A hail of quotes and proverbs for Sunday

1.Good writing is like a windowpane.-George Orwell
2.I thoroughly disapprove of duels.If a man should challenge me,I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.-Mark Twain(1835-1910)
3.One hand alone cannot clap,it takes two to quarrel.-Chinese proverb
4.Difficulties are meant to rouse,not discourage.The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.-William Ellen Channing.
5.The eyes believe themselves;the ears believe other people.-German proverb
6.It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.-Randall Jarrell(1914-1965)

A shipment of quotes and proverbs

1.My best creation is my children.-Diane Von Furstenberg
2.Every road has two directions.-Russian proverb
3.Reviewing the old and deducing the new makes a teacher.-Chinese proverb
4.The best way to suppose what may come is to remember what is past.-Lord Halifax(1633-1695)
5.Again,foul weather will not change my mind,but in the shade I believe what in the sun I loved.-Henry David Thoreau
6.Man has two ears and one tongue so that he may listen twice as much as he speaks.-Chinese proverb
7.Everything goes to him who wants nothing.-French proverb
8.Man did not weave the web of life,he is merely a strand in it.Whatever he does to the web,he does to himself.-Chief Seattle
9.In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxury and necessaries.-J.k.Galbraith

Tidbit about US population

The population of the USA IN 1776 was 2.5 million people;in 2007 the USA has 302 million people.

A spray of quotes and proverbs

1.Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.-Lord Hervey(1696-1743)
2.The object of the superior man is truth.-Confucius
3.Every animal knows more than you do.-Native American proverb(Nez Perce)
4.Before everything else,getting ready is the secret of success.-Henry Ford
5.It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.-C.W.Leadbeater
6.Every lion has to defend himself against flies.-German proverb

A squirt of quotes and proverbs

1.Nothing you write,if you hope to be good,will ever come out as you first hoped.-Lillian Hellman
2.If you wish to know the mind of a man,listen to his words.-Chinese proverb
3.Dwell not upon thy weariness,thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.-Arab proverb
4.Don't build a new ship out of old wood.-Chinese proverb
5.Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.-Arthur Schopenhauer
6.Things are Okay when the things you complain about are the things you used to dream about.-Tv screen writer Aaron Sorkin recalls an acquaintance's remarks
7.You can run with the dogs or sit on the porch and bark.-Wallace Arnold
8.Values are tapes we play on the walkman of the mind:any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.-Jonathan Sacks,THE PERSISTENCE OF FAITH
9.The wise man questions himself;the fool others.-Henri Arnold
10.Be quite still and solitary.The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.It has no choice.It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.-Franz Kafka
11.Mend the pen only after the sheep are all gone.-Chinese proverb
12.Eat and drink with your relatives;do business with strangers.-Greek proverb
13.Everyone has talent.What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.-Erica Jong

Seven fine quotes and proverbs

1.Better to be too skeptical than to be too trusting.-Chinese proverb
2.The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness,only the pursuit of it.You have to catch up with it yourself.-Benjamin Franklin
3.Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.-Kurdish proverb
4.There are few things more painful than to recognize one's own faults in others.-John Wells
5.We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence,then,is not an act,but a habit.-Aristotle
6.Do not lenghten the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.-Latin proverb
7.I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,reason ,and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.-Galileo Galilei

A farrago of quotes and proverbs

1.Better one word too few than one too many.-Maltese proverb
2.There is no cure for birth or death,save to enjoy the interval.-George Santayana
3.Don't fall before you're pushed.-English proverb
4.I will never be an old man.To me,old age is always fifteen years older than I am.-Bernard Baruch
5.The dumber people think you are,the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.-William Clayton
6.A saint is good who wanders constantly.Water is good which flows continuously.-Punjabi proverb
7.Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.-English proverb
8.There is no end to what you can accomplish if (or when)you don't care who gets the credit.-Florence Luscomb
9.Do not have each foot on a different boat.-Chinese proverb
10.I don't know if God exists,but it would be better for His reputation if he didn't.-Jules Renard
11.Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.-Philip Roth

A hodge-podge of interesting quotes and proverbs

1.Don't let sorrow come higher than your knees.-Swedish proverb
2.It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.-Voltaire(1694-1778)
3.Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.-Bernard DeVoto
4.A wise man knows everything,a shrewd one everybody.-Anonymous
5.Harsh words and poor reasoning never settle anything.-Chinese proverb
6.Being empty is the beginning.-Sue Bender
7.The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will,and the other from a strong won't.-Henry Ward Beecher
8.A gem cannot be polished without friction,nor a man perfected without trials.-Chinese proverb
9.It is natural for human beings to want impossible things:excitement and a quiet life,freedom and security,truth and a picture of the world that flatters their sense of self-importance.-John Gray,author of BLACK MASS:APOCALYPTIC RELIGION AND THE DEATH OF UTOPIA.

