Use it or lose it!

  • Ask for advice, and then use your brain. ~ Norwegian Proverb
  • Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
  • Do not use words that are too big for your mouth. ~ Iranian Proverb
  • Don’t fight forces, use them. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Don’t use oiled paper to wrap up fire. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Even criminals have their uses; they keep sleepyheads awake. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. ~ Scottish Proverb
  • God feeds the birds that use their wings. ~ Danish Proverb
  • He who uses bad incense must be careful not to burn his sleeves. ~ Arabian Proverb
  • If you can’t use your eyes, follow your nose. ~ Latvian Proverb
  • If you want to keep your credit you must use it as little as possible. ~ French Proverb
  • If you’re already in a hole, it’s no use to continue digging. ~ R. Walters
  • It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire. ~ Indian Proverb
  • It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
  • Keep a thing seven years and you’ll find a use for it. ~ Gaelic Proverb
  • Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go. ~ Author Unknown
  • More than we use is more than we want. ~ Gaelic Proverb
  • Never let yesterday use up today. ~ Richard H. Nelson
  • Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice. ~ Author Unknown
  • Never use the word “impossible”. Throw it into the verbal waste bucket. ~ Author Unknown
  • Not to use trickery is also trickery. ~ Arabian Proverb
  • Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings? ~ Diogenes of Sinope
  • On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself. ~ Icelandic Proverb
  • Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. ~ Latin Proverb
  • Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ~ Voltaire
  • Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. ~ Gladys Stern
  • Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone. ~ Malagasy Proverb
  • That is the point of quotations. One can use another’s words to be insulting. ~ Amanda Cross
  • The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. ~ Lee Iacocca
  • The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ~ William James
  • The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses. ~ Paul Westphal
  • The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use. ~ George A. Dorsey
  • The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. ~ Alfred Whitehead
  • The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. ~ Washington Irving
  • The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
  • The well that is most often used gives the purest water. ~ Hebrew Proverb
  • To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ~ Donald Laird
  • Use medicine as well as prayers. ~ Indian Proverb
  • Use power to curb power. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Use soft words and hard arguments. ~ English Proverb
  • We don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. ~ Basil S. Walsh
  • We have more than we use. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • We must use what we have to invent what we desire. ~ Adrienne Rich
  • What we need is to use what we have. ~ Basil S. Walsh
  • When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself. ~ Edgar Cayce
  • When you don’t have an education, you’ve got to use your brains. ~ Author Unknown
  • When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears. ~ Czech Proverb
  • When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. ~ Johann Lavater
  • Why would you use poison if you can kill with honey. ~ Bosnian Proverb
  • You can’t use your hand to force the sun to set. ~ Nigerian Proverb

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