Proverb Wisdom

2011-04-06T15:47:00.000-07:00

"Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms."

-- English proverb

2011-04-06T15:44:00.000-07:00

"He who is late may gnaw the bones."

-- Yugoslav proverb

2011-03-12T13:21:00.000-08:00

"A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune."

-- Chinese proverb

2011-03-12T07:08:00.000-08:00

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cure's in the doctor's book."

-- Irish proverb

2011-03-11T03:36:00.001-08:00

"It is easier to go up into the mountains to catch tigers than to ask others for help."

-- Chinese proverb

2011-03-11T03:34:00.001-08:00

"What worth has beauty if it not seen?"

-- Italian proverb

2011-03-09T10:45:00.000-08:00

"The wise man is he who is contented with his lot."

-- Talmudic proverb

2011-02-27T09:10:00.000-08:00

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."

-- Japanese proverb

2011-02-25T07:22:00.000-08:00

"He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house."

-- Danish proverb

2011-01-10T08:00:00.001-08:00

“The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.”

-- Chinese proverb

2010-11-11T16:55:00.000-08:00

"Live to learn and you'll learn to live."

-- Portuguese proverb

2010-11-11T16:54:00.000-08:00

"If you can walk, you can dance.

If you can talk, you can sing."

-- Zimbabwe proverb

2010-11-11T16:52:00.000-08:00

"Learning is wealth that can't be stolen."

-- Philippine proverb

2010-11-11T16:50:00.000-08:00

"When one helps another both gain strength."

-- Ecuadorian proverb

2010-10-11T13:43:00.000-07:00

"I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap."

-- Spanish proverb

2010-10-11T13:42:00.000-07:00

"For the ignorant old age is winter; for the learned, it is a harvest."

-- Jewish proverb

2010-10-11T13:41:00.001-07:00

"A happy heart is better than a full purse."

-- Italian proverb

2010-10-11T13:39:00.000-07:00

"Continually give

Continually gain."

-- Chinese proverb

2010-06-16T19:32:00.000-07:00

"If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside us can do us no harm."

-- African proverb

2010-04-27T09:08:00.000-07:00

"If work were a good thing, the rich would have found a way to keep it to themselves."

-- Caribbean proverb

2010-03-28T13:06:00.000-07:00

"Three things are essential: great doubt, great faith, great perseverance."

-- Zen proverb

2010-03-28T13:04:00.000-07:00

"To get rid of your passions is not nirvana -- to look upon them as no matter of yours, that is nirvana."

-- Zen proverb

2010-03-28T13:03:00.000-07:00

"All boats rise with the tide."

-- anonymous proverb

2010-03-28T13:01:00.000-07:00

"To attain Buddhahood we must scatter life's aims and objects to the wind."

-- Zen proverb

2010-02-13T13:43:00.000-08:00

"Sometimes it is necessary to travel far to find what is near."

-- Hasidic proverb

2010-02-13T13:42:00.000-08:00

"A fool has a fine world."

-- Yiddish proverb

2010-02-13T13:40:00.000-08:00

"Surely this must be an ancient proverb: If the situation is killing you, get the hell out."

-- Hugh Prather

2010-02-13T13:39:00.000-08:00

"There is no room for God in him who is full of himself."

-- Hasidic proverb

2010-02-13T13:38:00.000-08:00

"What was hard to endure is sweet to recall."

-- French proverb

2010-02-13T13:37:00.000-08:00

"God made man because he loves stories."

-- Yiddish proverb

2010-02-13T13:36:00.000-08:00

"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."

-- Navajo proverb

2010-02-13T13:35:00.000-08:00

"The believer is happy, the doubter wise."

-- Greek proverb

2010-02-13T13:34:00.000-08:00

"God is an earthquake not an uncle."

-- Yiddish proverb

2010-02-13T13:33:00.001-08:00

"If God lived on earth people would break out all his windows."

-- Hasidic proverb

2010-02-13T13:30:00.000-08:00

"You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your Grandfather was."

-- Irish proverb

2010-02-13T13:29:00.000-08:00

"If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp."

-- Latin proverb

2010-02-13T13:28:00.000-08:00

"Where there is love there is no sin."

-- Montenegrin proverb

2010-02-13T13:27:00.001-08:00

"Let us go now and wake up our luck."

-- Cyprian proverb

2010-02-11T18:35:00.001-08:00

"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.

If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else."

-- Chinese proverb

2010-02-11T18:33:00.000-08:00

"To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight

To a monk she's a distraction

To a mosquito, a good meal."

-- Zen aphorism

2010-02-11T18:31:00.000-08:00

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation os who you are."

-- Chinese proverb

2010-02-11T18:26:00.000-08:00

"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try if for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting."

-- Zen proverb

2010-01-31T10:38:00.001-08:00

"They keep changing the record but the music is still the same."

-- Italian proverb

2009-12-20T17:08:00.001-08:00

"Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars."

-- Serbian proverb

2009-12-20T17:06:00.000-08:00

"Never speak unless you can improve on silence."

-- Vermont proverb

2009-12-20T14:54:00.000-08:00

"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky."

-- Ojibwa proverb

2009-12-20T14:52:00.000-08:00

"Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary."

-- Zen proverb

2009-12-20T14:51:00.000-08:00

"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."

-- Samurai proverb

2009-12-20T14:50:00.000-08:00

"If you have no money, be polite."

-- Danish proverb

2009-12-20T14:49:00.000-08:00

"Do not speak until you can improve on silence."

