Proverbs, Maxims, Adages...

Proverbs, axioms, maxims... these short phrases are imbued with profound lessons which, unless we take time to contemplate, we would have missed the lessons they are teaching. When those words describe the present situation you are in, or a situation you were once in, you will find that the words take on a new meaning.

Take a look at this week's selection of proverbs, axioms, and maxims. See if you can learn something from them.

Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles. - Korean Proverb

Don't cross the bridge till you come to it. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He that won’t be counselled can’t be helped. - Benjamin Franklin

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. - Plato

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. - Confucius

Walls have ears. - Unknown

What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb. - Unknown

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste. - Saadi

The fool wanders, a wise man travels. - Thomas Fuller

To govern was to serve, not to rule. - Seneca

In the long run, a short cut seldom is. - Malcom Forbes

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. - Irma Kurtz

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. - John Dryden

Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far. - Euripides

What you resist persists. - Carl Jung

The best of healers is good cheer. - Pindar

More haste, less speed. Make haste slowly. - Augustus Caesar

Law is order, and good law is good order. - Aristotle

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favour. - John Collins

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. - Benjamin Franklin

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