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ँचिता र चिन्ता दुवैको काम जलाउने हो, चिताले मृत्युपर्यन्त जलाउँछ भने चिन्ताले जिउँदै जलाउँछ।’ यो भनाइ नै चिन्ता के होला भन्ने कुराको एउटा परिभाषा, अर्थ वा वास्तविकता हो।

चिन्ता मानवको मनोवैज्ञानिक धरातलमा रही भावनात्मकरुपमा देखा पर्ने अभिव्यक्त गुण हो। चिन्ता नै नहुने मान्छे कल्पना गर्न पनि सकिंदैन। यसमा चिन्तालाई जितेका, चिन्ता नलिनेहरुचाहिँ केही अपवाद पनि हुन सक्छन्।

होइन भने सबैले चिन्ता गर्छन्। चिन्ता त्यो पनि चाहिने मात्रामा हुन्छ भने स्वास्थ्यको लागि, प्रगतिको लागि अति आवश्यक रहन्छ। चिन्ता गर्दै गरिएन भने पनि वा आवश्यक हुने मात्राको चिन्ता रहेन भने पनि न त प्रगति हुन्छ, न सामाजिक सम्बन्ध दिगो रहन्छ, न त मेहनत नै गरिन्छ।

परीक्षाअगाडिको प्रशिक्षार्थीको चिन्ता, विवाह हुनुपूर्व जीवनसाथी तथा आफ्नो सम्बन्ध र भविष्यको चिन्ता, प्रेमी-प्रेमिकाबीचमा एकले अर्को पक्षलाई पीडा, दुःख, चोट नपुर्‍याउने वा गुमाउने चिन्ता, भविष्यमा सुरक्षित काम, स्वास्थ्य तथा शान्तिपूर्ण जीवनयापन गर्न पाउने/नपाउने जस्ता चिन्ता वास्तविक र अलि-अलि सबैले गर्ने प्राकृतिक एवम् केही आवश्यक चिन्ताका दायरा हुन्। यस्ता आवश्यक चिन्ताहरुले गल्ती गर्नबाट बचाउने, मेहनत गर्ने योजना गर्ने तथा होसियारी पाइला चाल्ने गराउने हुन्छ। तर त्यसको उल्टो अत्यधिक चिन्ता, बेचैन, अनिर्णित र एक्लिने हुन थाल्यो भने प्रगतिको साटो अधोगति, स्वास्थ्यको साटो बिरामी, सुखको साटो दुःख मात्र पाइन्छ। यसका साथै चिन्ताको भूमरीमा डुबेर त्यसबाट निस्कन नै सकिंदैन। चाहिने नचाहिने उत्कण्ठाहरु, विचारहरुको खाडल गहिरिंदै गएर निकासै नपाउने गरी मानसिक रोगी बन्न सकिन्छ।

चिन्ताको कारणले धेरै लक्षण विकसित हुन्छन् वा देखा पर्न सक्छन्। यी लक्षणहरु चिन्ताले हुन्छन्। ती अन्य रोगसँग मिल्दाजुल्दा पनि हुन सक्छन्। वास्तविक चिन्ताको निदान र उपचार हुन पाएको हुँदैन। बिरामीहरु एकपछि अर्को चिकित्सककहाँ पुग्छन्। मानिसमा देखिने यस्ता लक्षणहरु फरक-फरक हुन सक्छन्। चिन्ताको गहिराइ हेरेर कोहीलाई कम, कोहीलाई बढी लक्षण देखिन सक्छ।

यसका भौतिक लक्षणहरुमा नाडी छिटो-छिटो चल्नु, मुटु ढुकढुक गर्नु, श्वास फेर्न गाह्रो हुनु, हत्केलामा पसिना आउनु, हात काँप्नु, मुख सुक्नु, वाकवाकी लाग्नु, भोक नलाग्नु वा तीतो स्वाद आउनु, टाउको दुख्नु, पेट-छाती वा अन्य भाग दुख्नु आदि मुख्य हुन्।

त्यस्तै भावनात्मक लक्षणहरुमा असुरक्षित महसुस हुनु, निर्णय गर्ने क्षमता घट्नु, आत्मविश्वास तथा आत्मनिर्णयमा कमी हुनु, ध्यान केन्द्रित गर्न नसक्नु, छोपेजस्तो हुनु , शंका लागेजस्तो हुनु, बिर्सने ज्यादा हुनु आदि मुख्य हुन्।

