| 03/12/31: |
A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities. - Katherine Cecil Thurston (nee Madden), Max (ch. 1) |
| 03/12/30: |
Beware of a silent dog and still water. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/12/29: |
Fear not the future, weep not for the past. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 03/12/28: |
Pain is forgotten where gain comes. - Proverb |
| 03/12/27: |
Honey is not for the ass's mouth. - Proverb (Portuguese) |
| 03/12/26: |
Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.] - Martin le Franc, Didon |
| 03/12/25: |
A mile walk with a friend has only one hundred steps. - Proverb (Russian) |
| 03/12/24: |
They do not love that do not show their love. - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia at I, ii), also see Heywood Proverbs, pt. II, ch. IX |
| 03/12/23: |
A good example is the best sermon. - Proverb |
| 03/12/22: |
It ain't bragging if you can do it. - Dizzy Dean |
| 03/12/21: |
What signifies the barking of a dog that don't bite? - Proverb (German) |
| 03/12/20: |
He moistens the lips, but leaves the palate dry. [Trifling assistance, of little or no use. ] - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/12/19: |
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/12/18: |
To him that watches, everything is revealed. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/12/17: |
If you would be healthy, be sage betimes. - Proverb (Portuguese) |
| 03/12/16: |
Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them! - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, Les Contemporains (vol. 14), by E. de Mirecourt |
| 03/12/15: |
A man of straw needs a woman of gold. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/12/14: |
Age and wedlock tame man and beast. - Proverb (English) |
| 03/12/13: |
Distant hills look beautiful; near ones are ugly. - Proverb (Goan) |
| 03/12/12: |
There is more disputing about the shell than the kernel. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/12/11: |
It is more wicked to love a sin than to commit one. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/12/10: |
Two cocks in one yard do not agree. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/12/09: |
Providence crushes pride. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/12/08: |
Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady. - Thomas Fuller (1), Holy and Profane States--Gravity |
| 03/12/07: |
Sweet meat must have sour sauce. - Ben Jonson, Poetaster (act III, 3) |
| 03/12/06: |
Fish or cut bait. - Proverb (American) |
| 03/12/05: |
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (bk. V, canto II, st. 51) |
| 03/12/04: |
Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] - Jean Francois Marmontel, Oeuvres Complettes (V, 188) |
| 03/12/03: |
If a rich man ate a snake, they would say it was because of his wisdom. - Proverb |
| 03/12/02: |
A full cup must be carried steadily. - Proverb (English) |
| 03/12/01: |
Rats do not play tricks with kittens. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/11/30: |
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Heauton timoroumenos (IV, 7, 11) |
| 03/11/29: |
Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Pseudolus (I, 5, 37) |
| 03/11/28: |
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. - Aristotle, Metaphysica (10f-1045a) |
| 03/11/27: |
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. - George MacDonald, Mary Marston (ch. V) |
| 03/11/26: |
Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have. - Proverb (Greek) |
| 03/11/25: |
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. - Joseph Addison, in the "Guardian", no. 111, Letter of Alexander to Aristotle |
| 03/11/24: |
If your head is made of butter, don't be a baker. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/11/23: |
Exceptions prove the rule . . . and wreck the budget. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 03/11/22: |
From trivial things great contests oft arise. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/11/21: |
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. - Jean de la Bruyere, The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (ch. II, sec. 17) |
| 03/11/20: |
Begin to weave and God will give the thread. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/11/19: |
Where liberty is, there is my country. - Algernon Sidney (Sydney), Algernon, his motto |
| 03/11/18: |
Drinking a little too much is drinking a great deal too much. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/11/17: |
It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he." - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) |
| 03/11/16: |
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you'll see further. - Proverb |
| 03/11/15: |
Add not fire to fire. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/11/14: |
A man surprised is half beaten. - Proverb |
| 03/11/13: |
Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/11/12: |
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country. - Horace Greeley, Hints toward Reform, in an editorial in the "Tribune" |
| 03/11/11: |
They wrangle about an egg, and let the hens fly away. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/11/10: |
Justice oft leans to the side where the purse pulls. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/11/09: |
He who has both money and bread, may choose with whom his daughter to wed. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/11/08: |
It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/11/07: |
Overdoing is doing nothing to the purpose. - Proverb |
| 03/11/06: |
Too many captains will sink the ship. - Proverb |
| 03/11/05: |
The avenging gods have their feet clothed in wool. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/11/04: |
He is a wise man who accommodates himself to all circumstances. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/11/03: |
Whoever teaches his son teaches not only his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations. - Proverb (Hebrew) |
