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Some Useless Proverbs For You
7/5th of all people do not understand fractions. 43% of all statistics are worthless. A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead. You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think. "A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain." . "You never test the depth of a river with both feet." "Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand." "The believer is happy. The doubter is wise." It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind. Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it. There are no short cuts to any place worth going. Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potatothe best part of him is underground. A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. A closed mouth gathers no feet. Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart. A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey. He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. It is never too late to be what you might have been. If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit. You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom . Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach. Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Without vision, we are blind to opportunity. Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. Friendship is what binds the world together in peace, may we all become friends. It matters not what you do, as long as you are the best one doing it. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. It's a great satisfaction knowing that for a brief point in time you made a difference. In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes. Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction. False hope is nicer than no hope at all. Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice? Silence is one of the most effective forms of communication. You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person. Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Patience will come to those who wait for it. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling. May today be better than yesterday, but, not as good as tomorrow. "If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice". The best way to predict the future is to invent it! No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do. The more beautiful the snake the deadlier its venom. If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself. The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Question Authority and the Authorities will question You. A company is known by the people it keeps. A person who can't lead and won't follow makes a dandy roadblock. A morning without coffee is like something without something else. It takes one tree to make 10,000 matches, but one match to burn 10,000 trees. Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. Quitters never win, and winners never quit, but those who never quit AND never win are idiots. People who do the world's real work don't usually wear neckties. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. Mines are equal opportunity weapons. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out. Incoming fire has the right of way. If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid. The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions: 1. When you're ready for them. 2. When you're not ready for them.. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. A cat has nine lives.. A closed mouth catches no flies. A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. A drink precedes a story. A drowning man is not troubled by rain. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. A forest is in an acorn. A friend in need is a friend indeed. A friend's eye is a good mirror. A good denial, the best point in law. A good husband is healthy and absent. A hard beginning maketh a good ending. A healthy man is a successful man. A hedge between keeps friendship green. A hen is heavy when carried far. A hound's food is in its legs. A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. A hungry man is an angry man. A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. A little too late, is much too late. A loan though old is not gift. A lock is better than suspicion. A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink. A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly. A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. A penny for your thoughts. A penny saved is a penny gained. A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. A silent mouth is melodious. A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. A son is a son till he gets him a wife , But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. A teacher is better than two books. A thief believes everybody steals. A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. A trade not properly learned is an enemy. A tree falls the way it leans. A white Christmas fills the churchyard. A wise man hears one word and understands two. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the mind of an ass. Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. Advice should be viewed from behind. Advice when most needed is least heeded. After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers. Age is honorable and youth is noble. All is well that ends well. All things grow with time, except grief. An angry man is not fit to pray. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. An ass in Germany is a professor in Rome. An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue. An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. Anger can be an expensive luxury. |
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