A waterfall of quotes and proverbs

1.If you can't bite,don't show your teeth.-Yiddish proverb
2.Paper can't wrap up a fire.-Chinese proverb
3.If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two.-Chinese proverb
4.Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges,over which they invite their students to cross;then having facilitated their crossing,joyfully collapse ,encouraging them to create bridges of their own.-Nikos Kazantzakis
5.If you do not have patience you cannot make beer.-African (Ovambo) proverb
6.There is only one real deprivation,and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.-May Sarton
7.Only skydivers know why the birds sing.
8.Look to the skies!They are ever changing.
9.We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment;if only for a moment.-May Sarton
10.Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.-Lawrence Durrell
11.The minute one utters a certainty,the opposite comes to mind.-May Sarton,Mrs.Stevens Hears The Mermaids Singing,1965
12.If you stand straight,do not fear a crooked shadow.-Chinese proverb
13.Things don't change.You change your way of looking,that's all.-Carlos Castaneda
14.The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,as in what direction we are moving.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
15.For everything you have missed,you have gained something else.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
16.If you share your friend's crime you make it your own.-Roman proverb
17.If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision,don't drink it.-Chinese proverb