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Experience is the father of wisdom.
Anonymous
The grand essentials in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
Dante
The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
Anonymous
The crown of a good disposition is humility.
Arab Proverb
Asking costs little.
Italian Proverb
The wise man has long ears, big eyes and a short tongue.
Russian Proverb
Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.
Anonymous
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
Thackery
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions,
but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
Give if thou canst, an alms; if not, afford, instead of that,
a sweet and gentle word.
Herrick
Do not choose for anyone what you do not choose for yourself.
Persian Proverb
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred,
there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Buddha
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Cervantes
If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his
troubles.
Franklin
Everyone loves the tree that gives him shelter.
Russian Proverb
He who considers too much will perform little.
Schiller
The sky is of the same color wherever you go.
Persian Proverb
He is lifeless who is faultless.
Anonymous
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Emerson
The greatest king must at last be put to bed with a shovel.
Russian Proverb
What can the enemy do when the friend is cordial?
Persian Proverb
Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors.
German Proverb
Work is often the father of pleasure.
Voltaire
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the heart.
Shakespeare
Poverty does not destroy virtue nor wealth bestow it.
Anonymous
Cleanse thy heart from greed, and thy foot shall remain free
from fetters.
Arabian Proverb
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Anonymous
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in
society.
Thackeray
All is not false that seems at first a lie.
Southey
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Emerson
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others and to forget his own.
Cicero
The chameleon does not leave one tree until he is sure of
another.
Arabian Proverb
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Irving
Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
Arabian Proverb
Never let the bottom of your purse or your mind be seen.
Anonymous
The mouse that has but one hole is soon caught.
Arabian Proverb
He who knows but little, presently outs with it.
Italian Proverb
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
Addison
Much does he gain who learns when he loses.
Italian Proverb
Joy and Temperance and Repose slam the door on the doctor's
nose.
Longfellow
Who seeks a quarrel, finds it near at hand.
Italian Proverb
The cask can only yield the wine it contains.
Italian Proverb
He who sings frightens away his ills.
Spanish Proverb
Any plan is bad which is not susceptible to change.
Italian Proverb
The remedy for injuries is not to remember them.
German Proverb
The stitch is lost unless the thread is knotted.
Italian Proverb
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is
committing another mistake.
Confucius
None are so blind as those who won't see.
Anonymous
Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; suffer them
now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.
Shakespeare
When your horse is on the brink of a precipice it is too late
to pull the reins.
Chinese Proverb
That crown is well spent which saves you ten.
Italian Proverb
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Shakespeare
He has gained enough who gives up a vain hope.
Italian Proverb
Books give not wisdom where was none before.
Anonymous
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatified with his
intellect.
French Proverb
When a man is falling, every saint pushes him.
Italian Proverb
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Anonymous
There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so.
German Proverb
The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
Russian Proverb
Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number.
Italian Proverb
He who is an ass and takes himself to be a stag finds his
mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.
Italian Proverb
He who would have no trouble in this world must not be born in
it.
Italian Proverb
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Chinese Proverb
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Blake
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Author unknown
He who sows discord will reap regret.
Arabian Proverb
When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been
saved.
Italian Proverb
First catch your hare, then cook it.
Anonymous
A man's being in a good or bad humor depends upon his will.
Johnson
He saith little that loveth much.
Italian Proverb
Let thy discontents be secrets.
Franklin
The path of duty lies in what lies near at hand; and men seek
for it in what is remote.
Japanese Proverb
Wisdom thoroughly learned will never be forgotten.
Pythagoras
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
Johnson
The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so
that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to
know it.
Daniel Webster
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Franklin
A small-minded man looks at the sky through a reed.
Japanese Proverb
One must lose a minnow to catch a salmon.
French Proverb
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge
in his own cause.
Pascal
The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious
stone.
Japanese Proverb
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
Gray
He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and
fears, is more than a king.
Milton
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Elliot
A man who is his own doctor has a fool for his patient.
Anonymous
A man must insult himself before others will.
Chinese Proverb
He loses all who loses the right moment.
Spanish Proverb
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Hazlitt
He who lies upon the ground can fall no lower.
