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Oct 10, 2007

Everlasting proverbs


- Imagination is more important than knowledge ( Albert Einstein )
- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining ( John F. Kennedy )
- Management is nothing more than motivating other people ( Lee Iacocca )
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises ( Demosthenes )
- The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it ( Pearl Buck )
- Pay peanuts and you get monkeys ( Anonymous )
- Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot ( Josh Billings )
- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit ( Moliere )
- Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer ( Sicilian proverb )
- No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time ( Robert Half )

- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations ( Winston Churchill )
- Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature ( Harold Coffin )
- A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it ( George Moore )
- To a friend's house the road is never long ( Anonymous )
- The best mirror is a friend's eye ( Gaelic proverb )
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life ( Arthur Ashe )
- When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home ( Erma Bombeck )
-If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere ( Frank A. Clark )
- Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet ( African proverb )
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm ( Ralph Waldo Emerson )

- If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it ( Jonathan Winters )
- If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade ( Tom Peters )
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ( Vincent Van Gogh )
- He who never made a mistake never made a discovery ( Samuel Smiles )
- Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected ( Alice James )
- A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have ( Los Angeles Times Syndicate )
- Anything you're good at contributes to happiness ( Bertrand Russell )
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible ( Arthur C. Clarke )
- Art is the signature of civilizations ( Beverly Sills )
- An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day ( Henry David Thoreau )

- Nothing great was ever done without much enduring ( St. Catherine of Siena )
- Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him ( Booker T. Washington )
- Those who trust us, educate us ( George Eliot )
- Many things are lost for want of asking ( English proverb )
- Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose ( Zora Neale Hurston )
- If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe ( Woody Allen )
- The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more ( Jonas Salk, MD )
- Where words fail, music speaks ( Hans Christian Andersen )
- No great artist ever see things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist ( Oscar Wilde )
- Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity ( Oprah Winfrey )

- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower ( Albert Camus )
- Freedom is the oxygen of the soul ( Moshe Dayan )
- Only a fool thinks price and value are the same ( Antonio Machado )
- You can not shake hands with a clenched fist ( Indira Gandhi )
- No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap ( Carrie Snow )
- Speech is silver, silence is golden ( German Proverb )
- I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it ( Frank A. Clark )
- Seven days without laughter makes one weak ( Joel Goodman )
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever ( John Keats )
- Time is the greatest innovator ( Francis Bacon )
- A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits ( President R.M. Nixon )
- The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over ( Peter Guber )
- Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion ( Philip Wylie )
- The naked truth is always better than the best- dressed lie ( Ann Landers ).


--------------------Adonis--------------------

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