I've always admired people that have reduced much wisdom to few words. It would be interesting sharing these old saws, the ones we found profound and have never forgotten. Please do not search the net unless your memory needs a little 'tweaking', and if you find a posting with which you disagree, simply post another proverb as a counterpoint. No need to parse each sentence or word. Let it stand alone. Let's try to keep this thread tidy. Thx

Here's my first contribution and one of my favorites, an ancient Chinese proverb:

I hear.....and I forget
I see......and I remember
I do.......and I understand

I came,
I saw,
I partied.

Time heals all Wounds...
Time wounds all Heels....

That's a dandy, Theresa....and very true! lol.

Another:

Give a man a fish, you'll feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, you'll feed him for a lifetime.

Or....

Teach a man to fish, and he'll sit in a boat all day and drink beer. ;-)

"BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO IS TOO BUSY TO WORRY IN THE DAYTIME AND TOO TIRED TO LIE AWAKE AT NIGHT"------author unknown------

I have this on a little placard out in the garage now. It has been with me everywhere I lived and/or at every place I worked for over 40 years!
Seems tho it has cursed me personally with its truth! Not a bad thing I guess.

Russell,
It appears we are creatures sharing the same habit.
I, too, have a favorite framed, and had it posted in my office for years:

"Rank/position is given us to better serve those above and beneath us;
not as a license to practice our idiosyncrasies."

" A man with an argument, is at the mercy of a man with an experience."

A MAN WHO HAS COMMITTED A MISTAKE AND DOESN’T CORRECT IT IS COMMITTING ANOTHER MISTAKE.

Monkey see, Monkey do.

Women, can't live with 'em........Anyone got a good boat for sale?

Loose Lips Sinks Ships

Birds of a feather flock together.

Measure twice, cut once.(Boy have I done my share of mis-measureing in my life!)

It is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

Another good one:

People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage others.

Not really a proverb but a Plumbing adage..."If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down."

There are two kinds of people in life: people who like their jobs, and people who don't work here anymore.

The measure of success in life is not where you are, but from where you started.

old plumbing saying " hots on the left, colds on the right, and payday is Friday."

I heard it was, 'Hot on the Left, Cold on the Right, S%#@ runs down hill!... Congratulations! Your a Plumber'!

Oops I meant 'You're' not 'your'

Theresa, I was just being polite and knew that the other plumbers would know the other part of the saying.

"If you are lucky enough to live in the mountains---you are lucky enough!"

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer,--- It sings because it has a song!"

"There's a great deal of difference between knowing and understanding. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it!"
Charles F. Kettering

"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven"

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains"

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein

"The woods would be silent if no birds sang except those that sang best!"

Another from Albert Einstein:

Knowledge humbles a person.

Walk softly and carry a big stick. -Teddy Roosevelt

Smart people learn from their mistakes;
wise people from the mistakes of others.

"Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse." Cowboy proverb

You can always tell a Finn. But you can't tell um much.

When you lay your head upon a pillow and breath the very last breath of your life, At that moment, Everything you own,-- property, money, assests, stocks, accounts etc. belongs to someone else! But EVERYTHING you've ever done, said, or stood for, is yours for eternity ! !

Wet oars doesn't necessarily mean that the boat has been moving.

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to become slaves of the things we do like.

Some buy things they don't need.....
with money they don't have.....
to impress others who don't care.

Here are two Finnish proverbs and their English translations:

"Ei oppi ojaan kaada eika taito ole taakaksi."
Education is not wasted and acquired skills are not a burden.

"Minka nuorena oppii sen vanhana taitaa."
What is learned in your youth is remembered later.

You cannot stop war by hating war, but by loving peace.--Seth

Slow and steady wins the race.

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity!"

Sure there is Russ, Curiosity killed the cat.

An old German proverb says, "A great war leaves a country with three armies-an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves."

"Your poor judgement does not constitute an emergency for me"

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." (Disraeli)

"Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do. Not that the nature of the thing has changed, but the power to do has increased." In other words, "Practice makes perfect."

"Empathy is your pain in my heart."

This new topic is great!!

"Truth is something stranger than fiction----
but not as popular!"

"Blunt words often have sharp edges"

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will be ruled by those who don't."

One man's trash is another's treasure.

Truer words were never spoken,
that true words leave hearts broken.
Truth is only for the wise,
lovers ought to stick to lies.

----------ANYWAY------

People are unreasonable, illogical and self centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful you win false friends. Be successful anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. People favor underdogs but for only top days. Fight for some underdog anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you get kicked in the teeth!
Give the world the best you've got--ANYWAY!

