Book of Wise Sayings | Page 9

their turn, but they will render no assistance in time of actual need.
Talmud.
178.
Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman's time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage.
Aristophanes.
179.
Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.
Omar Khayyám.
180.
When thou utterest not a word thou hast laid thy hand upon it; when thou hast uttered it, it hath laid its hand on thee.
Sa'dí.
181.
To the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason, the answer that best beseemeth thee is--silence.
Nizámí.
182.
The man who talketh much and never acteth will not be held in reputation by anyone.
Firdausí.
183.
Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.
Mágha.
184.
The worse the ill that fate on noble souls Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow.
Hindu Drama.
185.
Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness; 'Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for 'tis the key of gladness.
Turkish.
186.
Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about "the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind." The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason.
Egerton Smith.
187.
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
Herodotus.
188.
Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable.
Longinus.
189.
He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish every thing by diligence and labour.
Menander.
190.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Juvenal.
191.
In one short verse I here express The sum of tomes of sacred lore: Beneficence is righteousness, Oppression's sin's malignant core.
Sanskrit.
192.
A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful--a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart.
Mahábhárata.
193.
To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.
Hitopadesa.
194.
All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore should her husband honour her.
Talmud.
195.
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
Goethe.
196.
All that is old is not therefore necessarily excellent; all that is new is not despicable on that account alone. Let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation; blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others.
Hindu Drama.
197.
One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler's shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious.
Barnaby Rich.
198.
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
Goethe.
199.
The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.
Persian.
200.
She is a wife who is notable in her house; she is a wife who beareth children; she is a wife whose husband is as her life; she is a wife who is obedient to her lord. The wife is half the man; a wife is man's dearest friend; a wife is the source of his religion, his worldly profit, and his love. He who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house. Those who have wives are blest with good fortune. Wives are friends, who, by their kind and gentle speech, soothe you in your retirement. In your distresses they are as mothers, and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life.
Mahábhárata.
201.
He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away.
Talmud.
202.
While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified