A galaxy of quotes and proverbs

1.Why not go out on a limb-that's where all the fruit is!-Mark Twain
2.Never grow a wishbone,daughter,where your backbone ought to be.-Clementine Paddleford
3.Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.-Robert J.Sawyer
4.Goodness is the only investment that never fails.-Henry David Thoreau
5.Nobody,as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life,is without trouble.-Carl Jung
6.It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.-Garrison Keillor
7.They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.-Garrison Keillor
8.Reality is an illusion created by alcohol deficiency.
9.Wisdom:to live in the present,plan for the future,and profit from the past.-Anonymous
10.It is always easier for one man to solve another man's problem.-Chinese proverb
11.The chicken probably came before the egg because it is hard to imagine God wanting to sit on an egg.-Unknown
12.In times of complete calm---mere talents push their way into the front rank----great originality ,shouted down at such times,has to wait for times of tempest.-Jacob Burckhardt(1818-97)
13.Let the world know you as you are,not as you think you should be.-Fanny Brice
14.I used to go fishing,then it dawned on me:I can buy fish.-Kenny Rogerson
15.Failure is the mother of success.-Chinese proverb
16.Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.-Spanish proverb
17.Not ideas about the thing,but the thing itself.-Wallace Stevens