wisesayings

wisesayings

1. A blind man will not thank you for a gift of a looking-glass.
2. A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw.
3. A joy shared is a joy doubled.
4. A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved.
5. A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning.
6. A maid who laughs is half taken.
7. A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.
8. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
9. A stumble may prevent a fall.
10. Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it.
11. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
12. Absence makes the heart go wander.
13. Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.
14. Actions speak louder than words.
15. Advice is least heeded when most needed.
16. Give advice to all, be security to none.
17. Age and wedlock tame man and beast.
18. Ale in, wit out.
19. An empty vessel makes the most noise.
20. An idle mind is the devil's workshop.
21. An illiterate king is a crowned ass.
22. An empty belly hears none.
23. Anger dies quickly with a good man.
24. Big thunder, little rain.
25. Blind men should not judge of colours.
26. Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
27. Confession is the first step to repentance.
28. Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
29. Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.
30. Discretion is the better part of valor.
31. Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence.
32. Diseases are the interest of pleasures.
33. Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
34. Every dog has his day.
35. Fame is a magnifying glass.
36. Familiarity breeds contempt.
37. Far from court, far from care.
38. Fools build houses, and wise men purchase them.
39. Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
40. Give the devil his due.
41. He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
42. He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
43. If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.
44. In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, In times of adversity, not one in twenty.
45. In weal,your friends know you; in woe, you know your friends.
46. It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody.
47. Keep counsel of thyself first.
48. Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
49. Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten.
50. Late children are early orphans.
51. Least said is soonest mended.
52. Lend your money and lose your friend.
53. Length begets loathing.
54. Many things are lost for want of asking.
55. None can guess the jewel by the casket.
56. Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
57. Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.
58. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
59. Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
60. Spread the table and contention will cease.
61. Take care of your penny and your pounds will take care of you.
62. The bait hides the hook.
63. First deserve, then desire.
64. Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
65. Out of sight, out of mind.
66. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
67. Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
68. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
69. The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
70. Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
71. A man's life consists not in the abundance of the things, he possesses.
72. Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
73. It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
74. Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, little knowing that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
75. Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
76. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
77. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
78. From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
79. My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
80. They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.
81. Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers(morticians) walk before the hearse.
82. For we that live to please, must please to live.(for drama troupes to survive, they must be well fed).
83. Just as a good wine needs no bush, a good play needs no epilogue.
84. Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
85. The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
86. If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
87. The anwser is no untill you ask the question.
88. It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly
89. Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing
90. Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage.
91. People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.
92. Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
93. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
94. If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
95. In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
96. Appearances are often deceptive.
97. A man is known by the company he keeps
98. Self-help is the best help.
99. It is better to save now for the wants of tomorrow.
100. Birds of the same feather flock together.
101. Don't make much ado about nothing.
102. If words suffice not, blows must follow.
103. Look before you leap.
104. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
105. Those who suffer most cry out the least.
106. Zeal should not outrun discretion.
107. For a horse to be in good condition, groom him less and feed him more.
108. The value is in the worth, not in the number.
109. Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
110. Trying to please everyone is pleasing none.
111. Even a small mouse can con benefits on a Lion.
112. Pride goes before fall.
113. Better poverty without care, than riches with.
114. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.
115. The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
116. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
117. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad, sober and sorry, but wise.
118. He that would like to rule others should rule himself first.
119. The greatest foes are within.
120. When the archer misses the mark, look for the fault within. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.
121. Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
122. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
123. Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
124. When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
125. Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
126. When ambition ends, happiness begins.
127. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
128. If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
129. We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
130. The silence that accepts merit, is the highest applause.
131. Success is not found in applause but in the satisfaction of one's realization of one's goal.
132. Wise men take the applause of silence while the fools take in the sounds.
133. Life can be seen through your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.
134. Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.