A brood of quotes and proverbs

1.Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious.It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.Gossip is the tool of the poet,the shop-talk of the scientist and the consolation of the
housewife,wit,tycoon and intellectual.It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.-Author Phyllis McGinley
2.It is a curious thing that people only ask you if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.-Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
3.Happy people don't need to have fun.-Jean Stafford
4.Do not bathe if there is no water.-Shane proverb
5.You can only go halfway into the darkest forest;then you are coming out the other side.-Chinese proverb
6.Age only matters when one is ageing.Now that I have arrived at a great age,I might just as well be twenty.-Pablo Picasso
7.I love writing.I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.-James Michener

A Stream of quotes and proverbs

1.Eloquence provides only persuasion,but truth buys loyalty.-Chinese proverb
2.The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.-The Talmud
3.Debts are like children:the smaller they are the more noise they make.-Spanish proverb
4.The more you sweat in peacetime,the less you bleed during war.-Chinese proverb
5.A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.-Chinese proverb
6.I think you should defend to the death their right to march,and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.-Woody Allen,on the KKK.
7.If we wane,as all energies must,it can only be to wax more ardently,more eloquently.-Wendy Beckett
8.Pick up a sesame seed but lose sight of a watermelon.-Chinese proverb
9.The church is near,but the way is icy.The tavern is far,but I will walk carefully.-Ukrainian proverb
10.Every man has his own destiny;the only imperative is to follow it,to accept it,no matter where it leads him.-Henry Miller
11.Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.-Jean-Paul Sartre

A battalion of quotes and proverbs

1.Two hands should be twice as busy as one tongue.-Chinese proverb
2.By learning you will teach;by teaching you will learn.-Latin proverb
3.Many things are lost for want of asking.-English proverb
4.Sow much,reap much;sow little,reap little.-Chinese proverb
5.One of the greatest tragedies of the average person is the tendency to spend our whole lives perfecting our faults.-Norman Vincent Peale
6.Life doesn't wait to be asked :it comes grinning in ,sits down uninvited and helps itself to bread and cheese,and comments uninhibitedly on the decorations.-Philip Larkin
7.Better to lose the anchor than the whole ship.-Dutch proverb
8.Man-despite his artistic pretensions,his sophistication,and his many accomplishments---owes his existence to a six inch layer of top soil and the fact that it rains.-Anonymous
9.A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas;a dog hunting does not notice them.-Chinese proverb
10.If the enemy is in range,so are you!
11.Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.-Scottish proverb
12.When it is dark enough,you can see the stars.-Charles A.Beard
13.Those who seek harmony know how to find it.-Chinese proverb
14.Luck never gives;it only lends.-Swedish proverb

A drizzle of quotes and proverbs

1.Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.-George S.Patton
2.If you don't hear opportunity knocking,find another door.-Anonymous
3.When prosperity comes,do not use all of it.-Chinese proverb
4.I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.-Jay McInerney
5.Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.-Burmese proverb
6.Character is doing what is right when noone is looking.-J.C.Watts

A spoonful of new quotes and proverbs

1.Dance till the stars come down from the rafters.
Dance,dance,dance till you drop.-W.H.Auden,in ''Death's Echo."
2.None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.-Johann Goethe
3.True words may not be pleasant,pleasant words may not be true.-Chinese proverb
4.The best answer to anger is silence.-German proverb
5.Adversity introduces a man to himself.-Anonymous
6.Lust and greed have no limit.-Chinese proverb
7.The best soldiers are not warlike.-Chinese proverb
8.Constancy of purpose achieves the impossible.-Chinese proverb
9.Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.-Italian proverb
10.The greater the obstacle,the more glory in overcoming it.-Moliere
11.A little self-control at the right moment may prevent much subsequent compulsion at the hands of others.-Arthur Schopenhauer
12.In politics,as soon as you take a trick in diamonds,you find that hearts have become trumps.-Chris Patten,last British governor of Hong Kong.