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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Daily Quote:
"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else." (Unknown, Source - Time and Time Management)

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Never find fault with the absent.
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
Try and trust will move mountains.
Good advice is beyond all price.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.
Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.
Slow help is no help.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.
The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.
An eagle does not catch flies.
All things are becoming to good people.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Wide will wear, but tight will tear.
Soft words win hard hearts.
Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
Contraries are cured by contraries.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.
A wicked book cannot repent.
People lend only to the rich.
Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
Caution is the parent of safety.
When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.
There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.
It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.
Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.
A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
The gods sell all things at a fair price.
Something you don't want is dear at any price.
Give neither counsel or salt till you are asked for it.
The counsel you would have another keep, first keep yourself.
The best counselors are the dead.
Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Great thieves punish little ones.
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
Curses are like chickens, they always come home.
Custom is a tyrant.
Danger past, God forgotten.
A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.
Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.
Out of debt, out of danger.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Attack is the best form of defense.
First deserve then desire.
Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
Measure three times before you cut once.
Speak the truth and shame the devil.
When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.