Thought for the day...

It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Treachery, cautious at the start, betrays itself in the end.

Men are oftener treacherous through weakness than design.

A friend in court makes the trial short.

 

Every monkey has his tricks.

Great businesses turn on a little pin.

Many little leaks sink a ship.

Loose lips sink ships too.

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

 

The elephant does not feel a flea bite.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

Shoes too large trip one up.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

No house without a mouse; no throne without thorn.

 

No land without stones and no meat without bones.

Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

A child’s hand and a pig’s trough must always be full.

Horses kick each other only at an empty trough.

You must look at the pig, not at the trough.

 

Don’t trust a horse’s heel or a dog’s tooth.

Don’t trust a new friend or an old enemy.

Truth and roses have thorns about them.

Truth will prevail.

Flattery brings friends, truth enemies.

 

Where doubt is, truth is.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Truth may be blamed but cannot be shamed.

Truth never grows old.

There is no standard for truth; we cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

 

To define a truth is to limit its scope.

Out of the mouths of babes come words of wisdom.

Truth is the gate of justice.

Speak the truth and embarrass the devil.

Truth is too heavy for most people to bear.

 

Out of the mouths of babes and drunks comes the truth.

Try your friend before you have need of him.

Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.

Every tub smells of the wine it holds.

When you begin to turn in bed, it is time to turn out.

 

Two blacks do not make a white.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

You have two ears and one tongue; therefore hear twice as much as you speak.

Too fools in one house are too many.

Two in distress make trouble less.

 

A thing may be sweet to the taste and prove sour to the digestion.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

A tyrant never knows true friendship nor perfect liberty.

Tyrants imitate God and dwindle into the brute.

Ugliness is the guardian of women.

Beauty is only skin deep but ugliness is forever.