(Amen) Based on a work of Mother Teresa

"Country Living isn't Always Easy!
There is Too Much Work And Too Little Money!"

Why is there never enough time to do it right , but always enough time to do it over ?

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get!
Mr. Deb

violence breeds violence

The most UNTRUE proverb:

Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

"A man convinced against his will, remains unconvinced ever still"!
(AMEN!)

"The man with one eye .) is King in the land of the blind!"

This one is a little more modern;
Turn your hat around,
Pull your pants up,
And get a job!
Mr. Deb

To err is human To forgive is against company policy

"Girls can never change their nature, That is quite beyond their reach

Once a girl has been a Lemon, She can never be a Peach

But the law of compensation is what I like to preach---

You can always squeeze a Lemon, But just try to squeeze a Peach!"

There are two spiritual dangers in NOT owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

When you do the things
you have to do
when you have to do them,
the day will come
when you can do the things
you want to do
when you want to do them.

you can't teach an old dog new tricks

-----"Life is a Gift!----Unwrap it!"-------

(in other words--lighten up!)

Why is there never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over ?

Don't bark up the wrong tree.. you may not like what you find.

There's no point crying over spilled milk.

Perhaps the following proverb relates to not crying over spilled milk in some way:
"As the churning of cream yields butter, and a blow to the nose causes bleeding, so anger causes quarrels."
(Proverbs 30:33)

This very profound one seems to be the "story of my life" >>>

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, doing the impossible for the ungrateful, Have been doing so much for so many, for so long, with so little, We are now qualified to do almost anything with nothing" ! !

On having responsibility without authority:

It's not my job to drive the train
nor even ring the bell, but let the
darn thing jump the tracks and see
who catches ••••.

A recurring theme of this site seems to be "advice". Following are some sayings about advice:

"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted." (Aeschylus)

"Another good bit of advice is never start anything you can't stop." (Anon.)

"A good scare will often help a man more than good advice." (Anon.)

The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

Russemmons....your saying could easily be the motto for state workers.

Here's one for those who can't live with or live without their significant other:

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you were here.

one man's ceiling is another man's floor.

My maternal grandmother had it all covered....
On the one hand "Every stitch you take on a Sunday you will have to remove with your nose in ****"
And on the other hand "The better the day, the better the deed"
Guess it just depended on what her mood was on any given Sunday! :)

One man's calling is another man's hobby.

"Science can change the compound states of matter easier than it can change its mind!"

Calvin Miller

If your only tool is a hammer, you will see every problem as the nail.

I'm not a fast worker,
I'm not a slow worker,
I guess that just means I'm a half fast worker.
Mr. Deb

"Work brings profit; talk brings poverty."
Proverbs 14:23

The harder and smarter I work, the luckier I get.

War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left!

(Chinese proverb)

"When you dance, you pay the fiddler"

"If you lay down with dogs, you sleep with dogs"

"He gives double who gives unasked"

"To those who have been given much, much will be required"

"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven!"

(all Arab proverbs)

The pickle boat waits for no one. Katherine Stanton Du Long to Mikie when he wanted to sleep a little longer.
If you sleep with dogs, don't be surprised if you wake up with fleas.

It is, what it is.

Call on the Lord, but paddle away from the rocks.

.....Native-American proverb

Yesterday is History.
Tomorrow is a Mystery.
Today is a Gift.
That's why it's called the Present.

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorius hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almhouse as brightly as from the rich mans' abode!
>>>>>Henry David Thoreau

Political proverb: "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat."

The "pun" is mightier than the sword.

It is a shame stupidity is not painful!

Ignorance (stupidity?): "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
(Disraeli)

Matt: Very good! Definition of ignorance: When one has not been exposed to certain knowledge, no reason to have learned, innocent of the knowledge but capable and willing to learn if taught.
Stupidity on the other hand is when one is either incapable of learning or cares not or will not assimilate what they are taught. I believe Disraeli's words apply to both!

"You are what your deep driving desire is, As your desire is, so is your will, As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny."

B.Upanishad

To give is to give, to take back is to steal

A fault acknowledged is halfway forgiven

"if you open a shop, you must like to smile" Chinese proverb

'Better to mend fish net, than stand on bank and pray for fish. Chinese proverb

Even a 1000 mile journey begins with a first step

Gold is precious, but not worth one old friend.

When a fellow needs a friend he often makes a mistake and gets a wife.

A friend married is a friend lost. (Ibsen)

A friend in need is a friend to avoid.

The Best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the 2nd Best time is Today.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
(Shakespeare)

If you are in a hurry, you may never get there. (Chinese Proverb)

Regarding being in a hurry:

A minute lost at a railroad crossing might save all the rest of your life. (Anon.)

