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The best proverb you've ever heard

Posted by blogcatalogjose • 8/21/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: proverbs

I know a lot of proverbs and quotes....maybe we could share some of the best proverbs/quotes that we treasure

make everyone aware of the proverbs/quotes that you like

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Henry David Thoreau)

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

There are some remedies worse than the disease. (Publilius Syrus)

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. - Author Unknown

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8/21/08

Rampart

God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

good one Rampart

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8/21/08

CharmaineZoe

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday - and all's well (my Gran)

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. (James Thurber)

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8/21/08

Rampart

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? (John Lancaster Spalding)

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8/21/08

Rampart

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

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8/21/08

Rampart

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.
T

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  voodooKobra
  
  Not true. xkcd.com/357/
8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him. (Woodrow Wilson)

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. (Jimmy Dean)

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. (Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 )

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8/21/08

Rampart

God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? (Chuang Tzu )

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8/21/08

voodooKobra

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

Freedom is the distance between church and state.

When an agnostic dies, does he go to the "great perhaps"?

Closed minds usually have open mouths.

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8/21/08

cjserling

"I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot. I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians. I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one's eyes. I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain, Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime. I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons."

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Hi rampart, you gota pretty good collection!!

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1. 8/21/08
  
  Rampart
  
  oh thank you...but you are faster:)
8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

kooool....so many are interested!! keep going

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. (Chang Ch'ao)

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. (Karl Marx)

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1. 8/21/08
  
  mantiz
  
  Catch a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to use the internet, and he wont bother you for weeks (anon.)
8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide

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8/21/08

Rampart

Give him an inch and he'll take a yard

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

hee hee....that true

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8/21/08

Rampart

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

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8/21/08

CharmaineZoe

"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives." (Robert Heinlein)

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1. 8/21/08
  
  SweetViolet
  
  Oh! I've always loved Heinlein!
8/21/08

Rampart

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

perfect CharmaineZoe

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8/21/08

CharmaineZoe

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
(Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha), 563-483 B.C.)

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

buddha's another poverb....

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

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8/21/08

Rampart

Good fences make good neighbours

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1. 8/21/08
  
  CharmaineZoe
  
  Another version of that one is
  A hedge between keeps friendship green
8/21/08

CharmaineZoe

‘I think they’re wonderful. They have so much courage! Here they are, hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour, and the only thing that keeps them in their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.’

(John Lithgow as Prof Dick Solomon, in Third Rock from the Sun)You did say you'd take quotes as well :-)

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8/21/08

CharmaineZoe

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

I love all these proverbs.....i'll keem them safe

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8/21/08

crawler

A man does rational things only after exploring all the irrational things- Author unknown.

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8/21/08

doffer

“Build a man a fire and he will be warm for one night. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.” - Sun Tzu

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8/21/08

doffer

Never give a sucker an even break - Saint Francis of Assisi

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

cool one....made me laugh

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8/21/08

doffer

It is better to live one day as a tiger, than a lifetime as a worm (but then again, whoever heard of a wormskin rug)

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8/21/08

mantiz

"the way i see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain" - Ziggy

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  jahstafari
  
  man who runs in front of car gets tired, man who runs behind car gets exhausted...
  
  must have read that somewhere in teh internetz.. hehehe
  
  oops, sorry 'bout that. wrong "reply" link clicked.
8/21/08

mantiz

friendship is like pissing in your pants: everyone else can see it, but only you feel the warmth (anon.)

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8/21/08

doffer

Work is the curse of the drinking classes - Oscar Wilde

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8/21/08

doffer

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

hi mantiz...... :D where did ya get that freindship proverb???

So cool

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  mantiz
  
  dont remember.. somewher on the net
8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Come on doffer...you r rockin'...

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8/21/08

mantiz

Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face (Kurt Cobain)

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

What is Vadalism?? srry i don't know

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  mantiz
  
  oops it's vandalism.. soz
8/21/08

doffer

Cheers jose!

