| 02/12/31: |
Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old. - Aristotle |
| 02/12/30: |
Jealousy is nourished by doubt. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/12/29: |
McGregor's Revised Maxim: The shortest distance between two points is under construction. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 02/12/28: |
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.] - Claudian (Claudianus), In Eutropium (I, 181) |
| 02/12/27: |
Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out. - Proverb (American) |
| 02/12/26: |
It is good to go afoot when one is tired of riding. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/12/25: |
As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy months will you have. - Old Saying, Old English Saying |
| 02/12/24: |
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/12/23: |
Who cannot fight, wins nought by right. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/12/22: |
Neither seek nor shun the fight. - Proverb (Gaelic) |
| 02/12/21: |
He does not guard himself well who is not always on his guard. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/12/20: |
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at II, iii) |
| 02/12/19: |
The reason of the law ceasing, the law itself ceases. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 159) |
| 02/12/18: |
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. - Confucius, Analects (bk. XX, ch. III) |
| 02/12/17: |
He threatens many that hath injured one. - Ben Jonson |
| 02/12/16: |
Fine words butter no parsnips. - Proverb |
| 02/12/15: |
He who would prosper in peace, must suffer in silence. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/12/14: |
Malice drinketh its own poison. - Proverb |
| 02/12/13: |
Sadness and gladness succeed each other. - Proverb |
| 02/12/12: |
The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| 02/12/11: |
Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite. - James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics (l. 28) |
| 02/12/10: |
Seven days is the length of a guest's life. - Proverb (Burmese) |
| 02/12/09: |
Injuries put us on our guard. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/12/08: |
Who rides slow, must saddle betimes. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/12/07: |
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. - Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill |
| 02/12/06: |
Ill begun, ill done. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/12/05: |
Of a compliment only a third is meant. - Proverb (Welsh) |
| 02/12/04: |
When the tree falls, the shadow flies. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 02/12/03: |
Small faults indulged in are little thieves that let in greater. - Proverb |
| 02/12/02: |
Clandestine gifts are always suspicious. - Legal Maxim, Noy's Maxims (152), also Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 289, 290) |
| 02/12/01: |
States are great engines moving slowly. - Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning (bk. II) |
| 02/11/30: |
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Albany at I, iv) |
| 02/11/29: |
Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies. [Fr., Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse.] - Proverb (French) |
| 02/11/28: |
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. - Emanuel Swedenborg, Divine Love and Wisdom (par. 28) |
| 02/11/27: |
One foe is too many, and a hundred friends are too few. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/11/26: |
No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/11/25: |
To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrows. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/11/24: |
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) |
| 02/11/23: |
A great mind becomes a great fortune. [Lat., Magnam fortunam magnus animus decet.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Clementia (I, 5) |
| 02/11/22: |
A good dinner helps deliberation. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/11/21: |
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. [Lat., Fortune opes auferre, non animum potest.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Medea (CLXXVI) |
| 02/11/20: |
Much talk little work. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/11/19: |
A friend to my table and wine, is no good neighbour. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/11/18: |
One to one, and two to the devil. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/11/17: |
Buy the bed of a great debtor. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/11/16: |
Wrongdoers and assenting parties are equally punishable. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/11/15: |
An open box tempts an honest man. - Proverb (Portuguese) |
| 02/11/14: |
The sow that was washed is turned to her wallowing in the mire. - Proverb |
| 02/11/13: |
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman |
| 02/11/12: |
Too far East is West. - Proverb (English) |
| 02/11/11: |
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/11/10: |
He who listens at doors hears more than he desires. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/11/09: |
As is the king, so are his people. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 02/11/08: |
The blind man wishes to show the way. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/11/07: |
Guessing is missing. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/11/06: |
He that has but one pig easily fattens it. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/11/05: |
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. - Proverb (Polish) |
| 02/11/04: |
Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/11/03: |
That which comes with sin, goes with sorrow. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/11/02: |
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) |
| 02/11/01: |
Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/10/31: |
The happier the time, the more quickly it passes. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/10/30: |
