Some people handle the truth carelessly; Others
never touch it at all.
--Anonymous
Instruction in youth is like engraving
in stone.
--Columbian Proverb
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to
preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
--Ben Lindsey
Sweet is war to those who have never experienced
it.
--Latin Proverb
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For
he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother.
--Shakespeare, "Henry V"
I will charge thee nothing but the promise
that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.
--Mennonite Proverb
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
--Sally Koch
It takes all sorts to make a world.
--English Proverb
The main dangers in this life are the people who
want to change everything - or nothing.
--Lady Astor
The weaker the argument, the stronger the
words.
--American Proverb
Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while
two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.
--Hugh Allen
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease
as his legs increase.
--French Proverb
Perhaps parents would enjoy their children more
if they stopped to realize that the film of childhood can never be run
through for a second showing.
--Evelyn Nown
Too clever is dumb.
--German Proverb
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
There's no thief like a bad book.
--Italian Proverb
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested.
--Francis Bacon
Tell the truth and run.
--Yugoslavian Proverb
There are only two ways of telling the complete
truth - anonymously and posthumously.
--Thomas Sowell
Every day good luck to thee, And no day
of sorrow be!
--Gaelic Proverb
A sunrise is God's way of telling the world to
lighten up.
--Roadside Church Sign
The child that's left to himself will put
his mother to shame.
--Gaelic Proverb
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they
think that their children are naive.
--Ogden Nash
The best way to get praise is to die.
--Italian Proverb
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want
to be there when it happens.
--Woody Allen
Suspicion always haunts the guilty party.
--French Proverb
Frank and explicit - this is the right line to
take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of
others.
--Benjamin Disraeli
It is better to be a coward for a minute
than dead for the rest of your life.
--Irish Proverb
I would rather be a coward than brave because
people hurt you when you are brave.
--E. M. Forster
Do not insult the mother alligator until
after you have crossed the river.
--Haitian Proverb
The trouble with using experience as a guide is
that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
Only love gives us the taste of eternity.
--Jewish Proverb
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our
destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
--Francois Mauriac
If you don't have a plan for yourself,
you'll be a part of someone else's.
--American Proverb
In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
--Henry David Thoreau
A good friend will fit you like ring to
finger.
--Venezuelan Proverb
In my friend, I find a second self.
--Isabel Norton
The one who sits on the ground need not
fear a fall.
--Czech Proverb
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend.
Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
--Albert Camus
Reputation is what you are in the light;
character is what you are in the dark.
--American Proverb
Character is what God and the angels know of us;
reputation is what men and women think of us.
--Horace Mann
Treat the world well. It was
not given to you by your parents. It was willed to you by your children.
--Kenyan Proverb
There is nothing in which the birds differ more
from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape
as it was before.
--Robert Lynd
The words of God are not like the oak leaf
which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green
forever.
--Native American Proverb
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are
moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on
its knees.
--Victor Hugo
A love that can last forever takes but
a second to come about.
--Cuban Proverb
I love you, not only for what you are, but for
what I am when I am with you.
--Roy Croft
Self-help is the best help.
--Polish Proverb
Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is
a good, firm push.
--Joann Thomas
Everyone is the age of their heart.
--Guatemalan Proverb
To me, old age is always fifteen years older
than I am.
--Bernard Baruch
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows
fall behind you.
--Maori Proverb
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both
sides.
--David Viscott, MD
Bury can't and you'll find will.
--American Proverb
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
--Thomas Fuller
Tell me with whom you travel, and I'll
tell you who you are.
--German Proverb
A man is known by the company he avoids.
If the American Revolution had produced
nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.
--Samuel Eliot Morison
The American dream is not over. America
is an adventure.
--Theodore White
If you have much, give of your wealth;
if you have little, give of your heart.
--Arab Proverb
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
--Samuel Johnson
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
--American Proverb
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the
annoyance of a good example.
--Mark Twain
If you put out another's candle, you also
will be in the dark.
--German Proverb
The greatest good you can do for another is not
just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
--Benjamin Disraeli
One false step brings everlasting grief.
Short please, long lament.
--Chinese Proverb
Almost anything is easier to get into than out
of
Do good and don't worry to whom.
--Mexican Proverb
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
--Ignatius Loyola
When you open a door, don't forget to close
it. Treat your mouth accordingly.
--Jewish Proverb
Speak when you are angry and you will make the
best speech you will ever regret.
--Ambrose Bierce
Children speak in the field what they hear
in the house.
--Scottish Proverb
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat
themselves like seasons of the year.
--Eleanor Farjeon
True friendship is one soul shared by two
bodies.
--Mexican Proverb
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can
say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
--Montaigne
Never get in a battle of wits without ammunition.
--American Proverb
Half the world is composed of people who have
something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and
keep on saying it.
--Robert Frost
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his
words.
--Russian Proverb
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
--Theodore Roosevelt
Parents are the first teachers of the children.
--Burmese Proverb
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater
privilege, than the raising of the next generation.