| 03/11/02: |
The anger of lovers renews the strength of love. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 03/11/01: |
Bad eyes never see any good. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/10/31: |
Great promisers, bad paymasters. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/10/30: |
A child correct behind and not before. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/10/29: |
Truth, like oil, always comes to the surface. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/10/28: |
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver |
| 03/10/27: |
To know all is to forgive all. - Proverb |
| 03/10/26: |
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (no. 285) |
| 03/10/25: |
Reconciled friendship is like a badly healed wound. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/10/24: |
Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/10/23: |
The corn falls out of a shaken sheaf. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/10/22: |
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! - Douglas William Jerrold, Specimen's of Jerrold's Wit--The Postman's Budget |
| 03/10/21: |
Walk on your own lands. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/10/20: |
Coffee and love are best when they are hot. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/10/19: |
A wicked dog must be tied short. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/10/18: |
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/10/17: |
He who denies everything confesses everything. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/10/16: |
A gilt bridle for an old mule. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/10/15: |
The goat must browse where she is tied. - Proverb (Romanian) |
| 03/10/14: |
Pay what you owe, and be cured of your complaint. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/10/13: |
Time reveals all things. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/10/12: |
He who tickles himself can laugh when he pleases. - Proverb (Danish, German) |
| 03/10/11: |
One bird in the dish is better than a hundred in the air. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/10/10: |
A man does not wander far from where his corn is roasting. - Proverb (Nigerian) |
| 03/10/09: |
Put your money where your mouth is. - Proverb (American) |
| 03/10/08: |
Hate has no medicine. - Proverb (Ghanaian) |
| 03/10/07: |
An act does not make one guilty, unless the intention be bad. - Legal Maxim, Lofft's Maxims (37) |
| 03/10/06: |
In Blindman's land your one-eyed man's a god. - Proverb |
| 03/10/05: |
Winning makes you happy all day. - Jimmy Wynn |
| 03/10/04: |
Don't reject the good together with the bad. - Proverb |
| 03/10/03: |
So many laws argues so many sins. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 283) |
| 03/10/02: |
When you have only two dollars left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a rose with the other. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 03/10/01: |
Better a friend's bite than an enemy's caress. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/09/30: |
Seek not the rose which is once lost. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/09/29: |
Riches breed care, poverty is safe. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/09/28: |
A usurer, a miller, a banker, and a publican, are the four evangelists of Lucifer. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/09/27: |
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
| 03/09/26: |
An enemy may chance to give good counsel. - Proverb |
| 03/09/25: |
Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/09/24: |
The way to resumption is to resume. - Salmon Portland Chase, Letter to Horace Greely |
| 03/09/23: |
Oblivion is not to be hired. - Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia (ch. V) |
| 03/09/22: |
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
| 03/09/21: |
To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. - Cao Xuequin |
| 03/09/20: |
Live according to your income. - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) |
| 03/09/19: |
Good wine makes the horse go. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/09/18: |
He who can sit upon a stone and feed himself should not move. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/09/17: |
Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.] - Thomas Brooks, he is said to have been the first to use the expression (1662) |
| 03/09/16: |
He who wipes the child's nose, means to kiss the mother's cheek. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/09/15: |
Proverbs are the children of experience. - Proverb (English) |
| 03/09/14: |
Safe bind, safe find. - Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred points of Good Husbandry--Washing |
| 03/09/13: |
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. - Robert Browning, Paracelsus (II) |
| 03/09/12: |
It is better to leave than to lack. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/09/11: |
More flies are taken with a drop of honey than a tun of vinegar. - Proverb |
| 03/09/10: |
Patience, time and money accommodate all things. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/09/09: |
Give a clown your finger he'll grasp your fist. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/09/08: |
He that does amiss may do well. - Proverb (English) |
| 03/09/07: |
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority. - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) |
| 03/09/06: |
Every potter praises his pot, and most of all the one that is cracked. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/09/05: |
There is no off switch on a tiger. - Proverb |
| 03/09/04: |
Lost time is never found again. - Proverb |
| 03/09/03: |
A sick mind cannot endure any harshness. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/09/02: |
A father deserted by a wise son is like being caught in a shower without a felt. - Proverb (Tibetan) |
| 03/09/01: |
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
