Never leave hold of what you've got until you've got hold of something else. - Donald Hertzberg

It is the danger which is least expected that soonest comes to us. - Voltaire

 

 

When you go to buy, don't show your silver.
- Chinese Proverb

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
- Michel de Montaigne

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
- George Herbert

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
- Benjamin Franklin

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.
- Author Unknown

Never put your hand out farther than you can draw it back again.
- Irish proverb

Don't give cherries to a pig; don't give advice to a fool.
- Irish Proverb

Consult: to seek another's advice on a course already decided upon.
- Ambrose Pierce

The wise man never loses his temper.
- Cicero

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
- Karl von Knebel

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
- Plautus

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. - Henry D. Thoreau

He who begins many things finishes but few.
- German Proverb

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson

He who is everywhere is nowhere.
- Seneca the Younger

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

Only do always in health what you have often promised to do when you are sick.
- Sigismund

Let no man presume to give advice to others, that has not first given counsel to himself.
- Seneca

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
- Immanuel Kant

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- George S. Patton

Never advise any one to go to war or to marry.
- Spanish Proverb

Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear, and the man from all sides.
- Russian Proverb

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Let everyone ascerain his special business and calling, and then stick with it if he wants to be successful.
- Benjamin Franklin

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
- Publius Syrus

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- English Proverb

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
- African Proverb

If you have no money, be polite.
- Danish Proverb