Archive for January, 2009
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- A dying man discovers the honesty with which he was born.~ Japanese Proverb
- After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery.~ Sophia Loren
- A hidden fire is discovered by its smoke.~ Spanish Proverb
- A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.~ James Joyce
- Discover a well before you are thirsty.~ Chinese Proverb
- Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.~ Albert Szent-Szent-Gyorgyi
- Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.~ John Keats
- He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.~ Samuel Smiles
- Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.~ Alexander Smith
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.~ James Joyce
- Sadness is a valuable treasure — only discovered in people you love.~ Malagasy Proverb
- The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.~ Mark Van Doren
- The delights of self-discovery are always available.~ Gail Sheehy
- The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.~ Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.~ William James
- The key to success isn’t much good until one discovers the right lock to put it in.~ Chinese Proverb
- The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.~ Arthur Koestler
- The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.~ Elizabeth Foley
- The person who God shows a treasure to must dig it out himself.~ Czechoslovakian Proverb
- We discover in ourselves what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.~ Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
- What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.~ Dietrich Bonboeffer
- Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.~ Alan Valentine
- When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.~ William A. Ward
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- A different man, a different taste.~ Greek Proverb
- All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- An onion shared with a friend tastes like roast lamb.~ Egyptian Proverb
- A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.~ Welsh Proverb
- Bad taste is a species of bad morals.~ John Christian Bovee
- Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.~ Jean De La Bruyere
- Even honey can taste bitter if it’s used as medicine.~ Korean Proverb
- Every man to his taste, as the man said when he kissed his cow.~ Scottish Proverb
- Every one to his taste.~ Traditional Proverb
- Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times — in water, in butter and in wine.~ Polish Proverb
- Food tastes best when you eat it with your own spoon.~ Danish Proverb
- Good medicine often has a bitter taste.~ Japanese Proverb
- Good taste is the excuse I’ve always given for leading such a bad life.~ Oscar Wilde
- Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.~ Marshall McLuhan
- He who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is.~ German Proverb
- Hunger drives good taste away.~ Indian Proverb
- Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.~ Susan Sontag
- I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.~ Alain-Rene Le Sage
- Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite.~ Italian Proverb
- Nothing tastes more bitter than the truth.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Revenge is a dish that tastes better cold.~ Traditional Proverb
- Scratch an old woman’s back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.~ Jamaican Proverb
- Taste cannot be controlled by law.~ Thomas Jefferson
- Taste has no system and no proofs.~ Susan Sontag
- Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.~ William Hazlitt
- Taste is the enemy of creativeness.~ Pablo Picasso
- Taste is the feminine of genius.~ Lord Edward Fitzgerald
- Taste is tiring like good company.~ Francis Picabia
- There is no accounting for tastes.~ Traditional Proverb
- There is taste in variety, and variety in taste.~ Nicaraeuan Proverb
- To possess taste, one must have some soul.~ Marquis De Vauvenargues
- What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.~ Lucretius
- Where love sets the table food tastes at its best.~ French Proverb
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- He who drinks no more still likes to see the beer pulled.~ German Proverb
- I’m gonna drink lots of beer and stay out all night.~ Homer Simpson
- I usually need a can of beer to prime me.~ Norman Mailer
- I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.~ Sid Vicious
- Pretty women make us buy beer. Ugly women make us drink beer.~ Ed O’Neill
- Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.~ George Bernard Shaw
- Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you — don’t do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don’t do it. Don’t you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don’t touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.~ Gordon B. Hinckley
- The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.~ German Proverb
- Most of us miss out on life’s big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we’re all eligible for life’s small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer. Don’t fret about copping life’s grand awards. Enjoy its tiny delights.~ Author Unknown
- They who drink beer will think beer.~ Washington Irving
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- If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.~ Traditional Proverb
- Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.~ Robert Byrne
- Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.~ Lou Holtz
- The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; but doing well is the wisest and best of all.~ Persian Proverb
- Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.~ Pythagoras
- All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.~ Anna Quindlen
- Well done is better than well said. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.~ Jim Rohn
- You can have anything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want.~ Zig Ziglar
- Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie
- Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have.~ Zig Ziglar
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- Always something new, seldom something good.~ German Proverb
- A new broom is good for three days.~ Italian Proverb
- A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.~ Apocrypha
- An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.~ Robert Bresson
- As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.~ Iranian Proverb
- Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.~ Theodore Levitt
- Don’t build a new ship out of old wood.~ Chinese Proverb
- Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.~ Willa Cather
- I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.~ Chinese Proverb
- Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.~ Michael Vance
- It’s easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.~ Dan Kennedy
- It’s the same donkey, but with a new saddle.~ Afghan Proverb
- It doesn’t matter how new an idea is; what matters is how new it becomes.~ Elias Canetti
- It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.~ John F. Kennedy
- Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life’s ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.~ Henry Miller
- New roads; new ruts.~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.~ Shelby Foote
- Reshape one’s foot to try to fit into a new shoe.~ Chinese Proverb
- So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.~ Dorothea Brande
- Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The new is not a fashion, it is a value.~ Roland Barthes
- The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.~ Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.~ Henry Miller
- The new boat will find the old stones.~ Estonian Proverb
- The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.~ Evenus
- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.~ Carl Bard
- To the old, the new is usually bad news.~ Eric Hoffer
- We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value — a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.~ T. S. Eliot
- We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.~ Walt Disney
- What is new is pleasing and what is old is satisfying.~ Cuban Proverb
- What the New Year will bring us depends a great deal on what we bring to the New Year.~ Author Unknown
- When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.~ Prince Philip
- You dance better with a full belly than with a new dress.~ French Proverb
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