— Mae West
If you enjoy the moments of your life, if you you give variety to it, if you give love to people around you, if you speak the truth, if you give a hand to the needy, if you give a sort of contribution to society, if you are righteous, in other words, if you do good deeds, this one life, can be enough to leave your mark.
However great our grief or disappointment may be, in the course of time it will lessen. In this sense... Read more →
A royal road to anything is a way of attaining it without trouble or effort, since a king’s way... Read more →
You will learn more by listening to other people than by talking yourself. Read more →
This is a play on words. It means quite simply that some people are wise and others are not. The... Read more →
It is very important to be punctual and it is very rude to be unpunctual. Sometimes... Read more →
To procrastinate is to delay, to put off doing something. Procrastinating – deferring things... Read more →
Here ‘practise’ means ‘carry out in action’. The moral is: Behave in the same... Read more →
This teaches initiative. Success is not achieved without an effort. ‘He that seeketh... Read more →
Bad news is an urgent matter and people usually write off at once to tell their relatives or friends.... Read more →
If a thing has to be done, do it now. Remember that Procrastination is the thief of time. Read more →
Moderation means avoidance of excess. Do not go to extremes. Read more →
The husband may bay, or even build, the house, but it only becomes a real home when it is made warm... Read more →
You will have plenty of time to regret that you were in too much of hurry to get married, for... Read more →
Those in love are blind to each other’s faults. Modern-day research supports the view that the... Read more →
This rather puritanical proverb warns us that eating should not be the main purpose of life. We... Read more →
People with a little knowledge are often unaware of their ignorance and are consequently easily... Read more →
Don’t try to throw more light on a matter that is already quite clear enough. Don’t try... Read more →
If we always tell the truth we are unlikely to contradict ourselves; but if we resort to lies we are... Read more →
The source of this is Acts, xx, 35: ‘I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring we... Read more →
No home is happy in which the husband is such weakling that it is his wife who gives all the orders. Read more →
We should all be optimistic, but ready at the same time to meet trouble and difficulties whenever... Read more →
Here ‘policy’ means ‘course of action’. If we have to decide on a course of... Read more →
To enjoy one thing, you must be prepared to put up with another. Read more →
You may not come off best in the end, so don’t laugh too soon. The following little incident... Read more →
Everything has to have a small beginning, so don’t be discouraged by your own... Read more →
Sometime “loneliness” is used instead of “solitude”. The saying... Read more →
If the husband wants his wife to be respectful and loving to him, he should be respectful and loving... Read more →
Beware of a man who is too extravagantly polite, for he is probably trying to cheat you. Read more →
A dark cloud that obscures the sun has brilliant edges – the silver lining – telling us... Read more →
Even the best of use are liable to make mistakes. Homer was the greatest of Greek poets. Horace, the... Read more →
The driver of a car must give all his attention to his driving. If you are a passenger don’t... Read more →
The horse pulls the cart, not the cart the horse. The proverb means that we should not get things... Read more →
In countries where water is in short supply it has to be carefully and sparingly used. By extension... Read more →
Here the verb ‘to cry’ means ‘to offer for sale in the street’. Barrow-boys... Read more →
Sometimes ‘dropping’ is used instead of ‘dripping’. The lesson to be learnt... Read more →
This was already a proverb in Shakespeare s time. In his Hamlet we find the first record of it in... Read more →
A person who asks a lot of questions will waste no time in passing your answers on to other people,... Read more →
In the days when horses were much used for carrying burdens no their backs, the animals that gave the... Read more →
A person who is hungry and has no money to buy food should not complain when he is offered bread and... Read more →
This is perhaps one of the most disputed ideas of modern times. The difference between a totalitarian... Read more →
‘Beauty,’ the dictionary tells us, ‘is a combination of qualities, as shape,... Read more →
Here ‘opinion’ is ‘public opinion’. Our actions are influenced by what other... Read more →
Man used his fingers for eating before forks were invented. The proverb is quoted as an excuse for... Read more →
This is good advice for wives. Keep your husband well fed and he will always love you. Read more →
The more hurry we are in, the more likely we are to drop an egg on the floor or spill the milk.... Read more →
You have no right to be generous till you have first met the demands of justness. You should not, for... Read more →
Knowledge cannot be acquired all at once; it must be gained step by step. Don’t try to spell... Read more →
It doesn’t do to be too curious or inquisitive. The projecting edges of the roof of a house are... Read more →
If a lie is not refuted immediately, it will pass from mouth to mouth until it is accepted as... Read more →
If you increase a camel’s burden straw by straw, eventually you will load him one straw too... Read more →
If we have had an unpleasant experience, we are very anxious to avoid a repetition. ‘Mr... Read more →
Be careful what you say and where you say it. There my be someone lurking on the other side of the... Read more →
Zeal is defined in The concise Oxford Dictionary as ‘earnestness or fervour in advancing a... Read more →
It is also the art of hoping. We must be patient and not despair. Read more →
Here ‘Jack’ is a name for a general labourer, one who does odd jobs and can turn his hand... Read more →
We feel more affection for our relatives and friends when we are parted from them. A proverb that... Read more →
Used by Sir Walter Scott in 1823 and still in common use in modern times, this proverb has a general... Read more →