Great Throughts Treasury

"If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority."

"A good rest is half the job."

"A good rest is half the work."

"A man shows in his youth what he will be in his age."

"A good name reaches far but a bad one reaches farther."

"Condemn a man within earshot; praise him at a distance."

"Don't go selling the hide while the bear remains in the hole."

"Boast to a stranger, complain only to your friends."

"Complain to the one who can help you."

"Don't guild the lily."

"Everyone will sit on a little donkey."

"Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone, a castle."

"He who does not know how to serve cannot know how to command."

"He is not honest who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company the soup is hot."

"He who humbles himself too much gets trampled upon."

"Hours once lost cannot be regained."

"He who is late may gnaw the bones."

"He who works has much; he who saves, still more."

"I am scratching myself where I am itching."

"If you spit against the wind, you spit in your own face."

"If envy would burn, there would be no need for wood."

"It is better to look from the mountain than from the dungeon."

"It is not easy to meet Good, but it is easy to recognize it."

"If ever you should need my life, come and take it."

"Life is like a game in which God shuffles the cards, the devil deals them and we have to play the trumps."

"Man is learning all his life and yet he dies in ignorance."

"No one likes to be the first to step on the ice."

"Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg."

"Patience can break through iron doors."

"One ounce of good luck is better than a ton of brains."

"On your own donkey it is quicker than on someone else's racehorse."

"Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster."

"Tell the truth and run."

"Tell the truth and shame the Devil."

"The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door."

"There is little use building a fence around the garden to keep out the rabbits."

"The eyes see everything but themselves."

"What is impossible to change is best to forget."

"When the big bells ring, the little bells are not heard."

"Where there are no laws, they can?t be broken."

"Where there is no wife, there is no home."

"Who asks at once for a lot, returns home with an empty bag."

"Wine from a pot is better than water from a well."