Chinese Proverbs

It is difficult to forgive those who steal our time. - Chinese Proverb

A single tree cannot make a forest. A single beam cannot support a great house. - Chinese Proverb

Be slow to promise but quick to perform. - Chinese Proverb

Friday Proverbs

If all the fools wore white caps we should look like a flock of sheep. - Russian Proverb

Nobody will give a pauper bread, but everyone will him advice. - Armenian Proverb

Do no give advice unless you have the wisdom to go with it. - Irish Proverb

Out of adversity

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand of virtue. - Johann Schiller

Adversity makes men; good fortune makes monsters. - French Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb

Overcoming Adversity

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross is in our composition. - Charles Caleb Colton

There is no excellency without difficulty. - Ovid

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. - Portuguese Proverb

To infinity and beyond

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. - Albert Camus

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence. - Henry Ford II

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten. - Bill Gates

The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived. - Eric Johnston

Work for your future as if you are going to live forever, for your afterlife as if you are going to die tomorrow. - Arabian proverb

Not rich enough

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. - Danish Proverb

89th Rule

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust. - President George Washington

Bonus Rule 79: Be not apt to relate news if you know not the truth thereof. In discoursing of things you have heard, name not your author; always a secret discover not. - President George Washington

Thoughts about aging

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes


Yesterday's Forgotten Quote
Everyone is the age of their heart.  ~ Guatemalan Proverb

The power of friendship

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.  - Swedish Proverb

Listen to me now, believe me later.

Great boasters, little doers. - French Proverb

Greeks bearing gifts

Things forbidden have a secret charm. - Greek Proverb

In an hour

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year . - Polish Proverb

Funnel to your stomach

Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach.- German Proverb

Soup!

Worries go down better with soup.  -Jewish Proverb


While I don't plan on making this a week of food quotes, it might just become that.

Four Pithy Chinese Proverbs

One who is tripped by the foot can get up again, one who is tripped by the tongue may not.


More demands on oneself and few demands on others will keep resentment at bay.


In a struggle between strength and patience, patience will win.


Gems are polished by rubbing, just as men are made brilliant by trials. 


All quotes are from Best~Loved Chinese Proverbs compiled by Theodora Lau.

Favors

People return small favors, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with ingratitude.
- Proverbs for Daily Living
An interesting little book my mom gave years ago that contains quotes from all over the place. However, it doesn't credit the quotes to particular individuals or sources.

Get to "after that" at the beginning

Twenty years a child, twenty years running wild, twenty years a mature man,and after that, praying. -Irish Proverb

On reading

There's no thief like a bad book. - Italian Proverb
       Who hasn't found this proverb to be true.  At least as I get older I tend to recognize bad books before I have wasted too much time on them.