A stitch in time saves nine.
Experience teaches that this advice is both figurative and literal. Consequently every well equipped household should include a sewing machine, and people who know how to use it.
It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you are not.
(most people are hated by someone regardless though)
It's better to be unaccompanied than to be badly accompanied.
It is better to walk alone, than to walk with a crowd that is going in the wrong direction.
It is better to own a diamond with a flaw than to own a pebble without one.
Don't dine where you defecate!
Don't swat flies with sledgehammers!
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Free people aren't beholden to anyone, and are only accountable to themselves.
Having enemies is the excellent consequence of having stood up for something, sometime, in life.
It doesn't rain every day.
It is good to know, how not to know, how much one is knowing.
A lie can travel half way around the world before the truth has had time to get its underwear on.
Never expect empathy, understanding, or compassion, but welcome it; if, when, and where you may find it.
Never let "them" see you sweat!
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
One can only step forward from where one stands right now.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
A single flaw cannot obscure the splendor of the jade.
Tomorrow isn't promised to anyone.
Welcome to the nerd age of humankind ™.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Theoretical Physicist, 1921 Nobel Prize Winner
Never let them see you sweat!
Comedienne
Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who's more youer than you.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Author, Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Playwright
Once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder.
Queen of Thorns