| 03/08/31: |
No one loves the man whom he fears. - Aristotle |
| 03/08/30: |
Make me a prophet and I will make you rich. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/08/29: |
Threats don't kill. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/08/28: |
Out of too much learning become mad. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. 4, memb. 1, subsec. 2) |
| 03/08/27: |
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence. - Sir Walter Raleigh (1), Letter to Sir Robert Cecil |
| 03/08/26: |
Our last garment is made without pockets. - Proverb (Romanian, Italian) |
| 03/08/25: |
No moon, no man. - Proverb |
| 03/08/24: |
An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry at III, v) |
| 03/08/23: |
So use your own property as not to injure that of another. - Lord Edward Coke |
| 03/08/22: |
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. - Legal Maxim |
| 03/08/21: |
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor. - Aristotle, Poetics (XXII) |
| 03/08/20: |
Woods have ears and fields have eyes. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/08/19: |
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. - Proverb (Irish) |
| 03/08/18: |
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) |
| 03/08/17: |
It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/08/16: |
Eternal peace lasts only until the next war. - Proverb (Russian) |
| 03/08/15: |
A kind word is like a Spring day. - Proverb (Russian) |
| 03/08/14: |
Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, L'Art Poetique (I, 198) |
| 03/08/13: |
There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music. - Henry Louis Mencken |
| 03/08/12: |
Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Youth and Age |
| 03/08/11: |
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Uses of Great Men |
| 03/08/10: |
Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best. - Proverb (English) |
| 03/08/09: |
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest. - Francis Bacon, Essays--Of Empire |
| 03/08/08: |
Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have his wax taper. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/08/07: |
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. - Claudian (Claudianus) |
| 03/08/06: |
Apelles was not a master painter the first day. - Proverb |
| 03/08/05: |
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Goethe's Helena |
| 03/08/04: |
Life is not measured by the time we live. - George Crabbe, Village (bk. II) |
| 03/08/03: |
Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/08/02: |
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. - Proverb |
| 03/08/01: |
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
| 03/07/31: |
Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/07/30: |
Never put your thumbs between two grinders. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/07/29: |
You may rezoloot till the cows come home. - John Hay, Little Breeches--Banty Tim |
| 03/07/28: |
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. - Sima Qian |
| 03/07/27: |
The myrtle is always a myrtle, though it be among nettles. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/07/26: |
Seven brothers in a council make wrong right. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/07/25: |
It is a disgrace to be praised by those who deserve no praise. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/07/24: |
It's love, it's love that makes the world go round. - Unattributed Author, a popular French song in "Chansons Nationales et Populaires de France", vol. II, p. 180 |
| 03/07/23: |
The net of heaven is large and wide, but it lets nothing through. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 03/07/22: |
Who avoids small sins, does not fall into great ones. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/07/21: |
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) |
| 03/07/20: |
The poor man eats at double cost. - Proverb (Portuguese) |
| 03/07/19: |
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, ii) |
| 03/07/18: |
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his virtues. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (bk. IV, ch. III) |
| 03/07/17: |
Better be killed by robbers than by the kick of an ass. - Proverb (Portuguese) |
| 03/07/16: |
He who is the cause of his own misfortune may bewail it himself. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/07/15: |
He who grasps too much holds not firmly. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/07/14: |
Time and place make the thief. - Proverb (Dutch, German) |
| 03/07/13: |
Long talk makes short days. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/07/12: |
Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.] - Antonio Guevera |
| 03/07/11: |
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. - Proverb (Moorish) |
| 03/07/10: |
Charm is more than beauty. - Proverb (Yiddish) |
| 03/07/09: |
To make any gain some outlay is necessary. - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) |
| 03/07/08: |
Honesty lasts longest. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/07/07: |
He that trusts a faithless friend, has a good witness against him. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/07/06: |
Give wine to them that are in sorrow. - Proverb |
| 03/07/05: |
A friend that will go to the scaffold with you. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/07/04: |
The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint. - Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| 03/07/03: |
Tell not all you know, nor judge of all you see, if you would live in peace. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/07/02: |
Love laughs at locksmiths. - Proverb (British) |
| 03/07/01: |
Even a fly can show temper. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/06/30: |
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. - George Henry Lewes, Physiology of Common Life (ch. XII) |
| 03/06/29: |
Keep your eye on the ball. - Proverb |
