Tuesday, August 15, 2006

More quotes for proverb and contemplation

1.Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.-French proverb
2.You do best what you like most.-CHinese proverb
3.A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.-American proverb
4.The tongue ever returns to the aching tooth-English proverb
5.A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.-Herman Melville
6.Whining is not only graceless,but can be dangerous.It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.-Maya Angelou
7.Never miss a good chance to shut up.-Will Rogers
8.To be complex does not mean to be fragmented.This is the paradox and genius of our Canadian civilisation.-Adrienne Clarkson
9.A mob is humanity going the wrong way.-Frank Lloyd Wright
10.He who rides the tiger can never dismount.-Chinese proverb
11.Do you know what the death rate around here is?One per person
12.Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.-Jameson Frank
13.Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.-J.Paul Getty
14.Grain is the treasure of all treasures.-Chinese proverb
15.Trees often transplanted never prosper.-Arab proverb
16.To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach,is the great art of life.-William James
17.I have no respect for the passion of equality,which seems to me mrerely idealizing envy.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
18.I write books to find out about things.-Rebecca West
19.Spread the table and contention will cease.-English proverb
20.Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another happy.-H.L.Mencken
21.If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing,how poor we would be.-Antonio Porchia
22.The world is round and the place that may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.-Ivy Baker Priest
23.Strew no roses before swine.-Dutch proverb
24.A weasel comes to say Happy New Year to the chickens.-Chinese proverb
25.Though a tree grows so high,the falling leaves return to the root.-Malay proverb
26.Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.-Chinese proverb

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