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Monkey see, monkey do. - attributed to his great
grandfather, Hercurmer Jones by Mr. Glenn McQueen Sr.
|
More than enough is too much. - unknown
|
Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up
to be. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
|
Much ado about nothing. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Music has charms to soothe a savage beast. - William
Congreve (1670-1729)
|
N
|
Saying - Author
|
Nature is the art of God.- Latin (on nature)
|
Necessity is a great teacher. - Mexican (on education)
|
Necessity is the mother of invention. - Irish Proverb
|
Necessity never made a good bargain. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great
one. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Neither a borrower nor a lender be. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Never apologize before you are accused. - Charles I of
Great Britain (1600-1649)
|
Never bet your money on another man's game. - unknown
|
Never change horses in midstream. - Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
|
Never cut what can be untied. - Portuguese Proverb
|
Never give advice unasked. - unknown
|
Never give up hope. - unknown
|
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Never mind whether the horse is blind or not, just load up
the wagon. - Stephen Boyd (thanks to Warren ?)
|
Never mistake a single mistake with a final mistake. - F.
Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
|
Never pick up what you didn't put down. - Virgin
Islander (on temptation)
|
Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today. - English
Proverb
|
Never reveal the bottom of your purse or the depth of your
mind. - Italian (on caution and care)
|
Never say die. - unknown
|
Never say never. - unknown
|
Never spend time with people who don't respect you. - Maori
(on courtesy and respect)
|
Never spend your money before you have it. - unknown
|
Never stop learning. - unknown
|
Never take anything for granted. - Benjamin Disraeli
(1804-1881)
|
Never trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you. - unknown
|
New day, new fate.- Bulgarian (on opportunity)
|
Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another's
ears. - Vietnamese (on courtesy and respect)
|
No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
No clock is more regular than the belly. - French (on
food and hunger)
|
No gains without pains. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
No legacy is as rich as honesty. - unknown
|
No man can lose what he never had. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
No man fears what he has seen grow. - African Proverb
|
No news is good news. - unknown
|
No offense taken when none is meant. - unknown
|
No one can make us feel inferior without our consent. - Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962)
|
No one goes through life unscathed. - unknown
|
No one is easy to live with all of the time. - unknown
|
No one is good at everything but everyone is good at
something. - unknown
|
No one is hurt by doing the right thing. - Hawaiian (on
good and evil)
|
No one should be judge in his own cause. - Legal Maxim
|
No pain, no gain. - American (on adversity)
|
No rest for the weary. - unknown (variation "no
rest for the wicked")
|
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must
have a beginning.- Native American (on impossibility)
|
No sin is hidden to the soul. - Bengali (Asian Indian) (on
conscience)
|
No sleep, no dreams. - Korean (on rewards and
consequences)
|
No time like the present. - Mrs. Mary De La Riviera
Manley (1663-1724)
|
Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's
actions. - Darren Bateman
|
Nobody's perfect. - unknown
|
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the
secret of another. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Not all who make love, make marriages.- Russian (on
marriage)
|
Not everything you hear is good for talk. - Japanese
(on gossip)
|
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-1882)
|
Nothing goes on forever. - unknown
|
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience
wisely. - Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
|
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. - French Proverb
|
Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand. - George
Eliot (1819-1880)
|
Nothing is black or white. - unknown
|
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Nothing is difficult if you're used to it. - Kashmiri(on
habit)
|
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. - Gaelic (on
attitude)
|
Nothing is impossible to the willing mind. - Books of
the Han Dynasty
|
Nothing is impossible to the willing heart. - John
Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Nothing remains constant except change itself. - unknown
|
Nothing seems expensive on credit.- Czech (on
indebtedness)
|
Nothing succeeds like success. - unknown
|
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
O
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Saying - Author
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Observe all men; thyself most. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Of all the plants that cover the earth and lie like a
fringe of hair upon the body of our grandmother, try to obtain knowledge that
you may be strengthened in life.- Winnebago (Native American) (on nature)
|
Off with the old and on with the new. - unknown
|
Often, less is more. - unknown
|
Often there is eloquence in a silent look. - Latin (on
eloquence)
|
Once a word is spoken, it flies, you can't catch it. - Russian
Proverb
|
Once bitten, twice shy. - unknown
|
Once the rice is pudding, it's too late to reclaim the
rice. - Indonesian (on time and timeliness)
|
Once you reach the top, take care as the only way left to
go is down. - Darren Bateman
|
One day at a time. - unknown
|
One day in perfect health is much.- Arabic (on health
and wellness)
|
One does evil enough when one does nothing good. - German
proverb.
|
One enemy is too many and a hundred friends too few. - unknown
|
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
One flower makes no garland. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade. -
Chinese Proverb
|
One good turn deserves another. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
One hand for yourself and one for the ship. - unknown
|
One hand washes the other. - Epicharmus (273 AD)
|
One head cannot hold all wisdom. - Maasai(East
African)(on wisdom)
|
One man can make a difference. - unknown
|
One man may be more cunning than another, but not more
cunning than everybody else. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
One man's beard is on fire; another man warms his hands on
it. - Kashmiri (on perversity)
|
One man's junk is another man's treasure. - unknown
|
One man's meat is another man's poison. - unknown
|
One might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. - N.
Rogers (1662)
|
One must not play on the nose of a sleeping bear. - German
(on prudence)
|
One person can burn water, while another can't even burn
oil. - Kashmiri (on differences)
|
One should learn to sail in all waters. - Italian (on
the conduct of life)
|
One should speak little with others and much with oneself.
- Danish (on the conduct of life)
|
One step at a time. - unknown
|
One step leads to another. - unknown
|
One swallow never makes a summer. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
One thing leads to another. - unknown
|
One today is worth two tomorrows. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good
nights.- Egyptian (on marriage)
|
One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed. -
Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
One who waits for chance, may wait a year.- Yoruba
(West African (on opportunity)
|
One with the courage to laugh is master of the world. - Italian
(on courage and fear)
|
Only a fool hates that which he knows nothing about. - unknown
|
Only a fool tests the water with both feet. - African
Proverb
|
Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals. - Maori
(on foolishness)
|
Only the sufferers know how their bellies ache. - Burmese
(on experience)
|
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. - George
Herbert (1593-1632)
|
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Dalai Lama
|
Opportunities come but do not linger.- Nepalese (on
opportunity)
|
Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected
sparks. - unknown
|
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
|
Our desires are the cause of our suffering and pain in
life. - Old Buddist saying
|
Our fears always outnumber our dangers. - Latin (on
courage and fear)
|
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our
attitude. - Victor Frankl (1905-1997)
|
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. - Thomas
Edison (1847-1931)
|
Our handicaps exist only in our minds. - Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
|
Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus
Aurelius (121-180)
|
Out of adversity comes opportunity. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Out of debt, out of danger. - unknown
|
Out of sight, out of mind. - unknown
|
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. - Aesop,
thanks to A. Fonda-Marsland
|
P
|
Saying - Author
|
Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Parting is such sweet sorrow. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Patience is a virtue. - unknown
|
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. - French
Proverb
|
Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine
(354-430)
|
Pay what you owe and what you're worth you'll know. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Penny wise, pound foolish. - Robert Burton (1577-1640)
|
People are architects of their own fortune. - Spanish
(on fortune)
|
People in hell want ice water. - Thanks to Meredith K.
whose grandmother explained that it means you can't always get what you want.
|
People learn more on their own rather than being force
fed. - Socrates (469-399 BC)
|
People should take time to be happy. - Grandma Moses
(1860-1961)
|
People show their character by what they laugh at. - German
(on character and virtue)
|
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. - George
Herbert (1593-1632)
|
Persevere no matter what. - unknown
|
Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating. - Maori
(on permanence and change)
|
Persistence is the key. - unknown
|
Persuasion is better than force. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Pick your battles. - unknown
|
Pick your poison. - unknown
|
Plan your life at New Year's, your day at dawn. - Japanese
(on planning)
|
Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your
life like you will die the next day. - unknown, courtesy of Bryan Sullivan
|
Play the hand you're dealt. - Jawahareal Nehru
(1889-1964)
|
Play the part and you shall become. - unknown
|
Please all and you will soon please none. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Pleasing ware is half sold. - George Herbert
(1593-1633)
|
Pleasures are transient--honors immortal.- Greek (on
heaven and hell)
|
Plenty sits still, hunger is a wanderer. - Zulu (South
African)
|
Poetry moves heaven and earth. - Japanese (on art and
creativity)
|
Poor people share with the heart. - Haitian (on
generosity)
|
Possession is nine tenths of the law. - unknown
|
Postpone today's anger until tomorrow. - Tagalog
(Filipino) (on anger)
|
Poverty breeds discontent. - unknown
|
Practice makes perfect. - English Proverb
|
Practice what you preach. - unknown
|
Praise the young and they will blossom. - Irish Proverb
|
Pray as if no work could help and work as if no prayer
could help. - German (on prayer)
|
Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running. -
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Pretty is as pretty does. - unknown
|
Pride is as loud a beggar as want and a great deal more
saucy. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou
hast, nor all thou can'st. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Procrastination is the thief of time. - unknown
|
Promise little and do much. - Hebrew (on the conduct of
life)
|
Property has its duties as well as its rights. - Thomas
Drummond (1797-1840)
|
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error. - George
Eliot (1819-1880)
|
Proverbs are the daughters of experience. - Sierra
Leone
|
Put a silk on a goat and it is still a goat. - Irish
Proverb
|
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.- Korean
(on idleness)
|
Put on your thinking cap. - unknown
|
Put two and two together. - unknown
|
Q
|
Saying - Author
|
Quality, not quantity. - unknown
|
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay
the wrong. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Quit while your ahead. - unknown
|
R
|
Saying - Author
|
Rather go to bed supperless than run in debt for a
breakfast. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Record only the sunny hours. - unknown
|
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the
morning, shepherd take warning. - unknown
|
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck. - Dalai Lama
|
Repay evil with kindness. - unknown
|
(Do not) Rob Peter to pay Paul. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580) earlier (1380) in a collection by John Wycliffe. Thanks to Mark
Ingram we understand what the saying means: It describes a wasteful or
pointless activity, namely taking away something in order to put it back.