| 03/06/28: |
Insects do not nest in a busy door-hinge. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 03/06/27: |
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Proverb |
| 03/06/26: |
Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/06/25: |
More like than egg to egg. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/06/24: |
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. - Samuel Johnson, Prayers and Meditations--Against Inquisitive and Perplexing Thoughts |
| 03/06/23: |
The hole calls the thiefe. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/06/22: |
In wine there is truth. - Proverb (Roman) |
| 03/06/21: |
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (canto V, st. 9) |
| 03/06/20: |
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/06/19: |
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains. [Lat., Eripitur persona, manet res.] - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), De Rerum Natura (III, 58) |
| 03/06/18: |
Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. - Rev. James Hurdis, The Village Curate (l. 276) |
| 03/06/17: |
No penny, no paternoster. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/06/16: |
Law is a flag and gold is the wind that makes it wave. - Proverb (Russian) |
| 03/06/15: |
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. - Robert Lee Frost |
| 03/06/14: |
One man's beard is on fire, and another man warms his hands on it. - Proverb (Kashmiri) |
| 03/06/13: |
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good. - Proverb (English) |
| 03/06/12: |
I suspect that hunger was my mother. [Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Stichus (act II, 1, 1) |
| 03/06/11: |
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Scandal of Father Brown (The Point of a Pin) |
| 03/06/10: |
At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, L'Art Poetique (III, 48) |
| 03/06/09: |
The young may die, but the old must! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. IV, The Cloisters) |
| 03/06/08: |
Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 03/06/07: |
He is not happy who does not realize his happiness. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/06/06: |
I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. - Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue II) |
| 03/06/05: |
"Do not debate!" is one of my inventions. - Deng Xiaoping |
| 03/06/04: |
When you are at Rome do as Rome does. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/06/03: |
No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/06/02: |
A woman either loves or hates. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) |
| 03/06/01: |
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water. - Proverb (Japanese) |
| 03/05/31: |
You must shift your sail with the wind. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/05/30: |
Like will to like, be they poor or rich. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/05/29: |
The more fools, the more laughter. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/05/28: |
Not even the Lord of Light can turn back time, or undo what has been done. - Proverb (Darkovan) |
| 03/05/27: |
The stronger always succeeds. [Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Truculentus (IV, 3, 30) |
| 03/05/26: |
Appetite comes with eating. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/05/25: |
Anger can be an expensive luxury. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/05/24: |
He that rewards flattery, begs it. - Proverb |
| 03/05/23: |
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.] - Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| 03/05/22: |
Peace makes plenty. - Proverb (English) |
| 03/05/21: |
If it says "one size fits all," it doesn't fit anyone. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 03/05/20: |
He who is feared by many, fears many. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/05/19: |
Let him stay at the oar who has learnt to row. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/05/18: |
Open hand makes open hand. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/05/17: |
Trust not him that hath once broken faith. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Queen Elizabeth at IV, iv) |
| 03/05/16: |
The herb patience does not grow in every man's garden. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/05/15: |
Big boast, small roast. - Proverb (English) |
| 03/05/14: |
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/05/13: |
For love deceives the best of woman kind. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XV, l. 463) (Pope's translation) |
| 03/05/12: |
Such as the man is, such will be his discourse. - Proverb |
| 03/05/11: |
Mother's love is ever in its spring. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/05/10: |
He that seeks to have many friends never has any. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/05/09: |
A short horse is soon curried. - Proverb |
| 03/05/08: |
He that never fails never grows rich. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/05/07: |
Lay on more wood; ashes give money. - Proverb |
| 03/05/06: |
The acts of to-day become the precedents of to-morrow. - Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, in a speech in support of Lord Harrington's resolution |
| 03/05/05: |
After the house is finisht, leave it. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/05/04: |
If what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken behind the back. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 03/05/03: |
Deliberate often--decide once. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/05/02: |
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 03/05/01: |
You can't fare well, but you must cry roast meat. - Proverb |
| 03/04/30: |
He sups ill who eats up all at dinner. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/04/29: |
Looke not for muske in a dogges kennell. [Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/04/28: |
