Do you know an old wise saying?

Question

can you please tell me an old wise saying.(or) what is you favorite old wise saying? i need to do an essay!

Answer 1

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

and my favorite is...

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Answer 2

Do or do not. There is no try.

                    -Yoda

Classic.

Answer 3

"Early to bed and early to rise

makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

Answer 4

Act in haste, repent in leisure.  Haste makes waste.  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  Better the devil you know than the one you don't.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  Common sense isn't common.

Answer 5

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:

      Fear God and keep His commandments,

      For this is man’s all.

For God will bring every work into judgment,

      Including every secret thing,

      Whether good or evil.

In Modern English (Message Bible):

Fear God.

   Do what he tells you.

And that's it. Eventually God will bring everything that we do out into the open and judge it according to its hidden intent, whether it's good or evil.  

Answer 6

What's the fastest way to a man's heart?

Through his chest with a big sharp knife!

Answer 7

A wise old owl sat in the oak.

The more he saw, the less he spoke.

The less he spoke, the more he heard.

Why can't we all be like that bird?

The early bird catches the worm, but what does the early worm catch?

Better late than never, but better never late.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Answer 8

if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just stay there.

Answer 9

Can't get blood from a stone. - unknown

Can't see the forest for the trees. - unknown

Charity begins at home. - Tobias George Smollett

Clothes don't make the man. - unknown

Confession is good for the soul. - Scottish Proverb

Genius is ninety percent perspiration and ten percent inspiration. - Thomas Edison

Give assistance not advice in a crisis. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)

Give credit where credit is due. - M. Floy (1834)

Good things come in small packages. - Aesop

Make hay while the sun shines. - John Heywood

Man cannot live by bread alone. - Bible

Manana (tomorrow) is often the busiest day of the week. Spanish (on procrastination)

Many hands make light work. - John Heywood  

May the wind be always at your back. - Irish

Rome wasn't built in a day. - John Heywood

Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

lots more here:

http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/

Answer 10

My favorite is "The road to h**l is paved with good intentions".  My mom said it all the time.  

I think it would make a great essay because there are at least two ways to think about it -

1) If you have good intentions but never act on them, it's no better than having bad intentions.  

2) Having good intentions isn't good enough - if you do something bad hoping something good will come of it, it's still bad (like if you stole something meaning to give money to poor people, you're still hurting the person you stole from even though your intentions are good).

You could write about one or both of those interpretations, or probably even come up with more of your own.