|
Rocks need no protection from the rain. (Ed. Note: Except
over time!) - Malay (on strength and weakness)
|
Roll with the punches. - unknown
|
Rome wasn't built in a day. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric
Hoffer (1902-1983)
|
S
|
Saying - Author
|
Sacrificing means more. - unknown
|
Save for a rainy day. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Save money and money will save you. - Jamaican (on
thrift)
|
Scatter with one hand; gather with two. - Welsh (on
thrift)
|
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
See life through an artist's eye. - unknown
|
Seeing is believing. - unknown
|
Seek advice but use your own common sense. - Yiddish
(on advice)
|
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the
rest. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Seize the day. - unknown
|
Self conceit may lead to self destruction. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Self-help is the best help. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Self praise is no recommendation. - Romanian (on
flattery and praise)
|
Send a thief to catch a thief. - unknown
|
Shrouds are made without pockets. - Yiddish (on basic
truths)
|
Silence is golden. - unknown
|
Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted. - unknown
|
Silence is sometimes the answer. - Estonian (on
discretion)
|
Silence is the hardest argument to refute. - unknown
|
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden but it is
forbidden because it is hurtful - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can
get. - Spanish Proverb
|
Sing away sorrow, cast away care. - Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
|
Six feet of earth makes us all equal. - Italian (on
death and dying)
|
Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. - Colonial
American Saying
|
Sleeping people can't fall down. - Japanese (on caution
and care)
|
Slow and steady wins the race. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Small children give you a headache, big children a
heartache. - Russian Proverb
|
Smiles open many doors. - unknown
|
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African
Proverb
|
Some things are better left unsaid. - unknown
|
Sometimes, it's too little, too late. - unknown
|
Sometimes, less is more. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease. - Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
|
Sorrow doesn't kill, reckless joy does.- Yoruba (West
African (on joy and sorrow)
|
Sorrow is to the soul, as worm is to wood.- Turkish (on
joy and sorrow)
|
Spare your breath to cool your porridge. - Francis
Robelias
|
Spending is quick; earning is slow. - Russian (on
thrift)
|
Spring is in the air. - unknown
|
Stick to your guns. - unknown
|
Stick to your knitting. - unknown
|
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never
hurt me. - unknown
|
Stones decay, words last. - Samoan (on discretion)
|
Stop and smell the roses. - unknown
|
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. - unknown
|
Strike while the iron is hot. - Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
|
Stupid is as stupid does. - Eric Roth
|
Success has many parents but failure is an orphan. - American
(on success and failure)
|
Success has ruined many a man. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
Sun is good for cucumbers, rain for rice. - Vietnamese
(on appropriateness)
|
Sweet are the slumbers of a virtuous man. - Joseph
Addison (1672-1719)
|
T
|
Saying - Author
|
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of
themselves. - Phillip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, (1694-1773)
|
Take it straight from the horse's mouth. - Francis Iles
(1893-1970)
|
Take life as it comes. - unknown
|
Take the bull by the horns. - North American Saying
|
Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it. - Korean
(on vigilance)
|
Tell me whom you love and I'll tell you who you are.- African-American
(on life and living)
|
Temper justice with mercy. - John Milton (1608-1674)
|
Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice. - Italian
(on advice)
|
Thanks cost nothing. - Creole (on gratitude)
|
The afternoon knows what the morning never expected. - Swedish
(on basic truths)
|
The anger of the prudent never shows. - Burmese (on
anger)
|
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. - Asian
Proverb
|
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. - Edmund
Burke (1729-1797)
|
The bad plowman quarrels with his ox. - Korean (on
criticism)
|
The best candle is understanding.- Welsh (on knowledge
and ignorance)
|
The best cure for a short temper is a long walk. - unknown
|
The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
The best sauce in the world is hunger. - Miguel de
Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
The best thing a man can do for his kids is to love their
mother. - Seen on a billboard outside the Bread of Life Church in
Fitchburg, MA - Editor's note: and vice versa
|
The best thing about telling the truth is...you don't have
to remember what you said! - unknown, thanks to Georgie Bee
|
The best things in life are free. - B.G. DeSilva (1927)
|
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to repeat
them. - Cato (234-149 BC)
|
The best way to predict the future is to create it. - unknown;
thanks to rapstar.com
|
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. - unknown
|
The blind person is not afraid of ghosts. - Burmese (on
courage and fear)
|
The blocks of wood should not dictate to the carver. - Maori
(on art and creativity)
|
The brave person regards dying as going home. - Chinese
(on courage and fear)
|
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
The calm before the storm. - unknown
|
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
The chief object of education is not to learn things but
to unlearn things. - G.K. Chesterton
|
The company makes the feast. - J. Warton (1653)
|
The complete fool is half prophet. - Yiddish (on
foolishness)(Meaning: even a fool is right half the time)
|
The contented person can never be ruined. - Chinese (on
conscience)
|
The continuous drip polishes the stone.- Peruvian (on
patience)
|
The covetous person is always in want. - Irish (on
greed)
|
The crab that walks too far, falls into the pot. - Haitian
(on caution and care)
|
The cream always rises to the top. - unknown
|
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. - unknown
|
The crow may be caged but his thoughts are in the
cornfield. - Belizean (on temptation)
|
The customer is always right. - Barry Pain (1864-1928)
|
The darkest hours are just before dawn. - English
Proverb
|
The day has eyes; the night has ears.- Scottish (on
nature)
|
The day you decide to do it, is your lucky day.- Japanese
(on luck)
|
The deceitful have no friends.- Hindi (Asian Indian)
(on justice)
|
The devil catches most souls in a golden net. - German
(on temptation)
|
The devil dances in empty pockets. - Tudor (English)(on
wealth and poverty)
|
The devil finds work for idle hands. - St. Jerome
(345-420)
|
The devil looks after his own. - Scottish Proverb
|
The devil tempts but doesn't force. - Guyanan
|
The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The die is cast. - Julius Caesar (thanks to Marvin
Wakefield, a descendant of Noah Webster)
|
The discontented man finds no easy chair. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
The drum makes a great fuss because it is empty. - Trinidadian
(on vanity and arrogance)
|
The eagle does not catch flies. - Latin (on character
and virtue)
|
The eagle was killed with an arrow made with its own
feathers.- Armenian (on paradox)
|
The early bird catches the worm. - William Camden
(1551-1623)
|
The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half
and put it in your pocket. - unknown, courtesy of T. Ghataurhae of England
|
The end doesn't justify the means. - Ovid (c.43 BC-AD
18)
|
The end of one thing is only the beginning of another. - unknown
|
The errors of a wise man make your rule rather than the
perfections of a fool. - William Blake (1757-1827)
|
The excellency of hogs is -- fatness; of men-- virtue. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The eyes are the windows of the soul. - Thomas Phaer (c.1510-1560)
|
The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living.- Danish
(on life and living)
|
The fat is in the fire. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
The fly on the water buffalo's back thinks he is taller
than the water buffalo. - Tagalog (Filipino)(on vanity and arrogance)
|
The fool is thirsty in the midst of water. - Ethiopian
(on foolishness)
|
The fool never undertakes little. - Czech (on
foolishness)
|
The frog enjoys itself in water but not in hot water. - African
proverb Wolof Tribe
|
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
|
The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed
by the good deeds of the governors. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The grand instructor, time. - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
|
The grass is always greener in someone else's yard. - unknown
|
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - unknown
|
The half is better than the whole. - Hesiod (c.720 BC)
|
The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. - William
Ross Wallace (1819-1881)
|
The hardest person to awaken is the person already awake.
- Tagalog (Filipino)(on vigilance)
|
The heart at rest sees a feast in everything. - Hindu
(Asian Indian) (on attitude)
|
The hero appears only after the tiger is dead. - Burmese
(on cynicism)
|
The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail.
- John Wycliffe (c.1320-1384) alternate source:Belizean (on leadership)
|
The higher you climb, the heavier you fall. - Vietnamese
(on pride)
|
The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The house of the loud talker, leaks. - African proverb
Zulu Tribe
|
The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting. - Vietnamese
(on criticism)
|
The laborer is worth his wage. - Bible (Luke 10:7)
|
The lazy person must work twice.- Latin American (on idleness)
|
The leopard does not change his spots. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind.
- Mexican (on differences)
|
The longest journey begins with the first step. - unknown
|
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of
power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
|
The love of money is the root of all evil - Bible
|
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything. - Edward John Phelps (1822-1900)
|
The master of the people is their servant.- Yemeni (on
leadership)
|
The memories of youth make for long, long thoughts. - Lapp
(on youth and age)
|
The miller sees not all the water that flows by his mill.
- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
|
The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. - Bible
|
The more the merrier. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
The more things change, the more they stay the same. - Alphonse
Karr (1808-1890)
|
The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer
the journey seems.- Maori (on journeys; Ed. Note: Parents everywhere can
certainly relate to this saying!)
|
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)</I.< tr < td.>
|
The mouse that hath but one hole is taken quickly. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
The mouth prays to Buddha but the heart is full of evil.- Vietnamese
(on hypocrisy)
|
The new boat will find the old stones. - Estonian (on
perversity)
|
The old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody
blind. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
|
The old one who is loved, is winter with flowers. - German
(on youth and age)
|
The one being carried does not realize how far away the
town is. - Nigerian (on gratitude)
|
The one who teaches is the giver of eyes. - Tamil
(Asian Indian) (on education)
|
The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks
does not understand.- Chinese (on paradox)
|
The only real test in life is to conquer your fears. - unknown
|
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid
it. - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
|
"The palest ink is brighter than the best
memory" - Chinese saying. Thanks to Martin C Wojtkiewicz
|
The pen is mightier than the sword. - unknown
|
The person afraid of bad luck will never know good.- Russian
(on luck)
|
The person sins, then blames Satan for it.- Afghan (on
the human comedy)
|
The person who gets stuck on petty happiness, will not
attain great happiness.- Tibetan (on joy and sorrow)
|
The person with burnt fingers asks for tongs. - Samoan
(on experience)
|
The pleasure of doing good is the only one that will not
wear out. - Chinese (on good and evil)
|
The poor lack much but the greedy more. - Swiss (on
greed)
|
The pot calling the kettle black. - unknown
|
The price of your hat is not always the measure of your
brain. - African American (on appearance and reality)
|
The proof is in the pudding. - Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
|
The prudent embark when the sea is calm---the rash when
the sea is stormy. - Maori (on prudence)
|
The rain falls on every roof. - African Proverb
|
The rattan basket criticizes the palm-leafed bag, yet both
are full of holes. - Filipino (on criticism)
|
The real art of conversation is not only saying the right
thing at the right moment but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the
most tempting moment. - unknown (thanks to fullmoonsis)
|
The remedy against bad times is to have patience with
them.- Arabic (on patience)
|
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
The right place at the wrong time. - unknown
|
The road to a friend's house is never long. - Danish
Proverb
|
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. - Samuel
Johnson (1709-1784)
|
The salt of patience seasons everything.- Italian (on
patience)
|
The sap rises in the spring. - unknown
|
The second word makes the quarrel. - Japanese Proverb
|
The shoe knows if the stocking has a hole.- Bahamian
(on knowledge and justice)
|
The shoemaker's children have no shoes. - unknown
|
The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart. - Moroccan
(on books and writers)
|
The sky's the limit. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
The spider and the fly can't make a bargain. - Jamaican
(on buying and selling)
|
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
The stargazer's toe is often stubbed.- Russian (on the
human comedy)
|
The sting of a reproach is the truth of it. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the
faith. - Arabic (on faith)
|
The strong should help the weak so that the lives of both
shall be made easier. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
The teeth that laugh are also those that bite. - Hausa
tribe of West Africa (on appearance and reality)
|
The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones. - Greek
(on discretion)
|
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. - Yiddish
(on conscience)
|
The wheel turns slow but it turns sure. - unknown
|
The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human
fortunes.- Chinese (on permanence and change)
|
The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can.
- French (on wisdom)
|
The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool
does from his friends. - Ben Franklin, thanks to Carl McFarland
|
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the
reports of others. - Tibetan (on wisdom)
|
The wolf and the dog agree, at the expense of the goat
which together they eat. - Basque (on friends and foes)
|
The work will teach you. - Estonian (on work)
|
The world is the traveler's inn.- Afghan (on journeys)
|
The worst enemy you have is right in your head. - unknown
|
The worst prison is a closed heart. - Pope John Paul II
|
The years teach much which the days never know. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
U
|
Saying - Author
|
United we stand; divided we fall. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Unjustly got wealth is snow sprinkled with hot water. - Chinese
(on greed)
|
V
|
Saying - Author
|
Vanity blossoms but bares no fruit. - Nepalese (on
vanity and arrogance)
|
Variety is the spice of life. - unknown
|
Venture a small fish to catch a great one. - English
(on buying and selling)
|
Vessels large may venture more but little boats should
keep near shore. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Vices are their own punishment. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Violence begets violence. - unknown
|
Virtue alone is true nobility. - William Gifford
(1756-1826)
|
Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Virtue is like a rich stone, it's best plain set. - Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
|
Virtue is not knowing but doing. - Japanese (on
character and virtue)
|
W
|
Saying - Author
|
Walls have ears. - unknown
|
War ends nothing. - Zairean (on war and peace)
|
War is sweet to those who haven't experienced it. - Latin
(on war and peace)
|
Waste not, want not. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of
themselves. - unknown
|
Wealth and content are not always bedfellows. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Wealth is both an enemy and a friend. - Nepalese (on
wealth and poverty)
|
Wealth is but dung; useful only when spread. - Chinese
(on wealth and poverty)
|
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
We boil at different degrees. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
|
We fear what we don't understand. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
We learn little from victory, much from defeat. - Japanese
(on success and failure)
|
Well begun is half done. - Aristotle (384-322 BC)
|
Well done is better than well said. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
We'll never know the worth of water 'till the well goes
dry. - Scottish Proverb
|
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. - Swedish
Proverb
|
What cannot be cured must be endured. - Edmund Spenser
(c.1552-1599)
|
What children say, they have heard at home.- Wolof
(West African (on parenting and children)
|
What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. - unknown,
thanks to Raymond who because of this saying is now invincible.
|
What goes around, comes around. - unknown
|
What goes up must come down. - unknown
|
What good is honor when you are starving. - Yiddish (on
food and hunger)
|
What good is running when you're on the wrong road. - German
(on planning)
|
What is learned in the cradle lasts to the grave. - French(on
habit)
|
What is true by lamplight is not always true in sunlight.
