Your favorite proverb

[chibicascade]

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a night; set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

 

[speedracer302]

If you never try and fail, you never succeed.

 

[bloodandgutsmurphy]

You only live once make sure its worth it

 

[CathyInBlue]

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

 

[1861navy]

Which means more to you, you or your renown? Which brings more to you, you or what you own? I say what you gain is more trouble than what you lose.

All under heaven have a common beginning. This beginning is the mother of the world. Having known the mother, we may proceed to know her children. Having known the children, we should go back and hold onto the mother.

Seeing the small is called clarity; keeping flexible is called strength.

 

[Bigtanker]

"Never Ever pass up a chance to poop." - Bigtanker

 

[dwain]

Too many cooks, and not enough pot.

 

[spencer rifle]

Always bring two baptists with you fishing. If you bring one, they drink all your beer. If you bring two, they don't drink any.

If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either."
— Albert Einstein

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end;
if you look for comfort you will not get either."
— C.S. Lewis

When a wise man does not understand, he says: “I do not understand.” The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
- Frank Herbert

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
- Frank Herbert

If you aren't happy with what you've got now, what makes you think you'll behappier with more?

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

100 hairs on your head is relatively few.

1 hair in your omelette is relatively many.


Winners never quit and quitters never win, but people who never win and still refuse to quit are just idiots.

 

[JT1968]

It offends me that your offended.

 

[printcraft]

A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

 

[indiucky]

"Lord grant that I may always be right...For Thou Knowest I am hard to turn."

Scots-Irish Prayer

 

[Ralphie Parker]

You can't do vast things with half vast ideas

 

[slipnotz]

People who think they know everything, just annoy us that do.

 

[Huzrjim]

Don't eat yellow snow.

 

[Huzrjim]

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." Thomas Jefferson

 

[D-Ric902]

When people show you who they are..........believe them

 

[1861navy]

When you look for it there is nothing to see. When you listen for it there is nothing to hear. When you use it it cannot be exhausted.

Act for the peoples benefit; trust them, leave them alone.

The master can keep giving because there is no end to his wealth. He acts without expectation, succeeds without taking credit, and does not think he is better than anyone else.

Someone must risk returning injury with kindness, or hostility will never return to goodwill. So the wise always give without expecting gratitude.

 

[DanSwanky]

"A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no hole is a danish" - Basho

 

[mellowwetto]

Don't trust anyone with 2 first names