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| Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. - Phillip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, (1694-1773) |
| Take it straight from the horse's mouth. - Francis Iles (1893-1970) |
| Take life as it comes. - unknown |
| Take the bull by the horns. - North American Saying |
| Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it. - Korean (on vigilance) |
| Tell me what you are conceited about, and I'll tell you what you lack. - Argentinian saying, thanks to Diego Paternostro for the translation. |
| Tell me whom you love and I'll tell you who you are.- African-American (on life and living) |
| Temper justice with mercy. - John Milton (1608-1674) |
| Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice. - Italian (on advice) |
| Thanks cost nothing. - Creole (on gratitude) |
| The afternoon knows what the morning never expected. - Swedish (on basic truths) |
| The anger of the prudent never shows. - Burmese (on anger) |
| The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. - Asian Proverb |
| The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| The bad plowman quarrels with his ox. - Korean (on criticism) |
| The best candle is understanding.- Welsh (on knowledge and ignorance) |
| The best cure for a short temper is a long walk. - unknown |
| The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert (1593-1632) |
| The best sauce in the world is hunger. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) |
| The best thing a man can do for his kids is to love their mother. - Seen on a billboard outside the Bread of Life Church in Fitchburg, MA - Editor's note: and vice versa |
| The best thing about telling the truth is...you don't have to remember what you said! - unknown, thanks to Georgie Bee |
| The best things in life are free. - B.G. DeSilva (1927) |
| The best way to keep good acts in memory is to repeat them. - Cato (234-149 BC) |
| The best way to predict the future is to create it. - unknown; thanks to rapstar.com |
| The bigger they are, the harder they fall. - unknown |
| The blind person is not afraid of ghosts. - Burmese (on courage and fear) |
| The blocks of wood should not dictate to the carver. - Maori (on art and creativity) |
| The brave person regards dying as going home. - Chinese (on courage and fear) |
| The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one. - George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| The calm before the storm. - unknown |
| The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. - Chaucer (c.1343-1400) |
| The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. - G.K. Chesterton |
| The company makes the feast. - J. Warton (1653) |
| The complete fool is half prophet. - Yiddish (on foolishness)(Meaning: even a fool is right half the time) |
| The contented person can never be ruined. - Chinese (on conscience) |
| The continuous drip polishes the stone.- Peruvian (on patience) |
| The covetous person is always in want. - Irish (on greed) |
| The crab that walks too far, falls into the pot. - Haitian (on caution and care) |
| The cream always rises to the top. - unknown |
| The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. - unknown |
| The crow may be caged but his thoughts are in the cornfield. - Belizean (on temptation) |
| The customer is always right. - Barry Pain (1864-1928) |
| The darkest hours are just before dawn. - English Proverb |
| The day has eyes; the night has ears.- Scottish (on nature) |
| The day you decide to do it, is your lucky day.- Japanese (on luck) |
| The deceitful have no friends.- Hindi (Asian Indian) (on justice) |
| The devil catches most souls in a golden net. - German (on temptation) |
| The devil dances in empty pockets. - Tudor (English)(on wealth and poverty) |
| The devil finds work for idle hands. - St. Jerome (345-420) |
| The devil looks after his own. - Scottish Proverb |
| The devil tempts but doesn't force. - Guyanan |
| The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The difference between a pig and a hog is the lean in his meat. - unknown |
| The die is cast. - Julius Caesar (thanks to Marvin Wakefield, a descendant of Noah Webster) |
| The discontented man finds no easy chair. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The drum makes a great fuss because it is empty. - Trinidadian (on vanity and arrogance) |
| The eagle does not catch flies. - Latin (on character and virtue) |
| The eagle was killed with an arrow made with its own feathers.- Armenian (on paradox) |
| The early bird catches the worm. - William Camden (1551-1623) |
| The early bird gets the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese. - unknown |
| The earth has music for those who listen. - unknown, thankyou to Guy Archer |
| The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your pocket. - unknown, courtesy of T. Ghataurhae of England |
| The end doesn't justify the means. - Ovid (c.43 BC-AD 18) |
| The end of one thing is only the beginning of another. - unknown |
| The errors of a wise man make your rule rather than the perfections of a fool. - William Blake (1757-1827) |
| The excellency of hogs is -- fatness; of men-- virtue. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The eyes are the windows of the soul. - Thomas Phaer (c.1510-1560) |
| The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living.- Danish (on life and living) |
| The fat is in the fire. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580) |
| The fly on the water buffalo's back thinks he is taller than the water buffalo. - Tagalog (Filipino)(on vanity and arrogance) |
| The fool is thirsty in the midst of water. - Ethiopian (on foolishness) |
| The fool never undertakes little. - Czech (on foolishness) |
| The frog enjoys itself in water but not in hot water. - African proverb Wolof Tribe |
| The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The grand instructor, time. - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| The grass is always greener in someone else's yard. - unknown |
| The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - unknown |
| The half is better than the whole. - Hesiod (c.720 BC) |
| The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. - William Ross Wallace (1819-1881) |
| The hardest person to awaken is the person already awake. - Tagalog (Filipino)(on vigilance) |