Weighty work must be done with few words. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/10/29: |
I learnt life from the poets. - Madame de Stael, Corinne (bk. XVIII, ch. V) |
| 02/10/28: |
To a good cat a good rat. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/10/27: |
Time is not tied to a post, like a horse to the manger. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/10/26: |
I would live to study, and not study to live. - Francis Bacon, Memorial of Access |
| 02/10/25: |
Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said: "To know one's self." - Laertius Diogenes, Thales (IX) |
| 02/10/24: |
Love rules without law. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/10/23: |
Anger edges valor. - Proverb (English) |
| 02/10/22: |
He who dances well goes from wedding to wedding. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 02/10/21: |
What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/10/20: |
Truth is violated by a lie or by silence. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/10/19: |
I know by my own pot how the others boil. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/10/18: |
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/10/17: |
The Rich knowes not who is his friend. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/10/16: |
God preserve you from one who eats without drinking. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/10/15: |
A table friend is changeable. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/10/14: |
The miser and the pig are of no use till dead. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/10/13: |
The anger of those in authority is always weighty. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) |
| 02/10/12: |
Self-praise is no praise at all. - Proverb (English) |
| 02/10/11: |
The ass went seeking for horns and lost his ears. - Proverb (Arabic) |
| 02/10/10: |
The beginning is half of the whole. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/10/09: |
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. - Rudyard Kipling |
| 02/10/08: |
There are two great pleasures in gambling: winning and losing. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/10/07: |
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/10/06: |
It is an ill turn that does no good to any one. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/10/05: |
For a web begun God sends thread. - Proverb (French, Italian) |
| 02/10/04: |
None so deaf as those who will not hear. - Matthew (Mathew) Henry, Commentaries (Psalm LVIII) |
| 02/10/03: |
Who falls short in the head, must be long in the heels. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/10/02: |
We are not born for ourselves alone. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) |
| 02/10/01: |
October's foliage yellows with his cold. - John Ruskin, The Months |
| 02/09/30: |
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. - Bible, I Samuel (ch. XXIV, v. 13) |
| 02/09/29: |
One can't make head or tail of it. - Proverb |
| 02/09/28: |
He who strikes another on the neck, does not strike far from the head. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/09/27: |
Where there is no sore there needs no plaister. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/09/26: |
The sky is not the less blue because the blind man does not see it. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/09/25: |
Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/09/24: |
When the waggon is tilting everybody gives it a shove. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/09/23: |
Autumn wins you best by this, its mute \ Appeal to sympathy for its decay. - Robert Browning, Paracelsus (sc. 1) |
| 02/09/22: |
Foul whisp'rings are abroad. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Doctor of Physic at V, i) |
| 02/09/21: |
All go free when multitudes offend. [Lat., Quicquid multis peccaturm inultum est.] - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (V, 260) |
| 02/09/20: |
At evening the sluggard is busy. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/09/19: |
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. [Lat., Fata volemtem ducunt, nolentem trahunt.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CVII) |
| 02/09/18: |
He is not happy who knows it not. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/09/17: |
Talking is easy, action difficult. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 02/09/16: |
The company of wicked men makes me also wicked. - Legal Maxim |
| 02/09/15: |
The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 02/09/14: |
Full of courtesy, full of craft. - Proverb |
| 02/09/13: |
In misfortune we need help, not lamentation. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/09/12: |
Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/09/11: |
Who makes the wolf his companion should carry a dog under his cloak. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/09/10: |
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. - Francis Quarles |
| 02/09/09: |
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it. - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) |
| 02/09/08: |
The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.] - Florent Carton Dancourt, Maison de Campagne (sc. 11) |
| 02/09/07: |
All came from, and will goe to others. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/09/06: |
Hair does not grow faster by being pulled. - Proverb |
| 02/09/05: |
Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it. - Proverb (Spanish, Portuguese) |
| 02/09/04: |
When the cord is tightest it is nearest snapping. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/09/03: |
Idle folks have the most labour. - Proverb |
| 02/09/02: |
The labor we delight in physics pain. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at II, iii) |
| 02/09/01: |
It is not the burden but the over-burden that kills the beast. - Proverb |
| 02/08/31: |
Penny wise, and pound foolish. - Proverb (Dutch, German) |
| 02/08/30: |
Wait, is a hard word to the hungry. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/08/28: |
