A dropping of quotes and proverbs

1.Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.-Mary Webb
2.If you are a host to your guest,be a host to his dog also.-Russian proverb
3.Talk doesn't cook rice.-Chinese proverb
4.If you let everyone walk over you,you become a carpet.-Bulgarian proverb
5.If only God would give me some clear sign!Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank account.-Woody Allen
6.Fear is a dark room for developing negatives.-Anonymous
7.If you saw what the river carried,you would never drink the water.-Jamaican proverb
8.We have the power to bore people long after we are dead.-Sinclair Lewis,quoted in THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION
9.Build an inner place to protect your truth.-Richard Bach

A herd of quotes and proverbs

1.There is noone to sweep a common hall.-Chinese proverb
2.If work were good for you,the rich would leave none for the poor.-Haitian proverb
3.To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business,for it means that once we know we must seek it.It also means that without it,life will be valueless.-Marsha Sinetar
4.Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do----It's the way we keep a hold on other people.-Penelope Lively
5.If one writes about oneself,the real motive must be,I think to give reassurances to other people.-Christopher Isherwood
6.Judge not the horse by his saddle.-Chinese proverb
7.We forget all too soon the things we thought we would never forget.-Joan Didion
8.The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.-Martina Navratilova
9.Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.-Ray Kroc

A coop of quotes and proverbs

1.If you do not study hard when young you'll end up bewailing your failures as you grow up.-Chinese proverb
2.We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.-Max Dupree
3.He who sows peas on the highway does not get all the pods into his barn.-Danish proverb
4.Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin.-Old saying
5.Anything you do can get you shot-including doing nothing.
6.If a man is destined to drown,he will drown even in a spoonful of water.-Yiddish proverb
7.Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.-C.S.Lewis(1898-1963)
8.The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle.Unless you die of something.-Guindon cartoon caption

A mouthful of quotes and proverbs

1.He who has not yet reached the opposite shore should not make fun of him who is drowning.-Guinean proverb
2.Writing's an important way of living.-William Burroughs
3.If you let that sort of thing go on,your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.-British foreign minister Ernest Bevin
4.If you must play,decide on three things at the start:the rules of the game,the stakes and the quitting time.-Chinese proverb
5.People neecd trouble-a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on,toughen it.Artists do;I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter,but you have to learn fortitude,endurance.Only vegetables are happy.-William Faulkner
6.It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap.The drill drills on.-C.S.Lewis,A GRIEF OBSERVED.
7.The torment of human frustration ,whatever the immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison,its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.-Elizabeth Drew
8.Don't tell your problems to people:eighty percent don't care ;and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.-Lou Holtz

An outpouring of quotes and proverbs

1.All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.-Horace Friess
2.The first and simplest emotion we discover in the human mind is curiosity.-Edmund Burke
3.Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

An outpouring of quotes and proverbs

1.All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.-Horace Friess
2.The first and simplest emotion we discover in the human mind is curiosity.-Edmund Burke
3.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones you did do.So throw off the bowlines.Sail away from the safe harbor.Catch the trade winds in your sails.Explore.Dream.Discover.-Mark Twain
4.Name the greatest of all the inventors.Accident.-Mark Twain
5.You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.-Jay Leno
6.Every person is a new door to a different world.-from the movie 'SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION.'
7.Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
8.For women the best aphrodisiacs are words.The G-spot is in the ears.He who looks for it below is wasting time.-Isabel Allende
9.Women might be able to fake orgasms ,but men can fake a whole relationship.-Sharon Stone
10.I'm such a good lover because I practise a lot on my own.-Woody Allen
11.Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.-Camille Paglia
12.An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.-Edgar Wallace
13.He who says what he likes,hears what he does not like.-Spanish proverb
14.There is no security on this earth;there is only opportunity.-Gen.Douglas MacArthur

A blast of quotes and proverbs

1.You do not create a style.You work and develop yourself;your style is an emanation from your
own being.-Katherine Anne Porter
2.Every artist was first an amateur.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.Never tell people how to do things.Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.-George S.Patton
4.He who borrows sells his freedom.-German proverb
5.Memory is a magnet.It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.-Jessamyn West
6.You do best what you like most.-Chinese proverb
7.We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.-Jeff Marder
8.To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization ,and at present very few
people have reached this level.-Bertrand Russell in THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS.