यदि चिन्ता ठिक्क मानवस्वभावभित्र रहने, परेको बेलामा चिन्तित भए पनि अन्य समयमा परिस्थिति र घटनाअनुसार आफूलाई ढाल्न सक्ने अवस्थासम्मलाई स्वाभाविक मानिन्छ। तर यो अवस्थाभन्दा पर पुगिएमा चिन्ता अलि बढी नै भएको मानिन्छ। यसरी प्राकृतिक तथा हुनै पर्नेभन्दा अलि बढी चिन्तित भएमा मनोवैज्ञानिकरुपमा प्रभाव देखिन्छ। साथै लक्षण पनि देखिन थाल्छन्। यदि योभन्दा अझ बढी नै चिन्तित हुन थालियो भने मानसिक रोगको सुरु अवस्थाको सम्पूर्ण सोचाइमा गडबडी -जेनेरलाइज्ड इन्जाइटी डिसअर्डर) भन्ने समस्या विकास हुन सक्छ। यदि यो स्तरको चिन्ता र गडबडी भयो भने उपचारमा पनि विशेषज्ञ तहमै जानुपर्ने हुन सक्छ। साथै उपचार गर्न पनि अप्ठेरो हुने, ढिलो मात्र सुधार हुने अवस्था आउन सक्छ।

चिन्ता कुन अवस्थामा छ भन्ने कुरा छुट्याउन वा चिन्न अति आवश्यक छ। अलि बढी चिन्ता भएमा छुट्याउन सकिने गरी केही लक्षणहरु देखिन सक्छन्। जस्तो-

- अरु धेरैले चिन्ता नगर्ने वा गर्न नपर्ने कुरामा आफू चिन्तित भएको महसुस गर्नु वा अरुमा त्यस्तो देखिनु।

- चिन्ता रोक्न वा चिन्ताबाट मुक्त हुन नसक्नु। यसले गर्दा बेचैन भइरहनु तथा आरामसँग रहन नसक्नु।

- चिन्ताले कुनै फाइदा वा समाधान दिएको कुनै उदाहरण नपाइनु।

- चिन्ता नगरेमा वा निश्चिन्त रहेमा आकाशै खस्ला, जहाजै डुब्ला वा भवितव्य नै आइपर्लाजस्तो महसुस हुनु।

- आफ्नो जीवनका सम्पूर्ण अवस्था, घटना, परिस्थिति अनुकूल र सहज हुँदाहुँदै पनि चिन्ता गरिरहनु वा निश्चिन्त हुनुको चिन्ता लाग्नु।

यी सबै परोक्षरुपमा मूल्यांकन गर्ने र अवस्था छुट्याउने लक्षणहरु हुन्। यदि यस प्रकारका लक्षण बढीभन्दा बढी पाइन थालेमा जसरी पनि मनोचिकित्सक भेट्न पर्ने हुन्छ। यी नै लक्षण पनि क्षणिक, वैचारिक तथा एउटा वा अर्को मात्र देखा परेमा सीधै रोगभन्दा पनि पूर्वअवस्था वा अलि-अलि चिन्ताको अवस्था भनेर मान्ने वा ग्रहण गर्ने अवस्था आउँछ र सोहीअनुरुप प्रभावमा जान सकिन्छ।

चिन्ताको शाब्दिक अर्थको कुरा गर्दा यो अप्रिय खालको भावना वा सोचाइ वा डर र तिनीहरुबाट बच्न गरिने अर्थहीन योजना, विश्लेषण, आशा र विश्वासको लागि हुने बेचैन अवस्था हो। असम्भव सपना र क्रियाकलापको आशा र विश्वासमा विचारमग्न भएर मस्तिष्क अशान्तिले भरिन्छ। आफ्नो चिन्ता गराइको प्रमुख विषय वा घटनाले सोचाइका धेरै क्षेत्र ओगटेर अरु ठूला, नयाँ, आवश्यक कुरासमेत ओझेलमा पर्न जान्छन्। चिन्ता गर्नु नियत वा व्यवहार हो, कारण जे पनि हुन सक्छ- सम्भव वा असम्भव, राम्रो वा नराम्रो, सत्य वा असत्य, चाहिने वा नचाहिने आदि।

चिन्ता शब्दलाई अंग्रजीमा ओरी (Worry) भनिन्छ। यो शब्द पुरानो अंग्रेजीको वरियन (Worian) बाट आएको मानिन्छ। ब्वाँसो वा कुकुर वा स्यालले भेडालाई जसरी टोकी-टोकी, हल्लाई-हल्लाई मार्छ, त्यही डरलाग्दो अवस्थालाई ओरियन भन्ने गरिन्थ्यो। आज त्यो शब्दको अर्थ अरु व्यापक र तह-तहको चिन्तासमेतको अस्तित्वले त्यस्तै डरलाग्दो अवस्था ल्याउने मानव संवेदना वा विचार गराइको रुपमा रहेको छ।

चिन्ताले राम्रो गर्दैन भन्ने थाहा भएर पनि जीवनका बाध्यता र अशान्ति, गरिबी तथा अशिक्षाका कारणले यो बढ्दो क्रममा छ। त्यति मात्र नभई व्यक्तिगत, सामाजिक, आर्थिक, व्यावहारिक र सामयिक नोक्सानीसमेत हुन्छ। जोन लुकले त्यसै भनेका होइनन्- ँएक दिनको चिन्ताले एक दिनको कडा परिश्रमयुक्त कामले भन्दा बढी थकाउँछ।’

हिजोको वा भोलिको चिन्ताले वर्तमान बिग्रन्छ मात्रै। आज राम्रो गर्‍यो, मेहनत गर्‍यो भने भोलि राम्रो हुनेमा शंकै छैन। फेरि चिन्ता गर्नेहरु संसार नै उनीहरुले चलाउने जस्तै साना-ठूला, आफ्ना-अरुका, चाहिने-नचाहिने सबै कुरामा चिन्ता गर्छन्। त्यसैले भन्ने गरिन्छ- ँमनमस्तिष्कको शान्तिको लागि संसारको सञ्चालक हुनबाट राजीनामा गरौं।’ त्यस्तै जर्ज हर्बर्ट भन्छन्- ँसय भारी चिन्ताको तौलले एक आना पनि ऋण तिर्न सकिंदैन।’

चिन्ता पुरुष जातिमा भन्दा स्त्री जातिमा दुई गुना बढी पाइन्छ। त्यस्तै चिन्ता गर्ने परिवार वा संर्सगमा हुनेहरुले पनि नहुनेले भन्दा बढी चिन्ता गर्ने गरेको पाइन्छ। चिन्ता गर्नेले एउटा समस्याको समाधान भेटिएमा अर्को चिन्ताको कारण भेटिहाल्छ र सुरु भइहाल्छ अर्को वृत्त। चिन्ता गर्ने/नगर्ने भन्ने कुरा व्यक्तित्वमा पनि भर पर्छ। ँक’ तथा ँख’ वर्गका व्यक्तित्व भन्नासाथ ँक’ मा संसारकै म्यानेजर पर्छन्। यिनीहरु नै हुन् धेरैजसो संसारका नेता, वैज्ञानिक, फूर्तिला, सफल व्यक्तित्वहरु, साथै आमसोचाइमा गडबडजस्ता अतिसय चिन्ताका रोगीहरु पनि। त्यस्तै बाबुआमा आफैं अनिर्णित हुने र बच्चालाई डर-त्रासमा हुर्काउने गरेमा तथा बच्चाप्रतिको आफ्नो धारणा, इच्छा क्षण-क्षणमा फेर्ने गरेमा त्यस्ता बच्चाले सोच्न र चिन्ता गर्नमा तल्लीन हुने बानी विकास गर्छन्।

चिन्ताबाट मुक्त हुनको लागि त आफ्नो सुझबुझको धरातल फराकिलो पार्नु अति नै जरुरी छ। जबसम्म आफैं चिन्ताबाट बच्छु, चिन्ता गर्दिनँ, चिन्ताले केही मिल्दैन भन्ने सिद्धान्तबाट विश्वस्त हुन सकिंदैन तबसम्म चिन्ताको हाँगाबिगाले छोइरहन्छ। आफूले आफैंलाई विश्वस्त गराउने, एक्लै नबस्ने, विषयवस्तु परिवर्तन गर्ने, नयाँ परिवेशको निमार्ण गर्ने, पढ्ने, समूहमा जाने आदि गर्नु नै चिन्ताबाट आफूलाई बचाउने पहिला आधार हुन्। रोबर्ट इलिट भन्छन्- ँएक नम्बर नियम हो साना कुरालाई वास्ता नगर्नु र दुई नम्बर नियम हो सम्पूर्ण कुराहरु आखिर सानै हुन् भनेर मान्ने।’ त्यस्तै उपायको बाटो देखाउँदै इडिथ आम्स्ट्रङ भन्छन्- ँम मेरो मनमस्तिष्कको टेलिफोन शान्ति, स्वास्थ्य, सामञ्जस्य, प्रेम तथा पहुँचको लागि खुला राख्ने गर्छु त्यसपछि जब शंका, पीर वा डरहरुले मलाई फोन गर्न खोजे भने तिनीहरुले व्यस्तको आवाज सुन्नेछन् र कालान्तरपछि उनीहरुले मलाई फोन गर्न नै बिर्सेर जानेछन्।’ यसरी चिन्ताबाट बच्न गर्नुपर्ने उपाय र बाटाहरु राम्रोसँग व्यक्त गरिएको छ।

चिन्ताबाट पार पाउनको लागि पहिले त आफूलाई चिन्ताबाट मुक्ति चाहिएको र त्यसको लागि आफू आतुर छु भन्ने कुरामा दृढ हुनुपर्छ। आफूले आफैंलाई गरिने उपचारका उपायहरुमा यस प्रकारका तहगतरुपमा सल्लाह दिन सकिन्छ।