The interpretation of deeds is to be liberal, that the thing may rather have effect than fail. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 543) |
| 02/08/27: |
He suffocates me with kindness. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/08/25: |
Life is but a day at most. - Robert Burns, Friars' Carse Hermitage |
| 02/08/24: |
Scientia sol mentis [Knowledge (is) the sun of the mind] - Motto, of Delaware College |
| 02/08/23: |
Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones. - Proverb |
| 02/08/22: |
Beware of a reconciled enemy. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/08/21: |
Love is master of all arts. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/08/20: |
The cock is at his best on his own dunghill. [Lat., Gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Morte Claudii |
| 02/08/19: |
The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/08/18: |
The bell does not go to mass, and yet calls every one to it. - Proverb (Italian, Spanish) |
| 02/08/17: |
He dies and makes no sign. O God, forgive him. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at III, iii) |
| 02/08/16: |
A little pot is soon hot. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/08/15: |
Lordship cannot be in suspense, i.e., property cannot remain in abeyance. - Legal Maxim, Halkerston's Latin Maxims (39) |
| 02/08/14: |
Never be content with your lot. Try for a lot more. - Proverb (American) |
| 02/08/13: |
Every one sneezes as God pleases. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 02/08/12: |
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. - William Hazlitt, Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power |
| 02/08/11: |
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. - Alfred Hitchcock |
| 02/08/10: |
Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Tragedy of Bonduca (act IV, sc. 3) |
| 02/08/09: |
The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it. - Proverb (Nigerian) |
| 02/08/08: |
The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (IX, 499) |
| 02/08/07: |
You are needlessly alarmed. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/08/06: |
Old signs do not deceive. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/08/05: |
Woman was God's second mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| 02/08/04: |
With honour and store, what would you more. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/08/03: |
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick the Great (Frederick II) |
| 02/08/02: |
A sudden thought strikes me--Let us swear an eternal friendship. - John Hookham Frere, The Rovers (act I) |
| 02/08/01: |
The August cloud . . . suddenly \ Melts into streams of rain. - William Cullen Bryant, Sella |
| 02/07/31: |
An argument drawn from things commonly happening is frequent in law. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 44) |
| 02/07/30: |
One sword keeps another in its scabbard. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/07/29: |
You have your face bare; I am all face. [Fr., Vous avez bien la face desouverte; moi je suis tout face.] - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne, Essays (vol. I, ch XXXV), answer of a naked beggar who was asked whether he was not cold |
| 02/07/28: |
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.] - Marcus Valerius Martial, Epigrams (bk. I, 16, 8) |
| 02/07/27: |
You can't bind a cloud even with copper chains. - Proverb (Darkovan) |
| 02/07/26: |
Better give nothing than stolen alms. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/07/25: |
Repentance is the heart's medicine. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/07/24: |
Admission by the defendant is worth a hundred witnesses. - Proverb (Hebrew) |
| 02/07/23: |
The mother-in-law does not remember that she was once a daughter-in-law. - Proverb (Portuguese, Spanish) |
| 02/07/22: |
Tender surgeons make foul wounds. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/07/21: |
Ah! to be devout, I am none the less human. [Fr., Ah! pour etre devot, je n'en suis pas moins homme.] - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, Tartuffe (III, 3) |
| 02/07/20: |
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 02/07/19: |
That that comes of a cat will catch mice. - Proverb |
| 02/07/18: |
Where there's no good within, no good comes out. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/07/17: |
God does not pay weekly, but pays at the end. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/07/16: |
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. - Albert Einstein |
| 02/07/15: |
The meaning is best known to the speaker. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/07/14: |
Mouth shut and eyes open. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/07/13: |
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| 02/07/12: |
A man at five may be a fool at fifteen. - Proverb |
| 02/07/11: |
He runs far who never turns. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/07/10: |
A morsel eaten gains no friend. - Proverb (Portuguese) |
| 02/07/09: |
The bleating of the lamb merely arouses the tiger. - Proverb |
| 02/07/08: |
The first comer grinds first. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/07/07: |
Luck has but a slender anchorage. - Proverb (Danish, English) |
| 02/07/06: |
Hedgehogs are not to be killed with the fist. - Proverb (Portuguese) |
| 02/07/05: |
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. - Patrick Henry, Speech in the Virginia Convention |
| 02/07/04: |
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. - John Burroughs, Journal, referring to the Fourth of July |
| 02/07/03: |
Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish. - Proverb |
| 02/07/02: |
Strew no roses before swine. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 02/07/01: |
Hot July brings cooling showers, \ Apricots and gillyflowers. - Sara Coleridge, Pretty Lessons in Verse |
| 02/06/30: |
Murphy's Law of Combat 13: Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 02/06/29: |