Latin Proverb
Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
Anonymous
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
Addison
Good example is half a sermon.
Anonymous
He conquers who endures.
Italian Proverb
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
Shakespeare
A man's good name is as precious to him as its skin is to a
tiger.
Japanese Proverb
If there is no apple one eats a little carrot.
Russian Proverb
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by
study.
Bacon
A man with a sour face should not open a shop.
Japanese Proverb
One pardons to the degree that one loves.
La Rochefoucauld
When anger arises think of the consequences.
Confucius
Drop by drop fills the tub.
French Proverb
He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.
Anonymous
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
Seneca
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Emerson
Break the legs of an evil custom.
Italian Proverb
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
Thackeray
You can't make an omlet without breaking eggs.
Anonymous
The heron's a saint when there are no fish about.
Japanese Proverb
When interest lags, memory lags too.
Goethe
What is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Anonymous
A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up
anger.
Old Testament
For every evil under the sun, there is a remedy or there is
none. If there be one, try and find it; if there be none,
never mind it.
Anonymous
A harper is laughed at who plays always on the same string.
Horace
If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all.
Japanese Proverb
In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared
mind.
Pasteur
If well thou hast begun, go on; it is the end that crowns us,
not the fight.
Herrick
No man's head aches while he comforts another.
Italian Proverb
A narrow mind has a broad tongue.
Arabian Proverb
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
Dryden
What one does, one becomes.
Spanish Proverb
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for
them.
Goethe
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
English Proverb
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Anonymous
Talk does not cook rice.
Chinese Proverb
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Shakespeare
Following happiness is like chasing the wind, or clutching the
shadow.
Japanese Proverb
We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen the more and
talk the less.
Greek Proverb
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and
they who love it are not equal to those who find pleasure in
it.
Chinese Proverb
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it
yourself.
Latin Proverb
Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other
things.
Russian Proverb
Never esteem anything of advantage to thee that shall make thee
break thy word of lose thy self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
Anonymous
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Indian Proverb
If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints.
Chinese Proverb
Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least
expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens
our skill.
Edmund Burke
Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less.
Spanish Proverb
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca
A word of kindness is better than a fat pie.
Russian Proverb
One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at
their collars.
Japanese Proverb
Arrogance diminishes wisdom.
Arabian Proverb
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to
seek it elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld
For a marriage to be peaceful the husband should be deaf and
the wife blind.
Spanish Proverb
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit
of sense beneath is rarely found.
Pope
When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not
ripe.
Greek Proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's head with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
That is an empty purse that is full of other men's money.
Anonymous
When the fruit is scarcest its taste is sweetest.
Irish Proverb
The daughter of a crab does not give birth to a bird.
Chinese Proverb
It's no use going to the goats house to look for wool.
Irish Proverb
Three things too much and three too little are pernicious to
man: to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have
little; to presume much, and be worth little.
Cervantes
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Anonymous
You cannot sew buttons on your neighbor's mouth.
Russian Proverb
Don't see all you see, and don't hear all you hear.
Irish Proverb
Every cloud engenders not a storm.
Shakespeare
"Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard; 'tis the living
up to it that is difficult.
Thackeray
Men carry their superiority inside; animals outside.
Russian Proverb
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to
apply it.
Persian Proverb
Vegetables of one's own raising are not relished --- those from
other's gardens are the best.
Chinese Proverb
A small hole can sink a big ship.
Russian Proverb
Whatever necessity lays on thee, endure; whatever she commands,
do.
Goethe
Better be alone than in bad company.
Anonymous
The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Shakespeare
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the
value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once.
Russian Proverb
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Shakespeare
Go home and make a net if you desire to get fishes.
Chinese Proverb
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long
enough.
Anonymous
Long sleep makes a bare back.
Irish Proverb
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other
people.
Oriental Proverb
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.
Shakespeare
He who plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
Arabian Proverb
They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
Hindu Proverb
Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool.
Spanish Proverb
Words are the voice of the heart.
Confucius
If you go to war pray once; if you go on a sea journey pray
twice; but pray three times when you are going to be married.