135. There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
136. To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
137. Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
138. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
139. The sounder your agrument, the lesser the substance.
140. The best way to win the argument is being in the right.
141. It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
142. Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
143. Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
144. Debate is the death of conversation.
145. He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
146. It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
147. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
148. When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid or highly formidable.
149. Arts gallery: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
150. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
151. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
152. If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
153. To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
154. The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
155. The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
156. The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
157. To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
158. Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
159. In ancient Greece a traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a philosopher, "I do not believe you can do as much". "True," said the philosopher. "but every goose can."
160. A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
161. Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
162. They are able because they think they are able.
163. Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
164. It is the misfit who does not learn to do it well, but learns to enjoy doing it badly.
165. The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
166. Having abilities is nice but hiding one's abilities is still nicer.
167. Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
168. Ability without opportunity is like a barber without tools.
169. Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
170. I don't care what you know, I do care what you do!
171. Ability is a poor man's wealth.
172. Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
173. Do what you can, with what you have, knowing how, where you are without asking why?
174. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
175. Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
176. Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
177. An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
178. It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
179. My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill.
180. Government is force, legalized plunder.
181. When a man steals, it is an offence, when a Government does it, it is the law.
182. He that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
183. Accidents do not happen; they are caused.
184. Never make a defence or apology before you are accused.
185. When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
186. Don't worry what lies dimly at a distance, but do care what lies clearly at hand.
187. It is better to wear out than to rust out.
188. Our past actions are like old almanacs.
189. Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
190. Any one can count the seeds in an apple.. Only God can count the apples in a seed.
191. The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
192. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of safe heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
193. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
194. Good and noble actions will surely touch some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
195.Actions are interpretations of thoughts.
196. Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
197. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
198. Actions speak louder than words.
199. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or a bad or misplaced idealism.
200. Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
201. Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
202. The meek stands and stares at the sea but the adventurer takes the boat.
203. The worst man often gives the best advice.
204. Too few advices lead to fall,too many to confusion.
205. Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
206. Give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
207. Please don't give unsolicited advice.
208. If you are wise, advise others and be advised-if you a fool.
209. Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.
210. A word of advice: Don't give it.
211. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
212. Advice is what we ask from others because not to abide by it.
213. If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
214. Advices are freely given; if you pay for them it becomes counseling.
215. Many receive advice, only a few profit from it.
216. A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
217. The cheapest things available in the market is advice.
218. Noble persons would rather give than get affection.
219. Even a small gift is really great,if given with affection.
220. When we are truly loved and greeted with affection, the earth metamorphosed, all tragedies and ennuis vanish.
221. The old are the children, for the second time.
222. The best are the old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
223. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
224. Age considers; youth ventures.
225. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
226. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
227. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
228. In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
229. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
230. Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
231. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
232. We are aging,but not growing.
233. Many people live long for that is only remarkable for anything else.
234. The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
235. You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
236. Life begins at 40 -- but so do rheumatism, and myopia.
237. Wrinkles are cast upon my brows and not at my heart; the spirit is willing but the flesh is not.
238. You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
239. We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.
240. If you punished for a crime, you have not committed, then it is old age.
241. If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
242. When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
243. Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
244. Never too old to learn; Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.
245. No longer having the enterprise to commit, but cherishing the old vices is old age.
246. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
247. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
248. Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
249. For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
250. The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
251. Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten.
252. The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
253. I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
254. Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
255. You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
256. The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
257. The older he grow the more he distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
258. The spiritual foresight improves as the physical eyesight declines-oldage.
259. At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
260. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written last chapter.
261. My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
262. When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
263. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
264. ALLIANCE BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
265. US: Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.
266. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.
267. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
268. Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
269. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
270. Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
271. Anger hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
272. Anger makes us strong, blind and impatient, and it more often than not leads us wrong;
273. Anger stems from the bosom of the fool and his maimed mind.
274. Anger is momentary madness.
275. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
276. Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
277. Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
278. If one controls anger, then there remains nothing to be controlled.
279. Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
280. Anger's consequences is more dangerous than its causes.
281. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
282. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
283.Anger clouds the mind, drains the reason.