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Heroides (XVIII, 178) |
| 03/04/27: |
Who hastens a glutton choakes him. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/04/26: |
The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/04/25: |
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. - Proverb (Arabian) |
| 03/04/24: |
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach |
| 03/04/23: |
An old Physitian, and a young Lawyer. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/04/22: |
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole. - Proverb (African) |
| 03/04/21: |
In obscure constructions we always apply that which is the least obscure. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 687) |
| 03/04/20: |
If my shirt knew my design, I'd burn it. - Proverb |
| 03/04/19: |
The accessory follows the principal. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 491) |
| 03/04/18: |
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run. - Proverb (Korean) |
| 03/04/17: |
Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 03/04/16: |
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. - Bible, Mark (ch. III, v. 25) |
| 03/04/15: |
A man's word is his honour. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/04/14: |
Lords and fools speak freely. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/04/13: |
The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Fasti (II, 117) |
| 03/04/12: |
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus), De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VI, 4, 13) |
| 03/04/11: |
A wealthy man can err with impunity. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/04/10: |
Every hooked beak is maintained by prey. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/04/09: |
At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant foremost, the master behind. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/04/08: |
One may be humble out of pride. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne, Of Presumption (bk. II, ch. XVII) |
| 03/04/07: |
Others' bread is too salt. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/04/06: |
The teeth of the puppy are growing, while the old dog is gnawing bones. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/04/05: |
Every one wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. [Lat., Quem metuit quisque, perisse cupit.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Amorum (II, 2, 10) |
| 03/04/04: |
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. - Oliver Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield (ch. IV) |
| 03/04/03: |
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/04/02: |
The reasons of the poore weigh not. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/04/01: |
Andrews' Canoeing Postulate: No matter which direction you start it's always against the wind coming back. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 03/03/31: |
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. [Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.] - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (I, 34, 4) |
| 03/03/30: |
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) |
| 03/03/29: |
Nought needs no hiding-place. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/03/28: |
Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened. - Proverb |
| 03/03/27: |
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is. - John Selden, Table Talk--Libels |
| 03/03/26: |
One may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge. - Proverb |
| 03/03/25: |
Teach an eagle to fly, a dolphin to swim. - Proverb |
| 03/03/24: |
Butter spoils no meat, and moderation injures no cause. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/03/23: |
A lonely person is at home everywhere. - Proverb (Russian) |
| 03/03/22: |
Many books do not use up words; many words do not use up thoughts. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 03/03/21: |
Only the mountains never meet. - Proverb (Namibian) |
| 03/03/20: |
The one-eyed are kings in the land of the blind. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/03/19: |
For the upright there are no laws. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/03/18: |
Suretyship is the precursor of ruin. - Thales of Miletus, his motto as inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi |
| 03/03/17: |
Since the wine is drawn it must be drunk. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/03/16: |
Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can't remedy. - Proverb |
| 03/03/15: |
One on God's side is a majority. - Wendell Phillips, in a speech at Harper's Ferry |
| 03/03/14: |
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus at II, i) |
| 03/03/13: |
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. - Robert Browning, Ring and the Book (V, 296) |
| 03/03/12: |
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Fool at II, iv) |
| 03/03/11: |
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. - Proverb (Arabian) |
| 03/03/10: |
After victory, tighten your helmet chord. - Proverb (Japanese) |
| 03/03/09: |
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more. [Lat., Quod satis est cui contigit, nihil amplius optet.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 2, 46) |
| 03/03/08: |
The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/03/07: |
Terrifying are the weaknesses of power. - Proverb (Greek) |
| 03/03/06: |
He's a fool that's fond. - Proverb |
| 03/03/05: |
The hare starts from where it is least expected. - Proverb (Italian, Spanish) |
| 03/03/04: |
The burden which is well borne becomes light. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Amorum (I, 2, 10) |
| 03/03/03: |
The wolf never wants a pretext against the lamb. - Proverb |
| 03/03/02: |
The bad man always suspects knavery. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/03/01: |
March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger." - Old Saying |
| 03/02/28: |
