The collection of English proverbs-------------The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance --it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J.

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Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Edith Cavell(Last words)

Somebody must play the bad parts in this world, on and off the stage. - A.W.Pinero

The Whole world is about three drinks behind. - Humphrey Bogart

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. - Brian Aldiss

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. - Grace Hansen

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it. - Jascha Heifetz ------------------- NEW -----------------Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast. - William Shakespeare

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Make the most of yourself for that is all there is to you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. - Samuel Ullman

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

To marry be like jumping into a river because you're thirsty. - Eden Phillpotts

The best things carried to excess are wrong. - Charles Churchill

Live well. It is greatest revenge. -The Talmud

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Tennyson

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. - Samerset Maugham

Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes

There is only one success - to be able to spend you life in your own way. -Christopher Morley

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, But how you deal with incompatibility. -Giorge Levinger

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. -Andre Gide

If you can dream it, you can do it. -Walt Disney

Children have more need of models than of critics. -Joseph Joubert

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. -Anthony Brandt

Man knows so much and does so little. -R Buckminster Fuller

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. -Wallace Stevens

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. -Gene Fowler

Hell is other people. -Jean P Sartre

A sad barnyard where the hen crows louder than the cock. -English Proverbs

Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. -Colley Cibber

Every man can rule an ill wife but him that has her. -English Proverbs

The uglier the woman, the better the house-wife. -German proverbs

A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only, choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. -Thomas Fuller

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. -Rudyard Kipling

We women do talk too much, but even then we don't tell half we know. -Nancy Astor

The reason you have no money is because you don't love it for itself alone. Money won't ever surrender to such a flirt. -Finley Peter Dunne

Money is like a sixth sense--and you can't make use of the other five without it. -Somerset Maugham

When I was young, I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I know it is. -Oscar Wilde

It is not the man has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. -Seneca

Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; Lend, and the chances are that you lose yourfriend if ever you get back your money. -Sir Edward Bulwar-Lytton

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. -Benjamin Disraeli

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. -Johathan Swift

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military man. -Talleyrand

I do not know why I am so sad; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind. -Heine

Truth is on the march; nothing can stop it now. -Emile Zola

Imperialism is a paper tiger. -Mao-Tse-Tung

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place everyday. -Albert Camus

Home, home, sweet, sweet, home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home! Be it ever so humble, there's no place home! -John Howard Payne

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. -Aristotle

While there's life, there's hope. -Terence

There is no greater grief than to recall a time of happiness when in misery. -Dante

I am going in search of a great perhaps. -Rabelais

To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. -Butler

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. -O. Henry

A woman's whole life is a history of affections. -Irving

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. -Jerome K. Jerome

It matters not how a man dies, but how h e lives. -James Boswell

Is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness. -John Milton

I saw that was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven. -John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

Never make a defence of apology before you be accused. -Charles

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; know it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re -resolves then dies; the same. -Edward Young

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -Chesterfield

There never was a good war or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -Samuel Johnson

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffers. -William Blackstone

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. -Joshua Reynolds

Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair. -Edmund Burke

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. -Thomas Carlyle

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