- French (on appearance and reality)
|
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience. - Horace
(65-8 BC)
|
What one hopes for is always better than what one has. - Ethiopian
(on faith)
|
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the
natures of things. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
What you cannot avoid, welcome. - Chinese Proverb
|
What you do to others will bear fruit in you. - Singhalese
(on generosity)
|
What you give is what you get. - unknown
|
What you have, hold. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
What you would seem to be, be really. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. - Philip
Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773)
|
Whatever the boss says goes. - unknown
|
What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh. - English
Proverb
|
What's done is done. - Early 14th Century French
Proverb
|
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. - John
Ray "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."
|
What you see is what you get. - unknown
|
When a thief kisses you, count your teeth. - Yiddish
|
When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.
- Vietnamese (on gratitude)
|
When fortune calls, offer her a chair. - Yiddish (on
fortune)
|
When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your
teeth. - Iranian
|
When I eat your bread, I sing your song. - German (on
friendship)
|
When in doubt, do nothing. - George John Whyte-Melville
(1821-1878)
|
When in Rome do as the Romans do. - unknown
|
When life's path is steep, keep your mind even. - Horace
(65-8 BC)
|
When love and skill go together, expect a masterpiece. - John
Ruskin (1819-1900)
|
When money speaks, truth keeps silent.- Russian (on
money)
|
When one door shuts, another opens. - unknown
|
When one is hungry, everything tastes good. - unknown
|
When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. - Confucious
()
|
When the apple is ripe it will fall. - Irish Proverb
|
When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.- Chinese
(on health and wellness)
|
When the heart is full, the tongue will speak. - Scottish
(on eloquence)
|
When the moon is full, it begins to wane.- Japanese (on
permanence and change)
|
When the music changes, so does the dance. - Hausa
tribe of West Africa (on appropriateness)
|
When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come. - Chinese
Proverb
|
When the tiger kills, the jackel profits. - Afghan (on
business)
|
When the wind is in the east, tis neither good for man nor
beast. - unknown
|
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot
hurt you. - African Proverb
|
When we think we lead, we are most led. - Henry James
Byron (1834-1884)
|
When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what
does. - Arabic (on attitude)
|
When you can do the common things in life in an uncommon
way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington
Carver
|
When you drink water, remember the mountain spring. - Chinese
(on gratitude)
|
When you fall into a pit, you either die or get out. - Chinese
(on adversity)
|
When you go to a donkey's house, don't talk about ears. - Jamaican
(on courtesy and respect)
|
When you say one thing, the clever person understands
three. - Chinese (on wisdom)
|
When you see clouds gathering, prepare to catch rainwater.
- African proverb Gola Tribe
|
When you taste honey, remember gall. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
When you're sad, learn something, - Merlin
|
Wherever you go, you can't get rid of yourself. - Polish
(on basic truths)
|
Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind. - Armenian
(on basic truths)
|
Where there is smoke there is fire. - unknown
|
Where there's a will, there's a way. - unknown
|
Where there's life, there's hope. - Theocritus (c.270
BC)
|
Where you were born is less important than how you live. -
Turkish (on character and virtue)
|
While the cat's away, the mice will play. - James Ray
(1670)
|
Who are a little wise, the best fools be. - John Donne
(1573-1631)
|
Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Who is mighty? He who makes an enemy into a friend. - Hebrew
(on friends and foes)
|
Who is rich? He that enjoys his portion. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot. - John
Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Whoever has a tail of straw should not get too close to
the fire. - Latin American (on caution and care)
|
Whoever wins the war gets to write the history. - unknown
|
Willing is not enough, we must do. - Johann Von Goethe
(1749-1832)
|
Wink at small faults- remember thou hast great ones. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather. - Czech
(on wisdom)
|
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
|
Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and
profit from the past. - unknown
|
Wish not so much to live long as to live well. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. - Mark
Van Doren (1894-1972)
|
With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an elephant. - Tibetan
(on attitude)
|
With time even a bear can learn to dance. - Yiddish (on
education)
|
Without kindness there can be no true joy. - Thomas
Carlyle (1795-1881)
|
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom, - Greek Proverb
|
Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold.
- Tibetan (on words and deeds)
|
Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles. - Korean
(on gossip)
|
Words once spoken can never be recalled. - Wentworth
Dillon (c.1633-1685)
|
Words should be weighed not counted. - Yiddish (on
discretion)
|
Words spoken are like eggs broken.- Sheri Glewen
|
Work and you will be strong; sit and you will stink.- Moroccan
(on idleness)
|
Worldly prosperity is like writing on water. - Telagu
(Asian Indian)(on wealth and poverty)
|
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish
(on courage and fear)
|
Worrying never changed anything. - unknown
|
Worthless people blame their karma. - Burmese (on
criticism)
|
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Y
|
Saying - Author
|
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
You are what you eat. - German Proverb
|
You become what you think about. - Buddha (Thanks to
Ami Kapilevich for the correction)
|
You can do anything with children if only you play with
them.- German (on parenting and children)
|
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on
coming back. - Horace (65-8 BC)
|
You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool
them all of the time. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him
drink. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund
Burke (1729-1797)
|
You can only die once. - Portuguese Proverb
|
You cannot carve rotten wood. - Chinese
|
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. - Irish
Proverb
|
You cannot put an old head on young shoulders. - unknown
|
You can't be a true winner until you have lost. - unknown
|
You can't beat a dead horse. - Richard Trench
(1807-1886)
|
You can't build a relationship with a hammer. - unknown
|
You can't buy an inch of time with an inch of gold. - Chinese
(on time and timeliness)
|
You can't buy love. - unknown
|
You can't fit a square peg in a round hole. - unknown
|
You can't get blood from a stone. - John Lydgate
(c.1370-1451)
|
You can't have peace any longer than your neighbor
pleases. - Dutch (on war and peace)
|
You can't have your cake and eat it too. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
You can't judge a horse by its harness. - Thomas Fuller
(1608-1661)
|
You can't make bricks without straw. - unknown
|
You can't play all the time. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
You can't please everyone. - unknown
|
You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. - Japanese
(on basic truths)
|
You can't sew buttons on your neighbor's mouth. - Russian
(on gossip)
|
You can't stop a pig from wallowing in the mud. - Yoruba
- West Africa (on character and virtue)
|
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. - unknown
|
You can't tell a book by its cover. - American Proverb
|
You can't win them all. - unknown
|
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
You could drive a stick man crazy. - unknown
|
You don't get anywhere unless you try. - unknown
|
You don't know what you've got until it's gone. - unknown
|
You have to earn respect. - unknown
|
You have to take the bitter with the sweet. - unknown
|
You make the road by walking on it. - Nicaraguan (on
work)
|
You may delay but time will not. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
You may light another's candle at your own without loss. -
Danish (on generosity)
|
You never fail until you stop trying. - unknown -
thanks to agate man iwsy
|
You never know what lies right around the corner. - unknown
|
You never really know your friends from your enemies until
the ice breaks. - Eskimo (on friends and foes)
|
You win some, you lose some. - unknown
|
You'll never do anything behind you that won't come up in
front of you. - unknown, thanks to "riverrat"
|
Your own rags are better than another's gown. - Hausa
(West African)(on self-reliance)
|
Your success and happiness lie in you...resolve to keep
happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against
difficulties. - Helen Keller
|
Your time is the greatest gift you can give to someone. - unknown
|
|
Saying - Author
|
A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the
world walks out. - unknown
|
A rolling stone gathers no moss. - John Heywood (c. 1497-1580)
|
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
A rule isn't unfair if it applies to everyone. - unknown
|
A ruler must sometimes humor as well as command. - unknown
|
A short horse is soon curried. - John Heywood (c.
1497-1580)
|
A single arrow is easily broken; a bundle of ten is not. -
Japanese (on strength and weakness)
|
A smile is a window in your face to show your heart is at
home. - unknown (submitted by fubar@nque.com)
|
A soft answer turneth away wrath. - Bible (Proverbs
15:1)
|
A stitch in time saves nine. - unknown
|
A stumble is not a fall. - Haitian (on adversity)
|
A stumble may prevent a fall. - English (on experience)
|
A thing is bigger for being shared. - Gaelic (on
generosity)
|
A thousand artisans, a thousand plans. - Chinese (on
art and creativity)
|
A tree falls the way it leans. - Walloon (on rewards
and consequences)
|
A trouble shared is a trouble halved. - unknown
|
A true champion believes in themselves when no one else
does. - nosagirl05
|
A true friend is the best Possession. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
A true soldier does not admit defeat before the battle. - unknown
|
A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.- Korean
(on journeys)
|
A watched pot never boils. - unknown
|
A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "And what is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have not yet been discovered."
|
A weed is but an unloved flower. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1855-1919)
|
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. - James Russell
Lowell (1819-1891)
|
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. - Gaelic (on
authenticity)
|
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back
again. - Horace (65-8 BC)
|
A word to the wise may be suffient. - Latin
|
A work ill done must be twice done. - Welsh (on
business)
|
A year's care; a minute's ruin. - Tagalog (Filipino)
(on perversity)
|
Ability may get you to the top but it's character that
will keep you there. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
|
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the
small and enkindles the great. - Comte de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693)
|
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.- Thomas Haynes
Bayly (1797-1839)
|
Accidents will happen - George Colman (1732-1794)
|
Actions speak louder than words. - Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
|
Adapt the remedy to the disease. - Chinese Proverb
|
Adversity is a gift. - unknown
|
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. - Danish
(on advice)
|
Advise no one to go to war or marry. - Spanish (on
advice)
|
After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile. - T.
Cogan (1584)
|
After the war, aid. - Greek Proverb
|
Aim for the stars. - unknown
|
Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart. - Korean
(on ambition)
|
Ain't no pot so crooked, you can't find a lid to fit. - unknown
|
All are not saints, who go to church.- Italian (on
hypocrisy)
|
All cats are grey in the dark. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
All experience is education for the soul. - unknown
|
All food is fit to eat but not all words are fit to speak.
- Haitian (on discretion)
|
All good things must come to an end. - H.H. Riley
(1857)
|
All happiness is in the mind. - English (on attitude)
|
All in good time. - Horace (65-8 BC)
|
All of us, the great and the little have need of each
other. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
All roads lead to Rome. - unknown
|
All that glitters is not gold. - Latin Proverb
|
All the world's a stage. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
All truth passes through three stages: First it is
ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being
self-evident. - unknown
|
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. - unknown
|
All's well that ends well. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Almost only counts in horseshoes. - unknown
|
Always be prepared. - unknown
|
Always keep an open mind. - unknown
|
Ambition begets vexations. - Singhalese (on ambition)
|
Ambition destroys its possessor. - Hebrew (on ambition)
|
Ambition is a good servant but a bad master. - unknown
|
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
An army of a thousand is easy to find but ah how difficult
to find a general. - Chinese Proverb<>
|
An empty barrel makes the most noise. - Russian Proverb
|
An hour may destroy what an age was building.- English
(on permanence and change)
|
An ill weed grows apace. - George Chapman (c.1559-1634)
|
An old error has more friends than a new truth.- Danish
(on habit)
|
An old ox makes a straight furrow. - Spanish (on
experience)
|
An open foe may prove a curse but a pretended friend is
worse. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - unknown
|
Anger is a short madness. - Horace (65-8 BC)
|
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused
it. - English (on anger)
|
Anger is one letter short of danger. - Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962)
|
Another day, another dollar. - unknown
|
Any plan is bad that cannot be changed. - Italian (on
planning)
|
Any port in a storm. - unknown
|
Any water in the desert will do. - Arabic (on
practicality)
|
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius
Syrus (c.42 B.C.)
|
Anyone can stand adversity but to test a person's
character, give them power. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
|
Anyone who will gossip to you, will gossip about you. - unknown
|
Anything with scales counts as a fish. - Malay (on
appearance and reality)
|
Appearances are deceptive. - Italian Proverb
|
As long as you live, keep learning how to live. - Latin
proverb (on the conduct of life)
|
As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens. - E.
