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Proverbs I

PROVERBS I
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows all the corners.
          -- Irish Proverb

If youth only knew; if age only could.
          -- Henri Estienne



The best gifts are those which expect no return.
          -- Norwegian Proverb

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
          -- Pierre Corneille



One moment of patience may ward off a great disaster;
one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
          -- Chinese Proverb

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
          -- Arnold H. Glasow 



The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries.
Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
          -- Persian Proverb

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
          -- William H. Walton



Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.
          -- Czech Proverb

Be cautious.  Opportunity does the knocking for temptation too.
          -- Al Batt 



     Be humble for you are made of earth.
     Be noble for you are made of stars.
          -- Serbian Proverb

     Lord, where we are wrong,
     make us willing to change;
     where we are right,
     make us easy to live with.
          -- Rev. Peter Marshall 



Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
          -- Czech Proverb

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
          -- Eustache Deschamps 



Advice should be viewed from behind.
          -- Swedish Proverb

Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.
          -- Walt Schmidt 



Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.
          -- Scottish Proverb

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



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

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
          -- Pam Shaw 



Wood that grows warped can never be straightened.
          -- Greek Proverb

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
          -- Lady Bird Johnson 



If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.
          -- Joann Thomas 



 I like Carnation best of all,
No tits to pull, no shit to haul.
No barns to clean, no hay to pitch,
Just punch a hole in the son of a  bitch. 
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength

that will endure as long as life lasts." --Rachel Carson
"People stand themselves next to the righteous

They believe the things they say are true
And speak in terms of what divides us
To justify the violence they do" --Jackson Browne, "It is One"
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
"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is"

- Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi (1913-1970)


The coffin is the brother of the cradle.
          -- German Proverb

Do not take life too seriously.  You will never get out of it alive.
          -- Elbert Hubbard 



An empty purse frightens away friends.
          -- English Proverb

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
          -- George Eliot 


A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
          -- Chinese Proverb

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
          -- Doug Larson 


Some people like to make of life a garden, and to walk only within its paths.
          -- Japanese Proverb

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
          -- Walter Bagehot 


A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
          -- English Proverb

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
          -- Satchell Paige 


Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
          -- Italian Proverb

Injustice is relatively easy to bear;  what stings is justice.
          -- H. L. Mencken 


If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet.
          -- Japanese Proverb

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


A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
          -- Scottish Proverb

If children grew up according to early indications,  we should have nothing but geniuses.
          -- Goethe 


Each day provides its own gifts.
          -- American Proverb

The future is purchased by the present.
          -- Samuel Johnson


To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.
          -- Japanese Proverb

That enfabled rock, that ship of life, that swarming million-footed, tower-masted, sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
          -- Thomas Wolfe 


All things grow with time, except grief.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow  on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
          -- Victor Hugo 


A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
          -- Greek Proverb

The thoughtless are rarely wordless.
          -- Howard W. Newton 


One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
          -- Swedish Proverb

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
          -- John Churton Collins


A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard.
          -- English Proverb

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
          -- John Donne 


One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.
          -- Italian Proverb

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
          -- Publilius Syrus 


Each day provides its own gifts.
          -- American Proverb

The future comes one day at a time.
          -- Dean Acheson 


A camel never sees its own hump.
          -- African Proverb

It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.
          -- R.S. Trapp 


Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
          -- Caucasian Mountain Proverb

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
          -- Napoleon 


If I am like others, who will be like me?
          -- Yiddish Proverb

Be true to your self and you will never fail.
          -- Written by Danielle P., a 6th grade student  in Connecticut 


All things change, and we change with them.
          -- Latin Proverb

Keep changing.  When you're through changing, you're through.
          -- Bruce Barton 


Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
          -- French Proverb

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
          -- Henry Kissinger 


You can fall down by yourself but you need a friend's hand to get up.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
          -- Henny Youngman 


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

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.
          -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.  ("Life's Little Instruction Book") 


No branch is better than its trunk.
          -- Japanese Proverb

Heredity is something every man believes in until his own son begins acting like a darn fool!
          -- Old Postcard 


He is most cheated who cheats himself.
          -- Danish Proverb

Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it.
          -- John Steinbeck 


A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
          -- Victor Borge 


Enjoy yourself; it's later than you think.
          -- Chinese Proverb

Enjoy life: this is not a rehearsal.
          -- Bumper sticker 


A man's worst enemies can't wish on him what he can think up himself.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
          -- Paul Eldridge 


Broken eggs can never be mended.
          -- New England Proverb

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
          -- H.R. Haldeman (on Watergate) 


Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.
          -- Portuguese Proverb

When guests stay too long, try treating them like members of the family.  If they don't leave then, they never will.
          -- Martin Ragaway 


Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he does to himself.
          -- Yiddish Proverb

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
          -- A.J. Liebling 


In the land of hope, there is never any winter.
          -- Russian Proverb

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
          -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson 



Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
        -- Aldous Huxley
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