Thought for the day...

Gross negligence is equal to intentional wrong.

A fertile field, when neglected, will produce nothing but weeds and thorns.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.

A good neighbor is a precious thing.

Better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

 

Neighbors are good when they are neighborly.

A monkey never watches his own tail; he watches his neighbor’s.

He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; he who loses his nerve, loses all.

God fishes with a line and the devil fishes with a net.

Stroke a nettle and it will sting you; grasp it and it is as soft as silk.

 

The heart is never neutral.

When I did well, I heard it never; when I did ill, I heard it ever.

Tomorrow never comes.

Don’t bark up the wrong tree.

Don’t boil your rabbit till you’ve got him.

 

Never commit what you would wish to conceal.

Never fry a fish till it is caught.

New born calves don’t fear wolves.

Bad news travels fast.

Bad news always comes too soon.

 

No news is good news.

Whenever everybody tends to his own business, news is scarce.

A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man.

He’s no man who can’t say, “No.”

Virtue, not pedigree, should characterize nobility.

 

A noble deed never dies.

There is a rank of mind as well as of birth.

‘Tis only noble to be good.

Whoever does right is born sufficiently noble.

The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air.

 

If water is noisy, there are no fish in it.

If you love not the noise of the bells, why pull the ropes?

Empty vessels make the most sound.

War has no fury like a non-combatant.

Nonsense can be defended only by nonsense.

 

Nonsense, when earnest, is often mistaken for sense.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

A man may live upon little but he cannot live upon nothing.

He who has no conscience has nothing.

New things are most looked at.

 

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

New churches and new taverns are seldom empty.

A true word needs no oath.

An unlawful oath is better broken than kept.

Asses carry the oats and horses eat them.

 

A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

Obedience is the first duty of a child.

We must obey God rather than men.

The dog that minds not your whistle is good for nothing.

Let thy child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.