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| A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. -- Chinese proverb | |
| After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box. -- Italian proverb | |
| An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. -- Spanish proverb | |
| Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. -- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune" | |
| Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb | |
| God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak. -- Arab proverb | |
| He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open. -- Scottish proverb. | |
| If happiness is in your destiny, you need not be in a hurry. -- Chinese proverb | |
| If there is no wind, row. -- Polish proverb | |
| If you wish to be happy for one hour, get drunk. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married. If you wish to be happy for a month, kill your pig and eat it. If you wish to be happy forever, learn to fish. -- Chinese Proverb | |
| May you live in uninteresting times. -- Chinese proverb | |
| Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. -- John Keats | |
| One picture is worth more than ten thousand words. -- Chinese proverb | |
| Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. -- Russian Proverb | |
| Remembering is for those who have forgotten. -- Chinese proverb | |
| The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a sweetheart's. -- Polish proverb | |
| The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant is forever blessed. -- Old Japanese proverb | |
| The reverse side also has a reverse side. -- Japanese proverb | |
| There is no proverb that is not true. -- Cervantes | |
| There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to. | |
| Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. -- Arabian proverb | |
| What one fool can do, another can. -- Ancient Simian Proverb | |
| When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb | |
| When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff. -- Chinese proverb | |
| Zhizn' prozhit'--ne pole pereiti. [Life's a bitch.] [Well, okay. lit., to live through life is not as simple as crossing a field. Happy now?] -- Russian proverb | |
| A person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two watches is never sure. Proverb | |
| Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. -- John Keats | |
| "Tell the truth and run." -- Yugoslav proverb | |
| Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. -- Russian Proverb | |
| "When in doubt, print 'em out." -- Karl's Programming Proverb 0x7 | |
| Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Perlis's Programming Proverb #58, SIGPLAN Notices, Sept. 1982 | |
| "Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well. -- Bilbo Baggins, "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien, Chapter XII | |
| Free Speech Is The Right To Shout 'Theater' In A Crowded Fire. -- A Yippie Proverb | |
| The universe is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering. -- Chinese proverb | |
| "Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics." -- French Proverb | |
| To use violence is to already be defeated. -- Chinese proverb | |
| Banacek's Eighteenth Polish Proverb: The hippo has no sting, but the wise man would rather be sat upon by the bee. | |
| Old Japanese proverb: There are two kinds of fools -- those who never climb Mt. Fuji, and those who climb it twice. | |
| Confucius say too much. -- Recent Chinese Proverb | |
| The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I will walk carefully. -- Russian Proverb | |
| Nezvannyi gost'--khuzhe tatarina. [An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion] -- Russian proverb | |
| Disease can be cured; fate is incurable. -- Chinese proverb | |
| "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. -- Alfred North Whitehead | |
| Love tells us many things that are not so. -- Krainian Proverb | |
| An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life. -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic" | |
