Saturday, June 07, 2008

Nine more good quotes or proverbs

1.It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.-William Cobbett
2.The private and personal blessings we enjoy,the blessings of immunity,safeguard,liberty and integrity,deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.-Jeremy Taylor
3.The more an idea is developed,the more concise becomes its expression;the more a tree is pruned,the better is the fruit.-Alfred Bougeart
4.We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.-French proverb
5.We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.-French proverb
6.What can't be cured,must be endured.-French proverb
7.I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.-Garrison Keillor
8.Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates.Compatibility was not a big issue,nor,of course,was there any tension over who would
control the remote.-Barbara Ehrenreich in THE SNARLING CITIZEN:ESSAYS(1995)

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