A wise man hears one word and understands two. ...
by Anonymous

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

Related topics: Wisdom

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)

Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous

Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb

Time flies.
- Anonymous

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

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