A sprinkling of new quotes and proverbs

1.A good painter need not give a name to his picture,a bad 0ne must.-Polish proverb
2.Better to learn one thing well than to know ten superficially.-Chinese proverb
3.Oh,the worst of all tragedies is not to die young,but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.-Martin Luther King Jr.
4.Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.-Stanislaw Lec

Some nice quotes and proverbs for Sunday

1.Be who you are and say what you feel.Those who mind don't matter ,and those that matter
don't mind.-Dr.Seuss
2.History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.-B.C.Forbes
3.God will be present,whether asked or not.-Latin proverb
4.Of all the stratagems,to know when to quit is the best.-Chinese proverb
5.As long as people accept crap,it will be financially profitable to dispense it.-Dick Cavett













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A few more quotes or proverbs

1.Those who spend all their time talking will have no time to think.-Chinese proverb
2.Get what you can and keep what you have;that's the way to get rich.-Scottish proverb
3.It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.-George Santayana
5.Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.-Napoleon Hill.

A Serving of interesting quotes or proverbs

1.We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt.-Chinese proverb
2.The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.-Japanese proverb
3.Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art,it is the part the schools cannot recognize.-Pauline Kael
4.A myth is a religion in which noone any longer believes.-James Feibleman
5.Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.-Marshall McLuhan

Some insightful quotes or proverbs

1.Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.-Terry Pratchett
2.We are more alike,than unalike.-Maya Angelou
3.How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares were there any danger of them coming true.-Logan Pearsall Smith
4.From a thorn comes a rose,and from a rose comes a thorn.-Greek proverb
5.To abandon something halfway is to fail completely.-Chinese proverb
6.Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.-Gloria Steinem
7.Writing is the only thing that,when I do it,I don't feel I should be doing something else.-Gloria Steinem
8.Whatever creativity is,it is in part a solution to a problem.-Brian Aldriss
9.If an idea is important enough it is worth laughing at.-British playwright Alan Plater
10.From a fallen tree,all make kindling.-Spanish proverb
11.Man is the main source of his own misery.-Chinese proverb
12.In dreams begins responsibility.-William Butler Yeats
13.The major advances in civilisation are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.-Alfred North Whitehead
14.Regular feet can't be affected by irregular shoes.-Chinese proverb
15.There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me,but this one thing I've found to be true:Writing begets writing.-Dorianne Laux

Edifying quotes or proverbs

1.Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.-John W.Gardner
2.Fall seven times,stand up eight.-Japanese proverb
3.There is no point getting into a panic about the risks of life until you have compared the risks that worry you with the risks that do not.-British academic Lord Rothschild,1978
4.Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that,but the really great make you feel that you,too,can become great.-Mark Twain
5.Most "geniuses" are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.-Joel Achenbach

Some clever quotes or proverbs

1.Reshape one's foot to try to fit into a new shoe.-Chinese proverb
2.The eyes are the window of the soul.-English proverb(or Voltaire-no)
3.The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.-Eleanor Roosevelt
4.Question:Man invented alcohol,God invented Grass.
Who do you trust
5.In the end,all books are written for your friends.-Gabriel Marcia Marquez
6.It is a sad truth that everyone is a bore to someone.-Llewellyn Miller in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ETIQUETTE(1968)
7.Every child is an artist.The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.-Pablo Picasso

Seven good quotes,slogans and proverbs

1.If we had to say what writing is,we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.-Cynthia Ozick
2.When I transfer my knowledge,I teach,When I transfer my beliefs I indoctrinate.-US philosopher Arthur Danto
3.The old horse will know the way.-Chinese proverb
4.Question:Man invented Alcohol,God Invented Grass.
What do you trust
5.Every invalid is a doctor.-Irish proverb
6.After a certain number of years,our faces become our biographies.-Cynthia Ozick
7.Traveling is seeing;it is the implicit that we travel by.-Cynthia Ozick

Seven good quotes or proverbs

1.Nothing is so exhausting as indecision,and nothing is so futile.-Bertrand Russell
2.Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through.-Jonathan Swift
3.Since we got to be here,let's live.-Marvin Gaye
4.If a writer stops observing,he is finished.Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.-Ernest Hemmingway
5.Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.-Swedish proverb
6.It is the habitual thought that frames itself into our life.It affects us even more than our intimate social relations do.Our confidential friends have not so much to do in shaping our lives as the thoughts which we harbor.-J.W.Teal
7.Once the public decides what you are,you might as well give up trying to be anything else.-Burt Lancaster