| The heart at rest sees a feast in everything. - Hindu (Asian Indian) (on attitude) |
| The hero appears only after the tiger is dead. - Burmese (on cynicism) |
| The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail. - John Wycliffe (c.1320-1384) alternate source:Belizean (on leadership) |
| The higher you climb, the heavier you fall. - Vietnamese (on pride) |
| The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The house of the loud talker, leaks. - African proverb Zulu Tribe |
| The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting. - Vietnamese (on criticism) |
| The laborer is worth his wage. - Bible (Luke 10:7) |
| The lazy person must work twice.- Latin American (on idleness) |
| The leopard does not change his spots. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. - Mexican (on differences) |
| The longest journey begins with the first step. - unknown |
| The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| The love of money is the root of all evil - Bible |
| The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Edward John Phelps (1822-1900) |
| The master of the people is their servant.- Yemeni (on leadership) |
| The memories of youth make for long, long thoughts. - Lapp (on youth and age) |
| The miller sees not all the water that flows by his mill. - Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. - Bible |
| The more the merrier. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580) |
| The more things change, the more they stay the same. - Alphonse Karr (1808-1890) |
| The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey seems.- Maori (on journeys; Ed. Note: Parents everywhere can certainly relate to this saying!) |
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
| The mouse that hath but one hole is taken quickly. - George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| The mouth prays to Buddha but the heart is full of evil.- Vietnamese (on hypocrisy) |
| The new boat will find the old stones. - Estonian (on perversity) |
| The old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| The old one who is loved, is winter with flowers. - German (on youth and age) |
| The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is. - Nigerian (on gratitude) |
| The one who teaches is the giver of eyes. - Tamil (Asian Indian) (on education) |
| The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand.- Chinese (on paradox) |
| The only real test in life is to conquer your fears. - unknown |
| The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| "The palest ink is brighter than the best memory" - Chinese saying. Thanks to Martin C Wojtkiewicz |
| The pen is mightier than the sword. - unknown |
| The person afraid of bad luck will never know good.- Russian (on luck) |
| The person sins, then blames Satan for it.- Afghan (on the human comedy) |
| The person who gets stuck on petty happiness, will not attain great happiness.- Tibetan (on joy and sorrow) |
| The person with burnt fingers asks for tongs. - Samoan (on experience) |
| The pleasure of doing good is the only one that will not wear out. - Chinese (on good and evil) |
| The poor lack much but the greedy more. - Swiss (on greed) |
| The pot calling the kettle black. - unknown |
| The price of your hat is not always the measure of your brain. - African American (on appearance and reality) |
| The proof is in the pudding. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) |
| The prudent embark when the sea is calm---the rash when the sea is stormy. - Maori (on prudence) |
| The rain falls on every roof. - African Proverb |
| The rattan basket criticizes the palm-leafed bag, yet both are full of holes. - Filipino (on criticism) |
| The real art of conversation is not only saying the right thing at the right moment but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the most tempting moment. - unknown (thanks to fullmoonsis) |
| The remedy against bad times is to have patience with them.- Arabic (on patience) |
| The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The right place at the wrong time. - unknown |
| The road to a friend's house is never long. - Danish Proverb |
| The road to hell is paved with good intentions. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The salt of patience seasons everything.- Italian (on patience) |
| The sap rises in the spring. - unknown |
| The second word makes the quarrel. - Japanese Proverb |
| The shoe knows if the stocking has a hole.- Bahamian (on knowledge and justice) |
| The shoemaker's children have no shoes. - unknown |
| The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart. - Moroccan (on books and writers) |
| The sky's the limit. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) |
| The spider and the fly can't make a bargain. - Jamaican (on buying and selling) |
| The squeaky wheel gets the grease. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The stargazer's toe is often stubbed.- Russian (on the human comedy) |
| The sting of a reproach is the truth of it. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith. - Arabic (on faith) |
| The strong should help the weak so that the lives of both shall be made easier. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) |
| The teeth that laugh are also those that bite. - Hausa tribe of West Africa (on appearance and reality) |
| The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones. - Greek (on discretion) |
| The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. - Yiddish (on conscience) |
| The wheel turns slow but it turns sure. - unknown |
| The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human fortunes.- Chinese (on permanence and change) |
| The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can. - French (on wisdom) |
| The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends. - Ben Franklin, thanks to Carl McFarland |
| The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others. - Tibetan (on wisdom) |
| The wolf and the dog agree, at the expense of the goat which together they eat. - Basque (on friends and foes) |
| The work will teach you. - Estonian (on work) |
| The world is the traveler's inn.- Afghan (on journeys) |
| The worst enemy you have is right in your head. - unknown |
| The worst prison is a closed heart. - Pope John Paul II |
| The years teach much which the days never know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
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