Great Throughts Treasury

"It is disgraceful to stumble against the same stone twice."

"It is easier to talk than to hold one’s tongue."

"It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good."

"It's better to have five in your hand, than ten lurking elsewhere."

"It is better to be the best of a low family than the worst of a noble one."

"It's better to take up studying than take up arms."

"It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest."

"It is not possible to step twice into the same river."

"It's better to lose an eye than to get a bad name."

"It's better to tie your donkey than to go searching for it (afterwards)."

"It's the old chicken that has the juice."

"It's the old chicken that makes good broth."

"Kindheartedness and honesty can be expected only from the poor."

"Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself"

"Lazy youth, begging old age."

"Learn to obey before you command."

"Kindness begets kindness."

"Learn to walk before you run."

"Laziness, mother of all evil."

"Liars and thieves are happy only the first year (after the deed)."

"Live today, forget the past."

"Learn a craft and quit it, and when you get poor, use it to earn a living."

"Madness does not go to the mountains, it goes to people."

"Man (does) what he can, and God (does) whatever he wants."

"Many a person will side with somebody when they are in the right"

"Many a pupil has gained more wealth than his master"

"Many people want to do things, don't have the guts, and the scorn someone who does"

"Many have loved treason, none the traitor."

"Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise."

"Many relatives, little by little (on each visit)."

"Many men, many minds."

"Many words are poverty."

"Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad."

"Men prone to tears are good."

"Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder."

"My first wedding makes me proud in front of people."

"My grandmother says something, my ears hear something else."

"My new flour-sifter, where shall I hang you?"

"Mind your clothes so that you can keep half of them."

"No matter how much you wash a black person, you are wasting your soap."

"My home, my little home, a little house of my own."

"No need to teach an eagle to fly"

"Nothing, in excess."

"Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to the child."

"Now you've eaten the bull, will you leave the tail?"

"Now that I live (am alive), I want to see, to wish and own, when I'm gone and you cry for me I won't know it."

"Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults."

"Old age and poverty are wounds that can't be healed."

"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."

"Old age does not come alone."