・・・The collection of English proverbs[No,2]・・・

It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure.
When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
- Thornton Wilder

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard:
nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him.
- William Faulkner

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
- Aldous Huxley

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
- Aldous Huxley

There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArther

Everytime a child says, "I don't believe in fairies,"there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
- James Matthew Barrie

If you have charm, you don't need to have anything else;
and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have.
- James Matthew Barrie

I'd rather lose in a cause that will one day win than win in a cause that will someday lose.
- Woodrow wilson

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
- Oscar wild

Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it is good, you will find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
- William Faulkner

Do not buy what you want, but what you need; what you do not need is deer at a farthing.
- Cato the Elder

〔11-04/10/24〕

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