Eating while seated makes one of large size; eating while standing makes one strong.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.
Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.
Every road has two directions.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
The eyes are the window of the soul.
The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Fast Ripe, Fast Rotten.
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more and all good things will be yours.
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine.
A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.
A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich.
Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
Good fences make good neighbors.
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
A half-truth is a whole lie.
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like.
He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.
He who knows little quickly tells it.
He who knows nothing doubts nothing.
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.
If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings.
It is the great north wind that made the Vikings.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Judge not the horse by his saddle.
L'amour faite passer les temps. Les temps faite passer l'amour. 
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
Long absent, soon forgotten.
Man has responsiblity, not power.
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Never give advice unless asked.
Never write a letter while you are angry.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
Speak of the devil and he appears.
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
There is no flying without wings.
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
To change and change for the better are two different things.
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
Use soft words and hard arguments.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
All the hours wound you, the last one kills you.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
What the people believe is true.
What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
When spiders unite they can tie down a lion.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
Where there is love, there is pain.
Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
Words must be weighed, not counted.
Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Old habits have deep roots.
He who follows the river comes at last to the sea.
The hand that gives gathers.
In calm water every ship has a good captain.
The horse one cannot have always has a fault.
Shared joy is doubled joy.
He who fears finds a way out.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Optimum development occurs in an organism when it makes the maximum number of mistakes consistent with survival.
If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.
Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.
Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?.
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?.
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
A day without sunshine is like..., night.
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Honk if you love peace and quiet.
Remember, half the people you know are below average.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!.
If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Doubt is often the begining of wisdom.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
You can always tell a good idea by the enemies it makes.
It's never the technical stuff that gets you in trouble. It's the personalities and the politics.
Everything always takes twice as long and costs four times as much as you planned.
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free.
A real person has two reasons for doing anything ... a good reason and the real reason.
A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first.
A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene triangle.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Absence makes the heart go wander.
All men are mortal.  Socrates was mortal.  Therefore, all men are Socrates.
All my friends and I are crazy.  That's the only thing that keeps us sane.
All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
All things are possible, except skiing thru a revolving door.
All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun.  Money's just the way we keep score.
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
Always remember that you are unique.  Just like everyone else.
Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes.<br />Galileo: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.
Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it; get a larger hammer.
Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it.
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
Anybody who doesn't cut his speed at the sight of a police car is probably parked.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs.  The trick is to make one with none.
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Art is anything you can get away with.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
As Zeus said to Narcissus, "Watch yourself".
At least they're EXPERIENCED incompetents.
Be different: conform.
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate and captain of your soul.
Earth is a beta site.
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.
Every creature has within him the wild, uncontrollable urge to punt.
Every four seconds a woman has a baby.  Our problem is to find this woman and stop her.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
Feel disillusioned?  I've got some great new illusions ...
For 20 euro, I'll give you a good fortune next time ...
For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
I drink to make other people interesting.
Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in humanaffairs has always been dominant and controlling.
If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far.
If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, then a consensus forecast is a camel's behind.
If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z.  X is work.  Y is play.  Z is keep your mouth shut.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from?.
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Measure with a micrometer.  Mark with chalk.  Cut with an axe.
Micro Credo: Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift.
Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.
Naeser's Law: You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Guiseppe?  Everything he says is wrong.<br />GUISEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
Never hit a man with glasses.  Hit him with a baseball bat.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
Newton's Fourth Law:  Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
Newton's Little-Known Seventh Law: A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.
No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere.
No, "Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot".
Nobody said computers were going to be polite.
Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
OK, so you're a Ph.D.  Just don't touch anything.
Old soldiers never die.  Young ones do.
Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
Optimization hinders evolution.
Others will look to you for stability, so hide when you bite your nails.
Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.<br />Arnold's Addendum: Everything else causes cancer in rats.
Parker's Law: Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be.
Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
Real programmers don't comment their code.  It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue.
Real Users are afraid they'll break the machine -- but they're never afraid to break your face.
Real Users find the one combination of bizarre input values that shuts down the system for days.
Real Users know your home telephone number.
Real Users never use the Help key.
Scott's first Law: No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.
Second Law of Business Meetings: If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you will pick the wrong one.
Seleznick's Theory of Holistic Medicine: Ice Cream cures all ills.
Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
Spark's Sixth Rule for Managers: If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses.  When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.
Speak softly and carry a +6 two-handed sword.
Speak softly and own a big, mean Doberman.
The Computer made me do it.
The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously.
The problem with engineers is that they tend to cheat in order to get results.
We can predict everything, except the future.
We can defeat gravity.  The problem is the paperwork involved.
Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Weinberg's Principle: An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
What does "it" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"?.
What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
What I tell you three times is true.
What is a magician but a practising theorist?.
What is mind?  No matter. What is matter?  Never mind.
Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?  Who knows?  Who cares?.
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot?.
You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers.
You may be recognized soon.  Hide.
Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor: People are always available for work in the past tense.




