An ass does not stumble twice over the same stone. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/06/28: |
An empty cellar makes an angry butler. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/06/27: |
Easy to keep the castle that was never besieged. - Proverb |
| 02/06/26: |
Trickery comes back to its master. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/06/25: |
Leave a bit of the tail to whisk off flies. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 02/06/24: |
Do good and throw it in the sea. - Proverb (Palestinian) |
| 02/06/23: |
Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it. - Proverb (English) |
| 02/06/22: |
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens) |
| 02/06/21: |
Summer will not last for ever. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/06/20: |
A black hen lays a white egg. - Proverb (English, French) |
| 02/06/19: |
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles Andre Joseph de Gaulle |
| 02/06/18: |
Ty it well, and let it goe. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/06/17: |
He prepares evil for himself who plots mischief for others. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/06/16: |
He that honoureth his father shall have a long life. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (ch. III, v. 6) |
| 02/06/15: |
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) |
| 02/06/14: |
The flag of our Union forever! - George P. Morris, The Flag of Our Union |
| 02/06/13: |
Pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. - F.G. Fowler and H.W. Fowler, The King's English |
| 02/06/12: |
He that sends a foole expects one. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/06/11: |
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. - James Russell Lowell, Among My Books--First Series--New England Two Centuries Ago |
| 02/06/10: |
Know each other as if your were brothers; negotiate deals as if you were strangers to each other. - Proverb (Arabian) |
| 02/06/09: |
Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/06/08: |
Little grain have I collected from a mass of chaff. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/06/07: |
A hundred loade of thought will not pay one of debts. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/06/06: |
I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. - William Henry Seward, Speech on the Irrepressible Conflict |
| 02/06/05: |
Thou hast a head and so hath a pin. - Proverb |
| 02/06/04: |
His courage oozed out at his fingers' ends. - Proverb |
| 02/06/03: |
Spur not a free horse to death. - Proverb |
| 02/06/02: |
Tread on a worm and it will turn. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/06/01: |
No price is set on the lavish summer; \ June may be had by the poorest comer. - James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal (pt. I, prelude) |
| 02/05/31: |
A lock is better than suspicion. - Proverb (Irish) |
| 02/05/30: |
When the principal does not hold, the incidents thereof ought to obtain. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 496) |
| 02/05/29: |
Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done. - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) |
| 02/05/28: |
We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true. - Hesiod, The Theogony (line 27) |
| 02/05/27: |
Where are the boys of the old Brigade, \ Who fought with us side by side? - Frederic Edward Weatherley, The Old Brigade |
| 02/05/26: |
None but himself can be his parallel. [Lat., Quantum instar in ipso est.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), speaking of Caesar, (also found in "The Double Falsehood" by Lewis Theobald) |
| 02/05/25: |
Wisdom triumphs over chance. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) |
| 02/05/24: |
One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wilhelm Tell (I, 1, 146) |
| 02/05/23: |
A few things gained by fraud destroy a fortune otherwise honestly won. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/05/22: |
There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (ch. 1) |
| 02/05/21: |
An evil gain is equal to a loss. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/05/20: |
Reynard is still Reynard, though he put on a cowl. - Proverb |
| 02/05/19: |
I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first. - George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XXII) |
| 02/05/18: |
A book is a garden carried in the pocket. - Proverb (Arabian) |
| 02/05/17: |
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? \ Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again? - Allen Ginsberg, Graffiti |
| 02/05/16: |
Raw leather will stretch. - Proverb |
| 02/05/15: |
Men seek less to be instructed than applauded. - Proverb (American) |
| 02/05/14: |
Hypocritical piety is double iniquity. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/05/13: |
It is a poor horse that is not worth his oats. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 02/05/12: |
A mother is a mother still, \ The holiest thing alive. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Three Graves (st. 10) |
| 02/05/11: |
The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.] - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (VI, 811) |
| 02/05/10: |
Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock. - Proverb (Russian) |
| 02/05/09: |
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. - Proverb (Polish) |
| 02/05/08: |
Force not favours on the unwilling. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/05/07: |
He invites future injuries who rewards past ones. - Proverb |
| 02/05/06: |
Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior, To Dr. Sherlock--On his Practical Discourse Concerning Death |
| 02/05/05: |
Cry not out before you are hurt. - Proverb |
| 02/05/04: |
No sunshine but hath some shadow. - Proverb |
| 02/05/03: |
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 02/05/02: |
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 02/05/01: |
The memory of a benefit vanisheth, but the remembrance of an injury sticketh fast in the heart. - Proverb |