चिन्ताको विषयवस्तुबाट आफ्नो ध्यान अन्यत्र तान्ने तथा मन-मन चिन्ताको कारण रोक्ने प्रण र तालिम गर्ने गर्नुपर्छ। त्यस्तै शारीरिक तथा मानसिकरुपमा आफूलाई आरामदायी र स्वतन्त्र बनाउनको लागि गहिरो श्वास तान्ने, ध्यान-योग गर्ने, अंक गन्ने, गीत गाउने, संगीत सुन्ने, खेल वा चलचित्र हेर्ने, मांसपेशीहरुलाई आराम दिने आदि विभिन्न उपाय अपनाउनुपर्छ। आफ्नो चिन्ताको कारण, जरो, समस्या र समाधानका बारे आफ्ना विचार लेख्ने र स्वमूल्यांकन गर्नाले पनि समालोचना गर्न सकिन्छ। चिन्ताको लागि निश्चित समय र समयतालिका तोक्ने तथा चिन्ता आइहालेमा मेरो चिन्ता गर्ने समय ५-६ बजे हो वा अन्य हो भनेर छुट्याउनु राम्रो हुन्छ।

सिद्धान्ततः चिन्ताबाट मुक्ति पाउने उपायका दुईवटा फर्मुला व्याख्या गरिन्छ। ती हुन्- नराम्रा विचार मनबाट जाओस् भन्ने र आवश्यक ध्यान दिनै पर्ने कुरामा केन्द्रित (Let go an switch on) हुने। यी कुराहरु सीपको रुपमा विकास गर्न प्रशस्त मानसिक तालिम गर्नुपर्छ। प्रेम, विश्वास, सकारात्मक सोच, आशावादी, श्रद्धा, धैर्यताजस्ता बानी तथा गुणहरुप्रति बढी केन्द्रित हुनुपर्छ। यस्ता सैद्धान्तिक उपाय अपनाएर धेरैले आफ्नो जीवन पुनः सुन्दर र उज्यालो बनाएका छन् र चिन्ता मुक्त भएका छन्।

Various Quotes

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Author: H. G. Wells

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.
Author: Golda Meir

His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Author: Abba Eban

If a man does his best, what else is there?
Author: General George S. Patton

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Author: A. J. Liebling

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Author: Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Author: Saint Augustine

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Author: Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Author: Albert Einstein

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill

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.
Author: Galileo Galilei

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Author: Emile Zola

This book fills a much-needed gap.
Author: Moses Hadas

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it.
Author: Mark Twain

I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever come we have to meet it.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn’t it?
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

One should always sleep in all of one’s guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want–for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education… The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.
Author: Chavalier Jackson

Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun.
Author: William H. Welch

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
Author: John Shaw Billings

Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Author: Proverb

Crime never sleeps.
Author: Proverb

He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
Author: Proverb

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. – The Treasure of Franchard.
Author: William Feather

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Author: Ernie Kovacs

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Author: Calvin Trillin

Whoever controls the media–the images–controls the culture.
Author: Ben Hecht

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Author: Fran Lebowitz

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
Author: Alan Paton

Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?… Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Author: Alan Paton

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Author: Alan Paton

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Author: Alvin Toffler

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Author: Frank Herbert

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Author: H. W. Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection….
Author: H. W. Longfellow

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Author: J. Danforth Quayle

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. – My Summer in a Garden, 1871.
Author: Charles Dudley Warner

The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
Author: Sir Heneage Ogilvie

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Author: Arnold Bennett

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Author: George Herbert

Modesty is the color of virtue.
Author: Diogenes Of Sinope

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Author: Margaret Fairless Barber

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
Author: Andrew Denton

Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.
Author: Platen

I’ll moider da bum.
Author: John Heisman

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Author: George Gobel

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
Author: Herman Mankiewicz

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.
Author: Elsa Schiapirelli

Health food makes me sick.
Author: Calvin Trillin

[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
Author: G. K. Chesterton

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory…
Author: A. A. Blasov

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Author: Abbie Hoffman

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
Author: Alan Paton

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Author: Alan Saporta

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Author: Alan Watts

The more things change, the more they are the same.
Author: Alphonse Karr

We’re all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don’t make any big ones.
Author: Andrew A. Rooney

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Author: Clifton Fadiman

Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Author: Clive Barnes

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Author: Colin Wilson

Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong.
Author: David Fasold

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Author: Don Herold

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Author: Earl Wilson

It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Author: Edward Dahlberg

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.
Author: Emerson Pugh

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Author: Emperor Sigismund

Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
Author: Ernie Kovacs

It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper.
Author: Errol Flynn

You are looking as fresh as paint.
Author: F. E. Smedley

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
Author: Felelon

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
Author: Fran Lebowitz

Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest.
Author: Francis Patiky Stein

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Author: Francois

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Author: Frank Herbert

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.
Author: Fred Friendly

How goes the enemy?
Author: Frederic Reynolds

War will cease when men refuse to fight.
Author: Fridtjof Hansen

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Author: Gary Wills

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Author: George Meredith

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
Author: George-louis De Buffon

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Author: Georges Pompidou

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
Author: Gunnar Myrdal

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
Author: H. A. Kramers

You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Author: H. R. Haldeman

When better business decisions are made, economists won’t make them.
Author: H. V. Prochnow

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
Author: H. W. Longfellow

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
Author: Harold Evans

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.
Author: Harry S. Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Author: Harry S. Truman

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Author: Havelock Ellis

If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it’s electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord.
Author: Haythum R. Khalid

