Proverbs, axioms, maxims ...

Don't call the alligator, big mouth until you have crossed the river. - Belizean Proverb

Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog and a quarrelsome person. - Iranian Proverb

Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion. - Egyptian Proverb

Have more than you show. Speak less than you know. - William Shakespeare

If you buy what you don't need, you steal from yourself. - Swedish Proverb

Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often. - Korean Proverb

Even the largest army is nothing without a good general. - Afghan Proverb

Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon. - Chinese Proverb

Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay. - Matthew Flickstein

Be the first in the field and the last to the couch. - Chinese Proverb

Don't hang your hat higher than you can reach. - Belizean Proverb

Sun is good for cucumbers, rain for rice. - Vietnamese Proverb

Don't sail out farther than you can row back. - Danish Proverb

It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend. - Ken Alstad

If you call one wolf, you invite the pack. - Bulgarian Proverb

If you want something done right, do it yourself. - Unknown

It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. - Spanish Proverb

Everyone must row with the oars he has. - English proverb

It takes two men to make one brother. - Israel Zangwill

If you can’t bite, better not show your teeth. - Yiddish

It's an ill bird that fouls his own nest. - Latin Proverb

It's an ill wind that blows no good. - John Heywood

Don't pretend to be something you aren't. - Aesop

Every cloud has a silver lining. - D. R. Locke

It’s always worse than it seems. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that? - James Alan Gardner

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. - Samuel Johnson

Ever since it started snowing my husband is standing in front of the window and watching. If the snow gets much worse, I might let him inside the house. - Unknown

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. - Paul Newman

I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It’s really funny. - Brandon Sanderson

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. - Mark Twain

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. - Jennifer Unlimited

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. - Christopher Parker

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. - Neil Gaiman

The snag about marriage is, it isn't worth the divorce. - Suzanne Finnamore

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands. - Evan Esar

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Life

Find balance in your life. Work hard but don’t let work take over your life, you will lose yourself. Love, but love for the right reasons. Life is too short for anything mediocre. Know who you are and know that you are worthy of reaching your dreams and that I is never too late to start creating that life you have always dreamed of. Do not compare yourself to others, that’s just deadly. No two souls are the same. You are your own person, you are beautiful and you are unique. But your trust in the universe. Some things are just meant to happen, and some are not. Let go of whatever is stealing your happiness, it’s hard but it is worth it. Embrace change. Embrace life. Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust and let go. - Charlotte Freeman

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with – that’s poverty – but how efficiently we can put first things first … When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. - Victoria Moran

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. - Walter Anderson

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau

Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought. - Khaled Hosseini

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Quote Worthy

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. - Dalai Lama

No one in this world is pure and perfect. If you avoid people for their mistakes, you will be alone in this world. So judge less and love more. - Unknown

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom. - Zen Proverb

It’s easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble. - Bjarne Stroustrup

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. - Vittoria Alfieri

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Instead of wiping your tears, wipe away the people who create them. - Unknown

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. - Abraham Lincoln

What doesn't slumber under the shells of us all? One just needs courage to uncover it and be oneself. - Cesare Pavese

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are. - Cherie Carter-Scott

You’ll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it’s a good idea to reread anything you’ve written in anger. - Mary Matalin

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. - George Orwell

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Trivia

I cannot guarantee the accuracy of all the points.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Chicks, like humans, count from left to right.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

Dogs and Humans are the only animals with prostates.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Due to earth's gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Hippos and Rhinos have only two knees and can jump. Elephants have four knees).

Emus cannot walk backwards.

Every three days, a human stomach gets a new lining.

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.

For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter Ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia, Australia and South America.

Giant tortoises from the Galapagos can survive without food or water for up to a year.

Give me the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef, i.e. give me your feedback.

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it is buried in the ground for thousands of years.

Graphene, the world's strongest material, is a million times thinner than paper, but 200 times stronger than steel.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

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Humorous Quotes

It’s useless to hold a person to anything they say when they are in love, drunk, or running for office. - Shirley MacLaine

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. - Laurel K. Hamilton

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts. - Lt. Frank Drebin

I tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings. - Kevin Nealon

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. - George Eliot

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. - William Congreve

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don’t have to respect anybody. - George Burns

The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. - Harlan Elison

My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours. That was only for the estimate. - Unknown

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - Saki

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. - Mae West

Trouble with modern children, they do not smart in right place. - Charlie Chan

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Happiness

If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, and those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. - Seneca

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. - Earl Nightingale

Pain and illness, the deaths of that one love, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance. - Jean Liedloff

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. - Ralph Marston

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Quote Worthy

Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. - Sara Blakely

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. - Criss Jami

Starting over is not a sign of failure, but a mark of courage, of the willingness to give yourself, and your life, another chance. - Unknown

Close some doors today, not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere. - Paulo Coelho

Try is a small word that makes a lot of difference. If we try, we only risk failure. But if we don’t even try we ensure it. - Unknown

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas Huxley

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. - Rumi

Maybe that is why young people make success. They don’t know enough. - Richard P. Feynman

Sometimes, there is nothing you can do but let it rain and wait for the sunshine. - Unknown

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

Set your goals, take the action, live your dreams. - Catherine Pulsifer

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Humorous Quotes

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! - Mark Twain

I've finally reached the age where my Wild Oats have turned into All-Bran! - Tom Wilson

It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel. - August Strindberg

I’m gonna go take a hot shower. It’s like a normal shower, but with me in it. - Unknown

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows they’d learned to swim. - U2

I’m not mean, I just give people a good reason to hate me. - Haresh Daswani

I’m so ugly my father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet. - Rodney Dangerfield

I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book. - Gloria Swanson

I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police. - Keith Richards

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers. - S. M. Stirling

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. - Groucho Marx

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right. - Mark Twain

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Love

We cannot hold anything back from love: there must be a willingness to offer all of ourselves into the fire – even if it breaks our hearts; even if we are devastated by the power and immensity of its beauty, there must be the willingness to allow love to ravage us. - Brandon Bays

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you’re gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold. - Alice Hoffman

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl S. Buck

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. - James E. Faust

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. - Ann Landers

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love. - Robert Fulghum

You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love. - Richelle Mead

Don’t fall in love so easily; it’s best to take your time. Love is built on trust, and trust is built on acceptance. Acceptance is built on friendship and a strong friendship takes time to build. - Unknown

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