platitudes quotes

A dead man cannot bite.
-- Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey)

One good turn asketh another.
-- John Heywood

Set the cart before the horse.
-- John Heywood

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-- Lao Tsu

Beggars should be no choosers.
-- John Heywood

He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.
-- Scottish proverb.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
-- John Heywood

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are
correct.
-- Princess Irulan, "Manual of Maud'Dib"

Haste makes waste.
-- John Heywood

Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
[Confound those who have said our remarks before us.]
or
[May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]
-- Aelius Donatus

I know on which side my bread is buttered.
-- John Heywood

What you don't know won't help you much either.
-- D. Bennett

A word to the wise is enough.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

There's no such thing as an original sin.
-- Elvis Costello

Desist from enumerating your fowl prior to their emergence from the shell.

There is no fool to the old fool.
-- John Heywood

A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone,
all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
-- J. Hawes

The coast was clear.
-- Lope de Vega

A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.
-- C.E. Ayres

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
-- Benjamin Franklin

There's no such thing as a free lunch.
-- Milton Friendman

A man's house is his castle.
-- Sir Edward Coke

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

Let sleeping dogs lie.
-- Charles Dickens

A good scapegoat is hard to find.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
-- Carolyn Wells

After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.
-- Italian proverb

Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles
in the road.
-- Alexander Smith