I had rather be right than be President.
Author: Henry Clay

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
Author: Herbert Westren Turnbull

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
Author: Hermann Weyl

I think, therefore I am – I think.
Author: Howard Schneider

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Author: Idi Amin Dada

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.
Author: J. Danforth Quayle

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Author: James F. Byrnes

I’m a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split it into different parts if you’d like – right now I’ll put it as Unsorted. And He feels so incredibly weak when he has ferociously quarreled against them since his genuine years and has lost. His hopes for a better understanding dissipate as he grows older, and his mind grows less eager to reach a verdict. Having no sense of direction, he roams here, looking above, asking futile questions, even though the answers may be feared. Good by nature, he has learned his survival skills, which will lead him into the real world, and will someday make him a successful individual. Wishing the pressure did not exist, it is a natural instinct to adapt and not to recluse. He rather is a mindless drone than a lonely Hermit, after all. He has no control over his environment, it is the exact opposite. Molded and shaped by his surroundings, he seeks about for himself and his purpose, while this mold slowly deteriorates organic matter.
Author: Manuel Monne

If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag; wash it.
Author: Norman Thomas

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Author: Robert Burton

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Author: Franklin Jones

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. – The Importance of Living, 1937.
Author: Lin Yutang

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Author: Betty Smith

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. – On Doing What One Likes.
Author: Alec Waugh

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Author: Sir Thomas More

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Author: Sir Laurence Olivier

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?
Author: Clyde Kluckhohn

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? – The Colby Essays.
Author: Frank Moore Colby

I’m not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction?
Author: Ken Faver

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Author: Paul Eldridge

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Author: George Gordon Byron

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Author: M Scott Peck

Time is the fire in which we burn.
Author: Gene Roddenberry

For violence, like Achilles’ lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. – The Wretched of the Earth.
Author: Frantz Fanos

Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one’s powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody’s enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong – that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.
Author: U.s. Poet

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Author: Alfred Jarry

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
Author: Richard Rorty

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Author: Baltasar Gracian

Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.
Author: Stanley Horowitz

They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.
Author: Andrew Holleran

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.
Author: David Crosby

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
Author: George Steiner

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Author: Stanley Garn

It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.
Author: Wayne Burgraff

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
Author: George Farquhar

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
Author: Elmore Leonard

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.
Author: Charles Burney

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.
Author: Ralph L. Woods

All television is children’s television.
Author: Fred Allen

If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight.
Author: Katharine Hepburn

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Author: Andres S. Tannenbaum

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Author: Antonio Porchia

Well, my deliberate opinion is – it’s a jolly strange world.
Author: Arnold Bennett

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
Author: Athol Fugard

Love is a hole in the heart.
Author: Ben Hecht

Our elections are free, it’s in the results where eventually we pay.
Author: Bill Stern

She unbent her mind afterwards – over a book.
Author: Charles Lamb

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
Author: Edward O. Wilson

Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible. I think…I think it’s in my basement…Let me go upstairs and check.
Author: Escher

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
Author: Gamel Abdel Nasser

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
Author: Gene Wolfe

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Author: Havelock Ellis

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Author: J. K. Galbraith

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. – The Oracle.
Author: Baltasar Gracian

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. – Selected Essays.
Author: D. H. Lawrence

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. – My Summer in a Garden.
Author: Charles Dudley Warner

Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward. – “Mr. Dooley’s Opinions”, 1900.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. – Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.
Author: Stanislaw Lec

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Author: John Powell

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. – From a College Window.
Author: A. C. Benson

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. – The House of Gold.
Author: Bede Jarrett

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations’s professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. – Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.
Author: Oscar W. Firkins

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Author: Baruch Spinoza

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. – Reflections on Life.
Author: Alexis Carrel

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
Author: Robert A. Heinlein

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Author: Robert G. Ingersoll

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Author: Charles Buxton

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Author: Archibishop Of Canterbury

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Author: Norman Douglas

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Author: Walter Benjamin

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?.
Author: Thomas Hood

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.
Author: L. Ron Hubbard

Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Author: Tryon Edwards

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.
Author: J. A. Dever

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Author: Lord Chesterfield

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton

Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
Author: Edwin H. Land

Laughter is inner jogging.
Author: Laughter

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
Author: John Berger

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
Author: Jeff Arder

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
Author: George Fordyce

Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.
Author: Lord Chesterfield

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
Author: Ben Jonson

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Author: Lord Chesterfield

She just wore enough for modesty; no more!
Author: Robert Buchanan

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Author: George Herbert

A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.
Author: Dave Carey

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don’t choose to have it known.
Author: Lord Chesterfield

Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it.
Author: Mark Allen

It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Author: Andrew W. Mathis

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
Author: Richard Braunstein

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
Author: John Cage

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.
Author: Buddy Hackett

The west wasn’t won on salad.
Author: Peter Oakley

I couldn’t remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand…
Author: Channing Pollack

