A fresh batch of quotes and proverbs

1.We don't know who discovered water,but we are certain it wasn't a fish.-John Culkin
2.It's my heart that makes my songs,not I.-Sara Teasdale
3.All there is is sitting down to work and trusting that the ignition key still turns everything on.-Peter Straub
4.When you go in search of honey,you must expect to be stung by bees.-Joseph Joubert,French essayist
5.People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves.If nobody invents you for yourself,nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.-John Le Carre(on unhappy children becoming happy adults).
6.Variability is one of the virtues of a woman.It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy.So long as you have a good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.-G.K.Chesterton on ''Spiritual Polygamy.''
7.Work isn't to make money;you work to justify life.-Mark Chagall
8.That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,ON HYPOCRISY
9.Tens of thousands of bones will become ashes when one general achieves his fame.-Ancient Chinese proverb
10.Have one's ears pierced only before the wedding ceremony starts.-Chinese proverb
11.Kwitchyerbellyakin.-Irish saying
12.Never fall out with your bread and butter.-English proverb