It takes sweat to work, but only saliva to criticize.
A husband and wife often fight intensely at one moment and then kiss intensely at the next moment.
A beautiful person might not have a beautiful life.
Some prefer liquor, others prefer tofu, and some even like rotten salmon.
Greed will cause pain.
If someone transports dung and does not eat it, don’t conclude that he is an honest person.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
The sun will set without your assistance.
If your business does not prosper in one town, try another.
It is better to lend than to give. To give employment is better than either.
Cold water, morning and evening, is better than all the cosmetics.
There is a great difference between him who is ashamed before his own self, and him who is only ashamed before others.
A good husband might have a bad wife, and a bad wife might have a good husband.
When shopping for a cow, make sure the price of the tail is included.
I don’t agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life.
A person who is not disciplined cannot be cautioned.
Little by little, a little becomes a lot.
Help me during the flood, and I will help you during the drought.
Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long.
Obsequiousness begets friends; truth, hatred.
Shoot not beyond the mark.
To disregard money on suitable occasions is often a great profit.
It is possible for someone to be changed so much by love that he will hardly be recognized as being the same person.
From moment to moment one can bear much.
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. … If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
The sweetness of food doesn’t last long, but the sweetness of good words do.
Real glory Springs from the silent conquest of ourselves,
And without that the conqueror is nought
But the first slave
To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery. (Walden)
We are constantly invited to be who we are.
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven
Who can say for sure that one will live to see tomorrow?
Landing a single punch on your enemies nose is more satisfying than hearing well-intentioned advice from your elders.
Spreading the news is also multiplying it.
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject’s vitality.
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.
If you see someone riding a bamboo-cane, tell him “What a lovely horse!”
[Allow others to enjoy their own fantasies]
Better to blush than to keep the concern in your heart.
The enemy of your belly: 40 years.
Call someone “master,” and he’ll sell you at an auction.
Those who flee from taxes and rent flee from selling and buying.
He who builds a mill must also have a bell.
Better to wait patiently [for the real] than rush into a thing of illusion.
A thirsty person will accept polluted water.
In dealing with a powerful person, either be nice to him, avoid him, or allow him to speak without answering him.
You hate me, but God will remember me.
Pretend you are crazy, and you will survive.
By telling the truth, your head will be cracked.
A bad year will pass; a bad mind will not pass.
Though I am rich, I still enjoy receiving gifts.
Everyone lives—the person with one coat, the person with two, and even the person with none.
When somebody comes to you and shows you respect, serve him your dinner and make his bed.
If the time does not suit you, suit yourself to the time.
Baghdad is not remote for a lover.
Few deserve a happy life.
One eats while another watches—that is how revolutions are begun.
Death is a black camel that lies down at every door. Sooner or later you must ride the camel.
There is not a single season without fruit.
If you search for a faultless woman, you will remain a bachelor.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. )
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
That impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it.
I’m Mike Tyson, and there is no one like me.
Everyone has a game plan until you get hit in the mouth.
Am I an animal? If necessary—it depends on what situation am I in…