Lost time is never found. (Anon.)

'You Cannot Do a Kindness Too Soon, For You Never Know How Soon, It will be Too Late' Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am where I am,
I know where I could have been, had I done, what I did not do.

Tell me friend, what I can do today, to be, where I want to be,----Tomorrow!"

Forget Yesterday!

Sigrad

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race!"

H. G. Wells

Regarding kindness:

"What we wish the neighbors would learn is that kind hearts are better than their loud music."

I need to play some loud music... heehee Cause i feel a need to shake up the old place :P I now have a laptop with wireless for the weekends..... Talk about freedom, I have been liberated Yippee!!

'Give me Liberty or give me Death'

"The fate of all mankind, I fear, is in the hands of fools!"

King Crimson

"The Frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives!"

Chinese Proverb

" God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference!"

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

-- Carl Sandberg

According to an Arabic proverb, life is composed of two parts; that which is past-a dream, and that which is to come-a wish.

Life and hash are what you make them.

" We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, We borrow it from our children!"

Native American Proverb

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” Proverbs 27:6

"If your enemy is hungry, give him food! If he is thirsty, give him something to drink! This will make him ashamed of himself, and God will reward you." Proverbs 26: 21,22.

I doesn't seem like this happens very often in today's world.

Why worry about tomorrow, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

'It seems to me that there are really only a few things in life that truly matter; Love. Nature. Hope. To Love those around us. To seek comfort amid Nature. To live in constant Hope'. (Marie Antoinette)

"When in ••••, just keep going."

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, yell and shout!"

(The red dots indicate a supposedly very hot place for the misbehaved)

"The man that lives only by hope will die with despair." (Anon.)

Following is an interesting counterpoint:

"Hope is like the cork [float] to the net, which keeps the soul from sinking in despair." (Bishop Watson)

Excerpt from the movie Big Fish.. 'Never speak about Religion or Politics... you never know who'll you'll offend'

More about hope:

"Hope is the poor man's bread." (George Herbert)

"Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears." (Walter Scott)

Old Adage...."He that is born with Everything, Values Nothing, but He that is Born with Nothing Values Everything."

Chinese Lunch Fortune: To be 80 Years Young much more cheerful and hopeful than 40 Years Old.

Re politics: "A politician is a man who divides his time between running for office and running for cover." (Anon.)

Re religion: "Very often a person who boasts of having no religious prejudice has no religion either." (Anon.)

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire

Two wrongs don't make a right.
But three lefts do.

You don't need eyes to have a vision!" Caroline Casey

King James Bible
'Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these'.

Deb, whose quote is that??

Don't know who gets the credit for it, FJL. Just a song lyric I heard years ago.
Mr. Deb

Willie Nelson

Hi Mikie. Impressed. What song?

Danbury will have to get out the old 33s and find it. Don't hold your breath till I do. Don't remember the rest of the song. I think it is an old one of his.

"The old songs are best because nobody sings them any more." (Anon.)

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." (Victor Hugo)

Ernest Hemingway 'For Whom the Bells Tolls"

"Because thou art a miracle of deafness.... It is not that thou art stupid. Thou art simply deaf. One who is deaf cannot hear music. Neither can he hear the radio. So he might say, never having heard them, that such things do not exist."

"Music is the medicine of a breaking heart." (A. Hunt). Perhaps this is better said as "Music is medicine for a broken heart"?

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life." (Auerbach)

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve (1670–1729)

"Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck leads the flock to fly and follow."

Chinese Proverb

O wad some Power the giftie gie us,
To see oursels as ithers see us!

Translation:O would some Power the gift to give us, To see ourselves as others see us!
Robert Burns

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast or beast?
Following is a quote by Bramston:

""Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,"
And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.""

Click: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, quote [emphasis added]:

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Quote:

Author: William Congreve
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.

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Quote:

Author: James Bramston
What ’s not devoured by Time’s devouring hand?
Where ’s Troy, and where ’s the Maypole in the Strand?
Art of Politics.

Author: James Bramston
But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,
When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense:
“I hear a lion in the lobby roar;
Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door
And keep him there, or shall we let him in
To try if we can turn him out again
Art of Politics.

Author: James Bramston
So Britain’s monarch once uncovered sat,
While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.
Man of Taste.

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James Bramston is the same Bramston whom I quoted previously. The source is a public speaker's deskbook, it contains some less popular quotations than is found in Bartlett's.

A good friend is like a good bra---Hard to find, supportive, comfortable
Always lifts you up
Never lets you down or leave you hanging
And is always close to your heart! !