Russian Proverb
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Anonymous
Wisdom is often nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Wordsworth
You cannot hang everything on one nail.
Russian Proverb
A vacant mind is open to all suggestions as a hollow building
echos all sounds.
Chinese Proverb
It takes little effort to watch a man carry a load.
Chinese Proverb
The greater the obstacle the more the glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
All things are less dreadful than they seem.
Anonymous
Many take by the bushel and give by the spoon.
German Proverb
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Latin Proverb
What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away.
Russian Proverb
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal;
the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and
drop make the inundation.
Saadi
Much wealth will not come if a little does not go.
Chinese Proverb
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is:
What are we busy about?
Thoreau
The proper study of mankind is man.
Pope
The future belongs to him who knows how to wait.
Russian Proverb
It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and
cypress to be evergreens.
Chinese Proverb
Tyrant custom makes a slave of reason.
Anonymous
The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw.
Italian Proverb
You look for the horse you ride on.
Russian Proverb
Beggars mounted ride their horse to death.
Shakespeare
Love the truth but pardon error.
Voltaire
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound
together.
Goethe
One's good deeds are only known at home; one's bad deeds far
away.
Chinese Proverb
That day is lost on which one has not laughed.
French Proverb
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
Anonymous
He who handle pitch besmears himself.
German Proverb
Hurry is only good for catching flies.
Russian Proverb
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in
fortune or misfortune at their own pace, like a clock during a
thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything
else.
Franklin
In the kingdom of the blind men, the one-eyed is king.
Anonymous
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
Congreve
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you
smile, it returns the greeting.
Thackeray
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Shakespeare
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of
all animals the nimblest tongue.
Swift
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.
Anonymous
Look for a thing till you find it and you'll not lose your
labor.
Chinese Proverb
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Schiller
When one door shuts another opens.
Spanish Proverb
Do not despise an insignificant enemy or a slight wound.
German Proverb
An eel held by the tail is not yet caught.
Anonymous
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Franklin
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit.
Milton
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
Chinese Proverb
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most
brilliant of metals.
Voltaire
A man often pays dear for a small frugality.
Emerson
Thach your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you
become parched with thirst.
Chinese Proverb
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Bacon
The longest day will have an end.
Anonymous
A mile walked with a friend has only one hundred steps.
Russian Proverb
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
He who brings himself into needless dangers dies the devil's
martyr.
Anonymous
Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar.
Irish Proverb
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
Chinese Proverb
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only
needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Pope
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock
to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
Anonymous
Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached
the shore.
Hindu Proverb
The dress does not make the friar.
Spanish Proverb
Make every bargain clear and plain, that none may afterwards
complain.
Anonymous
If the child does not cry, the mother knows not its wants.
Russian Proverb
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Cervantes
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
Shakespeare
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
Desire beautifies what is ugly.
Spanish Proverb
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has
everything.
Arabian Proverb
When it rains, it falls on all alike.
Anonymous
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over
everything: it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of
disquietude!
Washington Erving
A man's faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his
faults and you may know his virtues.
Confucius
Good, better, best; never rest till good be better, and better,
best.
Anonymous
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Ovid
He who peeps in at his neighbor's window may chance to lose his
eyes.
Arabian Proverb
An empty sack cannot stand up.
Russian Proverb
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles;
the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring
it out.
Pope
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
Anonymous
Evesdroppers never hear any good of themselves.
French Proverb
Little and often fills the purse.
German Proverb
Who will eat the kernel of the nut must break the shell.
Anonymous
Silence betokens consent.
Persian Proverb
A diamond with a flaw is preferable to a common stone with
none.
Chinese Proverb
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Emerson
One cannot learn to swim in a field.
Spanish Proverb
It is not only what we do, but what we do not do, for which we
are accountable.
Moliere
Winter comes fast on the lazy.
Irish Proverb
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
Anonymous
Patience is the key of joy; but haste is the key to sorrow.
Arabian Proverb
When the cat mourns for the mouse do not take her seriously.
Japanese Proverb
Those who know when they have enough are rich.
Chinese Proverb
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