Proverbs

1. Never judge a book by its cover
2. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
3. Life is life a camera, face it with a smile
4. In prosperity our friends know us.  In adversity we know our friends.
5. Speech is silver, silence is Golden
6. If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.
7. They conquer who believe they can
8. Silence is the safety zone of conversation 
9. Character is like white paper; if once blotted, it can hardly ever be made to appear as white as before
10. If you always keep judging a person, you will never find time to love them
11. It is very simple to be happy.  It is very difficult to be simple
12. Memories of the past and expectations of the future causes pain, anxiety and fear
13. Learn from the mistakes of others, you have no time to do them all yourself
14. Wise men learn from other man's mistakes and Fools by their own
15. God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it in to the nest itself
16. Worry is the interest you pay on a loan you had never taken
17. In a conversation, one who speaks dominates and one who listens controls it
18. One of the most curious mistakes is to think that man derives happiness from being idle
19. Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained
20. Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which they never shows to anybody
21. If it is difficult to find happiness in oneself, it is difficult to find anywhere else
22. If you tell a man anything, it goes in one ear and comes out of the other.  If you tell a woman anything, it goes in both the ears and comes out of her mouth.
23. Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher
24. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action
25. You are not punished for the sin, but you are punished by the sin
26. The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success
27. Know how to listen, you will profit even from those who talk badly
28. There are only two ways of getting on in the world, by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others
29. It is not addition of possessions, but subtraction of desires which promotes happiness
30. Great souls have wills; feeble souls have only wishes
31. There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers
32. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
33. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen
34. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking
35. Science without humanity, commerce without morality and education without character is useless and dangerous 
36. It is the mind which spoils a word and not the word which spoils the mind
37. We don't plan to fail; we fail to plan
38. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first time or last time.  Then your time on earth will be filled with glory
39. Don't just exist - LIVE; Don't just touch - FEEL, Don't just look - OBSERVE, Don't just read - OBSORB, Don't just hear - LISTEN, Don't just listen - UNDERSTAND
40. Winners never quit; quitters never win
41. Good habits are hard to come by but easy to live with.  Bad habits come easy but hard to live with
42. Happiness depends upon what you give and not what you get
43. Happiness has a strange arithmetic, the more you divide it, the more it multiples
44. We lose our health in the process of earning money and lose our money to regain our health
45. A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
46. An idle mind is the devil's workshop
47. Follow no one, but learn from everyone
48. A young man who graduated yesterday and stopped learning today, will become uneducated tomorrow
49. Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love
50. One machine may do the work of fifty ordinary men.  But, no machine can do the work of the extra-ordinary men.
51. All men make mistakes, only the fools repeat
52. To find out what a man really is, find out what he does when he has nothing to do
53. The man who thinks he can do anything without the world is indeed  mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse
54. Money and science is a good servant, but a bad master
55. Necessity is the mother of invention 
56. One who knows to obey who knows to command
57. Do not cloud your eyes with tears, if you miss an opportunity.  Keep your vision clear so that you will not miss the next one
58. An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity.  A pessimist sees calamity in every opportunity.
59. Recession is when a neighbor loses his job, depression is when you lose yours
60. Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character
61. Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting 
62. In taking revenge, a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior 
63. Keep a secret, it is your slave.  Tell it, and it is your master
64. A ship is safe while in harbor, but that is not for they are built
65. Solitude (loneliness) is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay
66. Study as if you were to live for ever, live as if you were to die tomorrow
67. Crafty (cunning) men condemn studies; simple men admire them; wise men use them
68. You never know what you can do till you do
69. A thing when lost is valued more
70. Winners don't do different things, they do things differently
71. If you want to succeed in life, don't stare on the steps; steps on the stairs
72. If  a tailor makes a mistake, it creates a new fashion; If a parent makes a mistake, it creates a new generation; If a politician makes a mistake, it creates a new law
73. True Friendship is like a rubber band, it is too flexible, how much every you want you can stretch it; but when you leave it, pains a lot
74. Who is a friend?
• A push when you are stopped
• A touch when you are lost
• A word when you are quiet
• A smile when you are sad
• A shoulder when you cry
75. Friendship is like the relation between the hand and eyes.  Its like when hand gets hurt the eye cries and when the eye cries the hand wipes its tears
76. When time comes for you to give your heart, give to someone who will never break it, because broken hearts have no spares
77. Past is experience; Present is experiment; Future is expectation - so, your experience in your experiment for your expectations to come true
78. One day love asked friendship "Why are you here when I am in the world?"  Friendship smiled and said, "Am here to spread smile where you leave tears"
79. If God answers your prayer he is increasing your faith; If he delays your prayer he is increasing your patience; If he doesn't answer, he has something better
80. If you love someone, but your someone loves some other one, you be the same someone like before.  Because time will come for your someone to realize that you are not just someone but THE ONE
81. I have 3 letters H, R, T.  If I add E, A I'll get HEART.  If I add U, I'll get HURT.  I'll prefer to add U and get HURT, because what can I do with a HEART without U
82. The golden words are, "DONT CRY IN LOVE", because for whom you cry doesn't deserve your tears and the person who deserves will never let you cry
83. To have GOD in life doesn't mean sailing in a boat with no storms; rather it means having a boat which no storm can sink
84. The beauty of life doesn't depends upon how happy you are; but on how happy other are because of you