We do not remember days; we remember moments.
Author: Margaret Fairless Barber

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Author: Paul Boese

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Author: Aaron Levenstein

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Author: Abba Eban

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Author: Anatol Rapoport

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two. I am not sure what this is, but an `F’ would only dignify it.
Author: Anonymous English Professor

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
Author: Aubrey Eben

I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Author: Bern Williams

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.
Author: Bronwyn Davies

So little done, so much to do.
Author: Cecil Rhodes

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
Author: Charles Ii

You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Author: Chris Evert

Laws were made to be broken.
Author: Christopher North

Isn’t it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.
Author: Cincinnati Enquirer

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
Author: Clarence Darrow

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Author: Claude Levi-strauss

We are dancing on a volcano.
Author: Comte De Salvandy

If you had your life to live over again–you’d need more money.
Author: Construction Digest

Women’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Author: Cyril Parkinson

Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It’s easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you’d be paranoid too.
Author: D. J. Hicks

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.
Author: David Hull

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
Author: David Pratt

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Author: Dennis Roch

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus

When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we’re only immortal; For a limited time.
Author: Dreamline – Rush

Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.
Author: Dutch Poet’s Society

I must plough my furrow alone.
Author: Earl Of Rosebery

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Author: Ed Parker

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Author: Eden Phillpotts

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
Author: Edward Fitzgerald

You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
Author: Edward Keating

It’s a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
Author: Edward Lear

They say a reasonable amount o’ fleas is good for a dog–keeps him from broodin’ over bein’ a bog, mebbe.
Author: Edward Noyes Westcott

If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
Author: Eilliam Feather

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Author: Emile Chartier

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infini.
Author: Emile Wiechert

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solv.
Author: Eugene Wigner

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Author: Flower A. Newhouse

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Author: General Omar Bradley

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Author: Goya

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Author: Harry S. Truman

If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.
Author: Haythum R. Khalid

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Author: Hebrew Proverb

Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.
Author: Hegel

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Author: Henrik Ibsen

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Author: Henry Fielding

There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.
Author: J. W. Curran

There’s no fool like an old fool — you can’t beat experience.
Author: Jacob Braude

The words walked right out of my mouth.
Author: James Brady

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.
Author: U. Peter

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. – The Summing Up.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

Their [the waiters'] eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – pâté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. – The Rising Gorge, 1961.
Author: S. J. Perelman

I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. – Wisdom.
Author: Osbert Sitwell

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. – Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.
Author: J. B. Yeats

Happiness hates the timid! So does science! – Strange Interlude, 1928.
Author: Eugene O’neill

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. – Psychological Reflections.
Author: C. G. Jung

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Author: Alfred L. Kroeber

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. – The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966.
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. – Real Presences, 1989.
Author: George Steiner

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. – “Time”, On Journalists, May 8, 1950.
Author: Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? – The Color Purple, 1982.
Author: Alice Walker

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. – Borsi, A Soldier’s Confidences with God.
Author: Giosué

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Author: Roger Babson

You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.
Author: Irish Proverb

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
Author: Henry Kissinger

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement’s chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases.
Author: Dr. Charles Edwards

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Author: David Garrick

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.
Author: A. W. Hare

A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Author: John A. Lincoln

Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the path of a bat in the air at night.
Author: Jeremiah Joseph

I cry every chance I get.
Author: Richard Gere

Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it’ll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you’re gonna win if you just hang in.
Author: Dr. Hook

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
Author: George V. Higgins

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
Author: John Braford

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
Author: Patrick Campbell

A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
Author: George Herheri

Babies haven’t any hair; Old men’s heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.
Author: Samuel Hoffenstein

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
Author: Charles Lamb

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.
Author: Thomas Buxton

Praise the sea; on shore remain.
Author: John Florio

No one can remember more than three points.
Author: Philip Crosby

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Author: Ira Hayes

Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.
Author: Doug Malouf

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.
Author: Rafael Sabatini

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Author: Alexander Smith

Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?
Author: Artemus Ward

I’m proud of paying taxes. The only thing is–I could be just as proud for half the money.
Author: Arthur Godfrey

Nowhere to fall but off; Nowhere to stand but on.
Author: Benjamin King

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Author: Benjamin Whorf

There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
Author: Billy Joel

In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Author: Boake Carter

Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Author: Boies Penrose

Luck is the residue of design.
Author: Branch Rickey

In fact, one thing that I have noticed…is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you’ll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.
Author: Brian E. Moore

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
Author: Bruce Feirstein

Figures won’t lie, but liars will figure.
Author: Charles H. Grosvenor

There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that’s philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that’s science. Three: Be aware that you live.
Author: Fortune

You are no better than you should be.
Author: Francis Beaumont

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Author: Fred Allen

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Author: Henny Youngman

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Author: Henry Kissinger

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Author: Nelson Henderson

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
Author: John Wesley

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. – “On the Cryptic and the Elliptic”, 1908.
Author: G. K. Chesterton

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. – Skyline, 1961.
Author: Gene Fowler

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. – Wisdom in Small Doses.
Author: John Andrew Holmes

