Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
—Robert Frost
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Get used to disappointment.
—Dread Pirate Roberts
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
—Francis Bacon
A Note to the Iconoclastic Rioters
Before you pull down another monument to someone you despise, consider this story from the Soviet Union—
A village was surprised to find they had some surplus funds, so a meeting was called to determine what to spend them on. One group wanted to build a statue of Stalin. The other wanted to build a foot bridge over the creek so the village children would not have to ford the stream coming and going to school. The debate was heated, and the vote was equally divided, but one of the village elders had not participated. He was asked to break the tie.
“Grandfather,” they asked, “what shall we do?”
He replied, “Let’s build the statue and let the pigeons speak for us.”
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На чужо́й карава́й рот не разева́й. Don’t open your mouth to eat other people’s bread.
—Russian Proverb
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Non è il mondan romore altro ch’un fiato
di vento, ch’or vien quinci e or vien quindi,
e muta nome perché muta lato.
Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.
—Dante Alighieri (tr., C. E. Norton)
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[A]s you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them— “ordinary things” is a better expression. That is the way the world is.
—Chaim Potok
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ὃ γὰρ ἐὰν σπείρῃ ἄνθρωπος, τοῦτο καὶ θερίσει. A man reaps what he sows.
—Galatians 6:7b
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Chinokanganwa idemo; chitsiga hachikanganwe. The axe forgets, but the log does not.
—Zimbabwean Proverb
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You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
—George Herber
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work, is the ability to do better work.
—Elbert Hubbard
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The wind does not respect a fool.
—Klingon Proverb
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Isoja kaloja kannattaa pyytää vaikkei saisikaan. Big fish are worth of fishing for even if you don’t catch one.
—Finnish Proverb
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Memory is the thing you forget with.
—Alexander Chase
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Do not confuse fantasy with imagination: the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.
—Fausto Cercignani
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
—Yiddish Proverb
