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Proverbs 3 Edition
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
          -- Arapaho Proverb

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
          -- Edgar Watson Howe 

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.
          -- Irish Proverb

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
          -- Will Rogers 

Love is like a baby; it needs to be treated tenderly.
          -- African Proverb

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
          -- Victor Hugo 

Help yourself and God will help you.
          -- Dutch Proverb

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
          -- Harry Emerson Fosdick 

Fortune's wheel is ever turning.
          -- Polish Proverb

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
          -- Joseph Campbell 

We judge others by their acts, but ourselves by our intentions.
          -- American Proverb

Well done is better than well said.
          -- Benjamin Franklin 

True friendship is one soul shared by two bodies.
          -- Mexican Proverb

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
          -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Were there no fools, there would be no wise men.
          -- German Proverb

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
          -- St. Francis de Sales 

Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator's will.
          -- Jewish Proverb

If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
          -- Robert Burns 

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

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
          -- Publilius Syrus 

Coffee and love are best when they're hot.
          -- German Proverb

A good marriage is like a casserole: only those
     involved actually know what goes into it.

Talking about bulls is not the same as facing them in the ring.
          -- Mexican Proverb

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
          -- Jonathan Swift

The beginning of sin is sweet; its end is bitter.
          -- Japanese Proverb

Man is the only animal that blushes.  Or needs to.
          -- Mark Twain

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
          -- Italian Proverb

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
          -- Will Rogers

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
          -- Native American Proverb

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
          -- Abigail Van Buren

As you do, so will be done to you.
          -- Jewish Proverb

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
          -- Thomas A. Edison

All things are difficult before they are easy.
          -- Italian Proverb

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
          -- Sigmund Freud

Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.
          -- American Proverb

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
          -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who lies once is never believed again.
          -- Polish Proverb

Of all feats of skill, the most difficult is that of being honest.
          -- Marie de Beausacq

A clear conscience sleeps during thunder.
          -- Jamaican Proverb

A clear conscience makes a soft pillow.
          -- Roadside Church Sign 

Charity sees the need; not the cause.
          -- German Proverb

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.
          -- Dan Bennett 

Say only a little but say it well.
          -- Celtic Proverb

Feeling is the language of the soul.
          -- Neale Donald Walsch 

Prayer is food for the soul.
          -- American Proverb

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
          -- Mother Teresa 

A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
          -- Japanese Proverb

When the webs of the spider join, they can trap a lion.
          -- Ethiopian Proverb 

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
          -- Polish Proverb

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
          -- Harold S. Hulbert 

There is no bad patience.
          -- Swahili Proverb

He that can have patience can have what he will.
          -- Benjamin Franklin 

As we live, so we learn.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
          -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Prayer is a wish turned upward.
          -- American Proverb

Prayer is the language of the heart.
          -- Grace Aguilar

A promise is a debt.
          -- Irish Proverb

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
          -- Jean Jacques Rousseau 

Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.
          -- English Proverb

The longest journey is the journey inward.
          -- Dag Hammarskjold 

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
          -- Chinese Proverb

The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through.
          -- Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time.
          -- American Proverb

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.
          -- Claude McDonald 

God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.
          -- Dutch Proverb

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
          -- Friedrich von Logau 

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
          -- Seneca Proverb

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
          -- William Van Horne 

In this world, nothing is permanent except change.
          -- American Proverb

Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree, but it is like the shadow of a  bird in flight.
          -- The Talmud 

A lie travels farther than the truth.
          -- Irish Proverb

Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of Time.
          -- Baltasar Gracian 

A soft answer turneth away wrath.
          -- Dutch Proverb

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
          -- Frank Moore Colby 


A good conscience is a continual feast.
          -- English Proverb

Conscience is God's presence in man.
          -- Emanuel Swedenborg

The clothes hide the blemish.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
          -- Benjamin Franklin

He that lies on the floor doesn't fall down.
          -- Norwegian Proverb

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
          -- Beverly Sills

Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened.
          -- Egyptian Proverb

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
          -- Seneca

First mend yourself, and then mend others.
          -- Jewish Proverb
 

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most do.
          -- Dale Carnegie

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
          -- Danish Proverb

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
          -- Hubert H. Humphrey

Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again.
          -- African Proverb

Words are as beautiful as wild horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.
          -- Ted Berkman

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
          -- Smiley Blanton, MD

As thou valuest yourself, others will esteem thee.
          -- Gaelic Proverb

Don't compromise yourself.  You are all you've got.
          -- Janis Joplin

Any plan is bad that cannot be changed.
          -- Italian Proverb

There is nothing permanent except change.
          -- Heraclitus

Money lent to a friend must be recovered from
     an enemy.
          -- German Proverb

The borrower is servant to the lender.
          -- Proverbs 22:7

If charity costs nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
          -- Mignon McLaughlin

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
          -- Greek Proverb

Business?  It's quite simple.  It's other people's money.
          -- Alexandre Dumas the Younger

If you don't aspire to great things, you won't attain small things.
          -- Jewish Proverb

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
          -- Gandhi

Other people's troubles are bearable.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
          -- Harold Wilson

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.
          -- Chinese Proverb

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
          -- Vidal Sassoon

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.
          -- Arnold H. Glasow


With reasonable men I will reason,
With humane men I will plead,
But tyrants I will give no quarter,
Nor waste words where they will surely be lost. 
A man was hanged for saying what was true.
          -- Italian Proverb

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
          -- Boris Pasternak

By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.
          -- Italian Proverb

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
          -- Arthur C. Clarke

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
          -- Persian Proverb

Do not spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by.
          -- Russian Proverb

Injure others, injure yourself.
          -- Chinese Proverb

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
          -- Aesop

A black hen lays a white egg.
          -- French Proverb

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
          -- Socrates

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
-- Carl Sagan
"I don't want to believe, I want to know".
Carl Sagan.


"If we're absolutely sure that our beliefs are right, and those of others wrong; that we are motivated by good, and others by evil; that the King of  the Universe speaks to us, and not to adherents of very different faiths; that it is wicked to challenge conventional doctrines or to ask searching questions; that our main job is to believe and obey - then the witch mania will recur in its infinite variations down to the time of the last man." --Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World


Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn.
        -- Frank A. Clark

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.  - Frank Herbert

"Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing - it was here first."- Mark Twain

"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."- Mark Twain,

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyhow."- Elbert Hubbard

"I am a part of all I have read." -- John Kieran

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."- Anne Frank

"The higher man hangs his goals, the higher they grow."
       Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805); German poet.
 

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
        Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894); Scottish author, poet.

"The secret of happiness is something to do."- John Burroughs

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