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

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.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

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.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.