Remember that writing things down makes them real; that it is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know; and, most of all, that even in our post-postmodern era, writing has a moral purpose. With twenty-six shapes arranged in varying patte...
The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possi...
The water can only flow thanks to the well.
Only death itself can end our hope.
No man can serve two masters. Luc. 16.13
A good cock can never have too many hens.
No man can paddle two canoes at the same time.
Only heaven can see the back of a sparrow.
A silver hammer can open an iron gate.
A patient woman can roast an ox with a lantern.
You can lean on a bamboo stick, but not on a rope.
The barrel can only yield the wine that's in it.
A small house can lodge a hundred friends.
Two small antelopes can beat a big one.
The rich eat when they want, the poor when they can.
Even a fool can govern if nothing happens.
Small molehills can turn carriages over.
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
Sharing the figs can leave you with none at all.
Nobody can rest in his own shadow.
The full person can not understand the needs of the hungry.
