#proverb

The second mouse gets the cheese!" - The Inimitable Terry Pratchett ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mouse #proverb #retort #education

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#even #four #hate #i #kinds

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#books #chief #esteem #like #passed

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

#arise #best #equipped #go #goes

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people. ↗

— James Howell

#common #common people #improperly #may #people

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experienced #personally #platitudes #proverbs #them

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#money

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#awful #carter #close #colorful #cool