601.
 May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope.

602.
 May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you take be the bitterest cup of sorrow.
May you die without benefit of clergy;
May there be none to shed a tear at your grave, and may the hearthstone of hell be your best bed forever.

603. May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.

604. May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river twice in a year.

605. May your every wish be granted.


606. May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.

607. Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

608. Mere words do not feed the friars.

609. More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.

610. More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

611. Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

612. Necessity is the mother of invention.

613. Necessity knows no law.

614. Necessity never made a good bargain.

615. Need teaches a plan.

616. Never cut what can be untied.

617. Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.

618. Never marry for money. We’ll borrow it cheaper.

619. Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.

620. Night is the mother of council.

621. No man limps because another is hurt.

622. No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth.

623. No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival.

624. No time like the present.

625. Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

626. Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves.

627. Nothing is as burdensome as a secret.

628. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

629. One beggar at the door is enough.

630. One cannot shoe a running horse.

631. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

632. One flower will not make a garland.

633. One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.

634. One good turn deserves another.

635. One of these days is none of these days.

636. One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.

637. One swallow makes not a summer.

638. One woman never praises another.

639. Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

640. Out of the frying pan into the fire.

641. Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.

642. Patience is poultice for all wounds.

643. Patience is the best medicine.

644. People live in each other's shelter.

645. Pigs might fly, but they are most unlikely birds.

646. Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

647. Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
 Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

648. Practice makes perfect.

649. Praise the young and they will blossom

650. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

651. Procrastination is the thief of time.

652. Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.

653. Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.

654. Rags to riches to rags.

655. Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash off the spots.

656. Rats desert a sinking ship.

657. Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

658. Roasted pigeons will not fly into one's mouth.

659. Rome was not built in a day.

660. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

661. Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh.

662. Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll out ride the Devil.

663. Set a thief to catch a thief.

664. Silence was never written down.

665. Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

666. Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it.

667. Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

668. Small children give you headache; big children heartache.

669. Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves.

670. Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time
I am being carried on great wings across the sky.

671. Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.

672. Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

673. Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

674. Stars are not seen by sunshine.

675. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

676. Sweet is the wine but sour is the payment.

677. Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.

678. Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.

679. Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.

680. Tell me who you live with and I will tell you who you are.

681. Tell the truth and shame the devil.

682. The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

683. The best advice is found on the pillow.

684. The best thing about a man is his dog.

685. The big thieves hang the little ones.

686. The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully.

687. The comforter's head never aches.

688. The darkest hour is that before the dawn.

689. The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.

690. The devil looks after his own.

691. The devil seduced Eve in Italian. Eve mislead Adam in Bohemian. The Lord scolded them both in German. Then the angel drove them from paradise in Hungarian.

692. The fat is in the fire.

693. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

694. The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.

695. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

696. The great thieves lead away the little thieves.

697. The green new broom swept clean.

698. The hole is more honorable than the patch.

699. The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

700. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

501. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

502. A theory must be tempered with reality.

503. The only thing we learn from a new election; we learned nothing from the old.

504. The first panacea  for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the  currency is the second is war.

505. The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

506. It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

507. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

508. This great panorama of creation dates back to time immemorial. No one lives who saw it's beginning. No one will live to see it's end, Except God.

509. Lack of knowledge is darker than night.

510. Even the mightest eagle comes down to the tree tops to rest.

511. A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.

512. One goat cannot carry another goat's tail.

Those who walk together warn each other.

513. God has given principles to live by, But only you yourself can follow them.

514. A ripe melon falls by itself.

515. Unity is strength.

516. A comb becomes bad when it hurts you.

517. If all seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the path under the trees.

518. To punch with a strong fist, you need to turn over your hand.

519. A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.

520. A student doesn't know about masterhood but a master knows about studenthood.

521. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.

522. A bird is in the air but its mind is on the ground.

523. When the drumbeat changes, the Dance changes.

524. The bitter heart eats it's owner.

525. A stranger has big eyes but sees nothing.

526. A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.

527. A closed mouth catches no flies.

528. A drowning man is not troubled by rain.

529. A friend's eye is a good mirror.

530. A loan though old is not gift.

531. A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.

532. A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly.

533. A silent mouth is melodious.

534. A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

535. A tree falls the way it leans.

536. All things grow with time, except grief.

537. An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.

538. And old rat is a brave rat.

539. Appetite comes with eating.

540. Better give a penny then lend twenty.

541. Better wear out shoes than sheets.

542. Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.

543. He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.

544. Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

545. Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.

546. Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.

547. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

548. A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

549. It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

550. Man who sneezes without hanky takes matters into his own hands.

551. Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

552. I can resist everything except temptation.

553. There are two kinds of people in life: people who like their jobs, and people who don't work here anymore.

554. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

555. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

556. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up

557. Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

558. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement.