Twelve great quotes or proverbs

1.The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid,stable profession.-John Steinbeck
2.Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby.-African(Zulu) proverb
3.Science may have found a cure for most evils;but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all----the apathy of human beings.-Helen Keller
4.Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear,what we need to become conscious of,or what we need to master.-Jean Shinoda Bolen
5.Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.-Belgian proverb
6.A kiss can be a comma,a question mark,or an exclamation point.-Misstinguett
7.And life is what we make it,always has been,always will be.-Grandma Moses
8.Don't offer me advice;give me money.-Spanish proverb
9.Ideas are harder to change than leaders.That may be because they matter more.-Historian Desmond Morton
10.Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences.Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.-Isaac Bashevis Singer
11.I don't like money.I don't like Aspirin.But,it seems,I always need both,sometimes for the same reason.-Alexander Woolcott
12.The saving man becomes a free man.-Chinese proverb

Two good quotes

1.Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.-Dr.Karl Menninnger
2.Writers don't need sticks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the smartest fellows on the block.At the risk of appearing foolish,a writer sometimes needs to be able to just stand and gape at this or that thing--a sunset or an old shoe-in absolute and simple amazement.-Raymond Carver

12 great quotes or proverbs for a rainy day in Montreal

1.Character may be manufactured in the great moments,but it is made in the small ones.-Phyllis Brooks
2.Do not push the river;it will flow by itself.-Polish proverb
3.Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.-Milton Friedman
4.He didn't know the right people.That's all a police record means in this rotten,crime-ridden country.-Raymond Chandler
5.I have found over the years that my writing has more courage than I do.-Linda Hogan
6.Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened.-Egyptian proverb
7.Some people are moulded by their admirations,others by their hostilities.-Elizabeth Bowen
8.A dimple in the chin;a devil within.-Irish proverb
9.Do not answer a fool according to his folly,or you will be like him yourself.-Miscellaneous proverb
10.Writers don't need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the smartest fellows on the block.At the risk of appearing foolish,a writer sometimes needs to be able to just stand and gape at this or that thing-a sunset or an old shoe--in absolute and simple amazement.-Raymond Chandler
11.Children are a poor man's wealth.-Danish proverb
12.Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.-Edward Harriman

12 great quotes or proverbs for a rainy day in Montreal

1.Character may be manufactured in the great moments,but it is made in the small ones.-Phyllis Brooks
2.Do not push the river;it will flow by itself.-Polish proverb
3.Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.-Milton Friedman
4.He didn't know the right people.That's all a police record means in this rotten,crime-ridden country.-Raymond Chandler
5.I have found over the years that my writing has more courage than I do.-Linda Hogan
6.Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened.-Egyptian proverb
7.Some people are moulded by their admirations,others by their hostilities.-Elizabeth Bowen
8.A dimple in the chin;a devil within.-Irish proverb
9.Do not answer a fool according to his folly,or you will be like him yourself.-Miscellaneous proverb
10.Writers don't need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the smartest fellows on the block.At the risk of appearing foolish,a writer sometimes needs to be able to just stand and gape at this or that thing-a sunset or an old shoe--in absolute and simple amazement.-Raymond Chandler
11.Children are a poor man's wealth.-Danish proverb
12.Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.-Edward Harriman

Four great quotations or proverbs

1.Beauty without virtue is as a flower without perfume.-French proverb
2.Liberty is always dangerous,but it is the safest thing we have.-Harry Emerson Fosdick
3.Having smoking sections in restaurants is like having urinating and non-urinating sections in swimming pools.-Garfield Mahood
4.There is truth at the bottom of it-every woman should be fat enough to stand the strain of life.-Elizabeth Arden

A waterfall of nice quotes or proverbs

1.Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.-Chinese proverb
2.Better to bend than to break.-Scotts proverb
3.In Canada,the colder the winter is,the warmer the people are.-Jean Charest
4.Pollution will be recognized as a serious problem when it interferes with the Tv reception.-Hugh Arscott
5.I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle.I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment,on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for-whether it's a field or a home,or a country.-Thornton Wilder
6.People always laugh at the fool things you try to do,until they discover you are making money out of them.-Bob Edwards.

Cascade of great quotes and quotations

1.A man of leisure will never taste the fruit of success.-Chinese proverb
2.The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.-Joseph Campbell
3.Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.-Latin proverb
4.Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts.-Czech proverb
5.And while the future's there for anyone to change,still you know it seems
It would be easier sometimes to change the past.-Jackson Browne,Lines from his song 'FOUNTAIN OF SORROW.'
6.Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate over principles.-George Jean Nathan
7.All punishment is mischief:all punishment in itself is evil.-Jeremy Bentham
8.To be mature means to face and not evade,every fresh crisis that comes.-Fritz Kunkel
9.Many good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.-Dorothy Parker
10.Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.-L.M.Boyd
11.What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.-Edward Langley
12.Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.-Andrew Young
13.In Canada,the colder the winter is,the warmer people are.-Quebec premier Jean Char