284. Anger corrodes the vessel that carries it.
285. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
286. Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
287. How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
288. Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
289. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
290. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
291. There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
292. Never apologize and never explain - is idiot's philosophy.
293. All that glitter is not gold.
294. The cowl does not make a monk nor a sword a knight.
295. Handsome is that handsome does.
296. Things are seldom what they seem.
297. If you don't own a gadget, don't bother for it needs no rapair.
298. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
299. There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.
300. Do not trust the crowd by its number, for those persons would come in multitude if you and I were going to be hanged.
301. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
302. April 1 is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on other 364.
303. "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
304. A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
305. What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
306. Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
307. Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
308. Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
309. My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
310. No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
311. If you don't like it, you say that the artist is wrong; but the artist will say you don't understand.
312. Bachelors are in one way better as they are limited to ruining their own life.
313. The more the photograph tells, the less you know about the person.
314. The pen is the tongue of the mind. The pen is mighter than the sword.
315. Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
316. It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.
317. In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
318. If you want to see rainbow, be prepared for the rain.
319. Well done is better than well said.
320. desires are dreams,if they are not transformed into deeds..
321. Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
322. You always admire what you really don't understand.
323. Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
324. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
325. Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
326. Wise men survive on adversity and the fools perish in ease and comfort.
327. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
328. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
329. No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
330. Success shows one side of the coin, but adversity shows the obverse side too.
331. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
332. Foxhunting= the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
333. I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
334. Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.
335. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
336. A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
337. Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
338. As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
339. It is during our darkest moments that we appreciate the brightness of light.
340. When in doubt, don't.
341. If you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.
342. Desires make some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
343. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
344. Good men prefer to be accountable and the bad stuff prefer to blame others.
345. Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
346. The road to success runs uphill and the road to downfall downhill.
347. Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
348. If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
349. Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
350. Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
351. Trust, but verify. Pray the God but also take insurance.
352. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
353. Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
354. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
355.The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
356. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
357. To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
358. You can tell more about a person by what others say about him than what he says about others.
359. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
360. One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
361. I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
362. Only those who have learned a lot will admit how little they know.
363. A little learning is a dangerous thing, so too lot of ignorance.
364. It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
365. Promise is most given when least said.
366. Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
367. When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.
368. It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
369. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
370. It is an old maxim that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
371. Bank deposit is like toothpaste, easy to take out of the tube but diffcult to put it back.
372. Write the bad things(that happened in your life)in sand, and the good ones on a piece of marble.
373. Even the great music loses its charm if the audience is hard of hearing.
374. Action, and not comtemplation, wins laurrels.
375. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
376. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
377. Forget the times of your distress, but always remember what they taught you.
378. Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
379. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
380. You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.
381. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
382. A lie told often enough becomes truth.
383. Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
384. 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.
385. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: If there were no scorching sun, we may not appreciate the cool shadows; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
386. The more the darkness, the grandieur the light.
387. When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.
388. Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
389. The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
390. The trodden path is the safest. However the untrodden brings success.
391. Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
392. Stupid is as stupid does.
393. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
394. Property and pelf may vanish, but character, knowledge and humanity survive.
395. When a rich man displays his wealth, he begs for other's envy.
396. Be careful: the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
397. The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
398. Living with a fool is more grueling than being one.
399. No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
400. One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
401. If little knowledge is dangerous, can fools be out of danger?
402. Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the dirty weeds.
403. In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.
404. Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do
405. There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators.
406. Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
407. Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
408. Grumbling is the politest form of fighting.
409. Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
410. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
411. While intelligent people simplify the complex, a fool complicates the simple.
412. To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
413. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
414. Better take de-tour rather cursing on cul-de-sac.
415. Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
416. Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
417. Do to others what you would have them do to you.
418. Smile when it hurts most.
419. Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
420. The reward of suffering is experience.
421. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
422. The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.
423. Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
424. One generation plants trees, and the next enjoys the shade.
425. When you take a rest under the shadow of a tree, remember the man who planted it.
426. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
427. In an argument, don't raise your voice but your eyebrows.
428. Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
429. The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist after 25 doesn't have brain !.
430. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
431. If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !.
432. Poverty is the worst form of violence.
433. Fish and guests smell after three days.
434. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything; only the liar has to memorize incidents.
435. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
436. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
437. The more you know truths the more you also know of your past ignorance.
438. Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
439. Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
440. Nothing is permanent, so avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
441. An unexamined life is not worth living.
442. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
443. If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.
444. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
445. Earth is so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
446. Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
447. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
448. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
449. Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
450. Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
451. There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
452. Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
453. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
454. Whispering into ear goes into my heart, kissing the lips to my soul.
455. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
456. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
457. Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
458. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
459. Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
460. Loving someone gives you courage, being loved by someone gives you strength.
461. Who finds a wife finds a good thing, who do not still does better.
462. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.".
463. The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
464. The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
465. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
466. If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
467. He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
468. Those who love deeply never grow old.
469. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
470. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
471. A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
472. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
473. To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and never ever try to understand her !.
474. Love, if you can;you don't need anything else;...and if you don't do, it hardly matters what else you have.
475. Life would not be tolerable if there were no amusements.
476. A leopard does not change his spots.
477. Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.(I mean for the child).
478. Apes are apes though clothed in style.
479. Neat, not gaudy.
480. She's adorned amply, if her husband's eye looks lovely.
481. Keen appetite and quick digestion are heaven's blessings.
482. If appetite comes while eating, then obesity follows.
483. Appetite goes after eating and thirst departs after drinking.
484. The sweetest honey Is loathsome if one is sans appetite.
485. The poor cloy the hungry edge of appetite by bare imagination of a feast.
486. Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
487. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
488. Honest arrogance and hypocritical humility are both of devil's hands.
489. Height of absurdity: He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
490. Bad artists fill up their work in museum while good ones decorate it.
491. Most artists will let their wives starve, their children go barefoot, their mothers drudge for this living than curse their work.
492. Bad artists always admire each other's work.
493. An able astronomer will locate the position of a star anytime, but he can't tell where his daughter would be at night?
494. To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
495. If you don't want to see the shadows, then keep your face to sunshine.
496. An optimist may see a light where there is none, but a pessimist will soon run to blow it out.
497. If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
498. There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
499. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
500. The Childs are the God's noblest work.
501. Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other.
502. Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
503. Bachelors long to get married and the married wish to become bachelors.
504. Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.
505. A miser and a liar bargain quickly.
506. Necessity never made a good bargain.
507. Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.
508. The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy.
509. Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
510. What's well begun, is half done.
511. To have begun is to have done half the task.
512. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
513. A good beginning makes a good ending.
514. Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
515. If you have done a good thing, conceal it; if you received a good thing, disclose it.
516. He helps twice who helps quickly.
517. Wisdom is better than strength.
518. Wisdom is better than weapons of war.
519. For the merchandise of wisdom is better than gold or silver.
520. Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
521. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
522. A wrathful man stirs up strife: but the cool one appeases it.
523. A bad workman always blames his tools.
524. A bad workman often quarrels with his tools.
525.DEATH LEAVES A HEARTACHE NO ONE CAN HEAL, LOVE LEAVES MEMORY NO ONE CAN STEAL.
526.The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
527.There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
528.Blood cannot be washed out with blood.
529.A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.
530.A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
531.Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
532.Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
533.When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.
534.Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
535.A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
536.Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
537.I would sooner read a railway guide or an almanac than nothing at all.
538.No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
539.A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
540.Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
541.To steal from one person is plagiarism, to steal from many is research.
542.No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.
543.A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
544.Wisest are those who use 'Yes' and 'No' appropriately.
545.The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
546.If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it.
547.A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
548.The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.
549.Brevity is the soul of wit, but then so does a lingerie.
