Pearls o' Wisdom

Acklow

Acklow

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I really enjoy reading different proverbs from various cultures. There's some pretty good content if you look for it.

So without further ado, here's a bunch:

Chinese Proverbs
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.

Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.

African Proverbs and Sayings
The young can't teach traditions to the old.

A low-class man will just talk; deeds are the hallmark of a gentleman.

English Proverbs
The best things come in small packages.

April showers bring forth May flowers

Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” -Mark Twain

Russian Proverbs
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Eat the food, it'll still go to waste anyways. (More or less sarcasm in this one)


Anyways, post your favorite proverbs or sayings or quotes here.
 
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i'm going to count this
 
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you in the eyes and treats you as an equal.
 
Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Humour is in the eye of the beholder.

Eat, Drink and be merry. For tomorrow we die....
 
If it maybe then it should be!

“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
― Dean Koontz
 
Japanese proverbs:

The nail that sticks out, gets hammered

Those who don't work, shan't eat

The biggest frog in the well knows nothing of the ocean

Idiocy is only curable by death
 
Serious: (I'll edit more in if I can ever remember them)
"The ends justify the means." - Unknown (don't try to tell me that Machiavelli said this because he didn't, it was probably Justinian)

"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain" - Nixon

Humorous:
"They told me 'practice makes perfect', then they told me 'nobody's perfect', so I just stopped practicing." - Steven Wright

Man who walks through airport door sideways is going to bangcock.
Man who keeps his hands in pockets is likely to feel a little cocky

Flounder said:
A fool thinks himself a wise man; a wise man knows himself a fool.
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Shit I literally came up with something really similar to this on my own and I thought I was original

Mark Twain Edit: "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend, inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"
 
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As for a real quote, Tom Clancy put it best.

“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.”
― Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger
 
we do not inherit the world from our parents
we just borrow it from our children.
 
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