Dolphins: Never trust a species that smiles all the time. They're up to something. - Terry Pratchett

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8/21/08

doffer

Never build a dungeon you can't escape from

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

"if the only tool you have is a hammer, you will see everything as a nail" -- russian proverb

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8/21/08

mantiz

Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy (Rage against the machine- know your enemy)

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

"strike while the iron is hot" - japanese proverb

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8/21/08

urikalish

"If one Brazilian butterfly can cause a tornado in Texas, Iran should invest in insects not nukes."
- Uri Kalish

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1. 8/21/08
  
  mantiz
  
  +1
2. 8/21/08
  
  CharmaineZoe
  
  Good one!
8/21/08

doffer

Once a knight, always a knight. Twice a knight and you're doing all right.

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  CharmaineZoe
  
  LOL!
8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
--Norman Vincent Peale.

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8/21/08

doffer

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

The love we give away is the only love we keep. -Elbert Hubbard

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8/21/08

doffer

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Einstein

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  inmyredhead
  
  Lmbo-- I need more sleep... I'm sitting here wondering how that can be that Einstein said ANYTHING about DRIVING? But newsflash to me! Even back then people 'Drove'. Cept it was just a horse and buggy. But it can still be driven. I'll tip toe away now. (But I really like that one!)
8/21/08

doffer

"I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." - Zaphod Beeblebrox

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  Hangingonahyphen
  
  The night is young and so are we, but only god can make a tree!!! LOL!!!
8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

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8/21/08

CharmaineZoe

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
—Saint Francis de Sales

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

If man has the ability to make others believe whatever he wishes, then he would say, he is God! Just because he doesn't have that power, he says that there is God! -its written by me

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8/21/08

CharmaineZoe

Life's too short to stuff a mushroom - Shirley Conran

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8/21/08

blogcatalogjose

ummm...

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8/21/08

aningeniousname

If balls were wishes horses would be special forces.

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  mantiz
  
  LOL
8/22/08

blogcatalogjose

cool one aningeniousname

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8/22/08

ptitpraince

"Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse" - strange french proverb

(=A rolling stone gathers no moss)

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8/23/08

blogcatalogjose

Hi ptitpraince, really it's strange

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8/23/08

robinj

man who buries head in sand will eventually get butt kicked...by Robin J

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8/23/08

blogcatalogjose

ha ha ha ha ha.......cool one

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9/03/08

AngieA

Failure teaches success.

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9/03/08

inmyredhead

Be wary of the light at the end of the tunnel. It's probably an oncoming train.

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9/03/08

fated82

“God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.” - Reggie White

“What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” - Eleanor Powell

And my personal favourite:

“I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things. I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy. I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life. I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I asked for, but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among all men, most richly blessed.”

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9/03/08

blogcatalogjose

@ fated82
your personal fav. really wonderful. I will be really happy if you could tell me the authors name

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9/03/08

drjay1966

One of my favorites:

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Shakespeare

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9/03/08

blogcatalogjose

Thank god i started this discussion. I learned so many wonderful proverbs. In fact most of the proverbs written here are new to me

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9/03/08

RTBjr73

Effem all but six...leave those for pallbearers - My Grandfather

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9/03/08

othellobloke

America is the only country that went from barbarence to decadence without civilisation in between - Oscar Wilde.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs - George Bernard Shaw

America is the finest country anyone ever stole - Bobcat Goldthwaite

"Hell is a place where the motorists are French, the policemen are German, and the cooks are English"

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity - George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure - Ross MacDonald

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9/03/08

CrystalRaven

The Witch is worn within the soul, not brought out for occasion nor kept in a bowl.
Anonymous

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Hugo

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.
Anon

And one just for VoodooKobra:
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Carlin

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9/06/08

blogcatalogjose

Third one i enjoyed

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9/06/08

poisonapplesauce

believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see, and you will be a wise woman- wait is that considered a proverb?

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8/22/09

PastExpiry

Here's one about forgiveness:

pastexpiry.blogspot.com/2009/08/cartoon-proverb-no1-forgiveness.html

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