Quote-o-rama:
Proverbs and Sayings

Again, notoriously hard to pin down, I welcome any corrections or further attributions (or contributions) or the like.

"Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake
 every time you repeat it."
					-anonymous

"A blank page is God's way of showing you how hard it is to be God."
					-anonymous

"The difference between gossip and news depends on whether you hear it
 or tell it."
					-anonymous

"A little experience often upsets a lot of theory."
					-anonymous

"It is easier to admire hard work if you don't do it."
					-anonymous

"History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up."
					-anonymous

"History repeats itself because nobody listens."  
					-anonymous

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
					-anonymous

"Never offer advice. A wise man doesn't need it, and a fool doesn't
 heed it."
					-anonymous

"An optimist sees opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees calamity
 in every opportunity."
					-anonymous

"When you look into a mirror you do not see your reflection - your 
 reflection sees you." 
					-anonymous

"The road to ruin is always kept in good repair." 
                                        -anonymous

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."
					-anonymous

"Somewhere the Sky touches the Earth, and the name of that place is the
 End."
					-African saying

"When an old man dies, a library burns down."
					-African proverb
                                        
"If your neighbor is an early riser, you will become one."
					-Albanian proverb

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, 
 those that are moveable, and those that move."
					-Arab proverb

"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."
					-Arab proverb

"Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper."
					-Arab proverb

"While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is
 spoken, it is master of you."
					-Arab proverb

"He who tells the truth must have one foot in the stirrup."
					-Armenian proverb

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days
 of sorrow."
					-Chinese proverb


"There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat."
					-Chinese proverb

"Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence."
					-Chinese proverb

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days
 of sorrow."
                                        -Chinese proverb

"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out."
                                        -Chinese proverb

"Normal people have many songs to sing but the insane sing the same song
 all the time."
                                        -Chinese proverb

"After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless."
                                        -Chinese proverb

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a
 question remains a fool forever."
					-Chinese proverb

"The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night."
					-Chinese proverb

"Who draws his sword against the Prince, best throw away the scabbard."
					-English proverb, 17th century

"Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him."
					-Ethiopian proverb

"Laziness is often mistaken for patience."
					-French proverb

"Only great men may have great faults." 
					-French proverb

"An old error is always more popular than a new truth."
					-German proverb

"The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty purse."
					-German proverb

"Charity looks at the need and not at the cause."
					-German proverb

"One does evil enough when one does nothing good."
					-German proverb

"In America, an hour is forty minutes." 
					-German proverb

"Those who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing."
					-Hindu proverb

"When you are right, no one remembers; when you are wrong, no one 
 forgets."
					-Irish proverb

"He who knows nothing, doubts nothing."
					-Italian proverb

"A thousand probabilities do not make one fact."
					-Italian proverb

"Think much, speak little, and write less."
					-Italian proverb

"Who loves himself best need fear no rival."
					-Latin proverb

"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those
 who are kind."
					-Malayan proverb

"Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all."
					-Moroccan proverb

"It's very bad when grandma marries a crook, but it is even worse when she
 divorces the crook."
					-Punjabi proverb

"Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it."
					-Russian proverb

"A good beginning is half the battle."  
					-Russian proverb

"If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now."
					-Russian proverb

"What is it to be a gentleman? The first to thank and the last to 
 complain."
					-Serbian proverb

"Being young is a fault which improves daily."
					-Swedish proverb

"When you shut one eye, you do not hear everything."
					-Swiss proverb

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days
 of sorrow.
					-Tibetan proverb

"Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as much as we
 speak."
					-Turkish proverb

"Whom God would sorely vex, He endows with abundant good sense."
					-Yiddish proverb

"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark."
					-Zen saying

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