Thought for the day...

Better poor on land than rich on the sea.


Search others for their virtues and yourself for your vices.


The tiles which protect you in the wet season were fabricated in the dry.


Provision in season makes a comfortable home.


Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

 

If you always defend your child’s mistakes, one day you will spend money to hire a lawyer to defend their crime, Discipline is not child abuse.


A woman always thinks it takes two to keep a secret.


Beware a door that has too many keys.


If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.


If you would not have your enemy know your secret, don’t tell it to your friend.

 

Tell your secret to your servant and you make him your master.


The only secret a woman can keep is that of her age.


To whom you reveal your secret you yield your liberty.


He that is too secure is not safe.


The seeds of great things are often small.

 

Seldom seen, soon forgotten.


What we see we usually believe.


He that seeks finds.


Be a friend to yourself and others will be so too.


Self-confidence is the first requisite of great undertakings.

 

Beware no man more than thyself.


He is most powerful who has himself in his power.


Who cannot rule himself can never rule a state.


The sick soul must cure itself.


Self-defense is nature’s oldest law.

 

He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolf.


He that makes himself dirt is trod on by the swines.


He who makes himself honey will be eaten by bees.


Everyone rakes the fire under his own pot.


Of all mankind, each loves himself the best.

 

The man who lives only for himself doesn’t deserve to live.


To know oneself is true knowledge.


To know yourself well is to esteem yourself little.


Every man knows best where his own shoe pinches.


He who is greedy of applause never gives a cheer for a rival.

 

Self-praise is half slander.


Never trust to another what you can do yourself.


Paddle your own canoe.


You can’t sell the cow and have the milk.


New trousers shame an old coat.

 

Send a fool to Europe (or anywhere) and he’ll come back a fool.


Nonsense charms the multitude; plain sense is despised.


It is hard to talk sense, but harder to find listeners if you do.


A handful of knowledge is worth a bushel full of learning.


Better sense in the head than sense in the pocket.

 

One is not so soon healed as hurt.


Sensuality is the grave of the soul.


Idleness is the sepulcher of a living man.


A good servant must have good wages.


If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself.


Self done, well done.