--C. Everett Koop, MD
You never plough a field by turning it
over in your mind.
--Irish Proverb
'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
--Anonymous
Were there no fools, there would be no
wise men.
--German Proverb
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for
them the rest of us could not succeed.
--Mark Twain
Truth is not determined by the volume of
the voice.
--Chinese Proverb
Soft words are hard arguments.
--Thomas Fuller
The frog does not drink up the pond in
which he lives.
--Native American Proverb
Man is complex - he makes deserts bloom
and lakes die.
--Dr. Laurence J. Peter
The eyes are the mirror of the soul.
--Yiddish Proverb
Could a greater miracle take place than for us
to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
--Henry David Thoreau
Man proposes, God disposes.
--Chinese Proverb
How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.
--Woody Allen
Help thy brother's boat across, and lo!
thine own has reached the shore.
--Hindu Proverb
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this
life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
--Charles Dudley Warner
The difference between adults and children
is that adults don't ask questions.
--American Proverb
Children are not things to be molded, but are
people to be unfolded.
It usually rains where it's already wet.
--German Proverb
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you
gotta put up with the rain.
--Dolly Parton
The very thing one likes, one does well.
--Japanese Proverb
The winds and waves are always on the side
of the ablest navigators.
--Edward Gibbon
It is easy to be brave from a distance.
--Native American Proverb
Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't
have to do it.
--Weller's Law
Gossip about a person and his shadow will
appear.
--Japanese Proverb
Gossip is when you hear something you like about
someone you don't.
--Earl Wilson
A child's life is like a piece of paper
on which every person leaves a mark.
--Chinese Proverb
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls
on them makes an impression.
--Haim Ginott
Mirth is the sugar of life.
--German Proverb
We are all here for a spell, get all the good
laughs you can.
--Will Rogers
A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will
kill.
--Scottish Proverb
To have lost your reputation is to be dead among
the living.
--S. H. Simmons
Those who have one foot in the canoe, and
one foot in the boat are going to fall into the river.
--Native American Proverb
He who hesitates is interrupted.
--Franklin P. Jones
Life is a candle before the wind.
--Japanese Proverb
You only live once. But if you work it right,
once is enough.
--Fred Allen
In time of war the devil makes more room
in hell.
--German Proverb
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
--Benjamin Franklin
Accident is the mother of invention.
--American Proverb
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented
the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying
things.
--Lech Walesa
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
--Irish Proverb
He has the gift of quiet.
--John Le Carre
A child's tear rends the heavens.
--Yiddish Proverb
What's done to children, they will do to society.
--Dr. Karl Menninger
Where you will sit when you are old shows
where you stood in youth.
--Yoruba Proverb
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited
and gives us what we have earned.
--Gerald Brenan
It would be a very big book that contained
all the maybes uttered in a day.
--French Proverb
These things are good in little measure and evil
in large: yeast, salt and hesitation.
--The Talmud
Since God could not be everywhere, he created
mothers.
--Jewish Proverb
You never get over being a child, long as you
have a mother to go to.
--Sarah Orne Jewett
We will be known forever by the tracks
we leave.
--Native American Proverb
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the
men of old; seek what they sought.
--Matsuo Basho
Time is like a river - it flows by and
doesn't return.
--Chinese Proverb
Time is a sort of river of passing events,
and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it
is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept
away.
--Marcus
Aurelius
We judge others by their acts, but ourselves
by our intentions.
--American Proverb
This is where you will win the battle -- in the
playhouse of your mind.
--Maxwell Maltz
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
--German Proverb
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever
did me any harm.
--Calvin Coolidge
The whole world is a dream, and death the
interpreter.
--Yiddish Proverb
Do not go gentle into that good night Old age
should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the
light.
--Dylan Thomas
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice
to a fool.
--Irish Proverb
The best advice yet given is that you don't have
to take it.
--Libbie Fudim
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
--Russian Proverb
If I take care of my character, my reputation
will take care of itself.
--D. L. Moody
Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened
by whitewash.
--American Proverb
Character may be manifested in the great moments,
but it is made in the small ones.
--Phillips Brooks
In the courtroom of the conscience, a case
is always in progress.
--Dutch Proverb
Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience
from the fear of God.
--Samuel Johnson
He who lies in the mud will rise dirty.
--Gaelic Proverb
You can't slide uphill.
--Roadside Church Sign
The past remembered is a good guide for
the future.
--Chinese Proverb
I believe the future is only the past again, entered
through another gate.
--Arthur Wing Pinero
The oldest trees often bear the sweetest
fruit.
--German Proverb
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the birds that cannot soar, God has
provided low branches.
--Turkish Proverb
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
--Laurence Sterne
It is not easy to straighten in the oak
the crook that grew in the sapling.
--American Proverb
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat
themselves like seasons of the year.
--Eleanor Farjeon
A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.
--Irish Proverb
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and
to turn around three times before lying down.
--Robert
Benchley
Break the leg of a bad habit.
--Puerto Rican Proverb
We first make our habits, and then our habits
make us.
--John Dryden