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
Author: A. J. Muste

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. – “Trees”.
Author: Joyce Kilmer

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility… in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have… is the ability to take on responsibility.
Author: Michael Korda

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.
Author: Darius Ogden Mills

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status — all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).
Author: J. G. Ballard

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
Author: George Farquhar

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Author: Fred A. Allen

I’ve learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Author: Leo Burnett

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Author: Jerry Della Femina

The unlived life is not worth examining.
Author: Tom Morris

The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
Author: French Proverb

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
Author: James F. Cooper

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
Author: Ben Elton

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Author: William Lloyd Garrison

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Author: St. Basil

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
Author: Diana Black

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Author: Bellamy Brooks

The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.
Author: Coltvos

The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.
Author: Lucille S. Harper

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Author: Euripides

We are the environment.
Author: Charles Panati

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe

She concedes that she’s the one she pleases.
Author: Kim Carnes

You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you’re battling with everything you have. That’s the real fun of the game.
Author: Dan Dierdorf

Beauty and grace command the world.
Author: Park Benjamin

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
Author: William Cowper

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
Author: Dr. Albert Ellis

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent…
Author: Cindy Crawford, Supermodel

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
Author: Nick Mirov

Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
Author: Ed Bluestone

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
Author: Katherine Cebrian

I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Author: Jackie Gleason

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
Author: Tom Lehrer

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Author: Alexander Haig

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Author: Alfred Jarry

A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.
Source: (Hindu)
Among the blind, the squint rules.
Source: (Hindu)
Anger has no eyes.
Source: (Hindu)
Can the monkey know the taste of ginger?
Source: (Hindu)
Can’t tell his ass from a hole in the ground.
Source: (Hindu)
Dig a well every day to drink water every day.
Source: (Hindu)
Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
Source: (Hindu)
Eating while seated makes one of large size; eating while standing makes one strong.
Source: (Hindu)
It is better to walk than to run; it is better to stand than to walk; it is better to sit than to stand; it is better to lie than to sit.
Source: (Hindu)
Kill a cow to donate shoes.
Source: (Hindu)
Many dogs kill a hare, no matter how many turns it makes.
Source: (Hindu)
Of what use is the veil if you are going to dance.
Source: (Hindu)
Saints fly only in the eyes of their disciples.
Source: (Hindu)
Sleep after selling horses and elephants.
Source: (Hindu)
These three take crooked ways: carts, boats, and musicians.
Source: (Hindu)
They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
Source: (Hindu)
Wash your hands in the flowing Ganges.
Source: (Hindu)
Waste makes want.
Source: (Hindu)
Waste not want not.
Source: (Hindu)
When a camel is at the foot of a mountain then judge of his height.
Source: (Hindu)
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
Source: (Hindu)
Whose stick, his buffalo.
Source: (Hindu)