Use soft words and hard arguments. English Proverb

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. (Socrates)

A book holds a house of gold.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

Chinese Proverb(s)

"Great Spirits have Always Encountered Violent Opposition from Mediocre Minds" Albert Einstein

Re Books: "A few books, well studied and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth."
Osborne

The Sage gives so that he will receive more. Tao

In one of the stars I shall be living,
In one of them I shall be laughing,
And so I will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night.

-the little prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Bravery alone is never enough to win your redemption"

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10)

Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.

(anonymous)

When considering the present financial crisis in the United States, brought on by a greed-driven economy and reckless govenment spending, the following seems appropriate.

"Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse."

(Nero's adviser Seneca, as quoted in the current issue of Time magazine.)

Self help must precede help from others. Even for making certain help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Morarji Desai

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to Evil"

>>>>>Thomas Mann

While properly Relaxing, ----The Hardest Thing about doing nothing, is knowing when you are Through"

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.."The Hardest Thing about doing nothing, is knowing when you are Through"...

That hit my funnybone, Russ. Thx. LOL!

My late friend and neighbor used to comment on his lack of industry after retirement: "Every now and then I get the urge to do something productive, but if I lie down for 20 minutes or so the feeling passes." :-)

'The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend" William Robertson Davies

A new broom sweeps the floor quite well, but the old broom knows the corners.

Never mess up an apology with an excuse

the race is not given to the strong or swift but to those who can endure to the end

ECCLESIASTES 9:11

Ve grow too old too soon and smart too late!

old German proverb

Proverbs 29:2>>>>>>

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan" ! !

It's okay to be Nobody. Nobody's Perfect

The main difference between a wise man and a fool is that a fool's mistakes never teach him anything. (Anon.)

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.

Silence is Golden, but my eyes still see.

"Be kinder than necessary for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle"

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
Abraham Lincoln

"Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing until it is spread around."

This statement seems to apply to the current financial crisis in the United States and other countries. It was made by Barbra Streisand in her role as a matchmaker in the movie "Hello Dolly".

Maybe Bab's S. will invite us to her house for a jammie party the next time we are in CA.

"I don't know why there should be any question about capital punishment,---- I think everyone in the capital should be punished!"

Goldie Hawn

"Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat." (Richard Nixon??? L. B. Johnson???)

"Snowflakes are one of Nature's most Fragile things, but look at what they can do when the Stick Together' .....Unknown

You'll be unhappy to know it is going up^ to 81º here today.

The Music is the shining path over which the Poet travels, to bring his song to the world. Lotte Lehmann

Since GOD watches over children and fools and I am a little of both, I have it covered.

'I think to die would be a very big adventure' Peter Pan

When all you have is a Hammer everything looks like a Nail.... Chinese Fortune Cookie

Friends are like ships in the sea
They meet only to part again.

You can deprive the body, but the soul needs chocolate! (r)

Romani Ite Domum. "Life of Brian" 1979

"Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate." F. M. Knowles

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back or a fool from any side.
Proverbs from the Yiddish* Culture

'At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.'
Natalie Wood

No country can be described as free- but each has different degrees of bondage.

Agatha Christie "Appointment with Death" 1938

"Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves."
(Anon.)

"For many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, three or more is a congress." John Adams

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave"

Native American Proverb

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Matthew 6:26
"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

Food for thought since the Cam Note picture was about birds. TRB

"The man takes a drink,
the drink takes a drink,
the drink takes the man."

"As the old cock crows,
the young cock learns."

From a rerun of the TV show "Frazier".

"Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity"
Thomas Jefferson

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass" "The old have reminiscenes of what never happened"

Hector Hugh Munro 1870-1916

"A woman is like a tea bag-you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Three rings of marriage: Engagement ring, wedding ring, suffering.

In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

This line is from a poem, “Locksley Hall,” by Lord Alfred Tennyson.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

"The Secret of Health for both Mind and Body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the Present moment wisely and earnestly"

Buddha

"Even at the Darkest Moment,
Love and Hope are always Possible"

An old Finnish proverb states: "Valkeus naura pimeyden toille".
Translated to English: "Daylight laughs at the work of darkness".

Evening promises are like butter: morning comes, and it's all melted.

Proverbs from Morocco

Another old Finnish proverb: "Kun paiva tulee, neuvo tulee."
Translated to English: "When day dawns, a way will come".
This proverb has much meaning when a person is confronted with a difficult problem.

You keepen' lookin' da Percolater see's never gonna go blup blup.

Vat Heike gonna kettit, I gonna kettit too.


Someting I read

Following is an old Finnish proverb similar to what Rowdy posted.

