Five good quotes and proverbs

1.The soul would have no rainbow,had the eyes no tears.-Anonymous
2.There are many paths to the top of the mountain,but the view is always the same.-Chinese proverb
3.We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned,so as to have the life that is waiting for us.-Joseph Campbell
4.True friendship is never serene.-Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
5.Melancholy,indeed,should be diverted by every means but drinking.-Samuel Johnson

Six good quotes and proverbs

1.Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.-Bernard Malamud
2.I am a pessimist because of intelligence,but an optimist of will.-Antonio Gramsci
3.Patriotism is not so much protecting the land of our fathers as preserving the land of our children.-Jose Ortega
4.Write in sand the flaws of your friend.-Pythagoras
5.Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves.-Slovakian proverb
6.Do not employ handsome servants.-Chinese proverb

A good quote and a good proverb

1.If you don't know the truth about yourself,you cannot tell it about other people.-Virginia Woolf
2.The big thieves hang the little thieves.-Czech proverb

Three good quotes and proverbs

1.Crows everywhere are equally black.-Chinese proverb
2.Size matters not.-Yoda,from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
3.One dog barks at something,the rest bark at him.-Chinese proverb

Three good proverbs or quotes

1.The best armor is to keep out of range.-Italian proverb
2.Holding a violin is like holding a young bird.IT is vibrating under your touch and you must hold it without squeezing it.It is a good thing to cultivate the feeling of those sympathetic vibrations in dealing with people.-Sir Yehudi Menuhin
3.Start to write and let one thing lead to another.-Ring Lardner

Six good quotations

1.We are a people who seek to know everything about the stars except why they were once regarded as divine.-Theodore Rooszak
2.I haven't a clue how my story will end.But that's all right.When you set out on a journey and night covers the road,you don't conclude that the road has vanished.And how else could we discover the stars?-Nancy Willard
3.There is no distance too far between friends ,for friendship gives wings to the heart.-Kathy Kay Benudiz
4.Do not be concerned with things outside your door.-Chinese proverb
5.The only gift is a portion of yourself.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
6.Originality does demand courage,the courage to become a person who is able to know his or her experience deeply,who is willing to feel and question feeling,to dig for what the truth of a moment is,including the truth that may contradict external fact.-Jane Hirshfield

Five good proverbs and quotes

1.Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.-Chinese proverb
2.To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.-Raoul Vaneigem,Belgian philosopher.
3.The first reward of justice is the consciousness that we are acting justly.-Rousseau
4.They are the beachcombers of misery,who see each grievance as a treasure to add to their collection.-Willard Gavlin,M.D.
5.A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing.The waste basket has evolved for a reason.Think of it as the altar of the Muse
oblivion,to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts,the tokens of your human imperfection.-Margaret Atwood

Two good quotations

1.Fine art is that in which the hand,the head and the heart go together.-John Ruskin
2.Live your life as an exclamation,not as an explanation.-Life's Little Instruction Book.

11 good quotes or proverbs

1.Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.-Henry David Thoreau.
2.Inner beauty won't get you laid.-Bumper sticker
3.Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.-Sigmund Freud
4.There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.-E.V.Lucas
5.Come forth into the light of things and let nature be your teacher.-William Wordsworth
6.Who depends on another man's table often dines late.-Italian proverb
7.Drink coffee.Do stupid things faster with more energy.
8.The `philosphic mind' is that which habitually sees general in the particular ,and finds food for deepest thought in the simplest objects.-Leslie Stephen(1832-1904)
9.Shoot for the moon.Even if you miss,you'll land among the stars.-Les Brown
10.It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.-Duke Ellington
11.All things good to know are difficult to learn.-Greek proverb

Three good quotes and proverbs

1.Men fight for liberty,and win it with hard knocks.Their children,brought up easy,let it slip away again,poor fools.And their grandchildren are once more slaves.-D.H.Lawrence
2.Where there are no tigers,a wild cat is very self-important.-Korean proverb
3.Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.-Arthur Miller

10 good quotations or proverbs

1.Where there is love,there is pain.-Spanish proverb
2.It is not what a teenager knows that bothers his parenyts,it is how he found out.
3.The writer must write what he has to say,not speak it.-Ernest Hemmingway.
4.Where there are no swamps there are no frogs.-German proverb
5.Our enemies teach us life's most valuable lessons.-Chinese proverb
6.A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.Raymond Carver
7.I'm exaggerating so you'll get to know me faster.-Amy Hempel
8.A white wall is the fool's paper.-French proverb
9.If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech,there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it.But if public opinion is sluggish,inconvenient minorities will be persecuted,even if laws exist to protect them.-George Orwell.
10.It is always well to accept your shortcomings with candour but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.-Russell Lynes

