Just when you thought you knew it all

The following text is originally lifted from the trivia section of The Jakarta Post dated Tuesday, 13 November 2007.

~Compiled from various sources~

• A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
• You can lead a fool to wisdom, but you can’t make him think.
• A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can see from the top of a mountain.
• Never test the depth of a river with both of your feet.
• Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand.
• The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
• Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
• There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
• Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
• A man who thinks too much about his ancestor is like a potato – the best part of him is underground.
• A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
• Your heart understands what your head cannot conceive; trust your heart.
• A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey.
• He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
• It is never too late to be what you might have been.
• If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
• You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.
• Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
• It matters not what you do, as long as you are the best one doing it.
• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will never bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
• In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.
• The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
• Learn from the mistake of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
• It is only those who never do anything who never makes mistakes.
• Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
• Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.
• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
• To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
• Practice makes perfect, but since nobody is perfect, why do we practise?
• Three may keep a secret, of two of them are dead.
• You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
• Patience will come to those who wait for it.
• Incoming fire has the right of way.
• Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one.
• It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
• Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
• There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.
• Technology is a way of organising the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.
• Parents can tell but they never teach, unless they practise what they preach.
• Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.
• Man who sneezes without hanky takes matters into his own hands.
• He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.
• The hand that turns the knob opens the door.
• Money isn’t everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.
• There are two kinds of people in life: people who like their jobs, and people who don’t work here anymore.
• Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage.
• A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking
• If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.
• We the willing, following the unknowing are doing the impossible.
• Half of the people in th world are below average.
• To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.