Eight good quotes,proverbs or sayings

1.I can't write five words but that I change seven.-Dorothy Parker
2.Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.-H.L.Mencken(1880-1956)
3.Listen to all,plucking a feather from every passing goose,but follow noone absolutely.-Chinese proverb
4.Like the greedy merchants of bazaars,if we get out of life what we ask for,we are unhappy for not having asked for more.-Paul Eldridge
5.To have striven,to have made an effort,to have been true to certain ideals----this alone is worth the
struggle.We are here to add what we can to,noty to get what we can from life.-William Osler.
6.You know the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens.-Prospector Bob Curtin in''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
7.Rats know the way of rats.-Chinese proverb
8.All books are either dreams or swords.-Amy Lowell.