Proverb Quotes

One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasure as in avoiding calamities.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee; Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person.

The worst things: To try to sleep and sleep not. To wait for one who comes not. To try to please and please not.

The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.

Think of the going-out before you enter.

It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark.

When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst.