Proverbials!

Quotations about Wonder Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. ~ Ronald Reagan No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. ~ James Henry Leigh Hun Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder , to the enduring fact of mystery. ~ Henry Miller He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ~ M. C. Escher The world will never starve for want of wonders ; but only for want of wonder. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton From wonder into wonder existence opens. ~ Lao Tzu That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is al...

Quotations about Mystery I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. ~ Harry Houdini Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. ~ Jean Cocteau Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. ~ Tryon Edwards One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. ~ Albert Einstein The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery . ~ Francis Bacon Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery , we shall learn nothing. ~ Henry Miller We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery . ~ Paulo Coelho Mystery and innocence are not akin. ~ Hosea Ballou A religion without its mysteries is a temple without a God. ~ Robert Hall The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discover...

Sayings about Questions One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning. ~ Danish Proverb Indiscreet questions must be answered with a lie. ~ Spanish Proverb Ask no questions and hear no lies. ~ Traditional Proverb Hasty questions require slow answers. ~ Dutch Proverb An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer. ~ Saying Every question has an answer. ~ Yiddish Proverb One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer. ~ Mongolian Proverb Don't ask questions about fairy tales. ~ Yiddish Proverb Conversation is like making love; the man is the question , the woman the answer, and the union of both will bear fruit. ~ Arabian Proverb The wise man asks questions of himself; the fool questions others. ~ Chinese Proverb He, who asks questions , cannot avoid the answers. ~ Cameroonian Proverb To a quick question give a slow answer. ~ Italian Proverb A fool can a...

Sayings about Doubt The more you listen the more you give yourself room for doubt . ~ Mongolian Proverb Jealousy is nourished by doubt . ~ French Proverb Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death. ~ Saying When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble. ~ Saying Doubt cannot override a certainty. ~ The Talmud To wish to know is to wish to doubt . ~ French Proverb If there is still doubt do not accuse. ~ Spanish Proverb The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting . ~ Polish Proverb Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. ~ Chinese Proverb The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb Quotation about Doubt To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ~ Philip Massinger Doubt cannot override a certainty. ~ The Talmud Doubt , of whatever k...

Sayings about Certainty To believe in certainty , we must begin by doubting. ~ Polish Proverb It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living. ~ Japanese Proverb Only death is certain . ~ Maltese Proverb There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ~ Saying There's no insurance against death and poverty. ~ Yiddish Proverb Mistrust is the mother of certainty . ~ French Proverb Where the law is uncertain there is no law. ~ Traditional Proverb You would do better to be someone's victim rather than someone's certainty . ~ Sri Lankan Proverb We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones. ~ Latin Proverb Quit not certainty for hope. ~ Traditional Proverb If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time. ~ Saying Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens. ~ Dutch Proverb Who can say with certainty that one will live to see the morrow? ~ Tibetan Proverb There are three uncertainti...

Sayings of Pakistani origin Water overflows where the banks are weak. A little Knowledge is a dangerous thing. Who has the power to fight lays conference aside. Don't cram all five fingers into your mouth at once. He who speaks the truth, his words are better than his silence, but who invents falsifications, his silence is better than his speech. Another's misery is half enjoyment. Donkey foals are loaded according to their size. Ask the sheep about the thorn-hodge. Strange food is on loan. Do good & cast in to the river. If porridge were good, it would sell in the Bazaar. To make yourself equal to your kinsman wear white clothes. The load which the donkey won't carry, you yourself will carry. You keep on "cluck-clucking" here, and lay your eggs in another village. A wolf in lamb's clothing. Be it but an onion, let it be (given) graciously. At last the wolf's cub becomes a wolf. Division is main reason for the damage. The friend ap...

Sayings about Accuracy Haste is the mother of inaccuracy . ~ Native American Proverbs Rather a bit correctly than much incorrectly. ~ Norwegian Proverbs The truth is like gold: keep it locked up and you will find it exactly as you first put it away. ~ Senegalese Proverbs The heart of a man may be compared to a sausage; no one can tell exactly what's inside. ~ Yiddish Proverbs By others faults the wise correct their own. ~ Traditional Proverb It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living. ~ Japanese Proverbs Acknowledgement is half of correction. ~ Russian Proverbs Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ~ Polish Proverbs He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. ~ Chinese Proverbs The woman who loves her husband corrects his faults; the man that loves his wife exaggerates them. ~ Armenian Proverbs Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure ...

Sayings about Order If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in character. If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will. ~ Chinese Proverbs Old age is a hundred disorders . ~ Welsh Proverbs If you give orders and leave, the work won't get done. ~ Portuguese Proverbs Not much is achieved where everyone gives the orders . ~ Portuguese Proverb It is easier to give orders than to work. ~ Lithuanian Proverbs When a king is about to lose his power his orders burn more intensely than fire. ~ Tibetan Proverbs The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. ~ Traditional Proverb Let all things be done decently and in order . ~ Bible When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs Quotations about Order To put the world in order , ...

Sayings about Discipline He who lives without discipline dies without honor. ~ Icelandic Proverbs There is no luck except where there is discipline . ~ Irish Proverbs A person who is not disciplined cannot be cautioned. ~ African Proverb The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. ~ Bible Discipline is like spinach. We may not care for it ourselves but feel sure it would be good for everybody else. ~ Saying Who loves well, chastises well. ~ French Proverbs Quotations  about Discipline Discipline must come through liberty. ~ Maria Montessori Discipline is the duty and the hope of all who would enjoy the benefits of society and of instruction. ~ John H. A. Bomberger No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined . ~ John S. Bonnell Discipline is like the helm of a ship; it gives direction. ~ Zester Hatfield It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline . ~ Lewis Wallace...