550.The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
551.They (business people) feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
552.Business and tennis are similar, those who serve well end up winning the purpose.
553.There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
554.Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers.
555. Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
556.The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.
557.The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
558.Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).
559.If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
560.It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
561.There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist takes the skin only.
562.One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
563.If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
564.We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have a large market share. There's a difference.
565.I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
566.In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
567.Figures don't lie, but liars will figure out.
568.Blood does not wipe out dishonor or violence.
569.In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die.
570.To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
571.Bed is so luxurious to me that I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
572.Beggars must be no choosers.
573.Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
574.Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.
575.Borrowing is not much better than begging.
576.The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
577.That beggars mounted run their horse to death.
578.First learn how to beg then how to answer a begger.
579.Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be.
580. You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
581.Birds of the same feather will flock together.
582.A bird in a hand is worth two in the bush.
583. Books are medicines for the soul.
584.Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
585.Laws die, Books never.
586.A good book is one opened with expectation, and closed with delight.
587.A man's best friends are his books and a dog.
588. The charm of music dwells not in the tunes but in the echoes of our hearts.
589.What is reading, but silent conversation.
590.Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
591.A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book for generations.
592.Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to be its image.
593.The value of a book is in direct proportion to the capacity of the reader.
594.Choose an author as you choose a friend.
595.It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
596.It is how best you make use of the book that counts. If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
597.A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
598.A room without books is like a body without a soul.
599.Whoever kills a man, kills a creature. But the one destroys a book, kills the opportunity it may serve to generations.
600.The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
601.A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells a story.
602.His shortcoming is his long staying.
603.Everyone is a bore to someone.
604.In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
605. Fortune and love favour the brave.
606.Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
607.For a bribe, everyman has a price. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
608.Some men dont accept the bribe, for the bidding is low.
609.The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.
610.If you are that much strength, don't carry heavy burdens. Likewise, if your words are worthless, don't give advice.
611.The idle man gets nowhere but so does the perpetually busy one.
612.Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
613.It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
614.Calamity is the test of integrity.
615.Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
616.A noted British member of House of Lords told Winston Churchill, "If perchance, Churchill fell into Thames, it is misfortune; if anyboyd tries to save him, it is calamity.
617.Card games for amusement, not to enslave one's mind.
618.Cards are the devil's books.
619.Hasten slowly. Take warning by the misfortunes of others.
620.Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
621.Have a second thought for it may the wisest.
622.Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage.
623.Of all the dangers, taking too much precautions, is the worst.
624.It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
625.Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.
626.He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
627.Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
628.The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
629.Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows; change is eternal, perpetual and immortal.
630.Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
631.The stars rule men but God rules the stars.
632.He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
633.All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
634.If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
635.We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change often.
636.What you cannot change, change your perception about it.
637.Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
638.Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
639.Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
640.Power, pelf and erudition all in excess, cause ruin but not charity(in excess).
641.True Charity is a plant divinely nursed.
642.Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.
643.Charity begins at home, for some mostly ends where it begins.
644.The living need charity more than the dead.
645.Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
646.A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
647.The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
648.Prayer takes us to kingdom of God, fasting to its door and charity to its admission.
649.Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
650.Most blessed are who give than receive.
651.One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
652.As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
653.With malice toward none, with charity for all.
654.By charity one should not think that the receiver is bound by the chain of gratitude.
655.It is difficult for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
656.Some children take pleasure in making what other children take pleasure in breaking.
657.A wise son makes his father proud, but a foolish son, the eyesore of his mother.
658.A little knowledge is dangerous, but want of knowledge is calamity.
659.Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
660. Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
661.It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
662.Calamity is the test of integrity. Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
663.Card games are to amuse, not to enslave
664.Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage
665.It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
666.He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
667.The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.
668.Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
669.Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.
670.Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
671.The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
672.Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
673.When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
674.All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
675.Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
676.Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
677.Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
678.Excess of power will spell doom, excess of desires may cause a fall, but in charity there is no excess.
679.Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.
