We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. ~Baba Ram Dass
I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
There's more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu
By daily dying I have come to be. ~Theodore Roethke
There are some remedies worse than the disease. ~Publilius Syrus
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. ~William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ~John L. McClenahan
What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle,Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 1
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. ~Soren Kierkegaard
One man's quiet is another man's din. ~Carrie Latet
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ~Henry David Thoreau
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Louis Bergson
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ~Ram Dass
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. ~Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ~John Burroughs
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. ~John Lancaster Spalding
The map is not the territory. ~Alfred Korzybski
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? ~Antonio Porchia,Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. ~Robert Brault
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller
The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber
It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. ~Chang Ch'ao
You cannot step into the same river twice. ~Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius,Lives
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. ~Alexander Jodorowsky
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? ~George Gordon, Lord Byron,Child Harold's Pilgrimage
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ~Hippocrates,Aphorisms
Seeking is not always the way to find. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. ~Lewis Carroll,Through the Looking-Glass, 1872
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~Author Unknown
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. ~Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies
Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. ~S.A. Sachs
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ~Thomas Carlyle
You can see a lot by just looking. ~Yogi Berra, also often quoted as "You can observe a lot by just looking." (original wording as yet unverified)
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ~Leo Rosten
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. ~Robert Brault
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~Dr Seuss
Who depends on another man's table often dines late. ~John Ray
[T]hings are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea
You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to. ~Jeb Dickerson
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. ~William Hazlitt,Characteristics, 1823
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. ~Astrid Alauda
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~Evelyn Waugh
It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. ~Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, "The Baby Shower
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ~Buddha
We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.
~W.B. Yeats
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ~Santayana, Essays
