11 great quotes or proverbs

1.The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight,when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.-Persian proverb
2.Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.-Swedish proverb
3.A good fortune may forebode a bad luck,which in turn disguise a good fortune.-Chinese proverb
4.The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.-William Boyd,quoted in THE SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON
5.After all,when you come right down to it,how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?-Russell Hoban
6.Good manners are a part of good morals;and it is as much our duty as our interest to practice both.-John Hunter
7.Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis.-Ernest Weekley,British philologist,THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,1929.
8.Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.-Henry David Thoreau
9.One forgets words as one forgets names.One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.-Evelyn Waugh,English novelist,THE DIARIES OF EVELYN WAUGH
10.Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity--but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.-Earl Warren
11.Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.-Chinese proverb