If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Rome was not built in one day.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Many hands make light work.

Death makes equal the high and low.

Better to be happy than wise.

Ill weeds grow fast.

Its an ill wind that blows no good.

Look before you leap.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Its no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

The fat is in the fire.

Every man for himself.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

The more the merrier.

A short horse is soon curried.

One swallow never makes a summer.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Haste makes waste.

What you have, hold.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Know which side your bread is buttered on.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Every dog has its day.

The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, which God and nature do with actors fill.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

All's well that ends well.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.