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• Take advice as you would take a sandwich - with two big slices of doubt
• Take calculated risks.  Do it so is quite different from being rash
• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
• Take heed of a reconciled enemy
• Take ups and downs with equanimity
• Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most
• Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.
• Talkers are no good doers
• Teach, Don’t preach
• Team work … Better for all
• Tell me who you live with and I will tell you who you are.
• Tell me your friends and I will tell you what you are
• Tell the truth and shame the devil.
• That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest
• The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts
• The author who speaks about his own book is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her children
• The ballot is stronger than the bullet
• The bee is more honoured than other animals not because she labours, but because she labours for others
• The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
• The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
• The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day
• The best jokes are true
• The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way
• The best way to keep your friends is never to owe them anything and never lend them anything
• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it!
• The bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people
• The big thieves hang the little ones.
• The bow that bends too strictly snaps itself
• The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
• The broad minded see the truth in different religious, the narrow minded see only the differences
• The cause of events are more interesting than the events itself
• The cause of evil is our desire to be superior to others and our selfishness
• The cautious seldom err
• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions
• The child is the father of the man
• The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day
• The circumstances of others seem good to us, while our’s seem good to others
• The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo
• The clothes make the man
• The comforter’s head never aches.
• The condition of the human mind is such that mere acceptance makes even a wrong thing right
• The dark moment that a caterpillar calls the end of the world is the sun filled moment that the butterfly calls the beginning
• The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
• The earth provides, enough to satisfy man’s needs but not to satisfy man’s greed
• The egoist does not tolerate egoism
• The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions: 1.  When You’re ready for them and 2.  When you’re not ready for them
• The essence of all religions is one.  Only their approaches are different
• The essential in daring is to know how far one can go too far
• The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them
• The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
• The fear of hell is hell itself and the longing for paradise is paradise itself
• The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom
• The fewer our wants, the nearer we resembles the gods
• The fewer the words, the greater the profit
• The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children
• The first step toward solving a problem is to begin
• The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days
• The folly of one man is the fortune of another
• The fool says – “Tomorrow I will live - Today itself is too late - The wise lived yesterday
• The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion
• The girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play.
• The glory of great men should always be measured by means they have used to acquire it
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
• The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time.
• The great hope of society is  individual character
• The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
• The greater part of progress is the desire to progress
• The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them
• The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention
• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
• The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none
• The greatest temple of god is pure and sincere heart of man.
• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self sufficient
• The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world
• The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything;
• The harder we try, the luckier we are
• The hardest thing to learn in life is which bride to cross and which bridge to burn
• The heart of a fool is in his mouth; but the mouth of the Wiseman is in his heart
• The hole is more honorable than the patch.
• The human mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open
• The importance of education is not only in knowledge and skill, but it is to help us to live with others
• The ink of the Scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
• The kings reigns but does not govern
• The law must be stable, but it must not stand still
• The laws sometimes sleep, but never die.
• The less men think, the more they talk
• The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers
• The light heart lives long.
• The living need charity more than the dead
• The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons
• The love of money is the root of all evils
• The man that lives by hop[e will die by despair
• The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears
• The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings
• The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
• The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
• The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them
• The mind grows by what it feeds on
• The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted
• The more beautiful the snake the deadlier its venom.
• The more things change, the more they remain the same
• The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
• The more you say the less the people will remember. 
• The most difficult of man is to know one’s self
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
• The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness
• The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
• The nest security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other
• The night rinses what the day has soaped.
• The noble man understands what is right.  The inferior man understands what is profitable
• The one absolute, unselfish friend that man have in this selfish world,
• The one never deserts him, the one never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog
• The only alternative to coexistence is co destruction
• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change
• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it
• The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and doing good once in a year
• The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body
• The palest ink is better than the best memory.
• The pen is mightier than the sword
• The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last
• The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
• The poor is hated even of his own neighbour, but the rich have many friends
• The public be damned
• The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing
• The public have neither shame nor gratitude
• The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands, we should only spoil it by trying to explain it
• The raising tide lifts all the boats
• The reverse side also has a reverse side.
