Thread: A Proverb A Day

Chiri mo tsumoreba yama to naru.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Yanagi ni kaze.
Follow the path of least resistance.

Heso o kamedomo oyobanu.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.


Yowarime ni tatarime
It never rains but it pours

KuRoSaKi do you actually speak Japanese?

Originally Posted by Ariadne

KuRoSaKi do you actually speak Japanese?

A bit not enough to get by.

If you would've spoken Japanese fluently i would've probably driven you crazy asking you a trillion times to teach me.

I wish i could speak Japanese, but unfortunately at the moment i only know random useless sentences like "This is my friend's book" and "I'm cuter than you" which obviously wouldn't get me very far. I tried calligraphy so i do know how some syllables and numbers for instance should be written, but i can't produce anything sensible though.

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. " Aristotle

Originally Posted by Ariadne

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. " Aristotle

I am always at a loss for the right wording when I attempt to explain the understanding of abstract art.
This is a great proverb. So much emphasis is put on our visual perspective that we often loose something in the process. That is unless we realize exactly what Aristotle is saying.

A poem my friend recently gave me.
Appearance and Reality

To appear wise, one must talk;
To be wise, one must listen.

To appear to do good, one must be busy;
To do good, one must know when to stand aside.

To appear to lead, one must put oneself first;
To lead, one must put oneself last.

To appear caring, one must give advice;
to be caring, one must give space.

To appear to love, one must know how to give;
To love, one must know also how to receive.
To appear happy one must smile;
To be happy, one must be free with tears.

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ."

Everything is okay in the end...If it's not okay then it's not the end..

This is from Amethyst Star's Sig.
She may have posted this already.
This topic has become rather large.

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Day and night cannot dwell together. - Duwamish

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind. - Tuscarora

If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.

Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

"Those that lie down with animals, get diseased."

I cannot currently access any internet site, but this forum.

/me throws moniter out window.

"Conventionality is not morality." -Charlotte Bronte

I learned much from my teachers, more from my friends, and the most from my pupils. - Hebrew proverb

A man has two ears and one mouth; he therefore should listen more than he talks. - Danish proverb

"When You Seek to Practice Revenge, DIG Two Graves" Confuscious~

Haven't posted any for days, so here's three to make up for it:

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. " Robert Frost

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." Robert Frost

"The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results." Carl Jung

Trying to convince myself that being so busy is worth it.
"He who is afraid of doing too much, always does too little."
German Proverb

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself,
and dies of all others" - Albert Camus

Advice:

Handle every stressfulsituation like a dog.If you can't eat it or hump it.Piss on it and walk away. - Part of an email I received.

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

Advice:

Handle every stressfulsituation like a dog.If you can't eat it or hump it.Piss on it and walk away. - Part of an email I received.

Well Oneironaught, that does simplify things. My dog does seem more happy than I.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.-- John Quincy Adams

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
--B. F. Skinner,
psychologist, inventor and author

"Judge ye not so that ye may not be judged." - Jesus

A person is tallest when stooping to help another - Taken from Highland Electrix

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

Advice:

Handle every stressfulsituation like a dog.If you can't eat it or hump it.Piss on it and walk away. .

Hilarious.

"Wit is educated insolence" Aristotle

An old friend is much better than two new ones.

"This way up." ~ Halo trilogy, printed clearly on all rocket launchers.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
--Winston Churchill,
British prime minister

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
--Margaret Fuller,
journalist and women's rights advocate

Man, This (NFIB), The Nataonal Federation For Independent Business. Emails me these "smart Briefs", which include at the end, some pretty good quotes.

"ART IS ONE OF THE
FEW THINGS IN
TODAY'S WORLD
THAT IS COMPLETELY
PERSONAL AND
ORIGINAL AND
EXPRESSES WHAT A
PERSON IS. IT CAN
INSPIRE FEELING,
EXPRESSION AND
PASSION IN
OTHERS. THAT'S
THE INTRINSIC
VALUE OF ART."

The best water color artist in the world.