Pellham (1631)
|
As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all
things are attached to life.- Sanskrit (on life and living)
|
As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on
earth.- Afghan (on permanence and change)
|
As you shall sow, so shall you reap. - Bible
|
At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish.- Thai
(on permanence and change)
|
At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.- Kanuri
(West African) (on patience)
|
At the gate of patience there is no crowding.- Moroccan
(on patience)
|
Avoid a cure that is worse than the disease. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of
vice. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
B
|
Saying - Author
|
Bad gains are true losses. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Bad is called good when worse happens. Norwegian (on
relative worth)
|
Be careful what you ask for; you may get it. - unknown
(Thanks to J. Martin)
|
Be careful what you wish for. - unknown
|
Be ever vigilant but never suspicious. - English (on
vigilance)
|
Be gracious in defeat. - unknown
|
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home. - unknown
|
Be just before you are generous. - E. Haywood (1745)
|
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet
'em on your way down. - Jimmy Durante
|
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy,
counsel and countenance. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Be not overcome by evil but repay evil with good. - Bible
|
Be not water, taking the tint of all colors. - Syrian
(on authenticity)
|
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower still in changing. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Be sure you are right, then go ahead. - Davy Crockett
(1786-1836)
|
Be the change you wish to see in the world. - Ghandi
|
Be the first in the field and the last to the couch. - Chinese
(on work)
|
Be true to yourself. - unknown
|
Bear and forbear. - unknown
|
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - Greek Proverb
|
Beauty is only skin deep. - Sir Thomas Overbury
(1581-1613)
|
Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. - French
(on beauty)
|
Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion. -
Egyptian (on caution and care)
|
Before healing others, heal yourself.- Gambian (on
health and wellness)
|
Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage keep
one eye shut.- Jamaican (on marriage)
|
Beggars can't be choosers. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Beginning is easy; continuing, hard. - Japanese (on
permanence and change)
|
Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance. - Louis
D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
|
Being happy is better than being king. - Hausa (West
African) (on comparable worth)
|
Believe in yourself. - unknown
|
Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you
see. - unknown
|
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. - Chinese
(on comparable worth)
|
Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within
it. - Arabic (on friends and foes)
|
Better late than never. - Roman Proverb
|
Better one true friend than a hundred relatives. - Italian
(on friendship)
|
Better slip with foot than tongue. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Better ten times ill than one time dead.- Yiddish (on
health and wellness)
|
Better the devil you know than the one you don't - R.
Taverner (1539)
|
Better to ask the way than go astray. - unknown
|
Better to ask twice than to lose your way. - Danish (on
practicality)
|
Better to be safe than sorry. - Samuel Lover
(1797-1868)
|
Better to give than to receive. - Bible (Acts 20:35)
|
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Better yourself before others. - Darren Bateman
|
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog and a quarrelsome
person. - Iranian (on caution and care)
|
Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great
ship. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Beware of the person with two faces.- Dutch (on
hypocrisy)
|
Beware the door with too many keys. - Portuguese (on
vigilance)
|
Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden
(1631-1700)
|
Beware the Greeks bearing gifts. - Virgil (70-19 BC)
"I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts."
|
Beware the person with nothing to lose. - Italian (on
prudence)
|
Birds of a feather, flock together. - Robert Burton
(1577-1640)
|
Blood is thicker than water. - German Proverb
|
Bloom where you're planted. - unknown
|
Boys, be ambitious. - William Smith Clark (1826-1886)
|
Brains are better than brawn. - unknown
|
Bread, oil, Salt and Heart - Albanian ( on honoring the
guest) thanks to kravetsmaksim
|
Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree. - Native
American Saying (on war and peace)
|
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a
man and the life he leads. - Albert Camus
|
Butterflies come to pretty flowers. - Korean (on
beauty)
|
Buyer beware. - Latin Proverb "Caveat emptor"
|
Buying on credit is robbing next year's crop. - African
American (on buying and selling)
|
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
By crawling, a child learns to stand. - Hausa (West
African) (on experience)
|
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest. - Ashanti
(West African) (on persistence)
|
C
|
Saying - Author
|
Caesar did not merit the triumphal car more than he that
conquers himself. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. - Julius Caesar
(c.102-44 BC)
|
Can't get blood from a stone. - unknown
|
Can't see the forest for the trees. - unknown
|
Carve the peg by looking at the hole. - Korean (on
appropriateness)
|
Change is inevitable - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
|
Change yourself and fortune will change. - Portuguese
(on fortune)
|
Character building begins in infancy and continues until
death. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
|
Character is easier kept than recovered. - English (on
character and virtue)
|
Character is habit long continued. - Greek
|
Charity begins at home. - Tobias George Smollett
(1721-1771)
|
Charity covers a multitude of sins. - Bible (Peter 4:8)
|
Chickens don't praise their own soup. - Martinican (on
flattery and praise)
|
Children are a poor man's riches. - English Proverb
|
Children have more need of models than critics.- French
(on parents and children)
|
Choose the hills wisely on which you must do battle. - unknown
|
Choose to be forgiven. - unknown
|
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house. - Hausa
(West African) (on planning)
|
Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice. - Mack King
|
Circumstances alter cases. - T. Rymer (1678)
|
Civility costs nothing and buys everything. - Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
|
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. - John H.
MacDonald Jr. 1969 Robert Gieg Adds that close also counts in
dancing.
|
Clothes don't make the man. - unknown
|
Clothes may disguise a fool, but his voice will give him
away. - unknown
|
Clouds gather before a storm. - unknown
|
Clouds that thunder, do not always rain. - Armenian (on
vanity and arrogance)
|
Cold hands, warm heart. - V.S. Lean (1903)
|
Come what may, time and hour runs through the roughest
day. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
Common sense is not so common. - French (on common
sense)
|
Compete-- don't envy.- Yemeni (on jealousy and envy)
|
Confession is good for the soul. - Scottish Proverb
|
Conscience makes cowards of us all. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Constant dripping will wear away a stone. - Greek
Proverb
|
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men
poor. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Control your emotions or they will control you. - Chinese
Proverb
|
Count your blessings. - unknown
|
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of
it. - William Danforth (1870-1955)
|
Courage is the complement of fear. - Lazarus Long,
thanks to D. Housel
|
Cowards die many times before their death. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Creditors have better memories than debtors. - English
(on business)
|
Curses like chickens, come home to roost. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
Curiosity killed the cat. - E. O'Neill (1888-1953)
|
Cut your coat according to your cloth. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse. - Creole
(on authenticity)
|
D
|
Saying - Author
|
Dally not with other folk's spouses or money. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Dead men don't bite. - Plutarch (46-120)
|
Dead men tell no tales. - J. Wilson (1664)
|
Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own. - Chinese
Proverb
|
Death is the great leveller. - Claudian
|
Death keeps no calendar. - English (on death and dying)
|
Death never takes a wise man by surprise; he is always
ready to go. - Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
|
Death pays all debts. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Death takes no bribes. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Deeds are fruits; words are leaves. - English (on words
and deeds)
|
Depend on others and you will go hungry. - Nepalese (on
self-reliance)
|
Depend on your walking stick; not on other people. - Japanese
(on self-reliance)
|
Destroy your enemy by making him your friend. - Abraham
Lincoln (1809-1865)
|
Diamond cuts diamond. - Marstow (1604)
|
Different strokes for different folks. - Clarence
Darrow (1857-1938)
|
Difficulties make you a jewel. - Japanese (on
adversity)
|
Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Discretion is the better part of valor. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Distance lends enchantment to the view. - Thomas
Campbell (1777-1844)
|
Do good and care not to whom. - Portuguese (on good and
evil)
|
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain
him. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Do not allow sins to get beyond creeping. - Hawaiian
(on the conduct of life)
|
Do not attempt too much at once. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to
get his paws wet. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. - unknown
|
Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today. - unknown
|
Do not squander time for that is the stuff that life is
made of. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Do the math; count your blessings. - unknown
|
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. - Bible
|
Do what comes natural. - unknown
|
Do what is right, come what may. - unknown
|
Dog is a man's best friend. - unknown
|
Dogs bark but the caravan moves on. - Arab Proverb
|
Don't be caught flat-footed. - unknown
|
Don't be led around by the nose. - unknown
|
Don't be too quick to judge. - unknown
|
Don't believe everything you hear. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Don't bite off more than you can chew. - unknown
|
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. - unknown
|
Don't boast when you set out but only when you get there.-
Russian (on journeys)
|
Don't burn your bridges behind you. - unknown
|
Don't buy other people's problems. - Chinese (on buying
and selling)
|
Don't bypass a town where there's a friend.- Malagasy
(on journeys)
|
Don't call the alligator, big mouth until you have crossed
the river. - Belizean (on criticism)
|
Don't cross the bridge til you come to it. - Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
|
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Don't cry before you are hurt. - Scottish Proverb
|
Don't cry over spilt milk. - James Howell (1549-1666)
|
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. - Mid 14th
century French Proverb
|
Don't expect things to go right the first time. - unknown
|
Don't find fault, find a remedy. - Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
|
Don't get your back up. - unknown
|
Don't gild the lily. - unknown
|
Don't give up the ship. - unknown
|
Don't go barking up the wrong tree. - Davy Crockett
(1786-1836)
|
Don't go looking for trouble. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Don't halloo until you're out of the wood. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Don't hang your hat higher than you can reach. - Belizean
(on balance and moderation)
|
Don't have too many irons in the fire. - unknown
|
Don't judge anyone unless you've walked in their moccasins
one moon. - Native American Proverb
|
Don't judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday
appearances. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Don't let anyone get your goat. - unknown
|
Don't let the critics get you down. - unknown
|
Don't let the grass grow on the path of friendship. - Blackfoot
(Native American) (on friendship)
|
Don't look where you fell but where you slipped. - Liberian
(on practicality)
|
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. - Henry Ellis(1859-1939)
|
Don't plant a seed in the sea. - Swahili (East African)
(on appropriateness)
|
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. - Miguel de
Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
Don't put the cart before the horse. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Don't pretend to be something you aren't. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Don't reinvent the wheel. - unknown
|
Don't rush the river. - unknown; appeared in a
horoscope on Dec 2nd, 2003. Thanks to jenfromblock28. The river may be life
or it may be financial wealth or it may be your desires.
|
Don't sail out farther than you can row back. - Danish
(on prudence)
|
Don't say amen to an unacceptable prayer. - Turkish (on
prayer)
|
Don't shoot the messenger. - unknown
|
Don't spill the beans. - unknown
|
Don't sweat the small stuff. - unknown
|
Don't take any wooden nickels. - American (on
authenticity)
|
Don't take no for an answer. - unknown
|
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. - unknown
|
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. - unknown
|
Don't toot your own horn. - unknown
|
Don't treat the symptom, instead find the cause. - unknown
|
Don't try to reinvent the wheel. - unknown
|
Don't wish your life away. - unknown
|
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his
brother. - Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
|
Doubt is the key to knowledge. - Iranian (on education)
|
Drive gently over the stones. - Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)
|
E
|
Saying - Author
|
Each bay, its own wind. - Fijian (on differences)
|
Each person has his strong point. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make
the worst man good throughout. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Eagles don't catch flies. - Desiderius Erasmus
(1465-1536)
|
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy,
wealthy and wise. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Earth is dearer than gold.- Estonian (on nature)
|
Easier said than done. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
East, west, home's best. - W.K.Kelly (1859)
|
Easy does it. - T. Taylor (1863)
|
Easy come, easy go. - Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
|
Eat coconuts while you have teeth. - Singhalese (on
youth and age)
|
Eat to live, not live to eat. - Socrates (469-399 BC)
|
Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the
rich. - French (on thrift)
|
E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience
look within. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Eggs have no business dancing with stones. - Haitian
(on prudence)
|
Empty sacks will never stand upright. - Italian Proverb
|
Empty vessels make the most sound. - John Lydgate
(c.1370-1451)
|
Enough is as good as a feast. - Sir Thomas Malory
(d.1471))
|
Envy has no rest.- Middle Eastern (on jealousy and
envy)
|
Envy is based on an incomplete understanding of the other
person's situation. - George Chapman (c.1559-1634)
|
Envy of others always shows. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. - John
Philpot Curran (1750-1817)
|
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth
shut. - Korean (on common sense)
|
Even a sheet of paper has two sides. - Japanese (on
differences)
|
Even a worm will turn. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
"Treade a worme on the tayle and it must turn agayne."
|
Even Buddist priests of the same temple quarrel
occasionally.- Singhalese (on the human comedy)
|
Even children of the same mother, look different. - Korean
(on differences)
|
Even in Mecca, people make money. - Hausa (West African
(on balance and moderation)
|
Even monkeys fall out of trees. - Japanese Proverb
|
Even the best laid plans go awry. - unknown
|
Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often. - Korean
(on art and creativity)
|
Even the best writer has to erase. - Spanish (on books
and writers)
|
Even the largest army is nothing without a good general.- Afghan
(on leadership)
|
Even though you have ten thousand fields, you can eat but
one measure of rice a day. - Chinese Proverb
|
Every adversity carries with it the seed of equal or
greater benefit. - Napolean Hill ()
|
Every age has its book. - Arabic (on books and writers)
|
Every ass loves to hear himself bray. - English (on
vanity and arrogance)
|
Every burro has his own saddle. - Equadoran (on differences)
|
Every cloud has a silver lining. - D.R. Locke (1863)
|
Every day of your life is a page of your history.- Arabic
(on life and living)
|
Every dog has its day. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Every dog is allowed one bite. - V.S. Lean (1902)
|
Every garden may have some weeds. - English Proverb
|
Every head is a world. - Cuban (on differences)
|
Every herring must hang by his own gill. - S. Harwood
(1609)
|
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest. - Thomas
Fuller (1608-1661)
|
Every jack has his jill; if only they can find each other.
