A fool knowes more in his house then a wise man in another's.
A gift much expected is paid, not given.
A man's discontent is his worst evil.
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
All is not gold that glisters.
All truths are not to be told.
Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloak at home.
Be not a baker if your head be of butter.
Be useful where thou livest.
Better suffer ill than do ill.
By all means use sometimes to be alone.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
Chase brave employment with a naked sword
Throughout the world.
Throughout the world.
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
Do well and right, and let the world sink.
Empty vessels sound most.
Every one thinkes his sack heaviest.
For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
He that hath one hog makes him fat; and he that hath one son makes him a fool.
He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
He that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas.
He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
He that seeks trouble never misses.
He that tells a secret is another's servant.
He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
Help thyself, and God will help thee.
His bark is worse than his bite.
History is always the interpretation of the present.
Hope is the poor man's bread.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm the President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.
I'll be glad to either reply to or dodge your questions, whichever I think will help our election most.
I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
In the kingdom of blind men the one-ey'd is king.
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Little pitchers have wide ears.
Little sticks kindle the fire, great ones put it out.
Living well is the best revenge.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
Man lives in a world of meaning.
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
None knows the weight of another's burden.
Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.
On a good bargain think twice.
One enemy is too much.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
Poverty is no sin.
Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the wise.
Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
Society is unity in diversity.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
The best mirror is an old friend.
The eye is bigger then the belly.
The honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
The mill cannot grind with water that's past.
The royal crown cures not the headache.
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
There are some people who still think Elvis is alive.
Thursday come and the week's gone.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
Trust not one night's ice.
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.
Where the drink goes in there the wit goes out.
Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?
Whose house is of glass must not throw stones at another.
With customs we live well, but laws undo us.
Would you know what money is, go borrow some.
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
You have to have all the facts before you jump to conclusions.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drink when and what he pleaseth.
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