Nuggets of Gold

The beauty of proverbs, axioms, maxims.... is that within the few short and simple words, there is a huge amount of wisdom, carried down through generations, some through centuries. Some might sound cliché, but they are also deep truth (as clichés tend to be).

Keep a few of these phrases in mind, and pepper your conversation with them when opportunities arise. Your friends will be impressed with you.

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Irish Proverb

A person with a bad name is already half-hanged. - Unknown

It takes all sorts to make a world. - English Proverb

There is no little enemy. - Benjamin Franklin

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. - William Blake

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends. - George Washington

You win some, you lose some. - Unknown

A man should be upright, not be kept upright. - Marcus Aurelius

The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself. - Marcus Porcius Cato

All is flux, nothing is stationary. - Heraclitus

You always pass failure on the way to success. – Mickey Rooney

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. - African Proverb

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. - Kahlil Gibran

A day of travelling will bring a basketful of learning. - Vietnamese Proverb

You cannot clap with one hand alone. - John Taylor Wood

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace. - Publilius Syrus

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. - Publilius Syrus

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. - Unknown

In night there is counsel. - Greek Proverb

Death keeps no calendar. - English Proverb

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