Say something profound?

Question

Or hit me with an ancient proverb

Answer 1

Something profound

History is on the side of the winners




If you can...
Start the day without Caffeine
Get going without pills
Always be cheerful and ignore aches and pains
Resist complaining and boring people with your troubles
Eat the same food every day and be grateful for it
Understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you time
Overlook it when those who you love take it out on you
Take criticism and blame without resentment
Ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him
Resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend
Face the world without lies and deceit
Conquer tension without medical help
Relax without alcohol
Sleep without the aid of drugs
Say honestly that deep in your heart you have no prejudice
Then my friend, you are almost as good as your dog!

Answer 2

Man and woman aren' t each other's half, but whole persons who combine their best assets into a unity.

Love that stops growing isn't love.

What is the purpose of life? Nothing but to live life to the fullest.
All knowledge is based on the assumption that we can really know something, but most of the time we're just skimming the surface.

Answer 3

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Answer 4

I was watching a documentary about the Battle of Ypres which took place during WW1. They were showing a section about the artillery shelling and my then 4 year old daughter asked me, "Daddy, why are they wrecking the World?"

Answer 5

here's my favs:
#1: the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, whilst the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly by one.

#2: education is not the knowledge of facts, but values.

#3: better to expire as a devil in the fire, than an angel in the wings.

#3: the flux capacitor, it's what makes time travel possible.

Answer 6

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare. -Japanese Proverb

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -E.M. Forster

Only some of us learn by other people's mistakes; the rest of us have to be the other people. -Unknown

And one that always makes me laugh.....
Fill what's empty, empty what's full and scratch where it itches. -Duchess of Windsor

Answer 7

Here's MY favourite pseudo-Chinese proverb:-

"Man, with death-watch beetle, in wooden leg, - better off than man with TIN LEG, in thunderstorm!"

Answer 8

Chinese proverb:
how you become invincible?
"a fox never stalks when a farmer prowls"

and

how come masters dont teach their class everything they know?
"a cat taught the tiger everything it knew, one day the tiger turned on the cat. The cat ran up the tree, that's one thing the cat didn't teach the tiger"

Answer 9

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!

Answer 10

A bad neighbour is worse than a cross dog.