It is a poor judge who cannot award a prize.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.\n-- Aeschylus
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.\n-- Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
It is bad luck to be superstitious.\n-- Andrew W. Mathis
It is better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
It is better to have loved and lost -- much better.
It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It is common sense to take a method and try it.  If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.  But above all, try something.\n-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.\n-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.\n-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.\n-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.\n-- Roger Babson
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.\n-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
It's always darkest just before it gets pitch black.
It's always darkest just before the lights go out.\n-- Alex Clark
It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
It's later than you think.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
It's the thought, if any, that counts!
Keep on keepin' on.
Keep the phase, baby.
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.\n-- Winston Churchill
Knowledge is power.\n-- Francis Bacon
Knowledge without common sense is folly.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Laugh and the world thinks you're an idiot.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
Laugh when you can; cry when you must.
Laugh, and the world ignores you.  Crying doesn't help either.
Leave no stone unturned.\n-- Euripides
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Let sleeping dogs lie.\n-- Charles Dickens
Let your conscience be your guide.\n-- Pope
Life is one long struggle in the dark.\n-- Titus Lucretius Carus
"Life is too important to take seriously."\n-- Corky Siegel
Life is too short to be taken seriously.\n-- Oscar Wilde
Look before you leap.\n-- Samuel Butler
Look ere ye leap.\n-- John Heywood
Man is the measure of all things.\n-- Protagoras
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.\n-- Plotinus
Many are called, few are chosen.  Fewer still get to do the choosing.
Many are called, few volunteer.
Many are cold, but few are frozen.
Many hands make light work.\n-- John Heywood
May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full mooon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.
May you live in uninteresting times.\n-- Chinese proverb
Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.\n-- Julius Caesar
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Misery no longer loves company.  Nowadays it insists on it.\n-- Russell Baker
Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot.
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
Mistrust first impulses; they are always right.
Moderation in all things.\n-- Publius Terentius Afer [Terence]
Moderation is a fatal thing.  Nothing succeeds like excess.\n-- Oscar Wilde
Mother is the invention of necessity.
Mum's the word.\n-- Miguel de Cervantes
Necessity has no law.\n-- St. Augustine
Necessity hath no law.\n-- Oliver Cromwell
Necessity is a mother.
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.\n-- Saint Jerome
Never promise more than you can perform.\n-- Publilius Syrus
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after.
Nice guys don't finish nice.
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.\n-- Evan Davis
Nice guys finish last.\n-- Leo Durocher
Nice guys get sick.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.\n-- Aesop
No evil can happen to a good man.\n-- Plato
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.\n-- Aristotle
No good deed goes unpunished.\n-- Clare Booth Luce
None love the bearer of bad news.\n-- Sophocles
Not everything worth doing is worth doing well.
Nothing endures but change.\n-- Heraclitus
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.\n-- John Keats
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.\n[There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]\n-- Seneca
Often things ARE as bad as they seem!
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.\n-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.\n-- Homer
One good turn asketh another.\n-- John Heywood
One good turn deserves another.\n-- Gaius Petronius
One good turn usually gets most of the blanket.
One man's Mede is another man's Persian.\n-- George M. Cohan
One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.\n-- Chinese proverb
Oppernockity tunes but once.
Out of sight is out of mind.\n-- Arthur Clough
-- Owen Meredith
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.\n-- Titus Maccius Plautus
Pauca sed matura.\n[Few but excellent.]\n-- Gauss
Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.\n[Confound those who have said our remarks before us.]\nor\n[May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]\n-- Aelius Donatus
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.\n-- Don Marquis
Practice yourself what you preach.\n-- Titus Maccius Plautus
Praise the sea; on shore remain.\n-- John Florio
Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore.\n-- Russian Proverb
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.\n-- Publilius Syrus
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.\n[Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.]
Remembering is for those who have forgotten.\n-- Chinese proverb
Removing the straw that broke the camel's back does not necessarily allow the camel to walk again.
Rome was not built in one day.\n-- John Heywood
Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
Rotten wood cannot be carved.\n-- Confucius, "Analects", Book 5, Ch. 9
Scintillation is not always identification for an auric substance.
Seek simplicity -- and distrust it.\n-- Alfred North Whitehead
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!\n-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
Set the cart before the horse.\n-- John Heywood
Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.\n[If youth but knew, if old age but could.]\n-- Henri Estienne
Sic transit gloria Monday!
Sic Transit Gloria Thursdi.
Small change can often be found under seat cushions.\n-- One of Lazarus Long's most penetrating insights
Small is beautiful.\n-- Schumacher's Dictum
Stop searching forever.  Happiness is just next to you.
Stop searching forever.  Happiness is unattainable.
Stop searching.  Happiness is right next to you.  Now, if they'd only take a bath ...
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.\n-- Thomas Tusser
The coast was clear.\n-- Lope de Vega
The course of true anything never does run smooth.\n-- Samuel Butler
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.\n-- Anaxagoras
The early worm gets the bird.