A bloom of quotes and witticisms

1.The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.-A.E.Housman
2.The essence of all beautiful art,all great art,is gratitude.-Friedrich Nietzsche
3.I have lots of ideas.Trouble is most of them suck.-George Carlin
4.Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.-Homer Simpson
5.The audience made me feel as welcome as a fart in a space suit.-Billy Connolly

A brigade of quotes or proverbs

1.He who would rule must hear and be deaf,see and be blind.-German proverb
2.Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.-Rose Lane
3.A honest tale speeds best,being plainly told.-Shakespeare
4.Now that I am 60,I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.-John Updike,in 1992.
5.Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.-Albert Camus
6.He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot.-Danish proverb
7.It is only by risking from one hour to another that we live at all.-William James
8.Civilization is a process in the service of Eros,whose purpose is to combine single human individuals,and after that families,then races,peoples and nations ,into one great unity,the unity of mankind.-Sigmund Freud
9.He who takes a child by the hand takes a mother by the heart.-Danish proverb

A dusting of quotes and proverbs

1.Try not.Do,or do not.
There is no try.-Yoda
2.He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.-Chinese proverb
3.I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.-19th century Mark Twain
4.Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant.It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.-Georgia O'Keefe
5.I love the light because it shows me the way,yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.-Og Mandino
6.There is no such thing as love.That which you call love is in fact dependence and security.-Arthur Rimbaud
7.Life without music is just a bunch of dates that the bills have to be paid by.-Frank Zappa
8.Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination,if one can live through it-----attentive to what it exposes or demands.-May Sarton
9.Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
10.If you want to build a ship,don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work,but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
11.Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery--it's the sincerest form of learning.-George
Bernard Shaw

A gumbo of quotes and proverbs

1.The most timid soul is made bold by necessity.-Chinese proverb
2.Talent develops in quiet places,character in the full current of human life.-Goethe
3.Look upon adversity as opportunity in disguise.-Chinese proverb
4.Age does not make us childish,as some say;it only finds us true children still.-Goethe
5.Go often to the house of a friend;for weeds soon choke up the unused path.-Scandinavian proverb
6.You cannot do a kindness too soon,for you never know how soon it will be too late.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.It is not enough to succeeed.Others must fail.-Gore Vidal
8.Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves;and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery,THE LITTLE PRINCE.
9.He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.-Latin proverb

A Mumbo-jumbo of quotes and sayings

1.Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.-Amelia Earhart
2.Evolution adavances,not by apriori design,but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer.We are the products of editing,rather than of authorship.-George Ward(1906-97)
3.Noone imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along,or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale.The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it.It is the same, I feel,with the greater part of our lives,and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them,we may forget altogether to live them.-Alan Watts
4.I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful,than a lifetime of nothing special.-Julia Roberts in the movie STEEL MAGNOLIAS
5.Goodness shouts.Evil whispers.-Balinese proverb
6.Wherever one finds comfort can be called home.-Chinese proverb
7.I was going to change my shirt,but I changed my mind instead.-Winnie the Pooh

A farrago of quotes and proverbs

1.The sum of the whole is this:Walk and be happy;walk and be healthy.The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.The wandering man knows of certain elements,far gone in years,who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking-hale fellows close upon 90,but brisk as boys.-Charles Dickens
2.Control the winds by trimming your sails.-Chinese proverb
3.Good men must die,but death cannot kill their names.-Spanish proverb
4.No tears in the writer,no tears in the reader.
No surprise for the writer,no surprise for the reader.-Robert Frost

An olio of quotes and proverbs

A carpet of quotes and proverbs

1.Good fences make good neighbors.-American proverb
2.Seeking affection as a sunflower faces the sun.-Chinese proverb
3.I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited.Imagination encircles the world.-Albert Einstein
4.Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.They seem more afraid of life than death.-James Byrnes
5.Not every end is a goal.The end of a melody is not its goal;however ,if the melody has not reached its end,it would also not have reached its goal.-Nietzsche