"Odottvan aika on pitkaa".
Translated to English: "Time drags for him who waits", or "a watched pot never boils".

Matt Karhu (Matt_k):
"Odottvan aika on pitkaa."
I'm not really sure about this, but could that perhaps be "Odottavan aika on pitkää" instead?

FRNash: Thanks for pointing out what might be a typo in the source for this quotation.

Matt/FRNash,

From a very good source:

"Odottavan aika on pitkä" (only one ä, eh)

"Kiitoksia vain paljon," Heikki (Heikki)!

I have also seen:
pitkää = long ?
pitkä = prolonged ?

See, I really should have learned Finnish when I was a young 'un. After about eight years of age learning a new language gets more difficult each year.

(Of course my folks yoosta switch to Finnish when they wanted to keep me out of the conversation. So you know exactly which bits I learned!)

FRNash,
Long? Prolonged? Tammed if I know. My source is an 88 yr young retired school teacher who spoke Finnish at home and learned English in school at National Mine, MI. He still types with all fingers and corresponds with relatives in Finland on a regular basis. Yumpin' yimminy, what a guy!

Wag more, Bark less.

Billboard on Vet's Office

'The Road to *H*E*L*L is paved with good intentions."

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." Babe Ruth

'A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.'

Winston Churchill

John Adams apparently was a very wise man. The following words are attributed to him:

"For many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

'Anger is many times more hurtful than the injury that caused it' Ben Franklin

Following is a saying that indicates how practical Finns can be and perhaps their droll sense of humor.

"Ei kuoleelle kannata veisata." In English this translates to, "It's useless to sing to the dead."

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Kahlil Gibran

Following is a rather perverse quotation by Evelyn (Charlie and Alan's mother) on the TV show Two-and-a-half Men.

"I think God gave us children so death won't come as a disappointment."

'A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.'


Thomas Jefferson

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono

The following quotations by Emerson still seem to make sense in some manner.

"The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat."

"The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed."

"Banking Establishments are more dangerous then standing Armys"

Thomas Jefferson

Sign in workplace:
THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE MORALE IMPROVES.

I don't wanna work.. I just wanna bang on the drum all day!

ARTIST: Todd Rundgren
TITLE: Bang the Drum All Day
Lyrics and Chords

Happy Labor day everyone!

"Everyone in this world has a burden to carry. The burden is not important. It is how you carry it!"

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Kahlil Gibran

But those who wait on the Lord will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.

Isaiah 40:31

"It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles in the world, it's the troubles that cause the rebels"

Carl Oglesby, 1965

Greeting Card:
woman: well, here we are another year.
man: sure, I could go for a cold beer!
( moral: Listening and Understanding goes a long way )

God's work is not always done in a thunderstorm with lightning bolts.... but slowly like in a drizzleing rain.

Whenever you are afraid to change think about the beauty of Autumn

Russian Proverb
'You go to Heaven for the weather, and H*E*L*L for the company.'

Theresa, you made my day. Needed a laugh.

"Live in each season as it passes, Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each"

Henry David Thoreau

'For hate is never conquered by hate. Hate is conquered by Love'
Chinese fortune cookie

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"

Albert Einstein

"Relish love in your old age. Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating".

~Leo Buscaglia

Surely as water flows into the sea, somethings are meant to be.

"Lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them And the angel said unto them, 'Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger'"
- Bible: Luke (2:9-12)

" I will take the time, I have left to live, and I will give it all that I have left to give, I will live my days, for my fellow men, And I live in Praise of that moment when, I was able to begin again. I will start anew I will make amends. And I will make quite certain that the story ends, on a note of Hope, on a strong Amen, and I thank the World, and remember when, I was able to begin again!" Ebenezer Scrooge from The musical Scrooge (music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.)

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water..
Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.'I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.'

The old woman smiled, 'Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?'

'That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.'

For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.'

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

SO, to all of my cracked pot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

Thanks so much Theresa for the above one!
Especially meaningful!

Life may not be the party we hoped for.
But while we are here we should dance!

When you love someone it's not how you feel about them that is inportant,it's how you make them feel about their self that matters.

Good ones, both Russ AND David....thanks!

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran

> I'm not really sure about this, but could that
> perhaps be "Odottavan aika on pitkää" instead?

Odottavan aika on pitkä - Literally "The time is long for one who waits" (or even more strictly "The time of one who waits is long").

The difference is that pitkä is definite and pitkää is indefinite 'long'. Odottavan aika on pitkää would translate literally as "Time is long for one who waits". Not a big deal really... =)

Quote's from my Brother David;

"If worms had mchine guns, there would be no birds"

-and-

"How long is a Submarine? True -or- False


PT USA :)