Wise sayings and such...

If life an empty bubble be,
How sad for those who cannot see
The rainbow in the bubble.

Don't look at your hill, climb it.

For every evil under the sun
There is a remedy or there is none
If there be one, try and find it,
If there be none, never mind it.

Don't let your modesty wrong you.

These are some of my favourites from my collection of Mottoware. If sook sees this thread I bet she comes up with some more!

If you have only a penny buy a ha'penny loaf and a lily. (think about it- chinese proverb)

....if you see a polar bear
dont forget to SSSSShivver

...............if you see a crocodile
don't forget to scream. Aaagh!!

(2nd verse)

Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a dream

'People in glass houses'

It's a long road that has no turning (one of my gran's favourites)

Don't trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you!

Do as you would be done by.

Take what you want.....and pay for it.

Allie is that a misquote from Donne? No man is an island?

Don't get me started on George Bush.....

I think George Bush could have a whole thread to himself Anagram

"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

George Bush's version of Annika's Wise Saying!

'I hear and I forget; I see and I remember;
I do and I understand'. Chinese proverb

'There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so' Charles Caleb Colton

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!

'Each is a part of the main' (who said it?)

'No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.' Seneca