Great Throughts Treasury

"If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes."

"Everybody loves a fool, but nobody wants him for a son."

"Without music there is no joy, without joy there is no music."

"A hare is like an ass in the length of its ears, yet it is not its son."

"A talkative bird will not build a nest."

"Earth is but a marketplace; heaven is home."

"A tattler is war than a thief."

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running."

"Everybody loves a lord."

"At the bottom of patience one finds heaven."

"By crawling, a child learns to stand."

"Fear is no obstacle to death."

"If one knows thee not or a blind man scolds thee, do not become angry."

"It takes a whole village to raise a child."

"Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse."

"Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me."

"Sorrow doesn't kill -- reckless joy does."

"The sun is the king of torches."

"What you cannot see during the day, you will not see at night."

"Silence is also speech."

"The teeth that laugh are also those that bite."

"You condemn on hearsay evidence alone, your sins increase."

"When the music changes, so does the dance."

"When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot."

"Your hair can be styled however you like, your future cannot."