Thread: A Proverb A Day

Man who fish in other man's well likely to catch crabs.

Also, a closed port attracts no sea men.

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley

"Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again."

...Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today...

...The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death...

-PF

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one"

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races."
--Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens

"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."

--Louis Pasteur,
French scientist

"I may look lazy but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy."

Originally Posted by tommo

"I may look lazy but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy."

^_^


"Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind."
--Hamilton Wright Mabie,

"If you don't like the weather in Cincinnati, wait 5 minutes" -Mark Twain

Design is people. ~ Jane Jacobs

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
-William Blake

You read my mind, I was just looking for this and then it popped up

"Wag more, Bark Less" - bumper sticker I saw on my way to work from a fellow dog lover

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."
-John Donne

The end has not yet been written. Atrus, ending quote of his book (MYST)

"give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he eats for a life time"

I don't know who originally said it haha.

Originally Posted by hisnameistyler

"give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he eats for a life time"

I don't know who originally said it haha.

I think it's a buddhist proverb.

What about this one:

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

~ Interwebz

Actually, that's from Terry Pratchett, Specialis.

"I am a famous trampolineer, body-builder and elephant-lifter, but I have never experienced pancakes."

- John "No Pancakes" Baggins

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

I think it's a buddhist proverb.

Wasn't it jesus?....
...seriously lol

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

What about this one:

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

~ Interwebz

HAHA mean as fuck. They try to make a statement and people just make jokes about it lol

Originally Posted by Kiza

Actually, that's from Terry Pratchett, Specialis.

I have searched again, I have multiple sources saying it originated as chinese/buddhist proverb.

Originally Posted by tommo

Wasn't it jesus?....
...seriously lol

I thought so too at first, I couldn't find any souces on the net saying that. But I remember something similar from the Bible. I searched the internet bible for the sentence, couldn't find it.

"Never hit a man with glasses--hit him with something much bigger and heavier."

"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

-James Allen

"It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it."

-Geoffrey F. Albert

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
--William James

I don't like it when good threads die. -Me

I once constantly asked a guru, a magistrate, a zen master, a lord of knowledge what I should do. I phrased it in thousands of ways, often not even audiably, and out of all his answers, the only one that ever came close to being a direct anser, was 'Be.'

be

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. -Poe