Nuggets of Gold

Proverbs, axioms, maxims... they are nuggets of gold. It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as clichés tend to be). Some of these short phrases have profound lessons which, unless we take time to contemplate, we would have missed the lessons they are imparting.

Take a look at this week's selection, and take a moment to think what the phrase means. You might learn something new and valuable.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it. - Anonymous

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. - Edward H. Harriman

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - Lord Alfred Tennyson

Nothing matters to the man who says nothing matters. - Lin Yutang

Where facts are few, experts are many. - Donald R. Gannon

Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Robert Schuller

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. - Hal Borland

What can be done at any time is never done at all. - Unknown

Gratitude is the heart’s memory. - French Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal. - Latvian Proverb

Much outcry, little outcome. - Aesop

A useful trade is a mine of gold. - Unknown

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. - Aesop

Let goodness go with the doing. - Marcus Aurelius

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine. - Matthew

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. - Unknown

No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes. - Thomas Carlyle

Those who command themselves, command others. - William Hazlitt

An army of a thousand is easy to find but ah... how difficult to find a general. - Chinese Proverb

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