Friday, January 12, 2007

A cavalcade of quotes and proverbs

1.Virtue travels uphill,vice travels downhill.-Chinese proverb
2.The enemy of my enemy is my friend.-Arab proverb
3.If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self,egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.-Arnold Bennett
4.Enjoy yourself.It's later than you think.-Chinese proverb
5.Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.-Gretta Brooker Palmer
6.Disease can be cured;fate is incurable.-Chinese proverb
7.Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating,but it ain't so,it's the sickening grammar they use.-Mark Twain
8.I don't know the best things until I write.-Leslie Marmon Silko
9.Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness.If he listens to it and acts on it,he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.-Pablo Casals
10.It doesn't matter who my father was;it matters who I remember he was.-Anne Sexton
11.Eating and scratching want but a beginning.-Romanian proverb
12.In nothing do men more nearly approach the Gods than by doing good to their fellow man.-Cicero
13.One courts misfortune by flaunting wealth.-Chinese proverb
14.Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls.-Philippine proverb

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