559. A verbal contract is not worth the paper it is written on.

560. Every garden may have some weeds.

561. A hedge between keeps friendship green.

562. Gardens, like money in the bank, accumulate interest as they grow.

563. A good garden is like a good book - you always enjoy starting it again.

564. If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

565. One who plants a garden, plants happiness.

566. April Showers bring May Flowers.

567. Gardens, like money in the bank, accumulate interest as they grow.

568. A beautiful garden is the work of the heart.

569. The early bird catches the worm.

570. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

571. A society is great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

572. Can't see the forest for the trees.

573. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

574. He that plants a tree plants for posterity.

575. Friends are flowers than never fade.

576. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

577. From tiny acorns mighty oaks grow.

578. Can't see the forest for the trees.

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

580. A friend in need is a friend indeed

581. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

582. Blood is thicker than water.

583. Advice when most needed is least heeded.

584. A hard beginning makes a good ending. –

585. A hungry man is an angry man.

586. A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.

587. A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

588. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

589. Children are poor men's riches.

590. Children should be seen and not heard.


591. Death always comes too early or too late

592. Every cloud has a silver lining.

593. Fame is a magnifying glass.

594. Fine feathers make fine birds.

595. Mad as a march hare.

596. Make hay while the sun shines.

597. Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

598. Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.

599. Many hands make light work.

600. May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

491. You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do.

492. Your chances of success in any undertaking be measured by your  belief in yourself.

493. The mind is the limit. As  long as the mind  can envision  the fact that you can do something. You can do it-as long as you really  believe  a 100 percent.

494. The hand cannot reach higher  than does the heart.

495. The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

496. Our aspiration are our possibilities.

497. If you tell the truth, you don’t have  to remember anything.

498. The more you sweat in practice, the less you  bleed in battle.

499. Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

500. Every country get the government it deserves.

481. If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

482. Time ripens all thing no man is born wise.

483. Wisdom is knowledge which has become  a part of one’s being.

484. I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do  and I understand.

485. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

486. Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

487. Some defeats are only installments to victory.

488. The man who makes no mistakes doesnot  usually make anything.

489. I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another  step forward.

490. To win ……you’ve got to stay in the game.

471. What we love  we shall  grow to resemble.

472. In life as in chess, forethought wins.

473. Do the next thing.

474. The wise  man avoids evil by anticipating it.

475. Experience is not what happens to  a man ; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

476. I’ve never been poor, only broke.Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

477. The key to most difficulties does not  lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.

478. Things turn out best for the people  who make the bets of the way things turnout.

479. The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

480. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

461.     Great hopes make everything great possible.

462.     The greatest potential of control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

463.     Fixing your objective is like identifying the North Star-you sight your compass on it and then use it as the means of getting back on track when you tend to stray.

464.     Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can  we accept as they are because we don’t feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

465.     The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

466.     If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

467.     Success is a journey not a destination.

468.     the journey is the  reward.

469.     There is always room at the top.

470.     Success is never final.

451.     Goals are new forward moving objectives. They magnetize  you towards them.

452.      Happiness is a conscious choice, not  an automatic response.

453.     Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others  cannot keep  it from themselves.

454.     Be happy in the  moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need , not  more.

455.     There are no great people  in his  world  only great challenges which   ordinary  people rise  to meet.

456.     People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are  determined to.

457.     You may get skinned knees and elbows, But it’s worth it if  you score a spectacular  goal.

458.     Opportunity is missed by most  people  because it is  dressed in overalls and looks like work.

459.     The key to why things  change is the key to everything.

460.     The farther backward you can look, the forward you are likely to see.

441.      The more  you can dream the more  you can do.

442.     When  I  look into the future, it’s so bright  it burns  my eyes.

443.     You do not  merely want  to be  considered just  the best. You  want to be  considered the only  one who does  what you do.

444.     Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes  small numbers formidable, procures success to the  weak and esteem to all.

445.     if you want the rainbow. you’ve got to to put  up with the rain.

446.     Accept everything about yourself-I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end- no apologies, no regrets.

447.     In every community, there  is work to be done. In  every  nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is   the power to do it.

448.     Every winner has scars.

449.     To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing. Be nothing.

450.     One needs to be slow  to form conviction, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

431.     The state of  your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.

432.     Chance  favours the prepared  mind.

433.     The one without dreams is the one without wings.

434.     Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking but rather ideas. If the ideas. If the  ideas  are good  cash  will somehow  flow  to where it is needed.

435.     Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

436.     It’s always worthwhile to make others aware  of their worth.

437.     I’ve had a lot  of worries  in my  life, most  of which never happened.

438.     As we are liberated from our  own  fear,  our presence automatically liberates others.

439.     One’s dignity may be  assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but  cannot  be  taken  away  unless it is surrendered.

440.     Most misfortunes are the  results  of misused  time.

421. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; Nothing on the earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

422. it’s not what you are that holds back, it’s what you are not.

423. We should not let our fear hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

424. You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want  to be.

425. We tend to get what we expect.

426. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what  you can do.

