WEB GRAFFITI ZINE
Proverbs I
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows all the corners.
PROVERBS I
-- Irish ProverbIf youth only knew; if age only could.
-- Henri Estienne
The best gifts are those which expect no return.
-- Norwegian ProverbThe 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 ProverbThe 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 ProverbTo 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 ProverbBe 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 ProverbLord, 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 ProverbFriends are relatives you make for yourself.
-- Eustache Deschamps
Advice should be viewed from behind.
-- Swedish ProverbAdvice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.
-- Walt Schmidt
Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.
-- Scottish ProverbEvery 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 ProverbIf 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 ProverbChildren 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 ProverbSometimes 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 ProverbDo not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-- Elbert Hubbard
An empty purse frightens away friends.
-- English ProverbOne 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 ProverbThe 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 ProverbThe 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 ProverbHow old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
-- Satchell Paige
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
-- Italian ProverbInjustice 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 ProverbI am a part of all I have read.
-- John Kieran
A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
-- Scottish ProverbIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
-- Goethe
Each day provides its own gifts.
-- American ProverbThe future is purchased by the present.
-- Samuel Johnson
To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.
-- Japanese ProverbThat 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 ProverbSorrow 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 ProverbThe thoughtless are rarely wordless.
-- Howard W. Newton
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
-- Swedish ProverbIn prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
-- John Churton Collins
A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard.
-- English ProverbI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
-- John Donne
One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.
-- Italian ProverbThe eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus
Each day provides its own gifts.
-- American ProverbThe future comes one day at a time.
-- Dean Acheson
A camel never sees its own hump.
-- African ProverbIt is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.
-- R.S. Trapp
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
-- Caucasian Mountain ProverbVictory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon
If I am like others, who will be like me?
-- Yiddish ProverbBe 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 ProverbKeep changing. When you're through changing, you're through.
-- Bruce Barton
Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
-- French ProverbEvery 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 ProverbThe 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 ProverbEvery 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 ProverbHeredity 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 ProverbMan 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 ProverbSanta Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
-- Victor Borge
Enjoy yourself; it's later than you think.
-- Chinese ProverbEnjoy 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 ProverbIf 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 ProverbOnce 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 ProverbWhen 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 ProverbIf 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 ProverbHope 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