Archive for November, 2009
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- Never, never, never, never give up.~ Winston Churchill
- Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.~ Benjamin Disraeli
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.~ James M. Barrie
- Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else’s footsteps. ~ Gita Bellin
- Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.~ Corrie Ten Boom
- Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. ~ Claud Cockburn
- Never believe straight off in a man’s unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer’s “yes,” all’s well. That is enough.~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Never be so brief as to become obscure.~ Tryon Edwards
- Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. ~ Lyman Beecher
- Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. ~ John Churton Collins
- Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.~ Edmund Burke
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.~ Albert Einstein
- Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.~ Aaron Burr
- Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. ~ Robert C. Edwards
- Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.~ Niels Bohr
- Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.~ Helen Gurley Brown
- Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.~ Millicent Fenwick
- Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. ~ Annie Besant
- Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.~ Henry Ward Beecher
- Never forget what you need to remember.~ Garrett Bartley
- Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never — in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.~ Winston Churchill
- Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.~ Tom Bradley
- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.~ Erma Bombeck
- Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.~ Phyllis Diller
- Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. ~ James Freeman Clarke
- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.~ Charles Caleb Colton
- Never judge a book by its movie. ~ J. W. Eagan
- Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ~ Erma Bombeck
- Never let the other fellow set the agenda.~ James Baker
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right. ~ Isaac Asimov
- Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ~ Hosea Ballou
- Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Never lose a holy curiosity.~ Albert Einstein
- Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it is a cup of blessing.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people — your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.~ Barbara Bush
- Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.~ Charles I
- Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you. ~ Jill Bennett
- Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record each and everyday, and you are a success. ~ William Boetcker
- Never mind your happiness; do your duty.~ William J. Durant
- Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~ Sandara Carey
- Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.~ Sam Brown
- Never permit failure to become a habit. ~ William Frederick Book
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. ~ Margaret Atwood
- Never read any book that is not a year old. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.~ Josh Billings
- Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
- Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.~ Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
- Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen. ~ Peter Stephen Paul Brook
- Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition. ~ Joe Carlozo
- Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
- Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.~ Norman Douglas
- Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.~ Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
- Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.~ John Churton Collins
- Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.~ Aesop
- Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first. ~ Josh Billings
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- A foolish fox is caught by one leg, but a wise one by all four.~ Serbian Proverb
- A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.~ Greek Proverb
- A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial.~ Thomas Fuller
- A good fox does not eat his neighbor’s chickens.~ French Proverb
- A sleeping fox counts chicken in his dreams.~ Russian Proverb
- A sleeping fox finds no meat.~ Brazilian Proverb
- A wolf’s mourning is the fox’s feast. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Every fox carries his tail his own way.~ French Proverb
- For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village.~ South American Proverb
- He who wants to catch foxes must hunt with geese.~ Danish Proverb
- Hunger will lead a fox out of the forest.~ Polish Proverb
- If you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep.~ Georgian Proverb
- In the end, all foxes meet at the furrier’s.~ Indian Proverb
- Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.~ The Talmud
- Let every fox take care of his own tail.~ Italian Proverb
- Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.~ Benjamin Franklin
- Necessity changes a lion into a fox.~ Iranian Proverb
- Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.~ Traditional Proverb
- Nothing falls into the mouth of a sleeping fox. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Old foxes want no tutor. ~ Vietnamese Proverb
- Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.~ Danish Proverb
- Set a fox to catch a fox.~ German Proverb
- The advice of foxes is dangerous for chickens. ~ Spanish Proverb
- The fox’s enemy is its tail.~ Tajikistani Proverb
- The fox falls into the trap only once.~ Bulgarian Proverb
- The fox knows a lot, but a woman in love knows even more.~ Spanish Proverb
- The fox that waits until the chicken falls from the perch dies from hunger. ~ Greek Proverb
- The fox will catch you with cunning, and the wolf with courage. ~ Albanian Proverb
- The lion is ashamed, it’s true, when he hunts with the fox.~ Gotthold Lessing
- There are no atheists in foxholes.~ William T. Cummings
- The sleeping fox catches no poultry.~ Benjamin Franklin
- What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.~ German Proverb