A black plum is as sweet as a white.
Source: (English)
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
Source: (English)
A cold April the barn will fill.
Source: (English)
A fair booty makes a fair thief.
Source: (English)
A full cup must be carried steadily.
Source: (English)
A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s claw.
Source: (English)
A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.
Source: (English)
A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning.
Source: (English)
A leap year is never a good sheep year.
Source: (English)
A maid who laughs is half taken.
Source: (English)
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
Source: (English)
A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.
Source: (English)
A proverb is the child of experience.
Source: (English)
A shady lane breeds mud.
Source: (English)
A small family is soon provided for.
Source: (English)
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
Source: (English)
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Source: (English)
Absence is a shrew.
Source: (English)
Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it.
Source: (English)
Absence, and a friendly neighbor, washeth away love.
Source: (English)
Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.
Source: (English)
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
Source: (English)
Actions speak louder than words.
Source: (English)
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.
Source: (English)
Adventures are to the adventurous.
Source: (English)
Adversity flatters no man.
Source: (English)
Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot.
Source: (English)
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
Source: (English)
Advice to all, security for none.
Source: (English)
Age and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap.
Source: (English)
Age and wedlock tame man and beast.
Source: (English)
Ale in, wit out.
Source: (English)
All be the same in a hundred years.
Source: (English)
All happiness is in the mind.
Source: (English)
All temptations are found either in hope or fear.
Source: (English)
Alms never make poor.
Source: (English)
An abundance of money ruins youth.
Source: (English)
An empty barrel makes the most noise.
Source: (English)
An empty belly hears nobody.
Source: (English)
An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.
Source: (English)
An illiterate king is a crowned ass.
Source: (English)
Anger dies quickly with a good man.
Source: (English)
Anger edges valor.
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Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
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Anger is shortlived in a good man.
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Better wear out shoes than sheets.
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Better wed over the mixen than over the moor.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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Big boast, small roast.
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Big thunder, little rain.
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Blest is the bride the sun shines on.
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Blind is the bookless man.
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Blind men can judge no colours.
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Blind men should not judge of colours.
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Cats hide their claws.
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Children are poor men’s riches.
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
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Confession is the first step to repentance.
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Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
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Crooked logs make straight fires.
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Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
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Danger is next neighbor to security.
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Death always comes too early or too late.
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Death closes all doors.
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Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.
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Despair doubles our strength.
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Despair gives courage to a coward.
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Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.
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Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
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Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence.
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Discretion is the better part of valor.
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Disease is soon shaken By physic soon taken.
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Diseases are the interest of pleasures.
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Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
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Do not halloo until you are out of the wood.
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Do not triumph before the victory.
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Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love ’tis the way.
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Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
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Don’t fall before you’re pushed.
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Elbow grease is the best polish.
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Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
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Every bean hath its black.
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Every dog has his day.
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Every dog is entitled to one bite.
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Every path has its puddle.
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Everyone must row with the oars he has.
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Fame is a magnifying glass.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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Fancy passes beauty.
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Far fowls have fair feathers.
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Far from court, far from care.
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First deserve, and then desire.
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First impressions are the most lasting.
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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
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Foul water will quench fire.
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Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
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Give the devil his due.
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Gray hairs are death’s blossoms.
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Have you any Spanish? (Meaning, Have you got any money?)
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He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
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He is lifeless that is faultless.
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He opens the door with an ax.
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He that buyeth magistracy will seek justice.
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He that does amiss may do well.
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He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
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He that seeks trouble always finds it.
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He that seeks trouble never misses.
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He that serves at the altar ought to live by the altar.
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He that shippeth the devil must make the best of him.
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He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
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He that will take the bird must not scare it.
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He that will thrive must first ask his wife.
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He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar.
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He that would the daughter win Must with the mother first begin.
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He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like.
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If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.
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If thou hast not a capon, feed on an onion.
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If you swear you will catch no fish.
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In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.
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In for a penny, in for a pound.
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In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
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In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, In times of adversity, not one in twenty.
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Innocent actions carry their warrant with them.
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody.
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It is ill fishing before the net.
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It is ill prizing of green barley.
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Keep counsel of thyself first.
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Keep counsel, thyself first.
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Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten.
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Kissing goes by favor.
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Kissing goes by favour.
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Knock on wood.
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Last ship, best ship.
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Late children are early orphans.
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Learning makes people fit company for themselves.
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Least said is soonest mended.
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Least said, soonest mended.
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Lend your money and lose your friend.
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Length begets loathing.
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Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Many things are lost for want of asking.
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Much ado and little help.
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Never fall out with your bread and butter.
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Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.
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None can guess the jewel by the casket.
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None ever took a stone out of the temple but the dust did fly in his eyes.
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Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.
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One funeral makes many.
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Peace makes plenty.
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Plenty know good ale, but don’t know much after that.
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Poor Trust is dead; Bad Pay killed him.
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Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
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Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.
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Proverbs are the children of experience.
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Rain before seven; clear before eleven.
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Raw cucumber makes the churchyards prosperous.
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Raw leather will stretch.
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Revenge is a dish that should be eaten cold.
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Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
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Self-praise is no praise at all.
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Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be.
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Short acquaintance brings repentance.
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Soft fire makes sweet malt.
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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
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Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
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Spread the table and contention will cease.
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Spring has come when you can put your foot on three daisies.
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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
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Still he fisheth that catcheth one.
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Sweep in front of your own door.
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Take a dog for a companion and a stick in your hand.
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Take a hair of the dog that has bitten you.
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Take care of your pennies and your pounds will take care of your heirs and barristers.
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Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.
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The afterthought is good for nought, except it be to catch blind horses with.
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The bait hides the hook.
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
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The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for things we need not, we often lose what we have.]
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The cat has nine lives: three for playing, three for straying, three for staying.
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The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
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The Devil’s children have the Devil’s luck.
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The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.
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The eyes are the window of the soul.
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The face is no index to the heart.
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The golden age never was the present age.
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The greater the sinner, the greater the saint.
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The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
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The greatest barkers bite not sorest.
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The more acquaintance, the more danger.
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The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
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The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air.
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The noisy fowler catches no birds.
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The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.
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The old ox plows a straight furrow.
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The person who is tired will find time to sleep. A person with a bad name is already half hanged.
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The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.
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The pitcher will go to the well once too often.
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The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.
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The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
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There’s many a good cock come out of a tattered bag.
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There’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
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Think of ease, but work on.
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Too far East is West.
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Too hot to last.
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Two wrongs do not make a right.
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Use soft words and hard arguments.
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Venture not to defend what your judgment doubts of.
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Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
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We are all Adam’s children, but silk makes the difference.
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We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
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When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
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Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
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Who goes a beast to Rome, a beast returns.
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Whom we love best, to them we can say least.
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Write down the advice of him who love you, though you like it not at present.
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Year of snow fruit will grow.
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You can’t get blood out of a stone.
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You can’t get blood out of a turnip.
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You never miss a slice from a cut loaf.
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You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
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Young men may die, old men must.
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Young men’s knocks old men feel.
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Young people don’t know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.
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Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.
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Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
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His fore feet though you sever, his grip he’ll make good.
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And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
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Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.
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When two agree in their desire, One sparke will set them both on fire.
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