| 02/04/30: |
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. - Plutarch, Of Garrulity |
| 02/04/29: |
This victory will be your I ruin. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) |
| 02/04/28: |
Indeed, I do not envy your fortune; I rather am surprised at it. [Lat., Non equidem invideo: miror magis.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), Eclogoe (I, 11) |
| 02/04/27: |
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 02/04/26: |
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. - Charles Rollin, Ancient History (bk. VI, ch. II, sec. I) |
| 02/04/25: |
Men are used as they use others. - Bidpai (a/k/a Pilpay), The King Who Became Just (fable ix) |
| 02/04/24: |
The older the ginger, the more it bites. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 02/04/23: |
Ill weeds grows apace. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/04/22: |
You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse. - Proverb (Russian) |
| 02/04/21: |
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) |
| 02/04/20: |
Little losses amaze, great tame. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/04/19: |
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. - Statius (Publius Papanius Statius) |
| 02/04/18: |
Custom gives law to the gift. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 459) |
| 02/04/17: |
Computer Programming III, Law of: If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 02/04/16: |
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. - Aeschylus, Frag. Incert. (II) |
| 02/04/15: |
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax. - Albert Einstein |
| 02/04/14: |
If I die, I forgive you; if I live, we shall see. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 02/04/13: |
Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. - Proverb (Ghanaian) |
| 02/04/12: |
Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.] - Francois Rabelais, Gargantua (bk. I, ch. II) |
| 02/04/11: |
Success brings many to ruin. - Phaedrus |
| 02/04/10: |
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/04/09: |
Never speak in a hurry. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/04/08: |
No wisdom to silence. - Proverb |
| 02/04/07: |
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Impressions of Theophrastus Such (ch. IV, p. 97) |
| 02/04/06: |
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
| 02/04/05: |
Business today consists in persuading crowds. - Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds (bk. II, ch. V) |
| 02/04/04: |
It is better to exist unknown to the law. - Proverb (Irish) |
| 02/04/03: |
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa |
| 02/04/02: |
Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) |
| 02/04/01: |
Fool me no fools. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (Earl Lytton), Last Days of Pompeii (bk. III, ch. 6) |
| 02/03/31: |
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees \ Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3) |
| 02/03/30: |
What is bought is cheaper than a gift. - Proverb (Italian, Portuguese) |
| 02/03/29: |
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) |
| 02/03/28: |
A stroke of the sword . . . but not a pin prick. [Fr., Des coups d'epee . . . Mais pas de coups d'epingle.] - Alphonse Daudet, Tartarin de Tarascon (part of title of ch. XI, phrase at end of chapter) |
| 02/03/27: |
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. - Bible, Job (ch. XXXII, v. 7) |
| 02/03/26: |
Yeah, that's the ticket. - Jon Lovitz, said on the television show, "Saturday Night Live" |
| 02/03/25: |
It is best to learn wisdom from the follies of others. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/03/24: |
For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. - Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson (vol. III, ch. 9) |
| 02/03/23: |
Light is half a companion. - Proverb (Genoese) |
| 02/03/22: |
He fills his lifetime with deeds, not with inactive years. [Lat., Actis aevum implet, non segnibus annis.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ad Liviam (449) |
| 02/03/21: |
The Court hath no Almanack. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/03/20: |
When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. - Bishop Reginald Heber, Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity |
| 02/03/19: |
If poor, act with caution. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/03/18: |
From a drop of water a logician could predict an Atlantic or a Niagara. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study is Scarlet |
| 02/03/17: |
Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth |
| 02/03/16: |
Some of the sweetest berries grow among the sharpest thorns. - Proverb (Gaelic) |
| 02/03/15: |
To relax the mind is to lose it. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/03/14: |
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) |
| 02/03/13: |
Neck or nothing. - Proverb |
| 02/03/12: |
A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) |
| 02/03/11: |
A stone in a well is not lost. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/03/10: |
I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (IV, 1, 3) |
| 02/03/09: |
Act quickly, think slowly. - Proverb (Greek) |
| 02/03/08: |
When an observation by joke is true, it is out of place and ill-natured. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/03/07: |
Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love 'tis the way. - Proverb (English) |
| 02/03/06: |
Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound. - William Wordsworth, On the Power of Sound (st. 12) |
| 02/03/05: |
Instinct is stronger than upbringing. - Proverb (Irish) |
| 02/03/04: |
Sleep has no master. - Proverb (Jamaican) |
| 02/03/03: |
I criticize by creation--not by finding fault. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) |
| 02/03/02: |
All feete tread not in one shoe. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/03/01: |
March comes in with an adder's head, and goes out with a peacock's tail. - Richard Lawson Gales, Old-World Essays (p. 250) |
