Contradictory Proverbs
Frank Bohan
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Look before you leap.
He who hesitates is lost.
Nothing venture, nothing gain.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Seek and ye shall find.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Save for a rainy day.
Tomorrow will take care of itself.
Life is what we make it.
What is to be will be.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Many hands make light work.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
With age comes wisdom.
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings come all wise sayings.
Bear ye one another's burdens. (Gal. 6:2)
For every man shall bear his own burden. (Gal. 6:5)
Great minds run in the same channel.
Fools think alike.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A setting hen never lays.
A hollow pot makes the most noise.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
The meek shall inherit the Earth.
To thine own self be true.
The nail that stands out gets hammered down.
Opposites attract.
Birds of a feather flock together.
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ś Dyslexics of the world untie
-Dolores
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
But...
"Actions speak louder than words."
"Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."
But...
"Faith will move mountains."
"You're never too old to learn."
But...
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks."
"Ask no questions and hear no lies."
But...
"Ask and you shall receive."
"Variety is the spice of life."
But...
"Don't change horses in midstream."
"Don't cross the bridge till you come to it."
But...
"Forewarned is forearmed."
"Silence is golden."
But...
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease."
"Clothes make the man."
But...
"Never judge a book by its cover."
From: _Getting Your Words' Worth_, 1993
[per article, "Dueling Proverbs", _Reader's Digest_]
---Dolores
Frank Bohan <fra...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote...
> Frank Bohan
David C. Kifer
>
> Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
> Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Very nice, Frank,
There are a number there I don't have, that I will add to my
list... In return, I give you:
The best things in life are free.
Everything has its price.
Pride goeth before a fall.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Don't believe everything you hear.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
The early bird gets the worm.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
The guy on point finds the mine.
If you're not the lead dog, you're chasing assholes.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel.--Mat 5:15
When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. --Mat 6:6
They shall beat their swords into plowshares...Isaiah 2:4
Beat your plowshares into swords...Joel 3:10
> ś Dyslexics of the world untie
The insomniac dyslexic agnostic lies awake all night,
wondering if there really is a dog.
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
-Dolores
The best things come in small packages.
But...
The bigger, the better.
A miss is as good as a mile.
But...
Half a loaf is better than none.
An old fox is not easily snared.
But...
There's no fool like an old fool.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
But...
It's not over till it's over.
Blood is thicker than water.
But...
Many kinfolk, few friends.
Practice makes perfect.
But...
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.
But...
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
But...
A man's reach should exceed his grasp.
There's safety in numbers.
But...
Better be alone than in bad company.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
But...
Don't beat a dead horse.
Hold fast to the words of your ancestors.
But...
Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat them.
From: _Getting Your Words' Worth_, 1993
[per article, "Dueling Proverbs", _Reader's Digest_]
---Dolores
David C. Kifer <dki...@sky-access.com> wrote...
> Frank Bohan wrote:
> > Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
> > Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
>
> Very nice, Frank,
> There are a number there I don't have, that I will add to my
> list... In return, I give you:
>
> The best things in life are free.
> Everything has its price.
>
> Pride goeth before a fall.
> Don't hide your light under a bushel.
>
> Don't believe everything you hear.
> Where there's smoke, there's fire.
>
> The early bird gets the worm.
> The second mouse gets the cheese.
>
> The guy on point finds the mine.
> If you're not the lead dog, you're chasing assholes.
>
> Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel.--Mat 5:15
> When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. --Mat 6:6
>
> They shall beat their swords into plowshares...Isaiah 2:4
> Beat your plowshares into swords...Joel 3:10
> Dave
Martin Julian DeMello
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone
-- Proverb
Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened
-- Spider Robinson
--
Martin DeMello
alohacyberian
The early bird, gets the worm.
Haste makes waste.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Speed kills.
Slow, but sure.
"Pity the soul that is slow to learn
what the quick mind sees at every turn."
[? ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay?]
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Martin Julian DeMello <mdem...@kennel.ruf.rice.edu> wrote in article
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David C. Kifer
>
> More DUELING PROVERBS:
>
> From: _Getting Your Words' Worth_, 1993
> [per article, "Dueling Proverbs", _Reader's Digest_]
Thanks, Dolores,
How many were in that article, do you know? Do you have all
of them? Could you email them to me? Please? Pretty please?
Several more of my favorites:
Faint heart never won fair lady.
The meek shall inherit the Earth.
Clothes make the man.
Never judge a book by its cover.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Out of sight, out of mind.
At the moment, I have about 150 of these, with another 30+ I
have not decided whether or not they are actually "dueling".
alohacyberian
"The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet
been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine
soul, is "What does a woman want?'"
~ Sigmund Freud
Women often ask, "What do men really want, deep in their souls?" The best
answer - based on in-depth analysis of the complex and subtle interplay of
thought, instinct, and emotion that constitutes the male psyche - is that
deep in their souls, men want to watch stuff go "bang."
~ Dave Barry
It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we must all
want the same things.
~ Katherine Whitehorn
Male silence is not the same as listening
~ Gloria Steinem
"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
~ Victor Hugo
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit
with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That is
relativity."
~ Albert Einstein
"When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean
conversation."
~ Samuel Johnson
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David C. Kifer <dki...@sky-access.com> wrote in article
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-Dolores
I've e-mailed the list of proverbs to you.
It's the first of the two lists I posted earlier today.
Good luck.