427. Confidence…. Thrives only on honesty, on honor,on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on  unselfish performance. Without them it cannot  live.

428. It is  in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

429. Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may master fortune  by accepting it.

430. Creative ideas reside in people’s minds  but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment-free environment and you’ll unleash a torrent of creativity.

411.     Only those who risk going too far can possibly know far one can go.

412.     Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood.

413.     Ther is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, There is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

414.     Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple awesomely simple, that’s creative.

415.     Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into  small jobs.

416.     You must have courage to bet on your ideals to take calculated risk, and act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

417.     A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between  does what he wants to do.

418.     There are no secrets to success. It is  the  result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure.

419.     Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

420.     A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow.

401.     You can’t wait  for inspiration. You have  to go after it with a club.

                            

402.     If you  don’t set goals for yourself, you are  doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone  else.

403.     Control your destiny or somebody else will.

404.     You miss a 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.

405.     The most rewarding things you do  in life  are often the ones that look like they cannot be  done.

406.     Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be  better than yourself.

407.      I am not bound to win, I am  bound to be  true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to  live up to the light I have.

408.     In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The  process never ends until we die. And the  choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

409.     Plan for the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of  your life.

410.     Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

391.     It takes a lot of courage to show  you dreams to someone else.

392.     Every really  new  idea looks crazy a  first.

393.     A man to carry on a successful business must have  imagination. He must see  things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

394.     I dream my painting and then paint  my dream.

395.      Vision  is the  art of seeing  the invisible.

396.      It’s always fun to do the impossible.

397.     Let us become the  change we seek in this world.

398.     All glory comes from daring to begin.

399.     The best time to plant a tree was  20 years ago. The second best time is now.

400 . The  discipline of  writing something down is the   step  toward making  it happen.

381.     When evil men plot, good men must plan.

382.     When written in Chinese, the  word crisis is composed of two characters. One  represents danger and the  other represents  opportunity.

383.     High achievement always takes place in the  framework of high expectation.

384.     Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

385.     Success is never final  and failure  it’s courage that counts.

386.     Once you have  a clear picture of your  priorities- that is values, goals, and  high leverage activities-organize  around them.

387.     when you get right down to the  root of the  meaning of the word succeed, you  find that it  simply means to follow through.

388.     Nothing happens  unless  first  a dream.

389.     What the mind can conceive and believe, it  can achieve.

390.     Imagination is more  important  than  knowledge.

371.     When you believe you can-you can!

372.     Happy people plan actions, they  don’t plan results.

373.     There are only two bequests we can give our children…..one is roots the other wings.

374.     The meeting of preparation with  opportunity generates the offspring we call  luck.

375.     It is only  as we  develop that we  permanently succeed.

376.     Do your work  with your  whole heart and you  will succeed- there’s so little  competition.

377.     When your desires are strong  enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

378.     Never leave  that till tomorrow which you can do today.

379.     When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

380.     Reduce your plan to writing…… The  moment  you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form  to the intangible desire.

361.     Time is our  valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and  spend  it rather than  invest it.

362.     Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

363.     The real voyage of discovery consists not  in making  new landscapes but in having  new eyes.

364.      A difficult times can be  more readily endured if we retain  the conviction that our  existence  holds a purpose a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

365.     Let me not pray to sheltered from dangers, but  to be  fearless in facing them. Let me not  beg  for the  stilling of my pain, But  for the  heart  to conquer it.

366.     In the power to change  yourself  is the   power to change the world around you.

367.     Always bear in mind, that your  own resolution to succeed is more important than any other  thing.

368.     You may have  a  fresh start  any moment   you choose, for this  thing that we  call  failure is not  the falling down, But  the staying down.

369.     Life  does not require us to  make  good; it asks only that we give  our best at each level of experience.

370.     Big goals  get big results. No goals get no results or  somebody else’s results.

351.     He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

352.     There is one quality that one must possess to win and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to possess it.

353.     Visualize this thing you want see it, feel it ,believe in it. Make your  mental blueprint and begin.

354.     Concentrate put all your one basket, and  watch that basket.

355.     Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before  which difficulties  disappear and obstacles vanish.

356.     The first step to becoming is to will it.

357.     I do not think is any other  so essential to suceess of any  kind as the quality of perseverance. It  overcomes almost everything, even nature.

358.     All who have  accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed gaze on a goal  which was high, one which sometimes  seemed impossible.

359.     He  who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and  fears  is more than a king.

360.     Your own mind is sacred enclosure into which nothing  harmful can enter except by your permission.

341.     Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

342.     Instead of going   to work on them  you go   to work on yourself. If  you   become, you  go to attract.

343.     The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends  encouragement.

344.     You become what you think about.

345.     People with goals succeed because they know where they are going…..it’s as simple as that.

346.     You, too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

347.     The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this : decide what you  want.

348.     We must consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the  dark to our success.

349.     The most important thing  about goals is having one.

350.     This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.