Great Throughts Treasury

"Man can adjust to anything except not eating."

"Marriage and shroud, from heaven will come."

"Man does not live by bread alone."

"Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy."

"Men meet, only mountains do not."

"Mind your own business."

"Money makes the world go 'round."

"Money buys only what is cheap."

"Necessity is mother of every invention."

"Never ask God to give you anything; ask Him to put you where things are."

"Never confuse gratitude with love."

"No one can bind himself to perform the impossible."

"No man's a prophet in his own land."

"Necessity is a great teacher."

"No one trips with the same stone twice."

"Not so much that it burns the saint, nor so little that it doesn't illuminate him."

"Nothing much gets done on a Monday."

"Of doctor and poet, musician and madman, we each have a trace."

"Old debts are not paid, and new ones are left to get old."

"No one knows for whom they work."

"No road is safer than the one just robbed."

"Nobody leaves this world alive."

"Nobody lives in another person's head."

"Nobody wants to buy a sleeping horse."

"Not all that glitters is gold."

"Once the dog's dead, the rabies end."

"One man driven by distress does as much as thirty."

"One must learn how to lose before learning how to play."

"One needn't study to become a fool."

"Pay what you owe and you will know what you are worth."

"Parrots are green everywhere; the idiot loses wherever he is."

"One timely shout is better than constant talk."

"One string is good enough to a good musician."

"Only men with thick lips should smoke a cigar."

"Only the pallbearers know the weight of the dead."

"Respect for the rights of others is peace."

"Practice makes perfect."

"Pray indeed, but get to work."

"Revenge is a dish that tastes better cold."

"Rocking chairs make long-tailed cats uneasy."

"Save your advice for those who ask for it."

"Put a good face on a bad situation."

"Regarding pigs, it?s all [about the] money, and regarding money, all are pigs."

"Since excuses were invented, no one is ever in the wrong."

"Shrimp that sleeps is carried by the tide."

"Sorrow also sings, when it runs to deep to cry."

"Talking about bulls is not the same as facing them in the ring."

"Tell me what you want to buy and I will tell you what you are."

"Speak plain?call bread bread, and wine wine."

"Tell me who your friends are and I?ll tell you who you are."