Favourite Proverbs
 

Engage brain before engaging mouth.

As for me I guess (or at least hope) the jury is still out.

David

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVXsBn1pOw[/URL]

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. [LIST][*][URL="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_Fontaine"]Jean de La Fontaine[/URL], in [I]Fables[/I] Book VIII (1678–1679), Fable 16, The Horoscope[/LIST]

The devil makes work for idle hands.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Never ascribe to malice that which may be adequately explained by incompetence.

"At least, when I'm done masturbating, I've got a little something to show for it." - /George Carlin on voting/

the wolf lose your hair, if not find the egg sought

[QUOTE=cmd;217896]the wolf lose your hair, if not find the egg sought[/QUOTE]
He's crashed again.

Time wounds all heels.

lat_in
 

[QUOTE=Flatlander;217906]He's crashed again.[/QUOTE]

... omnes illo tendunt ad gaudium, sed unde stabile magnumque consequantur ignorant ...

[QUOTE=ewmayer;217915]Time wounds all heels.[/QUOTE]

The grass grows greener over the septic tank.

[quote=Flatlander;217906][quote=cmd;217896]the wolf lose your hair, if not find the egg sought[/quote]He's crashed again.[/quote]
I think he meant this:[B]
il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio[/B] ([I]literally[/I]: the wolf can lose its fur but not its bad habits) [LIST=1][*][URL="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leopard_cannot_change_his_spots"]leopard cannot change his spots[/URL][/LIST][quote=cmd;217919]... omnes illo tendunt ad gaudium, sed unde stabile magnumque consequantur ignorant ...[/quote]
but he zinged back with this Seneca quote (I think):
[URL]http://www.archive.org/stream/adluciliumepistu01sene/adluciliumepistu01sene_djvu.txt[/URL]
[quote]Oinnes, inquam, illi tendunt ad gaudium, sed unde stabile magnumque consequantur, ignorant.[/quote][quote]All men of this stamp, I maintain, are pressing on in pursuit of joy, but they do not know where they may obtain a joy that is both great and enduring.[/quote]Starting with a bad mechanical translation, I suppose, from this seat in the peanut gallery I call it a draw.