No one knows what the dinner was after the plates have been washed. - Proverb |
| 03/02/27: |
The baker's child goes hungry. - Proverb (Turkish) |
| 03/02/26: |
Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise and simple. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/02/25: |
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
| 03/02/24: |
As the old ones sing, the young ones twitter. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/02/23: |
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 03/02/22: |
A nobleness to try for, \ A name to live and die for. - George Parsons Lathrop, Name of Washington |
| 03/02/21: |
Too many sacks are the death of the ass. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/02/20: |
All things of this world are nothing, unless they have reference to the next. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/02/19: |
The boor looks after a cent as the devil after a soul. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/02/18: |
He who carries one burden will soon carry a hundred. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/02/17: |
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - George Robert Stephanopolous, speaking on television's "Larry King Live" |
| 03/02/16: |
An ambassador beareth no blame. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/02/15: |
Love does much, money everything. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/02/14: |
Love understands love; it needs no talk. - Frances R. Havergal, Royal Commandments--Loving Allegiance |
| 03/02/13: |
Diligent work makes a skilful workman. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 03/02/12: |
Horses run after benefices and asses get them. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/02/11: |
There's no making apples of plums. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/02/10: |
When you're thirsty it's too late to think about digging a well. - Proverb (Japanese) |
| 03/02/09: |
It matters not how long you live, but how well. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 03/02/08: |
Who would be young in age, must in youth be sage. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/02/07: |
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. [Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Amorum (I, 15, 39) |
| 03/02/06: |
A bad ending follows a bad beginning. - Euripides, Frag. Melanip. (Stoboeus) |
| 03/02/05: |
Go to your rich friend's house when invited; to your poor friend's without invitation. - Proverb (Portuguese) |
| 03/02/04: |
Lions in time of peace; deer in war. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/02/03: |
It is the province of a judge to declare the law, not to give it. - Legal Maxim, Lofft's Appendix (42) |
| 03/02/02: |
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. - John Ruskin |
| 03/02/01: |
February, fill the dyke \ With what thou dost like. - Thomas Tusser, Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--February's Husbandry |
| 03/01/31: |
Who threatens, warns. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/01/30: |
The last comer shuts the door. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 03/01/29: |
A Tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear it's a cat. - Proverb (Irish) |
| 03/01/28: |
An old broom knows the corners of the house. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/01/27: |
The sea hath fish for every man. - William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain |
| 03/01/26: |
Death is a black camel which kneels at every man's gate. - Proverb |
| 03/01/25: |
Earth was the meadow, he the mower strong. - Victor Hugo, La Legende des Siecles |
| 03/01/24: |
All roads do not lead to Rome. - Proverb (Slovenian) |
| 03/01/23: |
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/01/22: |
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) |
| 03/01/21: |
Evil communications corrupt good manners. - Proverb |
| 03/01/20: |
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XXXVII, v. 29) |
| 03/01/19: |
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Oratio Pro Murena (XXX) |
| 03/01/18: |
Dare to be wise. [Lat., Sapere aude.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 2, 40) |
| 03/01/17: |
A mule and a woman do what is expected of them. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/01/16: |
The maxims of men disclose their hearts. - Proverb (French) |
| 03/01/15: |
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) |
| 03/01/14: |
Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either of them both. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/01/13: |
Great things rush to the destruction of each other. - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) |
| 03/01/12: |
Necessity unites hearts. - Proverb (German) |
| 03/01/11: |
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.] - Jean Baptiste Racine, Phedre (III, 3) |
| 03/01/10: |
Give a traitor good words and you make him loyal. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/01/09: |
He who is afraid of leaves must not go into the wood. - Proverb (Dutch) |
| 03/01/08: |
He either wheedles by suasive means or terrifies by threats. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 03/01/07: |
Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery. - Philander Chase Johnson, see "Everybody's Magazine", May, 1920, p. 36 |
| 03/01/06: |
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches). - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 03/01/05: |
Silence sweeter is than speech. - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik), Magnus and Morna (sc. 3) |
| 03/01/04: |
The pen is mightier than the sword. - Benjamin Franklin, Oration |
| 03/01/03: |
For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not be enough. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 03/01/02: |
Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (st. 124) |
| 03/01/01: |
Omittance is no quittance. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Phebe at III, v) |