---Dolores
David C. Kifer <dki...@sky-access.com> wrote...
Richard Harding
Polonius to Laertes, Hamlet II, i (IIRC)
"David C. Kifer" wrote:
>
>
> Clothes make the man.
>
Daniel P. B. Smith
investment and the stock market are basically nonsense. At their core
is a pair of contradictory proverbs:
Cut your losses and let your profits run.
Buy low, sell high.
The number of changes that get rung on these is incredible. I really
ought to start clipping them. One day you'll read a columnist say
"Don't get emotional about your investments. Do what the professionals
do. If your fund isn't performing, fire it! Don't let your emotional
aversion to taking a loss get in the way of seeing where your own
self-interest lies, etc. etc. etc." A month later the same columnist
will be saying "Don't be ruled by your emotions. Your stocks may be
down now, but don't let fear of a loss push you into selling them, etc.
etc."
--
Daniel P. B. Smith
Email address: dpbs...@world.std.com
"Lifetime forwarding" address: dpbs...@alum.mit.edu
tmw
You can lead a horse to drink, but you can't make it water.
~Joh Bjelke-Peterson, Aust. Politician
tmw
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Contradicting these:
Don't judge a book by its cover.
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ś Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?
drg
George Santayana:
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to
balance it.
-- George Santayana, _The Life of Reason_
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Out of sight, out of mind
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Actions speak louder than words. AND
Advice that ain't paid for ain't no good.
Advice is cheap.
A fool's counsel is sometimes worth the weighing.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp.
Take it easy.
All at once makes light work.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
All for one and one for all.
(and its many contrasts):
Every man for himself.
What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my own.
Help yourself.
Heads I win, tails you lose.
Paddle your own canoe.
All is flux.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
(and a bunch):
Things are going to the dogs.
It's a cockeyed world.
Nothing works.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
If anything can go wrong, sometime it will.
All is vanity.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
All men are brother.
People are no damned good. AND
East is East and West is WEst and never the twain shall meet.
More later!
Debbie
alohacyberian
<3ADF45F4...@concentric.net>...
>
> All for one and one for all.
> (and its many contrasts):
> Every man for himself.
> What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my own.
> Help yourself.
> Heads I win, tails you lose.
> Paddle your own canoe.
>
> All is vanity.
> Flattery will get you nowhere.
>
vinegar.
alohacyberian
~ 1 Timothy 6:10
"A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth
all things."
~ Ecclesiastes 10:19.
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Dolores
> "For the love of money is the root of all evil:..."
> ~ 1 Timothy 6:10
> "A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth
> all things."
> ~ Ecclesiastes 10:19.
"I never been in no situation where havin' money made it any worse."
-Clinton Jones
"I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves."
-Joe Louis
"Money isn't everything - but it's a long way ahead of what comes next."
-Edmund Stockdale
"Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy."
-Spike Milligan
"Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life."
-Gottfried Reinhardt
"Ready money is ready medicine."
"Ready money works great cures."
-Author unknown
"With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing
well too." -Jewish Proverb
"While money can't buy happiness, it helps enable you to look for it in
comfort."
-Quoted in "Grit" (found in Quotable Quotes, _Reader's Digest_)
"I've been rich and I've been poor. And rich is better."
[I'm not sure, but I think a similar quote is attributed to Pearl Bailey.]
---Dolores
SteveMR200
wrote:
>"With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing
>well too." -Jewish Proverb
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty. And to
be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
--Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944)
_The Madwoman of Chailot_ [1945]
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle
in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
--Marya Mannes (1904- )
_But Will it Sell?_ [1955-1964], "A Plea for Flirtation"
--
Steve
Dolores
[snipped]
> Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle
> in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
> --Marya Mannes (1904- )
> _But Will it Sell?_ [1955-1964], "A Plea for Flirtation"
Who said the words similar to the following:
If it's OK for a man to marry a woman for her beauty,
then it's OK for a woman to marry a man for his money.
---Dolores
OBQ:
"Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger.
There is really nothing to be said about it."
-W. Somerset Maugham
[Money is an ecstacy... -D.]
SteveMR200
wrote:
>SteveMR200 <Steve...@aol.com> wrote...
>>
>> Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle
>> in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
>> --Marya Mannes (1904- )
>> _But Will it Sell?_ [1955-1964], "A Plea for Flirtation"
>
>Who said the words similar to the following:
>If it's OK for a man to marry a woman for her beauty,
>then it's OK for a woman to marry a man for his money.
Remember, if you marry for beauty thou bindest thyself all thy life
for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year;
and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
--Sir Walter Raleigh (1861-1922)
I see no marriage fail sooner or have more troubles than such as are
concluded for beauty's sake, and huddled up for amorous desire.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
_Essays_, bk. III, ch. 2 [1595]
--
Steve
Dolores
> Remember, if you marry for beauty thou bindest thyself all thy life
> for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year;
> and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
> --Sir Walter Raleigh (1861-1922)
>
> I see no marriage fail sooner or have more troubles than such as are
> concluded for beauty's sake, and huddled up for amorous desire.
> --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
> _Essays_, bk. III, ch. 2 [1595]
"Beauty without expression tires."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent."
-Old saying
---Dolores
SteveMR200
wrote:
>DUELING PROVERBS
>
>"The pen is mightier than the sword."
>But...
>"Actions speak louder than words."
The pen is mightier than the sword! The case for
prescriptions rather than surgery.
--Marvin Kitman
--
Steve