- R. Cotgrave (1611)
|
Every land has its own law. - J. Carmichael (1628)
|
Every man for himself. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Every man has his price. - unknown
|
Every man has to seek his own way to make himself more
noble and to realize his own true worth. - Albert Schweitzer
|
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Appius
(c.470 BC)
|
Every peddlar praises his own needles. - Portuguese (on
flattery and praise)
|
Every picture tells a story. - unknown
|
Every pot will find its lid.- Yiddish (on marriage)
|
Every tear has a smile behind it. - Iranian (on
adversity)
|
Everybody makes mistakes. - unknown
|
Everyone gets their just deserts. - unknown
|
Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects. - Will
Rogers (1879-1935)
|
Everyone is the age of their heart. - Guatemalan (on
youth and age)
|
Everyone wants to live long but no one wants to be called
old. - Icelandic (on youth and age)
|
Everything comes to those who wait. - unknown
|
Everything in moderation. - unknown
|
Everything is lovely when the geese honk high. - unknown
|
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. - Kahlil
Gibran (1883-1931)
|
Example is the best precept. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Expect the worst, but hope for the best. - unknown
|
Experience is the best teacher. - Latin Proverb
|
Experience is the mother of wisdom. - unknown
|
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. - James
Anthony Froude (1818-1894)
|
F
|
Saying - Author
|
Fact is stranger than fiction. - Thomas Chandler
Haliburton (1796-1865)
|
Failure is a teacher, a harsh one but the best. - Thomas
J. Watson Sr. (1874-1956)
|
Failure is the path of least persistence. - unknown
|
Faint heart never won fair lady. - W. S. Gilbert
(1836-1911)
|
Fair words can buy a horse on credit. - Trinidadian (on
flattery and praise)
|
Fair words never hurt the tongue. - George Chapman
(c.1559-1634)
|
Faith is the ability to not panic. - unknown
|
Falling is easier than rising. - Irish (on fame)
|
False friends leave you in times of trouble. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Familiarity breeds contempt. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. - German Proverb
|
Fear the Greeks bearing gifts. - Virgil (70-19 BC)
"I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts."
|
Fear the person who fears you. - Middle Eastern (on courage
and fear)
|
Feed a cold and starve a fever. - C. Morley (1939)
|
Fine feathers don't make fine birds. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Fine words butter no parsnips. - John Clarke (1639)
|
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. - German
Proverb
|
First come, first served. - unknown
|
First food, then religion. - Afghan (on practicality)
|
First things first. - G. Jackson (1894)
|
Fish don't get caught in deep water. - Malay (on
caution and care)
|
Fishing without a net is merely bathing. - Hausa (West
African) (on authenticity)
|
Focus on what's right in your world instead of what's
wrong. - unknown
|
Follow your dreams. - unknown
|
Following the path of least resistence is what makes both
men and rivers crooked. - unknown - thanks to Brian Fierling
|
Fools and scissors require good handling. - Japanese
(on foolishness)
|
Fools are like other folks as long as they are silent. - Danish
(on foolishness)
|
Fools rush in where wise men fear to tread. - Alexander
Pope (1688-1744)
|
For news of the heart, ask the face.- Guinean (on life
and living)
|
Forgive and forget. - unknown
|
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma
Gandhi (1869-1948)
|
Forethought is easy, repentance is hard. - Chinese (on
discretion)
|
Forewarn'd, forearm'd. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Four horses cannot overtake the tongue. - Chinese (on
gossip)
|
Friends are God's way of taking care of us. -unknown
|
Friendship increases by visiting friends but visiting
seldom. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius
(c.371-289)
|
From the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. - Jesus
Christ
|
Froth is not beer. - Dutch (on appearance and reality)
|
G
|
Saying - Author
|
Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first. - Samoan
(on practicality)
|
Genius is only a great aptitude for patience. - Georges-Louis
Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788)
|
Genius is ninety percent perspiration and ten percent
inspiration. - Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
|
Get out of harms way. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
Get to the root of the problem. - unknown
|
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man
to fish and he'll eat forever. - Chinese Proverb
|
Give an extra piece of cake to a stepchild.- Korean (on
parenting and children)
|
Give assistance not advice in a crisis. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Give credit where credit is due. - M. Floy (1834)
|
Give even an onion, graciously. - Afghan (on
generosity)
|
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. - unknown
|
Give good and get good. - Estonian (on generosity)
|
Give the devil his due. - Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
|
Give thy thoughts no tongue. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Give up the ghost. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
Given a challenge, rise to the occasion. - unknown
|
Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd and never
well mended. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Go for it. - American (on ambition)
|
God did not create hurry. - Finnish (on balance and
moderation)
|
God gave us music that we might pray without words. - unknown
|
God gave us the nuts but he doesn't crack them. - German
Proverb
|
God grant me a good sword and no use for it. - Polish
(on war and peace)
|
God helps those who help themselves. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. - unknown
|
Going beyond is as bad as falling short. - Chinese (on
balance and moderation)
|
Gold is the devil's fishhook. - Italian (on temptation)
|
Good counsellors lack no clients. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Good deeds are the best prayer. - Serbian (on prayer)
|
Good example is the best sermon. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Good memories are our second chance at happiness. - Queen
Elizabeth II
|
Good things come in small packages. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Good things come when you least expect them. - unknown
|
Good to forgive, better to forget. - Robert Browning
(1812-1889)
|
Good wine needs no bush. - R. Taverner (1545)
|
Good words are worth much and cost little. - George
Herbert (1593-1632)
|
Goodness does not consist in greatness but greatness in
goodness. - Athenaeus (c.200)
|
Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone, a castle. - Yugoslavian
(on patience)
|
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Great actions are not always true sons of great and mighty
resolutions. - Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
|
Great chiefs prove their worthiness. - Seneca Proverb
|
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Great ideas are the fuel of progress. - unknown
|
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington
Irving (1783-1859)
|
Great minds think alike. - "Punch" (c.1922)
|
Great oaks from little acorns grow. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
Great spenders are bad lenders. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Greed often overreaches itself. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Grin and bear it. - unknown
|
H
|
Saying - Author
|
Half a loaf is better than none. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Half the truth is often a whole lie. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Half the world knows not how the other half lives. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
Handsome is as handsome does. - Anthony Munday
(1553-1633)
|
Happiness depends on ourselves. - Aristotle (384-322
BC)
|
Happiness is a state of mind. - unknown
|
Happiness isn't a goal, it's a by-product. - Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962)
|
Happy is as happy does. - unknown
|
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on. - Robert
Herrick (1591-1674)
|
Happy is the person who learns from the misfortunes of
others. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Happy nations have no history. - Belgian (on war and
peace)
|
Hard words break no bones. - unknown
|
Haste has no blessing.- Swahili (East African) (on
patience)
|
Haste makes waste. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Hasty climbers have sudden falls. - Robert Greene
(c.1560-1592)
|
Have confidence in yourself and you can lick anything. - unknown
|
Have the courage of your convictions. - unknown
|
Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as
much as we speak. - Turkish (on discretion)
|
Hay is for horses. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
|
He lives long who lives well. - J. Wilson (1553)
|
He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the
good. - Jewish Proverb
|
He that cannot obey, cannot command. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
He that complies against his will, is of the same opinion
still. - Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
|
He that first cries out "stop thief" is often he
that has stolen the treasure. - William Congreve (1670-1729)
|
He that goes aborrowing, goes asorrowing. - R. Taverner
(1545)
|
He that hath a trade, hath an estate. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
He that is rich need not live sparingly and he that can
live sparingly need not be rich. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that lies down with the dogs riseth with fleas. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
He that pays for work before it's done, has but a
pennyworth for two pence. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that pays the piper, calls the tune. - unknown
|
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend
now. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that respects himself is safe from others. - Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
|
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that steals an egg will steal an ox. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
He that waits on fortune is never sure of a dinner. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He that would eat the fruit, must climb the tree. - Scottish
Proverb
|
He that would govern others, first should be the master of
himself. - Phillip Massinger (1583-1640)
|
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak
all he knows, nor judge all he sees. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
He who bites the hand that feeds him, ends up licking the
boot that kicks him. - unknown (thanks to Dale Cade)
|
He who flees at the right time can fight again. - Marcus
Trentius Varro (c.116-27 BC)
|
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900)
|
He who hesitates is lost. - Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
|
He who laughs last, laughs best. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands. - George
Eliot (1819-1880)
|
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves
finds the gates open. - R. Tagore Thakur
|
Health is better than wealth. - unknown
|
Hear reason or she will make you feel her. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. - William
Congreve (1670-1729)
|
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer. - Norwegian
(on courage and fear)
|
His bark is worse than his bite. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
History repeats itself. - George Eliot (1819-1880)
|
Hit the nail on the head. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian
Proverb
|
Hold fast to the words of your ancestors. - Maori (on
proverbs)
|
Home is where the heart is. - J.J. McCloskey (1870)
|
Honesty is the best policy. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Honor is better than honors. - Flemish (on the conduct
of life)
|
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. - Thomas
Norton & Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)
|
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. - W. Rawley
(1661)
|
Hope springs eternal. - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
|
However long the night, the dawn will break. - African
Proverb - Hausa Tribe
|
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively
maladjusted. - Martin Luther King Jr.
|
Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood. - 14th Century
French Proverb
|
Hunger is the best sauce. - French Proverb
|
Hurry is good only for catching flies. - Russian (on
the conduct of life)
|
Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey
yourself. - Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
|
J
|
Saying - Author
|
Jealousy is a disease for the weak. - unknown
|
Judge not, lest ye be judged. Bible
|
Just because everybody's doing something, doesn't mean
it's right. - unknown
|
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to
do, doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
|
Just because something is common sense doesn't mean it's
common practice. - unknown
|
Justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli
(1804-1881)
|
K
|
Saying - Author
|
Keep a stiff upper lip. - unknown
|
Keep an open mind. - unknown
|
Keep conscience clear, then never fear. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Keep no more cats than will catch mice. - J. Dare
(1673)
|
Keep plugging. - unknown
|
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. - George
Chapman (c.1559-1634)
|
Keep your chin up. - unknown
|
Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the
shadows. - Australian Aborigine Saying
|
Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer. - Sun
Tzu
|
Keep your friendships in repair. - Samuel Butler
(1612-1680)
|
Keep your head about you. - unknown
|
Keep your nose to the grindstone. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Keep your shirt on. - American Saying
|
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes
are truly endless. - Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
|
Kind words conquer. - Tamil (Asian Indian)(on courtesy
and respect)
|
Kindness is more persuasive than force. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Kingdoms divided soon fall. - Bible (Matthew 12:25)
|
Know thyself. - Ancient Greek Proverb
|
Know which side your bread is buttered on. - John
Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. - Samuel
Johnson (1709-1784)
|
Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
|
L
|
Saying - Author
|
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry
alone. - Horace (65-8 BC)
|
Laugh every day; it's like inner jogging. - unknown
|
Laughter is the best medicine. - unknown<>
|
Laws catch flies but let hornets go free.- Scottish (on
justice)
|
Learn from other peoples mistakes. - unknown
|
Learn from your mistakes. - unknown
|
Learning is best when put into practice. - unknown
|
Learning is better than house and land. - David Garrick
(1716-1779)
|
Least said, soonest mended - unknown
|
Leave no stone unturned. - Euripides (480-406 BC)
|
Lend your money and lose your friend. - William Caxton
(1421-1491)
|
Less is more. - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
|
Let bygones be bygones. - Christina Georgina Rossetti
(1830-1894)
|
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. - George
Chapman (c.1559-1634)
|
Let sleeping dogs lie. - English Proverb
|
Let the punishment fit the crime. - W.S. Gilbert
(1836-1911)
|
Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach. - German
(on food and hunger)
|
Let your words be purrs instead of hisses. - Fannie
Roach Palmer
|
Let's get things straight. - unknown
|
Liars often set their own traps. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Liars need good memories. - French (on truth and
falsehood)
|
Liberty has no price. - Spanish (on freedom and
slavery)
|
Like father, like son. - Asian Proverb
|
Life has its little ups and downs. - unknown
|
Life is a journey, not a destination. - Cliff Nichols,
acrafts@wf.net
|
Life is like the moon: now full, now dark.- Polish (on
permanence and change)
|
Life is not a dress rehearsal. - unknown
|
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but
by the moments that take our breath away - unknown
|
Life is not so short but that there is always time for
courtesy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
Life is one big experiment. - unknown
|
Life is short and full of blisters.- African-American
(on life and living)
|
Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing.- Yiddish
(on life and living)
|
Life is too short to waste. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
|
Life is what you make it. - Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
|
Life isn't all beer and skittles. - Thomas Chandler
Haliburton (1796-1865)
|
Light gains make heavy purses. - George Chapman
(c.1559-1634)
|
Lightning never strikes the same place twice. - P. H.
Myers (1857)
|
Like a fish, one should look for holes in the net. - Samoan
(on freedom and slavery)
|
Like breeds like. - R. Edgeworth (1557)
|
Like father, like son. - unknown
|
Little by little does the trick. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Little by little one walks far.- Peruvian (on journeys)
|
Little fish are sweet. - R. Forby (1830)
|
Little friends may prove great friends. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Little is spent with difficulty, much with ease. - Thai
(on buying and selling)
|
Little leaks sink the ship. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Little pitchers have big ears.- John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Little said is soonest mended. - George Wither
(1588-1667)
|
Little strokes fell great oaks. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Little thieves are hanged but great ones escape. - 14th
Century French Proverb
|
Live and learn. - George Gascoigne (c.1539-1577)
|
Live and let live. - Dutch Proverb
|
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.- Latin
(on life and living)
|
Look at the bright side. - unknown
|
Look before you leap. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Lookers-on see most of the game. - John Palsgrave
(d.1554)
|
Looks can be deceiving. - unknown
|
Loose lips sink ships. - World War II American slogan
attributed to Mr. Anthony Modeski, an artillery factory worker who along with
his fellow workers was asked to come up with slogans for war posters.
Submitted by his grandson, Mike Kurinsky
|
Lost time is never found again. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Love is often the fruit of marriage.- French (on
marriage)
|
Love isn't love until you give it away. - John H.
MacDonald Jr. 1992
|
Love me, love my dog. - St. Bernard of Clairvaux (12th
century)
|
Love will find a way. - unknown
|
M
|
Saying - Author
|
Make a friend when you don't need one. - Jamaican (on
friendship)
|
Make a meal and contention will cease.- Hebrew (on the
human comedy)
|
Make do with what you have. - unknown
|
Make haste slowly. - Suetonius (c.69-140)
|
Make hay while the sun shines. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Make the most of every situation. - unknown
|
Making money selling manure is better than losing money
selling musk. - Egyptian (on buying and selling)
|
Man cannot live by bread alone. - Bible
|
Man is made by his beliefs; as he believes, so he is. - The
Bhagahvad Gita (a Sanskrit poem)
|
Manana (tomorrow) is often the busiest day of the week.
-Spanish (on procrastination)
|
Many hands make light work. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Many have quarreled about religion that never practised
it. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Many meet the gods but few salute them. - Latin (on
courtesy and respect)
|
Marry in haste, repent in leisure. - unknown
|
Masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman
Vincent Peale (1898-1993)
|
May the outward and inward man be at one. - Socrates
(469-399 BC)
|
May the wind be always at your back. - unknown
|
Measure a thousand times; cut once. - Turkish (on
caution and care)
|
Medicine left in the container can't help. - Yoruba
(West African)
|
Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. - Icelandic
(on work)
|
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent
instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
|
Men willingly believe what they wish. - Julius Caesar
(c.102-44 BC))
|
Mess with the bull and one usually gets the horns. - Latin
American saying
|
Mind your p's and q's. - English Proverb
|
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Mistakes are doorways to discovery. - unknown
|
Money buys everything but good sense.- Yiddish (on
money)
|
Money has no value if it is not used. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Monkey see, monkey do. - attributed to his great
grandfather, Hercurmer Jones by Mr. Glenn McQueen Sr.
|
More than enough is too much. - unknown
|
Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up
to be. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
|
Much ado about nothing. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Music has charms to soothe a savage beast. - William
Congreve (1670-1729)
|
N
|
Saying - Author
|
Nature is the art of God.- Latin (on nature)
|
Necessity is a great teacher. - Mexican (on education)
|
Necessity is the mother of invention. - Irish Proverb
|
Necessity never made a good bargain. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great
one. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Neither a borrower nor a lender be. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Never apologize before you are accused. - Charles I of
Great Britain (1600-1649)
|
Never bet your money on another man's game. - unknown
|
Never change horses in midstream. - Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
|
Never cut what can be untied. - Portuguese Proverb
|
Never give advice unasked. - unknown
|
Never give up hope. - unknown
|
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Never mind whether the horse is blind or not, just load up
the wagon. - Stephen Boyd (thanks to Warren ?)
|
Never mistake a single mistake with a final mistake. - F.
Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
|
Never pick up what you didn't put down. - Virgin
Islander (on temptation)
|
Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today. - English
Proverb
|
Never reveal the bottom of your purse or the depth of your
mind. - Italian (on caution and care)
|
Never say die. - unknown
|
Never say never. - unknown
|
Never spend time with people who don't respect you. - Maori
(on courtesy and respect)
|
Never spend your money before you have it. - unknown
|
Never stop learning. - unknown
|
Never take anything for granted. - Benjamin Disraeli
(1804-1881)
|
Never trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you. - unknown
|
New day, new fate.- Bulgarian (on opportunity)
|
Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another's
ears. - Vietnamese (on courtesy and respect)
|
No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
No clock is more regular than the belly. - French (on
food and hunger)
|
No gains without pains. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
No legacy is as rich as honesty. - unknown
|
No man can lose what he never had. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
No man fears what he has seen grow. - African Proverb
|
No news is good news. - unknown
|
No offense taken when none is meant. - unknown
|
No one can make us feel inferior without our consent. - Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962)
|
No one goes through life unscathed. - unknown
|
No one is easy to live with all of the time. - unknown
|
No one is good at everything but everyone is good at
something. - unknown
|
No one is hurt by doing the right thing. - Hawaiian (on
good and evil)
|
No one should be judge in his own cause. - Legal Maxim
|
No pain, no gain. - American (on adversity)
|
No rest for the weary. - unknown (variation "no
rest for the wicked")
|
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must
have a beginning.- Native American (on impossibility)
|
No sin is hidden to the soul. - Bengali (Asian Indian) (on
conscience)
|
No sleep, no dreams. - Korean (on rewards and
consequences)
|
No time like the present. - Mrs. Mary De La Riviera
Manley (1663-1724)
|
Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's
actions. - Darren Bateman
|
Nobody's perfect. - unknown
|
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the
secret of another. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Not all who make love, make marriages.- Russian (on
marriage)
|
Not everything you hear is good for talk. - Japanese
(on gossip)
|
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-1882)
|
Nothing goes on forever. - unknown
|
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience
wisely. - Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
|
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. - French Proverb
|
Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand. - George
Eliot (1819-1880)
|
Nothing is black or white. - unknown
|
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Nothing is difficult if you're used to it. - Kashmiri(on
habit)
|
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. - Gaelic (on
attitude)
|
Nothing is impossible to the willing mind. - Books of
the Han Dynasty
|
Nothing is impossible to the willing heart. - John
Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
Nothing remains constant except change itself. - unknown
|
Nothing seems expensive on credit.- Czech (on
indebtedness)
|
Nothing succeeds like success. - unknown
|
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
O
|
Saying - Author
|
Observe all men; thyself most. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Of all the plants that cover the earth and lie like a
fringe of hair upon the body of our grandmother, try to obtain knowledge that
you may be strengthened in life.- Winnebago (Native American) (on nature)
|
Off with the old and on with the new. - unknown
|
Often, less is more. - unknown
|
Often there is eloquence in a silent look. - Latin (on
eloquence)
|
Once a word is spoken, it flies, you can't catch it. - Russian
Proverb
|
Once bitten, twice shy. - unknown
|
Once the rice is pudding, it's too late to reclaim the
rice. - Indonesian (on time and timeliness)
|
Once you reach the top, take care as the only way left to
go is down. - Darren Bateman
|
One day at a time. - unknown
|
One day in perfect health is much.- Arabic (on health
and wellness)
|
One does evil enough when one does nothing good. - German
proverb.
|
One enemy is too many and a hundred friends too few. - unknown
|
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
One flower makes no garland. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade. -
Chinese Proverb
|
One good turn deserves another. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
One hand for yourself and one for the ship. - unknown
|
One hand washes the other. - Epicharmus (273 AD)
|
One head cannot hold all wisdom. - Maasai(East
African)(on wisdom)
|
One man can make a difference. - unknown
|
One man may be more cunning than another, but not more
cunning than everybody else. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
One man's beard is on fire; another man warms his hands on
it. - Kashmiri (on perversity)
|
One man's junk is another man's treasure. - unknown
|
One man's meat is another man's poison. - unknown
|
One might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. - N.
Rogers (1662)
|
One must not play on the nose of a sleeping bear. - German
(on prudence)
|
One person can burn water, while another can't even burn
oil. - Kashmiri (on differences)
|
One should learn to sail in all waters. - Italian (on
the conduct of life)
|
One should speak little with others and much with oneself.
- Danish (on the conduct of life)
|
One step at a time. - unknown
|
One step leads to another. - unknown
|
One swallow never makes a summer. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
One thing leads to another. - unknown
|
One today is worth two tomorrows. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good
nights.- Egyptian (on marriage)
|
One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed. -
Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
One who waits for chance, may wait a year.- Yoruba
(West African (on opportunity)
|
One with the courage to laugh is master of the world. - Italian
(on courage and fear)
|
Only a fool hates that which he knows nothing about. - unknown
|
Only a fool tests the water with both feet. - African
Proverb
|
Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals. - Maori
(on foolishness)
|
Only the sufferers know how their bellies ache. - Burmese
(on experience)
|
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. - George
Herbert (1593-1632)
|
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Dalai Lama
|
Opportunities come but do not linger.- Nepalese (on
opportunity)
|
Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected
sparks. - unknown
|
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
|
Our desires are the cause of our suffering and pain in
life. - Old Buddist saying
|
Our fears always outnumber our dangers. - Latin (on
courage and fear)
|
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our
attitude. - Victor Frankl (1905-1997)
|
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. - Thomas
Edison (1847-1931)
|
Our handicaps exist only in our minds. - Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
|
Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus
Aurelius (121-180)
|
Out of adversity comes opportunity. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Out of debt, out of danger. - unknown
|
Out of sight, out of mind. - unknown
|
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. - Aesop,
thanks to A. Fonda-Marsland
|
P
|
Saying - Author
|
Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Parting is such sweet sorrow. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Patience is a virtue. - unknown
|
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. - French
Proverb
|
Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine
(354-430)
|
Pay what you owe and what you're worth you'll know. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Penny wise, pound foolish. - Robert Burton (1577-1640)
|
People are architects of their own fortune. - Spanish
(on fortune)
|
People in hell want ice water. - Thanks to Meredith K.
whose grandmother explained that it means you can't always get what you want.
|
People learn more on their own rather than being force
fed. - Socrates (469-399 BC)
|
People should take time to be happy. - Grandma Moses
(1860-1961)
|
People show their character by what they laugh at. - German
(on character and virtue)
|
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. - George
Herbert (1593-1632)
|
Persevere no matter what. - unknown
|
Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating. - Maori
(on permanence and change)
|
Persistence is the key. - unknown
|
Persuasion is better than force. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Pick your battles. - unknown
|
Pick your poison. - unknown
|
Plan your life at New Year's, your day at dawn. - Japanese
(on planning)
|
Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your
life like you will die the next day. - unknown, courtesy of Bryan Sullivan
|
Play the hand you're dealt. - Jawahareal Nehru
(1889-1964)
|
Play the part and you shall become. - unknown
|
Please all and you will soon please none. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Pleasing ware is half sold. - George Herbert
(1593-1633)
|
Pleasures are transient--honors immortal.- Greek (on
heaven and hell)
|
Plenty sits still, hunger is a wanderer. - Zulu (South
African)
|
Poetry moves heaven and earth. - Japanese (on art and
creativity)
|
Poor people share with the heart. - Haitian (on
generosity)
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Possession is nine tenths of the law. - unknown
|
Postpone today's anger until tomorrow. - Tagalog
(Filipino) (on anger)
|
Poverty breeds discontent. - unknown
|
Practice makes perfect. - English Proverb
|
Practice what you preach. - unknown
|
Praise the young and they will blossom. - Irish Proverb
|
Pray as if no work could help and work as if no prayer
could help. - German (on prayer)
|
Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running. -
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
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Pretty is as pretty does. - unknown
|
Pride is as loud a beggar as want and a great deal more
saucy. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou
hast, nor all thou can'st. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Procrastination is the thief of time. - unknown
|
Promise little and do much. - Hebrew (on the conduct of
life)
|
Property has its duties as well as its rights. - Thomas
Drummond (1797-1840)
|
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error. - George
Eliot (1819-1880)
|
Proverbs are the daughters of experience. - Sierra
Leone
|
Put a silk on a goat and it is still a goat. - Irish
Proverb
|
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.- Korean
(on idleness)
|
Put on your thinking cap. - unknown
|
Put two and two together. - unknown
|
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Saying - Author
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Quality, not quantity. - unknown
|
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay
the wrong. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
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Quit while your ahead. - unknown
|
R
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Saying - Author
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Rather go to bed supperless than run in debt for a
breakfast. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Record only the sunny hours. - unknown
|
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the
morning, shepherd take warning. - unknown
|
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck. - Dalai Lama
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Repay evil with kindness. - unknown
|
(Do not) Rob Peter to pay Paul. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580) earlier (1380) in a collection by John Wycliffe. Thanks to Mark
Ingram we understand what the saying means: It describes a wasteful or
pointless activity, namely taking away something in order to put it back.
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Rocks need no protection from the rain. (Ed. Note: Except
over time!) - Malay (on strength and weakness)
|
Roll with the punches. - unknown
|
Rome wasn't built in a day. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
|
Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric
Hoffer (1902-1983)
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S
|
Saying - Author
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Sacrificing means more. - unknown
|
Save for a rainy day. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Save money and money will save you. - Jamaican (on
thrift)
|
Scatter with one hand; gather with two. - Welsh (on
thrift)
|
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
See life through an artist's eye. - unknown
|
Seeing is believing. - unknown
|
Seek advice but use your own common sense. - Yiddish
(on advice)
|
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the
rest. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Seize the day. - unknown
|
Self conceit may lead to self destruction. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
|
Self-help is the best help. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Self praise is no recommendation. - Romanian (on
flattery and praise)
|
Send a thief to catch a thief. - unknown
|
Shrouds are made without pockets. - Yiddish (on basic
truths)
|
Silence is golden. - unknown
|
Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted. - unknown
|
Silence is sometimes the answer. - Estonian (on
discretion)
|
Silence is the hardest argument to refute. - unknown
|
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden but it is
forbidden because it is hurtful - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can
get. - Spanish Proverb
|
Sing away sorrow, cast away care. - Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
|
Six feet of earth makes us all equal. - Italian (on
death and dying)
|
Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. - Colonial
American Saying
|
Sleeping people can't fall down. - Japanese (on caution
and care)
|
Slow and steady wins the race. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Small children give you a headache, big children a
heartache. - Russian Proverb
|
Smiles open many doors. - unknown
|
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African
Proverb
|
Some things are better left unsaid. - unknown
|
Sometimes, it's too little, too late. - unknown
|
Sometimes, less is more. - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
|
Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease. - Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
|
Sorrow doesn't kill, reckless joy does.- Yoruba (West
African (on joy and sorrow)
|
Sorrow is to the soul, as worm is to wood.- Turkish (on
joy and sorrow)
|
Spare your breath to cool your porridge. - Francis
Robelias
|
Spending is quick; earning is slow. - Russian (on
thrift)
|
Spring is in the air. - unknown
|
Stick to your guns. - unknown
|
Stick to your knitting. - unknown
|
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never
hurt me. - unknown
|
Stones decay, words last. - Samoan (on discretion)
|
Stop and smell the roses. - unknown
|
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. - unknown
|
Strike while the iron is hot. - Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
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Stupid is as stupid does. - Eric Roth
|
Success has many parents but failure is an orphan. - American
(on success and failure)
|
Success has ruined many a man. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
Sun is good for cucumbers, rain for rice. - Vietnamese
(on appropriateness)
|
Sweet are the slumbers of a virtuous man. - Joseph
Addison (1672-1719)
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Saying - Author
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Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of
themselves. - Phillip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, (1694-1773)
|
Take it straight from the horse's mouth. - Francis Iles
(1893-1970)
|
Take life as it comes. - unknown
|
Take the bull by the horns. - North American Saying
|
Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it. - Korean
(on vigilance)
|
Tell me whom you love and I'll tell you who you are.- African-American
(on life and living)
|
Temper justice with mercy. - John Milton (1608-1674)
|
Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice. - Italian
(on advice)
|
Thanks cost nothing. - Creole (on gratitude)
|
The afternoon knows what the morning never expected. - Swedish
(on basic truths)
|
The anger of the prudent never shows. - Burmese (on
anger)
|
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. - Asian
Proverb
|
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. - Edmund
Burke (1729-1797)
|
The bad plowman quarrels with his ox. - Korean (on
criticism)
|
The best candle is understanding.- Welsh (on knowledge
and ignorance)
|
The best cure for a short temper is a long walk. - unknown
|
The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert
(1593-1632)
|
The best sauce in the world is hunger. - Miguel de
Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
The best thing a man can do for his kids is to love their
mother. - Seen on a billboard outside the Bread of Life Church in
Fitchburg, MA - Editor's note: and vice versa
|
The best thing about telling the truth is...you don't have
to remember what you said! - unknown, thanks to Georgie Bee
|
The best things in life are free. - B.G. DeSilva (1927)
|
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to repeat
them. - Cato (234-149 BC)
|
The best way to predict the future is to create it. - unknown;
thanks to rapstar.com
|
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. - unknown
|
The blind person is not afraid of ghosts. - Burmese (on
courage and fear)
|
The blocks of wood should not dictate to the carver. - Maori
(on art and creativity)
|
The brave person regards dying as going home. - Chinese
(on courage and fear)
|
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
The calm before the storm. - unknown
|
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. - Chaucer
(c.1343-1400)
|
The chief object of education is not to learn things but
to unlearn things. - G.K. Chesterton
|
The company makes the feast. - J. Warton (1653)
|
The complete fool is half prophet. - Yiddish (on
foolishness)(Meaning: even a fool is right half the time)
|
The contented person can never be ruined. - Chinese (on
conscience)
|
The continuous drip polishes the stone.- Peruvian (on
patience)
|
The covetous person is always in want. - Irish (on
greed)
|
The crab that walks too far, falls into the pot. - Haitian
(on caution and care)
|
The cream always rises to the top. - unknown
|
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. - unknown
|
The crow may be caged but his thoughts are in the
cornfield. - Belizean (on temptation)
|
The customer is always right. - Barry Pain (1864-1928)
|
The darkest hours are just before dawn. - English
Proverb
|
The day has eyes; the night has ears.- Scottish (on
nature)
|
The day you decide to do it, is your lucky day.- Japanese
(on luck)
|
The deceitful have no friends.- Hindi (Asian Indian)
(on justice)
|
The devil catches most souls in a golden net. - German
(on temptation)
|
The devil dances in empty pockets. - Tudor (English)(on
wealth and poverty)
|
The devil finds work for idle hands. - St. Jerome
(345-420)
|
The devil looks after his own. - Scottish Proverb
|
The devil tempts but doesn't force. - Guyanan
|
The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The die is cast. - Julius Caesar (thanks to Marvin
Wakefield, a descendant of Noah Webster)
|
The discontented man finds no easy chair. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
The drum makes a great fuss because it is empty. - Trinidadian
(on vanity and arrogance)
|
The eagle does not catch flies. - Latin (on character
and virtue)
|
The eagle was killed with an arrow made with its own
feathers.- Armenian (on paradox)
|
The early bird catches the worm. - William Camden
(1551-1623)
|
The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half
and put it in your pocket. - unknown, courtesy of T. Ghataurhae of England
|
The end doesn't justify the means. - Ovid (c.43 BC-AD
18)
|
The end of one thing is only the beginning of another. - unknown
|
The errors of a wise man make your rule rather than the
perfections of a fool. - William Blake (1757-1827)
|
The excellency of hogs is -- fatness; of men-- virtue. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The eyes are the windows of the soul. - Thomas Phaer (c.1510-1560)
|
The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living.- Danish
(on life and living)
|
The fat is in the fire. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
The fly on the water buffalo's back thinks he is taller
than the water buffalo. - Tagalog (Filipino)(on vanity and arrogance)
|
The fool is thirsty in the midst of water. - Ethiopian
(on foolishness)
|
The fool never undertakes little. - Czech (on
foolishness)
|
The frog enjoys itself in water but not in hot water. - African
proverb Wolof Tribe
|
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
|
The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed
by the good deeds of the governors. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The grand instructor, time. - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
|
The grass is always greener in someone else's yard. - unknown
|
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - unknown
|
The half is better than the whole. - Hesiod (c.720 BC)
|
The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. - William
Ross Wallace (1819-1881)
|
The hardest person to awaken is the person already awake.
- Tagalog (Filipino)(on vigilance)
|
The heart at rest sees a feast in everything. - Hindu
(Asian Indian) (on attitude)
|
The hero appears only after the tiger is dead. - Burmese
(on cynicism)
|
The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail.
- John Wycliffe (c.1320-1384) alternate source:Belizean (on leadership)
|
The higher you climb, the heavier you fall. - Vietnamese
(on pride)
|
The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The house of the loud talker, leaks. - African proverb
Zulu Tribe
|
The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting. - Vietnamese
(on criticism)
|
The laborer is worth his wage. - Bible (Luke 10:7)
|
The lazy person must work twice.- Latin American (on idleness)
|
The leopard does not change his spots. - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
|
The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind.
- Mexican (on differences)
|
The longest journey begins with the first step. - unknown
|
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of
power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
|
The love of money is the root of all evil - Bible
|
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything. - Edward John Phelps (1822-1900)
|
The master of the people is their servant.- Yemeni (on
leadership)
|
The memories of youth make for long, long thoughts. - Lapp
(on youth and age)
|
The miller sees not all the water that flows by his mill.
- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
|
The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. - Bible
|
The more the merrier. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
The more things change, the more they stay the same. - Alphonse
Karr (1808-1890)
|
The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer
the journey seems.- Maori (on journeys; Ed. Note: Parents everywhere can
certainly relate to this saying!)
|
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)</I.< tr < td.>
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The mouse that hath but one hole is taken quickly. - George
Herbert (1593-1633)
|
The mouth prays to Buddha but the heart is full of evil.- Vietnamese
(on hypocrisy)
|
The new boat will find the old stones. - Estonian (on
perversity)
|
The old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody
blind. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
|
The old one who is loved, is winter with flowers. - German
(on youth and age)
|
The one being carried does not realize how far away the
town is. - Nigerian (on gratitude)
|
The one who teaches is the giver of eyes. - Tamil
(Asian Indian) (on education)
|
The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks
does not understand.- Chinese (on paradox)
|
The only real test in life is to conquer your fears. - unknown
|
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid
it. - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
|
"The palest ink is brighter than the best
memory" - Chinese saying. Thanks to Martin C Wojtkiewicz
|
The pen is mightier than the sword. - unknown
|
The person afraid of bad luck will never know good.- Russian
(on luck)
|
The person sins, then blames Satan for it.- Afghan (on
the human comedy)
|
The person who gets stuck on petty happiness, will not
attain great happiness.- Tibetan (on joy and sorrow)
|
The person with burnt fingers asks for tongs. - Samoan
(on experience)
|
The pleasure of doing good is the only one that will not
wear out. - Chinese (on good and evil)
|
The poor lack much but the greedy more. - Swiss (on
greed)
|
The pot calling the kettle black. - unknown
|
The price of your hat is not always the measure of your
brain. - African American (on appearance and reality)
|
The proof is in the pudding. - Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
|
The prudent embark when the sea is calm---the rash when
the sea is stormy. - Maori (on prudence)
|
The rain falls on every roof. - African Proverb
|
The rattan basket criticizes the palm-leafed bag, yet both
are full of holes. - Filipino (on criticism)
|
The real art of conversation is not only saying the right
thing at the right moment but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the
most tempting moment. - unknown (thanks to fullmoonsis)
|
The remedy against bad times is to have patience with
them.- Arabic (on patience)
|
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
The right place at the wrong time. - unknown
|
The road to a friend's house is never long. - Danish
Proverb
|
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. - Samuel
Johnson (1709-1784)
|
The salt of patience seasons everything.- Italian (on
patience)
|
The sap rises in the spring. - unknown
|
The second word makes the quarrel. - Japanese Proverb
|
The shoe knows if the stocking has a hole.- Bahamian
(on knowledge and justice)
|
The shoemaker's children have no shoes. - unknown
|
The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart. - Moroccan
(on books and writers)
|
The sky's the limit. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
|
The spider and the fly can't make a bargain. - Jamaican
(on buying and selling)
|
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
The stargazer's toe is often stubbed.- Russian (on the
human comedy)
|
The sting of a reproach is the truth of it. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the
faith. - Arabic (on faith)
|
The strong should help the weak so that the lives of both
shall be made easier. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
The teeth that laugh are also those that bite. - Hausa
tribe of West Africa (on appearance and reality)
|
The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones. - Greek
(on discretion)
|
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. - Yiddish
(on conscience)
|
The wheel turns slow but it turns sure. - unknown
|
The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human
fortunes.- Chinese (on permanence and change)
|
The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can.
- French (on wisdom)
|
The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool
does from his friends. - Ben Franklin, thanks to Carl McFarland
|
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the
reports of others. - Tibetan (on wisdom)
|
The wolf and the dog agree, at the expense of the goat
which together they eat. - Basque (on friends and foes)
|
The work will teach you. - Estonian (on work)
|
The world is the traveler's inn.- Afghan (on journeys)
|
The worst enemy you have is right in your head. - unknown
|
The worst prison is a closed heart. - Pope John Paul II
|
The years teach much which the days never know. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
|
U
|
Saying - Author
|
United we stand; divided we fall. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
Unjustly got wealth is snow sprinkled with hot water. - Chinese
(on greed)
|
V
|
Saying - Author
|
Vanity blossoms but bares no fruit. - Nepalese (on
vanity and arrogance)
|
Variety is the spice of life. - unknown
|
Venture a small fish to catch a great one. - English
(on buying and selling)
|
Vessels large may venture more but little boats should
keep near shore. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Vices are their own punishment. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
|
Violence begets violence. - unknown
|
Virtue alone is true nobility. - William Gifford
(1756-1826)
|
Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Virtue is like a rich stone, it's best plain set. - Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
|
Virtue is not knowing but doing. - Japanese (on
character and virtue)
|
W
|
Saying - Author
|
Walls have ears. - unknown
|
War ends nothing. - Zairean (on war and peace)
|
War is sweet to those who haven't experienced it. - Latin
(on war and peace)
|
Waste not, want not. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of
themselves. - unknown
|
Wealth and content are not always bedfellows. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
Wealth is both an enemy and a friend. - Nepalese (on
wealth and poverty)
|
Wealth is but dung; useful only when spread. - Chinese
(on wealth and poverty)
|
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
|
We boil at different degrees. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
|
We fear what we don't understand. - Aesop (c.620-560
BC)
|
We learn little from victory, much from defeat. - Japanese
(on success and failure)
|
Well begun is half done. - Aristotle (384-322 BC)
|
Well done is better than well said. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
We'll never know the worth of water 'till the well goes
dry. - Scottish Proverb
|
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. - Swedish
Proverb
|
What cannot be cured must be endured. - Edmund Spenser
(c.1552-1599)
|
What children say, they have heard at home.- Wolof
(West African (on parenting and children)
|
What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. - unknown,
thanks to Raymond who because of this saying is now invincible.
|
What goes around, comes around. - unknown
|
What goes up must come down. - unknown
|
What good is honor when you are starving. - Yiddish (on
food and hunger)
|
What good is running when you're on the wrong road. - German
(on planning)
|
What is learned in the cradle lasts to the grave. - French(on
habit)
|
What is true by lamplight is not always true in sunlight.
- French (on appearance and reality)
|
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience. - Horace
(65-8 BC)
|
What one hopes for is always better than what one has. - Ethiopian
(on faith)
|
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the
natures of things. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
|
What you cannot avoid, welcome. - Chinese Proverb
|
What you do to others will bear fruit in you. - Singhalese
(on generosity)
|
What you give is what you get. - unknown
|
What you have, hold. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
|
What you would seem to be, be really. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
|
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. - Philip
Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773)
|
Whatever the boss says goes. - unknown
|
What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh. - English
Proverb
|
What's done is done. - Early 14th Century French
Proverb
|
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. - John
Ray "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."
|
What you see is what you get. - unknown
|
When a thief kisses you, count your teeth. - Yiddish
|
When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.
- Vietnamese (on gratitude)
|
When fortune calls, offer her a chair. - Yiddish (on
fortune)
|
When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your
teeth. - Iranian
|
When I eat your bread, I sing your song. - German (on
friendship)
|
When in doubt, do nothing. - George John Whyte-Melville
(1821-1878)
|
When in Rome do as the Romans do. - unknown
|
When life's path is steep, keep your mind even. - Horace
(65-8 BC)
|
When love and skill go together, expect a masterpiece. - John
Ruskin (1819-1900)
|
When money speaks, truth keeps silent.- Russian (on
money)
|
When one door shuts, another opens. - unknown
|
When one is hungry, everything tastes good. - unknown
|
When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. - Confucious
()
|
When the apple is ripe it will fall. - Irish Proverb
|
When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.- Chinese
(on health and wellness)
|
When the heart is full, the tongue will speak. - Scottish
(on eloquence)
|
When the moon is full, it begins to wane.- Japanese (on
permanence and change)
|
When the music changes, so does the dance. - Hausa
tribe of West Africa (on appropriateness)
|
When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come. - Chinese
Proverb
|
When the tiger kills, the jackel profits. - Afghan (on
business)
|
When the wind is in the east, tis neither good for man nor
beast. - unknown
|
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot
hurt you. - African Proverb
|
When we think we lead, we are most led. - Henry James
Byron (1834-1884)
|
When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what
does. - Arabic (on attitude)
|
When you can do the common things in life in an uncommon
way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington
Carver
|
When you drink water, remember the mountain spring. - Chinese
(on gratitude)
|
When you fall into a pit, you either die or get out. - Chinese
(on adversity)
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When you go to a donkey's house, don't talk about ears. - Jamaican
(on courtesy and respect)
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When you say one thing, the clever person understands
three. - Chinese (on wisdom)
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When you see clouds gathering, prepare to catch rainwater.
- African proverb Gola Tribe
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When you taste honey, remember gall. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
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When you're sad, learn something, - Merlin
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Wherever you go, you can't get rid of yourself. - Polish
(on basic truths)
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Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind. - Armenian
(on basic truths)
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Where there is smoke there is fire. - unknown
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Where there's a will, there's a way. - unknown
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Where there's life, there's hope. - Theocritus (c.270
BC)
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Where you were born is less important than how you live. -
Turkish (on character and virtue)
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While the cat's away, the mice will play. - James Ray
(1670)
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Who are a little wise, the best fools be. - John Donne
(1573-1631)
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
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Who is mighty? He who makes an enemy into a friend. - Hebrew
(on friends and foes)
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Who is rich? He that enjoys his portion. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
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Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
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Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot. - John
Heywood (c.1497-1580)
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Whoever has a tail of straw should not get too close to
the fire. - Latin American (on caution and care)
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Whoever wins the war gets to write the history. - unknown
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Willing is not enough, we must do. - Johann Von Goethe
(1749-1832)
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Wink at small faults- remember thou hast great ones. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
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Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather. - Czech
(on wisdom)
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and
profit from the past. - unknown
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Wish not so much to live long as to live well. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
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Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. - Mark
Van Doren (1894-1972)
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With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an elephant. - Tibetan
(on attitude)
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With time even a bear can learn to dance. - Yiddish (on
education)
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Without kindness there can be no true joy. - Thomas
Carlyle (1795-1881)
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom, - Greek Proverb
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Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold.
- Tibetan (on words and deeds)
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Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles. - Korean
(on gossip)
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Words once spoken can never be recalled. - Wentworth
Dillon (c.1633-1685)
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Words should be weighed not counted. - Yiddish (on
discretion)
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Words spoken are like eggs broken.- Sheri Glewen
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Work and you will be strong; sit and you will stink.- Moroccan
(on idleness)
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Worldly prosperity is like writing on water. - Telagu
(Asian Indian)(on wealth and poverty)
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish
(on courage and fear)
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Worrying never changed anything. - unknown
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Worthless people blame their karma. - Burmese (on
criticism)
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. - Ben
Franklin (1706-1790)
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Saying - Author
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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. - Aesop
(c.620-560 BC)
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You are what you eat. - German Proverb
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You become what you think about. - Buddha (Thanks to
Ami Kapilevich for the correction)
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You can do anything with children if only you play with
them.- German (on parenting and children)
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You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on
coming back. - Horace (65-8 BC)
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You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool
them all of the time. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him
drink. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
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You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund
Burke (1729-1797)
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You can only die once. - Portuguese Proverb
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You cannot carve rotten wood. - Chinese
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You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. - Irish
Proverb
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You cannot put an old head on young shoulders. - unknown
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You can't be a true winner until you have lost. - unknown
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You can't beat a dead horse. - Richard Trench
(1807-1886)
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You can't build a relationship with a hammer. - unknown
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You can't buy an inch of time with an inch of gold. - Chinese
(on time and timeliness)
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You can't buy love. - unknown
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You can't fit a square peg in a round hole. - unknown
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You can't get blood from a stone. - John Lydgate
(c.1370-1451)
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You can't have peace any longer than your neighbor
pleases. - Dutch (on war and peace)
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You can't have your cake and eat it too. - John Heywood
(c.1497-1580)
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You can't judge a horse by its harness. - Thomas Fuller
(1608-1661)
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You can't make bricks without straw. - unknown
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You can't play all the time. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
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You can't please everyone. - unknown
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You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. - Japanese
(on basic truths)
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You can't sew buttons on your neighbor's mouth. - Russian
(on gossip)
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You can't stop a pig from wallowing in the mud. - Yoruba
- West Africa (on character and virtue)
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You can't teach an old dog new tricks. - unknown
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You can't tell a book by its cover. - American Proverb
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You can't win them all. - unknown
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You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
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You could drive a stick man crazy. - unknown
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You don't get anywhere unless you try. - unknown
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You don't know what you've got until it's gone. - unknown
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You have to earn respect. - unknown
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You have to take the bitter with the sweet. - unknown
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You make the road by walking on it. - Nicaraguan (on
work)
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You may delay but time will not. - Ben Franklin
(1706-1790)
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You may light another's candle at your own without loss. -
Danish (on generosity)
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You never fail until you stop trying. - unknown -
thanks to agate man iwsy
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You never know what lies right around the corner. - unknown
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You never really know your friends from your enemies until
the ice breaks. - Eskimo (on friends and foes)
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You win some, you lose some. - unknown
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You'll never do anything behind you that won't come up in
front of you. - unknown, thanks to "riverrat"
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Your own rags are better than another's gown. - Hausa
(West African)(on self-reliance)
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Your success and happiness lie in you...resolve to keep
happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against
difficulties. - Helen Keller
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Your time is the greatest gift you can give to someone. - unknown
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Superb collection!!!
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