| 02/02/28: |
All persons shall have liberty to renounce those privileges which have been conferred for their benefit. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 699) |
| 02/02/27: |
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 02/02/26: |
Fortune enriches or tramples on us at her will. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/02/25: |
Louie Spanoudis' 'IF' Rule: (5) If it's done it's done, if it can't be undone--don't worry about it. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 02/02/24: |
Nothing happens until something moves. - Albert Einstein |
| 02/02/23: |
No love is foule, nor prison fair. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/02/22: |
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. - Homer, The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 312) (Pope's translation) |
| 02/02/21: |
He braks my head, an' syne puts on my hoo. - Proverb |
| 02/02/20: |
The honied tongue hath its poison. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) |
| 02/02/19: |
Young gamblers, old beggars. - Proverb (German) |
| 02/02/18: |
Age too shines out; and, garrulous, recounts the feats of youth. - James Thomson (1), Seasons--Autumn (l. 1,231) |
| 02/02/17: |
Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.] - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (I, 499) |
| 02/02/16: |
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream |
| 02/02/15: |
In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/02/14: |
For this was on St. Valentine's Day, \ When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parlement of Fowles (l. 309) |
| 02/02/13: |
It is a kingly act to help the fallen. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) |
| 02/02/12: |
He [Lincoln] has doctrines, not hatreds, and is without ambition except to do good and serve his country. - Elihu Benjamin Washburn, in the House of Representatives on the first nomination of Lincoln |
| 02/02/11: |
You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of a friend. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) |
| 02/02/10: |
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) |
| 02/02/09: |
It is a bad action that success cannot justify. - Proverb |
| 02/02/08: |
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. - Proverb |
| 02/02/07: |
A tale in everything. - William Wordsworth, Simon Lee |
| 02/02/06: |
Obstinately to justify a fault is a second fault. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/02/05: |
One's shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 02/02/04: |
Great king, \ Few love to hear the sins they love to act. - William Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i) |
| 02/02/04: |
Few love to hear the sins they love to act. - William Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i) |
| 02/02/03: |
A friend must not be injured, even in jest. [Lat., Amicum laedere ne joco quidem licet.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 02/02/02: |
War hath no fury like a non-combatant. - C.E. Montague, Disenchantment (ch. 16) |
| 02/02/01: |
To him who is determined it remains only to act. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/01/31: |
They also serve who only stand and wait. - John Milton, Sonnet--On His Blindness |
| 02/01/30: |
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - George Sand (Mme. Dudevant), in a letter to Lina Calamatta |
| 02/01/29: |
Bad the crow, bad the egg. - Proverb |
| 02/01/28: |
The most noble dog can only bark. - Proverb |
| 02/01/27: |
They that know one another salute a farre off. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/01/26: |
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
| 02/01/25: |
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 02/01/24: |
Haste manages all things badly. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/01/23: |
When a miser dies, the heirs feel as happy as when they kill a pig. - Proverb (Maltese) |
| 02/01/22: |
A white glove often conceals a dirty hand. - Proverb |
| 02/01/21: |
Fortune wearies with carrying one and the same man always. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 02/01/20: |
Giving is fishing. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 02/01/19: |
A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end--and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka. - Proverb (Yiddish) |
| 02/01/18: |
O'Brian's Law: If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 02/01/17: |
When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel. - Proverb (French) |
| 02/01/16: |
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 02/01/15: |
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 25) |
| 02/01/14: |
The saving man becomes the free man. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 02/01/13: |
#3 pencils and quadrille pads. - Seymour Cray, when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer |
| 02/01/12: |
Children and fools have merry lives. - Proverb |
| 02/01/11: |
Men's conversation is like their life. [Lat., Talis hominibus est oratio qualis vita.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (114) |
| 02/01/10: |
Every day hath its night, every weal its woe. - Proverb |
| 02/01/09: |
Mallet strikes chisel; chisel splits wood. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 02/01/08: |
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. - Proverb |
| 02/01/07: |
In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. XI, v. 3) |
| 02/01/06: |
A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse. - Proverb (American) |
| 02/01/05: |
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 02/01/04: |
When I did well, I heard it never; when I did ill, I heard it ever. - Proverb |
| 02/01/03: |
There is no worse apprentice than the one who doesn't want to know. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 02/01/02: |
Pots take turns to sit on the fire. - Proverb (Massai) |
| 02/01/01: |
January brings the snow, \ Makes our feet and fingers glow. - Sara Coleridge, Pretty Lessons in Verse |