-- Quaker proverb

2009-12-20T14:46:00.000-08:00

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more, and all good things are yours."

-- Swedish proverb

2009-12-20T14:41:00.000-08:00

"Leave the flurry to the masses. Take your time and shine your glasses."

-- Shaker proverb

2009-12-20T14:39:00.000-08:00

"A rabbi whose congregation does not want to drive him out of town isn't a rabbi."

-- Talmudic proverb

2009-10-31T06:07:00.000-07:00

"Remember even monkeys fall out of trees."

-- Korean proverb

2009-10-22T11:39:00.000-07:00

"The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials."

-- Chinese proverb

2009-10-22T11:38:00.000-07:00

"Need not who needs not thee."

-- Basque proverb

2009-10-22T11:32:00.000-07:00

"Where ambition ends, happiness begins."

-- Hungarian proverb

2009-09-14T06:46:00.000-07:00

"The heart that loves is always young."

-- Greek proverb

2009-09-14T06:45:00.000-07:00

"Lean liberty is better than fat slavery."

-- anonymous proverb

2009-09-14T06:43:00.000-07:00

"What you've danced can't be taken away."

-- Spanish proverb

2009-09-14T06:42:00.000-07:00

"Better to go barefoot than without a book."

-- Icelandic proverb

2009-09-14T06:41:00.000-07:00

"Man cannot discover new oceans until he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

-- anonymous proverb

2009-09-14T06:39:00.000-07:00

"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick."

-- Proverbs 13:12

2009-09-14T05:31:00.000-07:00

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

-- Chinese proverb

2009-09-14T05:30:00.000-07:00

"The right answer to a fool is silence."

-- Afghan proverb

2009-09-14T05:29:00.000-07:00

"Teachers open the door, you enter by yourself."

-- Chinese proverb

2009-09-14T05:28:00.000-07:00

"The man who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning."

-- Danish proverb

2009-09-14T05:27:00.000-07:00

"Need not he who needs not thee."

-- Basque proverb

2009-09-14T05:26:00.000-07:00

"If you can command yourself, you can command the world."

-- Chinese proverb

2009-09-14T05:25:00.001-07:00

"A bold attack is half the battle."

-- German proverb

2009-09-14T05:24:00.000-07:00

"The busy man is troubled with but one devil, the idle man by a thousand."

-- Spanish proverb

2009-09-14T05:22:00.000-07:00

"Life is the gift of nature; beautiful living is the gift of wisdom."

-- Celtic proverb

2009-09-14T05:21:00.000-07:00

"God gives the nuts but he does not crack them."

-- German proverb

2009-09-13T20:51:00.000-07:00

"If your heart has room for one enemy, it is not a safe place for a friend."

-- English proverb

2009-09-13T20:49:00.000-07:00

"We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping."

-- Persian proverb

2009-09-13T20:48:00.000-07:00

"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water."

-- Swedish proverb

2009-09-13T20:47:00.001-07:00

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow."

-- Swedish proverb

2009-09-13T20:45:00.000-07:00

"Love teaches even asses to dance."

-- French proverb

2009-09-13T20:44:00.000-07:00

"Love me a little less-- but longer."

-- Jewish proverb

2009-09-13T20:41:00.000-07:00

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying overhead, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."

-- Chinese proverb

2009-09-13T20:39:00.002-07:00

"Thought you see the seven defects of others, we do not see our own ten defects."

-- Japanese proverb

2009-09-13T20:39:00.001-07:00

"A he-goat doesn't realize that he smells."

-- Nigerian proverb

2009-09-13T20:37:00.000-07:00

"What soap is for the body tears are for the soul."

-- Jewish proverb

2009-09-13T20:35:00.000-07:00

"Without a rope, people bind themselves."

-- Japanese proverb

2009-09-13T20:34:00.000-07:00

"The best cooks don't measure."

-- anonymous proverb

2009-09-13T20:32:00.000-07:00

"Be humble because you are made of shit. Be noble because you are made of stardust."

-- Sufi proverb

2009-09-13T20:30:00.001-07:00

"God gives food to every bird, but does not throw it in the nest."

-- Montenegrin proverb

2009-09-13T20:30:00.000-07:00

"God gives food to every bird, but does not throw it in the nest."

-- Montenegrin proverb

2009-09-13T20:28:00.000-07:00

"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time."

-- Hebrew proverb

2009-09-13T20:27:00.000-07:00

"Better to be quarreling than lonesome."

-- Irish proverb

2009-09-13T20:25:00.000-07:00

"To a worm in horseradish, the whole world is horseradish."

-- Yiddish proverb

2009-09-13T20:24:00.000-07:00

"Even monkeys fall out of trees."

-- Japanese proverb

2009-09-13T20:22:00.000-07:00

"The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens."

-- Irish proverb

2009-09-13T20:20:00.000-07:00

"Those who wish to sing always find a song."

-- Swedish proverb

2009-09-13T20:19:00.000-07:00

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."

-- Maori proverb

2009-09-13T20:17:00.000-07:00

"If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes."

-- Senegalese proverb

2009-09-13T20:15:00.000-07:00

"Love thy neighbor, even when he plays the trombone."

-- Jewish proverb

2009-09-13T20:14:00.000-07:00

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more and good things will be yours."

-- Swedish proverb

2009-09-13T20:12:00.000-07:00

"Success is doing what you like and making a living at it."

-- Greek proverb

2009-09-13T20:10:00.000-07:00

"There is no nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

-- Hindu proverb