"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo)

"Educate a boy, and your educate and individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
African proverb via Greg Mortensen "
— Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time)

"Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear."
— Laozi

"If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...""
— Japanese Proverb [["Lilies" Words and Music: Annie Walker]]

"A book is a garden carried in one's pocket."
— Chinese Proverb

"Talk doesn't cook rice."
— Chinese proverb

"It's always darkest before the dawn. "
— Proverbs: Allen P. Ross

"Get down on your knees and thank God you're still on your feet."
— Irish proverb

"He who pursues two hares catches neither."
— Japanese proverb

"Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters."
— African proverb

"When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at the giver."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi (The Masnavi. Book II: Translated for the First Time from the Persian into Prose. Volume 1. Translation)

"Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk."
— Michael Crichton (Eaters of the Dead)

"Lessons hard to learn are sweet to know."
— Japanese Proverb

"A light purse makes a heavy heart."
— Scottish Proverb

"Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk."
— — Viking proverb

"A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute."
— W. Somerset Maugham (The Painted Veil)

"Between two stools you fall to the floor."
— American proverb

"Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous."
— Laura Fitzgerald (Veil of Roses)

"In our lives, we have two or three opportunities to be a hero, but almost everyday, we have the opportunity not to be a coward."
— Spanish Provberb

"When the axe comes into the woods, the trees think, "At least the handle is one of ours.""
— Turkish proverb

"One with good luck in their career may have none in love.
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— Chinese Proverb

"One doesn't give chase to two large black monkeys at once."
— African proverb

""You cannot count on the man who made the mess to clean clean it up""
— Native American Proverb

""god gives but does not share" --haitian proverb"
— Tracy Kidder

"Love is like war: easy to begin. hard to end."
— Proverb

""Alah bisa karena biasa."

Practise makes perfect.
Meaning: If we practice enough, we can do really well.
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— not now

"“May you live a thousand years, and I, a thousand less one day; that I might never know the world without you.”"
— N/A.

"He who wishes harm to others shall himself suffer misfortune.

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— unsure

"Don't hold a dagger in your heart."
— Chinese proverb

"A dream which has not been interpreted is like a letter unread."
— Nathaniel Ausubel

"♣ Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.
♣ What’s got badly, goes badly.
♣ He who can follow his own will is a king.
♣ Pity him who makes his opinion a certainty.
♣ A little help is better than a great deal of pity.
♣ Unwillingness easily finds an excuse.
♣ Forsake not a friend of many years for an acquaintance of a day.
♣ Falling is easier than rising.
♣ Have sense, patience, and self-restraint and no mischief shall come.
♣ A foot a rest meets nothing.
♣ True greatness knows gentleness.
♣ There is no joy without affliction."
— Andrews & McMeel

"Once bitten by a snake, forever nervous at the sight of a coiled cord. "
— Chinese Proverb

"Love is as strong as death, yet infidelity taketh away the heart."
— Alton Hayes