You want no one to know it? Then don't do it.
Do not buy with your ears but with your eyes.
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
He that does amiss may do well.
You do not fatten pigs with pure water.
Beard and cloak do not make one a philosopher.
Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside.
We do not walk on our legs, but on our will.
Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
Do not let the cat watch over the bacon.
There is a deep sea between saying and doing.
Do not draw your sword to kill a fly.
Do not change horses in the middle of the river.
Do not drink from a well and throw a stone into it.
Any water in the desert will do.
Where there is no honey, we have to make do with treacle.
Think of many things, do only one.
...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me. Ella: If you think you can do it without getting lost.
Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.
We develop trust when we show that we are reliable, by doing what we say we are going to do to take care of that treasure, and then stepping it up by doing more, by anticipating problems and handling them before they even happen.
