Great Throughts Treasury

"It is easy to kindle a fire on a familiar hearth"

"It matters not what is the color of the harp is if the melody is sweet."

"It is natural for the learned to have a library."

"It is not easy to hide from time."

"It is good to look homewards."

"It is not easy to rob a thief."

"It is no deceit to deceive a deceiver."

"It is not the property of God that is disowned."

"It is not with an axe that the violin is played."

"It is one thing to say, another to do."

"Lighting a candle to search for the midday sun."

"Let every boat stand on its own bottom."

"Let all do what noble they can."

"Let him who reflects, remember."

"It will not do to trust to long life."

"Keep securely what you learn."

"Let not your tongue break your neck."

"Let not your tongue cut your throat."

"Let all praise the bridge that carries them over."

"Let everyone stand on his own feet."

"Long consideration is hopefully better than violence."

"Like a hen on a heap."

"Long will the dumb be at the gate of the deaf."

"Loving a woman who scorns you is like licking honey from a thorn."

"Love your neighbor but maintain your hedge."

"Man learns from the cradle to the grave."

"Many a hope in vain."

"Man's mind is a watch that needs winding daily."

"Means that you must bring people together with like mindedness and a common goal."

"Many men can do much good."

"Memory slips, letters remain."

"Milk for a child, meat for a man, beer for the old."

"Never trust overmuch to a new friend or an old enemy."

"More the hurry, more the obstacles."

"No good will come of over sleeping."

"Nearest to the church, furthest from paradise."

"Money is the key that opens all locks."

"Not much good may be expected from oversleeping."

"None are timid but that run away."

"Nothing is so clean as a fish."

"Odious is an orchard without apples."

"Odious is he who commits perjury until no one believes."

"Odious is a scholar without books."

"Of all weights, old age is the heaviest."

"Old age comes not alone."

"Old age comes not on its own."

"Odious is he who threatens everyone and whom no one fears."

"Of a compliment only a third is meant."

"Old age is a hundred disorders."

"Old age will not come alone."