what's your favorite proverb?

your favorite proverb?

I have lots. One that I was thinking about the other day was...
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.

I have lots but here are only three

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

We start to die when we are born, and the end depends on the beginning.

One wise man went up against a city of warriors and brought down the stronghold in which they trusted.

Can fire be held in the bosom without burning one's clothes?

He who laughs last...probably not get joke.

try? there is no try. there is only do and not do

i like that fairy tale one...

At the end of the game the Knig and Pawn still go in the same box - i think it's spainish

Chinese:

Never choose a love on looks alone. You wouldn't buy a house for its paint.

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours"

Richard Bach.

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade, it cuts the hand of the person to use it"

Some anciet indian dude.

"An inch of time is an inch of gold. But an inch of gold can't buy an inch of time " < chinese proverb

"Wisest is he who knows he does not know"

This is not a proverb but a apparently a quote of Socrates. It is most wise.

Chinese proverbs that I like:

A book holds a house of gold.
Dream different dreams while on the same bed.
Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.
Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope.
One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.
Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.

this proverb
"Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope."
is a persian proverb I thought.

I like this one:

every cloud has a silver lining.

Chinese Proverb

"Man who lays woman on ground has piece on Earth".

hahaha, I liked the last one.

Chinese Proverb

"Those who know nothing, has no doubt."

"Whoever dares to be can never be weak."

I got that in a chinese fortune cookie, and I always remember it.