Some thought-stirring quotes and proverbs

1.It is never too late to be what you might have been.-George Eliot.
2.A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.-Jackie Kennedy.
3.A night without moon or stars is like an ignorant mind.-Chinese proverb.
4.Life is too short to be little.-Disraeli
5.Who punishes one threatens a hundred.-French proverb
6.The true test of character is not how much we know how to do,but how we behave when we don't know what to do.-John Holt.
7.Whose bread I eat his song I sing.-German proverb.
8.Who seeks a friend without faults dies alone.-Turkish proverb
9.Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.-Chinese proverb.

Two quotes

1.The moment of change is the only poem.
2.To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.-Eric Hoffer

Thoughful quotes

1.Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet.It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.-Linda Hogan
2.All of writing is a huge lake.There are great rivers that feed the lake,like Tolstoy and Dosteovsky.And there are mere trickles,like Jean Rhys.All that matters is feeding the lake.I don't matter.The lake matters.-Jean Rhys.
3.Who gossips to you will gossip of you.-Turkish proverb
4.Be not afraid of growing slowly,be only afraid of standing still.-Chinese proverb
5.Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered.Be ruthless and refuse to do what other people ask of you.-Lynne
Sharon Schwartz
6.You're much more likely to be attacked by lightning or by your own toilet than you are by a shark.-Peter Benchley(1940-2006) who wrote the novel JAWS upon which the 1975 movie of the same name by Steven Spielberg was based.A masterpiece was what Benchley wrote.He will be missed.

Other clever quotes and proverbs

1.What is true by firelight is not always true by daylight.-French proverb
2.Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.-Persian proverb
3.None of us is as smart as all of us.-Phil Smart
4.You can never plan the future by the past.-Edmund Burke
5.Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.-Kahlil Gibran
6.You can't help getting older,but you don't have to get old.-George Burns
7.In America,it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.-Russell Baker

Bunch of interesting quotes and proverbs I found

1.Who is not ashamed doubles his sins.-German proverb
2.Success is paralyzing only to those who have never wished for anything else.-Thornton Wilder
3.Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.-Groucho Marx
4.Life is hard.After all,it kills you.-Katherine Hepburn.
5.It is always easier to believe than to deny.Our minds are naturally affirmative.-John Burroughs
6.Who accepts nothing has nothing to return.-German proverb
7.When a leopard dies,he leaves his coat.When a man dies,he leaves his name.-Chinese proverb.
8.Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.-George Sewell.
9.A known enemy is dangerous,but a false friend is worse.-Chinese proverb.
10.When a blind man carries a lame man,they both go forward.-Swedish proverb
11.Without the fire of enthusiasm there is no warmth in victory.-Chinese proverb

Three other good quotes

1.There was never a night or problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.-Bern Williams
2.An overcrowded chicken farm produces fewer eggs.-Chinese proverb
3.A good memory constitutes about 70 percent of what commonly passes for genius.-Hesketh Pearson.

Some other interesting quotes or proverbs I discovered

1.The stitch is lost unless the thread is knotted.-Italian proverb
2.Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.-Martin Luther king JR.
3.A man must despise himself before others will.-Chinese proverb.
4.You can delegate authority,but not responsibility.-Stephen W.Comiskey.
5.Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.-Italian proverb
6.Swimming for his life,a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.-W.E.Gladstone,1868.
7.Never fight an inanimate object.P.J O'Rourke
8.There are three classes of men:lovers of wisdom,lovers of honor and lovers of gain.-Plato(Which one are you,I ask)
9.Character builds slowly,but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.-Faith Baldwin

Some thought-provoking quotes I found

1.Life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar.-(I saw this scrawled on a bench in the library).
2It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world.Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed,warm fog.-Joseph Conrad
3.Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.-Oscar Wilde.

Some other quotes and proverbs I like

1.The silent dog is the first to bite.-Old proverb.
2.Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.-Hugh Prather.
3.Rotten wood cannot be carved.-Chinese proverb
4.When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.-Eleanor Roosevelt.
5.Every writer is a cell in the body politic of America.-Sharon OLds.

Some quotes that make one think

1.Every form of addiction is bad,no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.-Carl Jung
2.Nothing happens until first we dream.-Carl Sandburg.
3.There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.-Gilbert Keith Kesterton
4.Marriage is one long conversation,checkered by disputes.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
5.Common sense goes further than a lot of learning.-Chinese proverb.
6.Go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth,however hard.-May Sarton
7.Journalism is popular,but it is popular mainly as fiction.-G.K.Chesterton