Proverbs and Catchy Sayings!

[Sam]

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

--Vincent Van Gogh

[Sam]

Only if we understand, can we care.
Only if we care, will we help.
Only if we help shall all be saved.

-Jane Goodall

[anirbas]

"This I learned from the shadow
of a tree,
That to and fro did sway against
a wall:
our shadow-selves, our influence,
may fall
Where we ourselves can never be."

~Anna E. Hamilton

[anirbas]

"God bless the broken road that led me straight to you..."

~line from a Rascal Flatts song.

[Sam]

The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own.
Live, love, toil with a will.
Place no faith in time.
For the clock may soon be still

Author Unknown

[Sam]

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

-Dave Gardner

[Sam]

I live and love in God’s peculiar light.


-Michaelangelo

[Sam]

I want to write, but more than that I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried in my heart.

-Anne Frank

[glenn]

"I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...."

~~Annie Dillard

[glenn]

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

~~Annie Dillard

[Sam]

WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with
great pleasure." -- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to
the dictionary." -- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -- Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved
of it." -- Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -- Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring
a friend... If you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

...followed by Churchill's response: "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend
second, if there is one." -- Winston Churchill

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -- Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." -- John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." -- Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." -- Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." -- Paul Keating

"He had delusions of adequacy." -- Walter Kerr

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on
it?" -- Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -- Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde

Lady Astor once remarked to Winston Churchill at a Dinner Party, "Winston,
if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!"
Winston replied, "Madam if I were your husband I would drink it!"
Lady Astor looked at Churchill and said, "Sir, you are drunk!" He
replied, "And Madam, you are ugly. At least in the morning I'll be sober."

[anirbas]

ggglgggl...gotta love that last one about Churchill and Lady Astor...
thanks for sharing, Sammikins...got more?

[anirbas]

oh, my stars, SAmmy...here's a catchy saying Ivy showed me on one of her friend's myspace page, earlier that had me rofl laughing til I had tears in my eyes, literally...

I don't know that we could call it proverb...but, I do think it qualifies as a catchy saying...ggglgggl...here goes...

"Call me a bitch again and I'll pee on your leg!"

heheheheheheheheehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehaha...

[glenn]

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

~~Soren Kierkegaard

[DavidMc]

It's good to be appreciated... it's even better to be remunerated

[Sam]

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

--W.M. Lewis

[glenn]

Some Native American proverbs I came across:

Things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
~~Chief Seattle


We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.
~~Shawnee proverb


Our first teacher is our own heart.
~~Cheyenne proverb


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
~~Blackfoot proverb


We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
~~Dakota proverb


Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
~~Native American proverb

[Bronwyn]

Such good picks of catchy sayings, I'm too awed to add to this list (just yet) by ALL who have posted here.
I'm looking at Wittgenstein's words to maybe find something interesting.

Brave and dear Glenn, you have an amazing ability to find some of the best "sayings" I have ever seen. Lots of quality, and I learn about you by what you share. Thanks for taking the time to share what you see. I enjoy reading them and taking them in.

[glenn]

Well thank you, Bronwyn.

I found those on a really cool website that compiled proverbs and "wisdom sayings" from cultures around the world. And drat it all, I forgot to make a note of the web address. I'll have to see if I can find it again.

[Sam]

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)

[Sam]

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

--Charles Allen

[Sam]

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.


-Charles Spurgeon

[Sam]

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

--Mark Twain

[phantasm]

"It changed the future and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future, or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we don’t...who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings... even for people like us... "


From a TV show Babylon 5
episode: "Sleeping in Light"

[Sam]

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

--Socrates

[Sam]

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

--Charlie Chaplin

[Sam]

All around the circle of the sky I hear the Spirit's voice.

-Native American Saying

[Sam]

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Sam]

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

-Victor Hugo

[Sam]

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

--Thornton Wilder