680.The living need charity more than the dead.
681.Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
682.If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
683.A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
684.The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
685.Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor he ever bound to the giver.
686.How can those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
687.Prayer shows us the way to Kingdom of God, fasting puts us to its door, but the charity gets admission.
688.He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
689.Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
690.It is more blessed to give than to receive.
691.One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
692.As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
693.The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.
694.A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
695.Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.
696.To the Kingdom of God, many are called, but few are chosen.
697.He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
698.'Tis better to have fought and lost than never to have fought at all!
699.Itis better to have loved and lost than to have loved at all.
700.If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
701.When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you can have.
702.Marry the girl who loves you rather than whom you love.
703.Passion leads the way, but predence helps to destination.
704.I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.
705.Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
706.When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
707.Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you. give your child what you deem it fit!
708.I pray not for the answer but for the strength, when trials engulf me.
709.The power of religion is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you.
710.It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.
711.It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
712.Dress maketh a man, we say; so does circumstances.
713.Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
714.The uncommitted life isn't worth living.
715.What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling.
716.A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.(WINSTON CHURCHILL)
717.It is much easier to show compassion to pet animals. They are never wicked.
718.Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
719.The dew of compassion is a tear.
720.The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced.
721.The wheel that squeaks the loudest invites the attention.
722.Grumbling is the politest form of fighting known.
723.Complaint is the largest tribute for without which, I may not know my Achiles'heel.(R.Kesavan.)
724.A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
725.Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
726.It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
727.Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in petty politics, but unwise in statesmanship.
728.If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
729.Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence is then ability to get things done.
730.We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. (MARK TWAIN)
731.A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
732. The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
733.He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
734.Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
735. It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is our mind.
736.Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
737.Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
738.It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
739.Man is the creature of circumstances. But some men create circumstances.
740.Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
741.The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
742.What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling.
743.Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
744.The dew of compassion is a tear.
745.The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced.
746.Grumbling is the politest form of fighting known.
747.Too many complaints may lose its sheen.
748.A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
749.Compromise is often an ignoble truce and only a coward makes it.
750.Better bend than break.
751.An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last
752.The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
753.Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
754.He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
755.We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
756.Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
757.A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
758.A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
759.Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
760.He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
761.A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
762.Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
763.Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
764.Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
765.A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
766.The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum=definition for uncontrolling.
767.No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
768.You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
769.I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
770.My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
771.Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
772.It is true that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
773.A miser becomes prodigal with covetousness of others purse.
774.In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
775.A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
776.Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
777.No man's credit is as good as his money.
778.A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
779.Purchasing for credit is the modern form of slavery.
780.Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
781.The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
782. I must be cruel only to be kind.
783. One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
784. Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
785. The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
786. Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
787. Cunning is but the low mimicry of wisdom.
788. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
789. Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
790. Those who are strong in cunning are week in courage.
791. Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
792. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
793. The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow.
794. Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
795. A man who commits no offence is gracious to all, subservient to none.
796. Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
797. A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
798. There is no wisdom like frankness.
799. One is only afraid of the people one cares too much for.
800. The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.
801. A woman despising gold and a cat having aversion to fish are hard to find, perhaps none exists.
802. It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
803. The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
804. Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
805. At the most, a cat can be your friend, but not a slave.
806. Cats are the ultimate narcissists.
807. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
808. A cat can never be a slave to lash or a whip.
809. If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
810. If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
811. Celibacy is best because you are ruining only one life.(i.e. yours)
812. Marriage has pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
813. Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
814. Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
815. There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
816. The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
817. A cheerful heart gladdens others and buries the sad and sullen.
818. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
819. We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.
820. A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the child learns to lie.
821. In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
822. Children have more need of models than critics.
823. A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
824. ain up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
825. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
826. Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
827. If the situation makes a man, he is intelligent; If he makes the situation, he is genius.
828. Anyone can be a barbarian; but it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
829. Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
830. The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.
831. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.
832. <783. 'cleverness' to be started
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