A razzle-dazzle of quotes and proverbs

1.A fool shows his annoyance at once,but a prudent man overlooks an insult.-Miscellaneous proverb
2.Life and shame are never equal to death and glory.-Chinese proverb
3.The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.-Albert Einstein
4.Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries,and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.-Danish proverb
5.We are the echo of the future.-W.S.Merwin
6.God sells knowledge for labour-honour for risk.-Arabic proverb
7.The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.-Albert Einstein
8.One flew over the couscous nest.-You saw this message on a T-shirt on Ste.Catherine Street in downtown Montreal near Berri metro
9.Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.-Herbert Hoover
10.What is written without effort will be read without pleasure.-Samuel Johnson

A razzmatazz of quotes and proverbs

1.The corporations don't have to lobby the government any more.They are the government.-Jim Hightower
2.A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force.-William Blum
3.The news and the truth are not the same thing.-Walter Lippmann
4.Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.-William Blum
5.During times of universal deceit,telling the truth is revolutionary.-George Orwell
6.Our aspirations are our possibilities.-Samuel Johnson
7.First deserve,and then desire.-English proverb
8.Nothing fails like success.-Gerald Nachman
9.A hundred men may make an encampment,but it takes a woman to make a home.-Chinese proverb
10.I don't care if my reporters are sleeping with elephants,as long as they aren't covering the circus.-A.M.Rosenthal,executive editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES.
11.Computers double their performance every 18 months.So the danger is real that they could develop intelligence and take over the world.-Stephen Hawking,astrophysicist(b.1942)
12.We may have trouble defining intelligence but we recognize it when we see it.-Steven Pinker(b.1954),U.S.cognitive scientist and author.
13.The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limits of our intelligence,not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.-Norbert Wiener(1894-1964),U.S.mathematician

A few wise quotes and proverbs

1.Nodding the head will not row the boat.-English proverb
2.The image managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin,negotiable in any market.-John Gardner
3.Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship,bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.-Mahatma Gandhi
4.Every man makes his own shipwreck.-Latin proverb
5.Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat,energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.-Warren Buffett
6.I shut my eyes in order to see.-Paul Gaugin

Scintillating quotes and proverbs

1.Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.-Voltaire
2.Follow the river and you will find the sea.-French proverb
3.During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.-Soren Kierkegaard
4.The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.-Emma Goldman
5.Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.-William Blum
6.Children need models more than they need critics.-Joseph Joubert
7.It's a great relief to me to know that I can actually be creative and be happy at the same time.-James W.Hall
8.The reward for conformity was that everyone like you except yourself.-Rita Mae Brown

Some sparkling quotes or proverbs

1.All women become like their mothers.That is their tragedy.No man does.That's his.-Oscar Wilde
2.Fish or cut bait.-American proverb
3.Spirit is the real and eternal;matter is the unreal and temporal.-Mary Baker Eddy
4.You always pass failure on the way to success.-Mickey Rooney
5.Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.-Julie Burchill
6.It has been said that a pretty face is a passport.But it's not,it's a visa and it runs out fast.-Julie Burchill
7.Writing is more than anything a compulsion,like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not.It pays a lot better than this type of compulsion,but it is no more heroic.-Julie Burchill
8.It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books,just to see what other people are doing with the same facts.-Bill Vaughan
9.Fear not a jest.If one throws salt at you,you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.-Latin proverb

A load of witticisms and quotes

1.Writers ,who tend to get shy,get to stay home and still be public.-Anne Lamott
2.Guys are like lava lamps;fun to watch,but not too bright.
3.Your happy bubble has corners,and thereby pops other people's sphere of joys.-from www.flamingoemporium.com
4.Falling hurts least those who fly low.-Chinese proverb
5.The man may be the head of the family,but the woman is the neck and can turn the man anyway she wants.-Line from the movie MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
6.All that is gold does not glitter;not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither;deep roots are not reached by the frost.-J.R.K.Tolkien
7.I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking,what I'm looking at,what I see and what it means.-Joan Didion
8.Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.-Arthhur Schopenhauer(1788-1860),German philosopher.
9.Don't be yourself.Be someone a little nicer.-Mignon McLaughlin