The early worm gets the late bird.
The ends justify the means.\n-- after Matthew Prior
The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a sweetheart's.\n-- Polish proverb
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.\n-- Plato
The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train.
The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming dragon.
The man who runs may fight again.\n-- Menander
The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant is forever blessed.\n-- Old Japanese proverb
The meek will inherit the earth -- if that's OK with you.
The more the merrier.\n-- John Heywood
The more things change, the more they stay insane.
The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.\n-- Pliny the Elder
The only constant is change.
The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.\n-- Phaedrus
The only reward of virtue is virtue.\n-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The porcupine with the sharpest quills gets stuck on a tree more often."
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.\n-- Miguel de Cervantes
The reverse side also has a reverse side.\n-- Japanese proverb
The road to Hades is easy to travel.\n-- Bion
The superfluous is very necessary.\n-- Voltaire
The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale.
The worst is enemy of the bad.
There are more things in heaven and earth than any place else.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.
There is no fool to the old fool.\n-- John Heywood
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
There is no proverb that is not true.\n-- Cervantes
There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.
There's no heavier burden than a great potential.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.\n-- Milton Friendman
There's no such thing as an original sin.\n-- Elvis Costello
There's no time like the pleasant.
Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.\n-- Dwight Eisenhower
Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
Things are not always what they seem.\n-- Phaedrus
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.\n-- Miguel de Cervantes
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.\n-- Benjamin Franklin
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.\n-- Aeschylus
Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.
Time goes, you say? Ah no! Time stays, *we* go.\n-- Austin Dobson
Time sure flies when you don't know what you're doing.
To add insult to injury.\n-- Phaedrus
To err is human, but I can REALLY foul things up.
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you're overdoing it a little.
To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
To err is human, to forgive unusual.
To err is human, to moo bovine.
To err is human, to purr feline. To err is human, two curs canine. To err is human, to moo bovine.
To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish.\n-- Benjamin Franklin
To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human.
To err is human; to admit it, a blunder.
To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy.\n-- MIT Assasination Club
To err is humor.
To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.\n-- B. Duggan
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.\n-- Publilius Syrus
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.\n-- Arabian proverb
Truth can wait; he's used to it.
Turn the other cheek.\n-- Jesus Christ
Two heads are better than one.\n-- John Heywood
Two heads are more numerous than one.
Two is company, three is an orgy.
Two wrongs are only the beginning.\n-- Kohn
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.\n-- Thomas Szasz
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Walking on water wasn't built in a day.\n-- Jack Kerouac
We are what we are.
We are what we pretend to be.\n-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
We have seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and it's out.
Well begun is half done.\n-- Aristotle
What fools these morals be!
What fools these mortals be.\n-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.\n-- John Lilly
What one fool can do, another can.\n-- Ancient Simian Proverb
What we wish, that we readily believe.\n-- Demosthenes
What you don't know can hurt you, only you won't know it.
What you don't know won't help you much either.\n-- D. Bennett
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.\n-- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
When in doubt, follow your heart.
When in doubt, use brute force.\n-- Ken Thompson
When nothing can possibly go wrong, it will.
When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!"\n-- Turkish proverb
When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff.\n-- Chinese proverb
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.\n-- Lynch
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.\n-- Hunter S. Thompson
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.
When the sun shineth, make hay.\n-- John Heywood
When we talk of tomorrow, the gods laugh.
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.\n-- St. Ambrose
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.\n-- Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four"
Where there are visible vapors, having their prevenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
Where there is much light there is also much shadow.\n-- Goethe
While there's life, there's hope.\n-- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.\n-- Bernard Levin
Without fools there would be no wisdom.
Words are the voice of the heart.
Words can never express what words can never express.
Words have a longer life than deeds.\n-- Pindar
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?\n-- John Heywood
You buttered your bread, now lie in it.
You can drive a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can make a fool of yourself anytime.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool your Mom.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, and that is sufficient.
You can get everything in life you want, if you will help enough other people get what they want.
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.\n-- Al Capone [Also attributed to Johnny Carson.  Ed.]
You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.
You can move the world with an idea, but you have to think of it first.
You can never do just one thing.\n-- Hardin
You can't break eggs without making an omelet.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
You cannot see the wood for the trees.\n-- John Heywood
You get what you pay for.\n-- Gabriel Biel
You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?\n-- Joel Chandler Harris, proverbs of Uncle Remus
Zhizn' prozhit'--ne pole pereiti.\n[Life's a bitch.]\n[Well, okay.  lit., to live through life is not as simple as crossing\na field.  Happy now?]\n-- Russian proverb
"MOKE DAT YIGARETTE"\n-- "The Last Coin", James P. Blaylock
You may be marching to the beat of a different drummer, but you're still in the parade.
"World conquerors sometimes become fools, but fools never become world conquerors."\n-- "The Outer Limits: The Invisibles"
