Various Sayings From Around the World

A dog knows the places he is thrown food.

-African Proverbs

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
-Russian Proverb

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
- Turkish Proverb

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin Proverb

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box
Italian Proverb

However long the night, the dawn will break.
African Proverbs


The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long. - Ethiopia (Ayele, p. 23, Amharic)
African Proverbs


A Champion bull starts from birth. - Luyia.Western Kenya

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
-Arabian Proverbs

One does not love if one does not accept from others. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
-African Proverbs

The young can't teach traditions to the old. - Yoruba proverb
African Proverbs


He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble. - Accra proverb, Ghana
African Proverbs


Knowledge is better than riches. Cameroon
African Proverbs


need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Russian Proverb

Benjamin Franklin's Famouse Sayings

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Lost time is never found again.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.


Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.


A small leak can sink a great ship.


Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin's Famous Sayings

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Love well, whip well.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.

He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.

Famous Aristotle Sayings

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.


Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.


At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Famous Sayings Of Aristotle

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.


The secret to humor is surprise.

Change in all things is sweet.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.


There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Famous Sayings Of Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live.


For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

he beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.


Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.


The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''


Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Famous Sayings Of Albert Einstein

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.


Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.


God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Famous Sayings Of Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Funny Sayings About Women

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery. ~Diana Stürm

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ~Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

Famous Quotes about women

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. ~W.C. Fields

Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~"Doctor Leon," drleons.com

Famous Sayings About The Marriage

Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. ~Author Unknown

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. ~Mae West

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ~Max Kauffman

Mother-in-law: a woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. ~Author Unknown

Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. ~Author Unknown

Wedding rings: the world's smallest handcuffs. ~Author Unknown

Famous Sayings about Marriage

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. ~H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, 1916

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ~Beverley Nichols

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabo