Phrase Wars

Have you ever had a "discussion" and/or debate where you used a "phrase" or common saying to support your side? Have you ever had a saying thrown back in return?
This page is an attempt to get several of these opposite sayings in one place to, if anything, make us think of what the meaning of the phrases we use are. No phrase is given higher preference over another because it is above or below the other, I've used them all in the past, they are just written down as I think of them.
If you have any other phrases, EMail them to me ;-)

Some of Gabes' other pages:

HomePage, the starting point.
Links of interest
Quotes that I found interesting

-/ "Look before you leap"
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal, but by degrees."

Shakespeare, Othello
-/ "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

Jean-Jaques Rousseau
\- "He who hesitates is lost"
\- "While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."

Publilius Syrus
\- "The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When the fox preaches, look to the geese."

German Proverb
-/ "Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He might not have one."

Long's notes

-/ "Best laid plans of mice and men."
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"Kings have long arms, but misfortune longer; let none think themselves out of reach."

Benjamin Franklin
\- "Fate is not what is but what we make."

John Connor to mother, "Terminator"

"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."

John Dryden
\- "The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Choas often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Henry Adams
\- "A place for everything and everything in its place."

Samuel Smiles

"Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please."

Benjamin Franklin
-/ "An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do."

Michael Josephson
\- "You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice"

Sonya Friedman

-/ "20/20 Hindsight"
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

So/ren Kierkesgaard

-/ "Do not fix what isn't broken."
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"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

William Blake
\- "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator."

Francis Bacon

-/ "Ignorance is bliss"
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"Be not curious in unnecessary matters."

Apocrypha
-/ "Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."

Elbert Hubbard
| "Expert: Knows more and more about less and less"
\- "For knowledge, too, is itself power."

Francis Bacon

-/ "Money can't buy you happiness"
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"Money can't buy you happiness, but wouldn't you like to find out for yourselves?"

W. Royster
\- "Theres are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."

Logan Pearsall Smith

-/ "A penny saved is a penny earned"
\- "You have to spend money to earn money"
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"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."

Francis Bacon

-/ "Necessity is the mother of invention"
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"Necessity never made a good bargain"

Benjamin Franklin

-/ "Don't do today what you can do tomorrow."
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"Procrastination of vital tasks is a close relative of incompetence and a handmaiden of inefficiency."

R. Alec MacKenzie

(Dangerous religous terrain, no offense intended... )

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