• The right man comes at the right time.
• The road to a friend’s house is never long.
• The road to victory is paved with flesh and bones
• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
• The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing
• The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
• The silence of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails
• The silent dog is the first to bite.
• The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention
• The solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds
• The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up.
• The speed of the boss is the speed of the team
• The sun also shines on the wicked.
• The sun will set without thy assistance.
• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
• The three foundations of learning :  seeing much, suffering much and studying much
• The three things most difficult are i) to keep a secret ii) to forget an injury iii) to make good use of leisure
• The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.
• The tongue is only 3 inches long and still it can kill a six feet height man
• The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lies
• The tree is known by its fruits. So also a person by his usefulness
• The trouble is that the car of tomorrow is being driven on the highway of yesterday by the driver of today
• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you have not thought of yet
• The truth will ouch
• The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it
• The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease
• The wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to reach heaven.
• The will of the people is the best law
• The winner never quits
• The Wiseman sees in the misfortunes of others what he should avoid
• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that ha s brought progress
• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read
• The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page
• The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than the merit itself.
• The worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works
• The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool
• There are heroes in evil as well as in good
• There are many things of which a Wiseman may wish to be ignorant
• There are no limits on our future if we do not put limits on our people
• There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes
• There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
• There are only a few people in world who have an insight.  Most of them are blind
• There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest
• There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – An enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly
• There are some defeats more triumphant that victories
• There are three marks of the superior man: being virtuous, he is free of anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave he is free from fear
• There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say, “well, here am I” and those who come in and say. “Ah, there you are”
• There are two ways of spreading light; To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it
• There is a close correlation between getting up in the morning and getting up in the world
• There is always one thing more to do
• There is no education like adversity
• There is no indispensable man
• There is no love sincere than the love of food
• There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness
• There is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves
• There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
• There is nothing permanent except change
• There is nothing so powerful as the truth
• There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
• There is time for all things
• There was never a good war or a bad peace
• There was no philosopher who could endure the toothache patiently.
• There’s always more fish in the sea.
• They just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
• They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think
• They talk most who have least to think
• They that know no evil will suspect none
• Think … there must be a better way
• Think much, speak little and write less
• Think what you will say, but do not say all what you think.
• Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
• Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated
• Those who are pulling on the oars don’t have much time to rock the boat
• Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse
• Those who differ upon reason may come together by reason
• Those who do not complain are never pitied
• Those who live for the world always loose their personal, intimate life
• Though a man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be make ignorant
• Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth
• Time is precious.  But truth is more precious than time
• Time is the one loan that no one can repay
• Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods
• Time to relax is when you don’t have time for it
• Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them
• To acquire knowledge, one must study, but to acquire wisdom, one must observe
• To act right, you have to look right and feel right
• To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different
• To be busy with a purpose is good. To be busy like an ant is useless
• To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step in knowledge
• To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant
• To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace
• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more helpful than to be forty years old
• To be simple is to be great
• To beg of a miser is to dig a trench in the sea
• To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life
• To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual
• To eat is human; to digest divine
• To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.
• To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
• To know is to be ignorant; not to know is the beginning of wisdom
• To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice
• To learn without thinking is vain.  To think without learning is dangerous
• To marry one is a duty, twice a folly, thrice is madness
• To quote a wise man is good.  To live by his teachings is better.
• To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle
• To travel hopefully is better than to arrive
• Too be humble to superiors is duty; to equals is courtesy; and to inferiors is nobleness
• Too many cooks spoil the broth
• Tough time never last but tough people do
• Troubles, like babies grow larger by nursing
• Trust is like a think thread.  Once you break it, it is almost impossible to put it together again.
• Truth is by nature self evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear
• Try Try Try  …  Do Do Do …  Now Now Now  !
• Two friends will not be friends long if they cannot forgive each other little failings
• Two is a company, three is a crowd
• Two men look out through the same bars : one sees the mud and one the stars
• Two negatives make a positive but two wrongs never make a right