To get where you want to be it is a good thing to know the route and to plan your journey. Aimless wandering might enable you to stumble across a suitable place but it is a highly inefficient method. Journeys are not just travel across the globe, we make many journeys in life: from birth to death, from ignorance to wisdom, from poverty to riches, from loneliness to love. This proverb tells us to be methodical, find a "map" and seek good counsel before embarking on any of life's journeys. Having noted all that, a life without a little aimless wandering would perhaps be a bit boring; after all some of the best discoveries in science and elsewhere have come by chance but the prepared mind can spot their value and take action.
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Proverbs store the wisdom of ages in short, memorable lines with several layers of meaning. This blog states a weekly proverb and explores its meaning. Sir Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister, war leader, writer, painter, historian, bon viveur, whose mother was a United States citizen, recommended that people lacking formal education to learn proverbs. "The Wisdom of Nations lies in their Proverbs... Collect and learn them". William Penn, founder of the State of Pennsylvania.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
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- He that counts all costs will never put plough to ...
- None so well shod but they may slip.
- A whet is no let
- A beard well lathered is half shaved.
- The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it.
- He that is too secure is not .
- A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.
- The fool wanders far, the wise man travels.
- He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace.
- Light your lamp before it becomes dark.
- Fall not out with a friend for a trifle.
- A disease known is half cured.
- The lower millstone grinds as well as the upper.
- The eye is bigger than the belly
- To spare at the spigot and let run at the bung.
- The last drop makes the cup run over.
- No point in crying over spilt milk.
- There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out...
- Don't bite off more than you can chew.
- The cow must browse where she is tied.
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
- The dog that trots about finds a bone.
- Always at it wins the day
- All's fair in love and war
- Good kail is half a meal
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