Sunday 28 July 2024

Proverbs, Maxims, Adages... -

A few simple words, and yet so much wisdom and truism contained therein. If you could grasp the meaning and learn the lessons, you would be a very knowledgeable and wise man. I am sure you have come across some of the sayings before.

Spare a few moments to have a look at the following. Maybe there is something that is useful to you. They will add to your chest of knowledge.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. - George Orwell

We will either find a way or make one. - Hannibal

The discipline of desire is the background of character. - John Locke

No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi

Seeing it once is better than being told a hundred times. - Confucius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aurelius

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. - Aesop

Examine what is said, not him who speaks. - Arabian Proverb

A picture is a poem without words. - Confucius

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts. - Unknown

Every tide has its ebb. - Unknown

A good workman never quarrels with his tools. - Unknown

To cook your hare you must first catch it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb

He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull. - French Proverb

Zeal will do more than knowledge. - William Hazlitt

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. - Proverb

Good to forgive; Best, to forget. - Robert Browning

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