Great Throughts Treasury

"Without work there won't be any bread in your mouth."

"Woe to the house where the weasel is in the eggs and the dog sleeps soundly."

"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of. But do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."

"Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again."

"You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being to trusting."

"You can fly, but that cocoon has to go."

"You become whom you befriend."

"You can't heal stubbornness."

"You can't achieve the impossible unless you attempt the absurd."

"You can wait till the cows come home."

"You can't stop the world, why let it stop you?"

"You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

"You never want the one you can afford."

"You will see it as surely as a pig will see the sky (pigs cannot look up)."

"You live and learn. Or you don't live long."

"You will see something as surely as a pig will see Heaven."