A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC) A day is lost if one has not laughed. -- French (on the conduct of life) A friend in need is a friend indeed. -- James Ray (1678) A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) A good spouse and health is a persons best wealth. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790) A mans house is his castle. -- Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) A place for everything and everything in its place. -- Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) A smile is a window in your face to show your heart is at home. -- unknown (submitted by fubar@nque) A trouble shared is a trouble halved. -- unknown All of us, the great and the little have need of each other. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC) Any port in a storm. -- unknown As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens. -- E. Pellham (1631) As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life. -- Sanskrit (on life and living) Bread, oil, Salt and Heart -- Albanian ( on honoring the guest) thanks to kravetsmaksim Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree. -- Native American Saying (on war and peace) Character building begins in infancy and continues until death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) Cold hands, warm heart. -- V.S. Lean (1903) Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790) Curses like chickens, come home to roost. -- Chaucer (c.1343-1400) Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. -- Bible Dont bypass a town where theres a friend. -- Malagasy (on journeys) Dont let the grass grow on the path of friendship. -- Blackfoot (Native American) (on friendship) Eat coconuts while you have teeth. -- Singhalese (on youth and age) Every day of your life is a page of your history. -- Arabic (on life and living) Everyone wants to live long but no one wants to be called old. -- Icelandic (on youth and age) Fact is stranger than fiction. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) Follow your dreams. -- unknown For every bow there is an arrow. (For everyone there is someone.) -- unknown Glass, china and reputation are easily crackd and never well mended. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790) Good memories are our second chance at happiness. -- Queen Elizabeth II Great oaks from little acorns grow. -- Chaucer (c.1343-1400) He lives long who lives well. -- J. Wilson (1553) He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. -- Phillip Massinger (1583-1640) Hold fast to the words of your ancestors. -- Maori (on proverbs) Honor is better than honors. -- Flemish (on the conduct of life) In time we hate that which we often fear. -- Seneca (8 BC-AD 65) Industry pays debts, despair encreases them. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790) It takes all kinds to make a world go round. -- T. Shelton Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. -- Horace (65-8 BC) Laugh every day; its like inner jogging. -- unknown Laughter is the best medicine. -- unknown< Life has its little ups and downs. -- unknown Life is one big experiment. -- unknown Life is short and full of blisters. -- African-American (on life and living) Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing. -- Yiddish (on life and living) Life is too short to waste. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Make a meal and contention will cease. -- Hebrew (on the human comedy) May the outward and inward man be at one. -- Socrates (469-399 BC) No one is good at everything but everyone is good at something. -- unknown Nothing goes on forever. -- unknown Observe all men; thyself most. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790) One hand washes the other. -- Epicharmus (273 AD) People are architects of their own fortune. -- Spanish (on fortune) Praise the young and they will blossom. -- Irish Proverb Small children give you a headache, big children a heartache. -- Russian Proverb Spring is in the air. -- unknown Take life as it comes. -- unknown The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) The best things in life are free. -- B.G. DeSilva (1927) The company makes the feast. -- J. Warton (1653) The discontented man finds no easy chair. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790) The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your pocket. -- unknown, courtesy of T. Ghataurhae of England The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. -- Edward John Phelps (1822-1900) The memories of youth make for long, long thoughts. -- Lapp (on youth and age) The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. -- Bible The old one who is loved, is winter with flowers. -- German (on youth and age) The person sins, then blames Satan for it. -- Afghan (on the human comedy) The stargazers toe is often stubbed. -- Russian (on the human comedy) The worst prison is a closed heart. -- Pope John Paul II Vices are their own punishment. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC) Well never know the worth of water till the well goes dry. -- Scottish Proverb When the apple is ripe it will fall. -- Irish Proverb When the tiger kills, the jackel profits. -- Afghan (on business) Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind. -- Armenian (on basic truths) While the cats away, the mice will play. -- James Ray (1670) Who are a little wise, the best fools be. -- John Donne (1573-1631) You cannot carve rotten wood. -- Chinese You cant teach an old dog new tricks. -- unknown You cant win them all. -- unknown You may delay but time will not. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790) Your success and happiness lie in you...resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. -- Helen Keller
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