- What the wolf mourns is food for the fox.~ Arabian Proverb
- When a fox preaches, take care of your geese. ~ Traditional Proverb
- When the fox preaches, look to the geese.~ Romanian Proverb
- Where there are no hounds the fox is king.~ Italian Proverb
- With foxes we must play the fox. ~ Thomas Fuller
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- A bashful beggar has an empty purse. ~ Traditional Proverb
- A fact is like a sack — it won’t stand up if it’s empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.~ Luigi Pirandello
- A happy heart is better than a full purse. ~ Italian Proverb
- A heart free from care is better than a full purse. ~ Arabian Proverb
- A lawyer needs three bags: one full of papers, one full of money, and one full of patience. ~ French Proverb
- An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. ~ Portuguese Proverb
- An empty purse frightens away friends. ~ Thomas Fuller
- An empty sack can’t stand up; a full sack cannot bend.~ Virgin Islander Proverb
- As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. ~ Victor Hugo
- Better an empty purse than an empty head. ~ German Proverb
- If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.~ Benjamin Franklin
- If you ask for too much at once, you will come home with an empty bag.~ Croatian Proverb
- It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love. ~ Jewish Proverb
- It is the small expenses that empty your purse.~ Italian Proverb
- I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.~ Nicholas Breton
- Marriage is a sack full of ninety-nine snakes and one eel. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. ~ Thomas Fuller
- The empty purse says she is made of leather. ~ Spanish Proverb
- The heaviest baggage for a traveller is an empty purse.~ German Proverb
- Virtue carries an empty purse. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father’s kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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- An honest man can never surrender an honest doubt. ~ Walter Malone
- Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- Doubt breeds doubt. ~ Franz Grillparzer
- Doubt can only be removed by action. ~ Goethe
- Doubt grows with knowledge. ~ Goethe
- Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.~ Kahlil Gibran
- Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ~ George Iles
- Doubt is the father of invention. ~ Galileo Galilei
- Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. ~ Hosea Ballou
- Doubt is the key to knowledge. ~ Iranian Proverb
- Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.~ John Christian Bovee
- Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death. ~ Author Unknown
- Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. ~ Chinese Proverb
- He that knows nothing doubts nothing. ~ George Herbert
- If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out. ~ William Blake
- If there is still doubt do not accuse. ~ Spanish Proverb
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ~ Rene Descartes
- I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ~ Wilson Mizner
- I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. ~ Goethe
- I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything. ~ Gerald Barzan
- Jealousy is nourished by doubt. ~ French Proverb
- Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. ~ Clarence Darrow
- Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.~ Miguel De Unamuno
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ~ William Shakespeare
- Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.~ Bhagavad Gita
- Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge. ~ Goethe
- Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt. ~ William Shakespeare
- Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.~ Francis Bacon
- The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb
- The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- The more you listen the more you give yourself room for doubt. ~ Mongolian Proverb
- The only limit of our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb
- There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
- There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. ~ John Bunyan
- The road to perseverance lies by doubt. ~ Francis Quarles
- To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting. ~ Polish Proverb
- To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ~ Philip Massinger
- To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- To wish to know is to wish to doubt. ~ French Proverb
- We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble. ~ Author Unknown
- When you doubt, abstain. ~ Zoroaster
- When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive! ~ Henry Rollins
- Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is — it is her shadow. ~ Philip James Bailey
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- There is a brighter side to every day
- There is a day to every night
- There is a night to every beginning
- There is a beginning to every end
- There is an end to every sorrow
- There is a sorrow for every gladness
- There is gladness in every event
- There is an event in every life
- There is life in everything
- Everything is God’s brighter side
- Always begin a new with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. ~ George E. Woodberry
- Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. ~ David Guy Powers
- Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. ~ James Russell Lowell
- Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace. ~ Ronald Reagan
- If we only knew the real value of a day.~ Joseph Farrell
- If you’re still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.~ Joyce Chapman
- I grow old learning something new every day. ~ Solon
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. ~ Samuel Johnson
- Learn something new every single day. You will never get old if you do. ~ Lois Bey
- Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition. ~ Joe Carlozo
- The years teach us much the days never knew.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To a wise man every day is a new life. ~ Author Unknown
- Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it. ~ Mary Pickford
- We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.~ James Truslow Adams
- We turn not older with years, but newer every day.~ Emily Dickinson
- You have to set new goals every day.~ Julie Krone
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