Monday, May 10, 2010

Good quotes...

Morals let you live peaceful life.. Use your due-diligence to pick the right morals and values to live in pursuit of happiness. If not, you end up being miserable and your other half can't afford it either.


A confused being is more dangerous to the society then the criminal. Here are the list of morals I found Interesting....

  • A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.A bribe in the hand shows mischief in the heart.
  • A false tale often betrays itself.
  • A fine appearance is a poor substitute for inward worth.
  • A humble life with peace and quiet is better than a splendid one with danger and risk.
  • A man is known by the company he keeps.
  • A villain may disguise himself, but he will not deceive the wise.
  • A willful beast must go his own way
  • A willful man will have his way to his own hurt.
  • A word in season is most precious.
  • Abstain and enjoy.
  • Acquaintance softens prejudices.
  • An act of kindness is a good investment.
  • Attempt not impossibilities.
  • Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
  • Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance.
  • Be reasonable in your criticism.
  • Be sure that there are others worse off than yourself.
  • Beauty is only skin-deep.
  • Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.
  • Better a certain enemy than a doubtful friend.
  • Better poverty without care, than riches with.
  • Beware of flatterers.
  • Beware of hypocrites.
  • Beware of the counsel of the unfortunate.
  • Birds of a feather flock together.
  • Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
  • Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
  • Choose the lesser of two evils.
  • Clothes do not make the man.
  • Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.
  • Counsel without help is useless.
  • Count the cost before you commit yourselves.
  • Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.
  • Do not attempt too much at once.
  • Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
  • Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
  • Do not enter into danger for the profit of others.
  • Do not lay claim to a virtue you do not possess if you would keep the respect of your friends.
  • Do not try to do that which is not natural to you.
  • Do not waste your pity on a scamp.
  • Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.
  • Don't make much ado about nothing.
  • Equals make the best friends.
  • Even the wise must recognize their limits.
  • Every man for himself.
  • Every man should be content to mind his own business.
  • Every tale is not to be believed.
  • Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.
  • Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
  • Evil tendencies are shown in early life.
  • Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.
  • Example is more powerful than precept.
  • Faithful service should long be remembered.
  • False confidence often leads into danger.
  • Figures are not always facts.
  • Fine feather friends are not worth much.
  • Fine feathers do not make fine birds.
  • Force is not a remedy.
  • Harm hatch, harm catch.
  • Harm seek, harm find.
  • He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family.
  • He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.
  • He who despises a humble friend may be doing an ill turn to himself.
  • He who grasps at the shadow may lose the substance.
  • He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.
  • He who tries to please everybody pleases nobody.
  • Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.
  • If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.
  • If words suffice not, blows must follow.
  • In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.
  • In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another.
  • In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
  • In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
  • It is a mean nature which affects to dislike that which it is unable to obtain. (Sour grapes)
  • It is absurd to ape our betters.
  • It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
  • It is better to bend than to break.
  • It is dangerous to speak the truth to tyrants.
  • It is easier to make a suggestion than to carry it out.
  • It is easy to kick a man that is down.
  • It is not always wise to take people at their word.
  • It is too late to prepare for danger when our enemies are upon us.
  • It is useless to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
  • It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit should be like us in outside appearances.
  • It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.
  • It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit.
  • Kindness is better bestowed on the living than on the dead.
  • Lessons are not given, they are taken.
  • Let well alone.
  • Like will draw like.
  • Little liberties are great offenses.
  • Live and let live.
  • Look before you leap.
  • Man is what he believes.
  • Men argue. Nature acts.
  • Men may be ruined by attempting to appear that which Nature has not intended them to be.
  • Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit for it.
  • Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
  • Might makes right.
  • Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
  • Misfortune will surely befall him who loves unwisely.
  • Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.
  • Misfortunes we bring upon ourselves are doubly bitter.
  • Nature exceeds nurture.
  • Nature never breaks her own laws.
  • Necessity is the mother of invention.
  • Necessity knows no law.
  • No arguments will give courage to the coward.
  • No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
  • No one can be a friend if you know not whether to trust or distrust him.
  • No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.
  • Nothing escapes the master's eye.
  • Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
  • Of what use is it to pretend there is a choice when there is none?
  • Old birds are not to be caught with chaff.
  • Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.
  • Once bitten, twice shy.
  • One cannot be first in everything.
  • One good turn deserves another.
  • One man's meat is another man's poison.
  • One story is good, till another is told.
  • One swallow does not make summer.
  • Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
  • People who wrangle and fight give opportunities to their enemies.
  • Persuasion is better than force.
  • Physicians should first heal themselves.
  • Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.
  • Pride goes before destruction.
  • Revenge is a two-edged sword.
  • Revenge is dearly bought at the price of liberty.
  • Self-help is the best help.
  • Self-interest alone moves some men.
  • Silly people despise what is precious because they cannot understand it.
  • Slavery is too high a price to pay for easy living.
  • Slow but steady wins the race.
  • Some men are of more consequence in their own eyes than in the eyes of their neighbors.
  • Some men underrate their best blessings.
  • Some will always find fault with the things that benefit them.
  • Spare the rod and spoil the child.
  • Stoop to conquer.
  • Straws show how the wind blows.
  • Swan song
  • The advise of an enemy is not to be trusted.
  • The battle is not always won by the strong.
  • The best intentions will not always ensure success.
  • The cold-blooded possess a poisonous bite.
  • The covetous are poor givers.
  • The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.
  • The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit.
  • The flower in the vase smiles, but it can no longer laugh.
  • The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
  • The greedy never know when they have had enough.
  • The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
  • The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
  • The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.
  • The memory of a good deed lives.
  • The more honor the more danger.
  • The remedy may be as bad as the disease.
  • The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions.
  • The simple are easily deceived.
  • The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
  • The value is in the worth, not in the number.
  • The want of a good excuse never kept a villain from crime.
  • The wicked often fall into their own snares.
  • The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
  • There are two sides to every truth.
  • There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an open enemy.
  • There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
  • They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.
  • They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.
  • They who lay traps for others are often caught by their own bait.
  • They who live by robbery cannot call other men thieves.
  • Think before you act.
  • Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
  • Those who betray their friends must not expect others to keep faith with them.
  • Those who cause evil are the first to be overwhelmed by its ruin.
  • Those who enter by the back stairs may expect to be shown out at the window.
  • Those who lead an idle life are apt to scorn the honest and diligent, but their life is often miserable.
  • Those who love practical jokes must be prepared to laugh when one is made at their expense.
  • Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
  • Those who suffer most cry out the least.
  • Those who, out of vanity, attempt more than they can perform are certain to bring ridicule upon themselves.
  • Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.
  • To know the world one must construct it.
  • Too much cunning over-reaches itself.
  • Try before you trust.
  • Union is strength.
  • Use is better than ornament.
  • Use serves to overcome dread.
  • War can protect. It cannot create.
  • We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.
  • We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity.
  • We should never lose a grand opportunity.
  • What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
  • Whatever you do, do with all your might.
  • It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
  • When a girl cries for a guy, it means she really misses him. But when a guy cries for a girl, it means no one can love that girl more than him

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