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• German
  • "A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."
  • "He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup."
  • "He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind."
• Japanese
  • "The reverse side also has a reverse side."
  • "If you believe everything you read, better not read."
• Chinese
  • "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
  • "To talk goodness is not good... Only to do it is."
  • "Experience is the comb which nature gives us when we are bald."
  • "Don't use an ax to remove a fly from a friend's forehead."
  • "Only he who has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep."
  • "I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet."
  • "The one-legged never stumble"
  • "A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not notice them."
  • "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."
  • "I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one."
• Yiddish
  • "If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides."
  • "Lose an hour in the morning, chase it all day."
  • "A wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than a fool when he speaks."
  • "Love is sweet, but tastes best with bread."
  • "A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal."
• English
  • "Advice when most needed is least heeded."
  • "Gratefulness is the poor man's payment."
  • "Poetry is the mirror of the soul."
  • "The mob has many heads but no brains."
• Danish
  • "He who leaps must take a long run"
• Italian
  • "Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another."
  • "Tell not all you know, believe not all you hear, do not all you are able."
• Spanish
  • "A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance."
  • "Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."
  • "In a calm sea, every man is a pilot."
• Persian
  • "He who wants a rose must respect the thorn."

• 14-7 Leave the presence if a fool, for there you do not meet the words of knowledge.
• 14-13 Even in laughter the heart is sad, at the end of joy is grief.
• 14-24 The crown of the wise is their wisdom, but folly is the garland of fools.
• 23 (1-4) When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you; and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are a deceptive food.
• 26-7 Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
• 27-1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

• When you're in it up to your neck, keep your mouth closed.
• He who slings mud, looses ground.
• The person who rows the boat generally doesn't have time to rock it.
• Every time you regret keeping silent, there'll be a hundred times you regret speaking.
• Never argue with a fool, he might be doing the same thing.
• Beauty is skin deep, but ugliness goes clear to the bone.
• Opportunity knocks while temptation kicks the door in.
• Never confuse an open mind with one that's vacant.
• An optimist is never pleasantly surprised.
• Moderation is good as long as you don't overdo it.
• After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.
• There was an educational channel in the good old days; it was called 'off'.
• We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
• A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
• A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.
• The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
• Many a man's tongue has broken his nose.
• He who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.

• George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
  • "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
  • "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
  • "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
  • "Lack of money is the root of all evil."
  • "England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
  • "You see things as they are; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"
• William Blake
  • "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence."
  • "If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."
  • "What is now proved was once only imagin'd."
  • "The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
  • "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
  • "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
  • "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
  • "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  • "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
  • "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
  • "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
  • "Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
  • "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
  • "The important thing is not to stop questioning."
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
  • "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left over by those who hustle."
  • "I do not know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
  • "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
  • "'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
  • "I am not young enough to know everything."
  • "It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
  • "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
  • "I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability."
  • "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
  • "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
  • "Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much."
  • "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
  • "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
• Voltaire (1694-1778)
  • "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."
  • "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
  • "Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
  • "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

There are two rules for success... 1) Never tell everything you know.

Roger H. Lincoln

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

William James

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Anna Freud

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Horatio Nelson

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Elmer G. Leterman

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money amongst themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Billy Wilder

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Granville Hicks (1901-1982)

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Wilson Mizner

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Herman Melville

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Alexandre Dumas

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Pat Paulsen

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Thomas Jones

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Lawrence J. Peter

Is there life before death?

Belfast Graffito

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S. Truman

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Paul Fix

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James B. Cabell

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Don Marquis

If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorthy Parker

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Russell Baker

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Robert Graves

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson on ESP

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

John Benfield

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard F. Burton

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

Dale Carnegie

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

Blake Clark

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

Bruce Cockburn

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Dandemis

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Clarence Darrow

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

Segal's Law

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

Olin Miller

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

Charles Schulz

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitler

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Russell Baker

The average person thinks he isn't.

Father Larry Lorenzoni

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Miss Manners (Judith Martin)

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Sacha Guitry

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An adult is just an obsolete child.

Dr. Seuss

Life can be as bitter as Dragon Tears, but whether Dragon Tears are bitter or sweet depends entirely upon how each man perceives the taste.

Dean Koontz

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Theodore Dreiser

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Heraclitas

I order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Lewis Stevenson

It is hard to beleive a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H.L. Mencken

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is the wisdom of a fool and the folly of the wise.

Dr. Samuel Johnson

The search for happiness is one of the cheif sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

H.W. Longfellow (1819-1892)

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

Alain De Lille, Parabolae

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Christopher Marlowe

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he has inflicted upon men, He would kill himself.

Alexander Dumas