Four good proverbs or quotes

1.You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.-Peter Matthiessen
2.A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.-Ancient proverb
3.The better the artist,the more vulnerable he seems to be.-Al Alvarez
4.A functioning police state needs no police.-William Burroughs

Seven good quotes or proverbs

1.Order moves slowly but surely;disorder always in a hurry.-Chinese proverb
2.Where there is a sea there are pirates.-Greek proverb
3.After three days without reading,talk becomes flavorless.-Chinese proverb
4.The great gift is a passion for reading.It is cheap,it consoles,it distracts,it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is moral illumination.-Elizbeth Hardwick
5.A functioning police state needs no plice.-William Burroughs
6.The better the artist,the more vunerable he seems to be.-Al Alvarez
7.To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men.-Thomas Jefferson

Six good quotes and proverbs

1.Spend each moment perfecting the next,not correcting the last.-Scott Michael Durski
2.The will of man is his happiness.-Friedrich Von Schiller
3.Where ambition begins happiness ends.-Hungarian proverb
4.What is fated to be yours will always return to you.-Chinese proverb
5.Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.-Anon
6.Opportunity may knock only once,but temptation leans on the doorbell.-Anon.

Five good quotes

1.An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think,feels more than there is to feel,and sees more than there is to see.-John Oliver Hobbes
2.If life were just,we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it.-Jim Fiebig
3.Time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.-Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
4.Life is a great big canvas,and you should throw all the paint on it you can.-Danny Kaye
5.The things taught in school are not an education but a means to an education.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some more great quotations and proverbs

1.The way to find your true self is by recklessness and freedom.-Brenda Ueland
2.In a crisis people grow wisdom.-Chinese proverb
3.Take pride in how far you have come,have faith in how far you can go.-Anonymous
4.To me real courage is metaphysical and has to do with keeping one's passion for life intact,one's curiosity at full stretch,when one is daily hemmed in by death,disease,and lesser mayhems of the heart.-Diane Ackerman.

A slathering of great quotes and witticisms

1.If something is not beautiful,it is probably not true.-Poet John Keats
2.You develop a style from writing a lot.-Kurt Vonnegut
3.If you want to upset the law that all crows are black,you musn't show that no crows are;it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.-William James
4.In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.They come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
5.Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.-William Saroyan,American writer,born Aug 31,1908.
6.But I am a great eater of beef,and I believe that does harm to my wit.-William Shakespeare,TWELFTH NIGHT.
7.Virtue,like gold,is stronger when alloyed with a baser metal.-Samuel Butler,THE WAY OF ALL FLESH.
8.It's very hard to get your heart and head together in life.In my case,they're not even friendly.-Woody Allen,CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.
9.Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
what I was walling in or walling out.-Robert Frost,`Mending Wall'
10.All great truths begin as blasphemies.-George Bernard Shaw

More interesting quotes,sayings and slogans

1.A T-shirt slogan I recently saw in MontreaL:My anger management class pisses me off.
2.Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.-Golda Meir
3.Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.-Cyril Connolly
4.There is entirely too much charm around,and something must be done to stop it.-Dorothy Parker
5.The harder you fall,the higher you bounce.
6.When a proud man hears another praised,he feels himself injured.-English proverb
7.Enough shovels of earth:a mountain.
Enough pails of water:a river.-Chinese proverb
8.In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances you were born with.-Amy Tan
9.The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain.-Kahlil Gibran
10.Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.-Ashanti
11.When in doubt,Gallop.-Proverb of the French foreign legion
12.Young children have no sense of wonder.They bewilder well but few things surprise them.-Annie Dillard
13.I envy people who can just look at a sunset.I wonder how you can shoot it.There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.-Dustin Hoffman
14.When you drink from the stream,remember the spring.-Chinese proverb
15.I would rather be attacked than unnoticed.For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.-Samuel Johnson
16.When you have only two pennies left in the world,buy a loaf of bread with one,and a lily with the other.-Chinese proverb
17.When you go to buy,use your eyes,not your ears.-Czech proverb
18.When we cannot get what we love,we must love what is within our reach.-French proverb

A few good quotes and proverbs

1.Fortune comes in many disguises.-Chinese proverb
2.Life is ours to be spent,not to be saved.-D.H.Lawrence
3.One's merits should not be hindrance to one's progress.-Chinese proverb
4.A moment is a lifetime----but only for a moment.-Anonymous
5.Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.-Kahlil Gibran
6.A noble ancestry cannot guarantee a noble character.-Chinese proverb