#favorite proverbs

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I’ve had disturbing results from Inspirobot, lately. And with NeuralBlender.com images showing up on my dash, I thought I’d have a go at making my own.

[Image description: a 9x16 abstract image generated by A.I. app NeuralBlender.com, suggestive of two figures standing by a fire under a nighttime sky with stars and clouds. Above and to the left is the text: “Whoever brings you one story will take away two.” Description ends]

Starting small (and cheap) I went with the free tier, low res image, and typed one of my favorite Irish proverbs into the text box. Then I went into MS Paint, used the eyedropper tool to pick one color for the background (because the image is too busy for any text to be readable), and another for the text.

I like it. I may do a series for favorite proverbs.

(also, I don’t have worry if the website is stealing photos from other artists on the Web, and selling them on mugs. All images generated by https://neuralblender.com/ are under a Creative Commons-by license. As long as you credit them, you can use the images however you want (according to their “about” page.

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A Proverb That Changes My Life

Welcome to our journey around the world seeking wisdom. Today, we will learn wisdom from China.

Jie Chi | China

Hello, my name is Jie Chi, and I’m from China. My favorite proverb from my country is:

A single tree doesn’t make a forest.

What Does it Mean?

It means one’s abilities are limited, and if we want to succeed, we need other’s help.

Why Do I Like It?

I like this proverb because it changes my life.

How Does It Relate to My Life?

When I was a child, my father was very strict to me. Sometimes if I asked a stupid question, he would scold me. So I became afraid to ask questions and even refused to seek help. I made myself an introvert. After I married my husband, he noticed that and told me I shouldn’t close my heart. He let me know that it’s not embarrassing to ask for help. This proverb helps me grow more healthy and makes me more outgoing.

More Wisdom From Around the World

Did you enjoy this proverb? If so, you might want to check out some others from this series:

Wisdom From Around the World: Proverbs

Even Monkeys Fall

I Like Rumors

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It's often that a person's mouth broke [their] nose.

Irish Proverb (Daltaí na Gaeilge)

The flip side to: “A good word never broke a tooth.”

(This is just me refilling my queue with old faves, after being involuntarily away-from-keyboard).

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A good word never broke a tooth.

Irish Proverb (From Daltaí na Gaeilge)

I was reminded of this by that Spanish Graffiti post I reblogged earlier.

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Popular Wisdom Sayings And Great Daily Quotation

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. by Thucydides Words The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. by Blaise Pascal Qutations The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world. by V S Pritchett Sayings How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it. by Sophocles Tiresias Oedipus the King 315 Qutations Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. by Stephen Covey He can be lethal death. by Jerry Coleman Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it. by Jules Renard Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind. by Richard Bethell Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne England produces the best fat actors. by Jimmy Cannon I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. by W Somerset Maugham Only dreamers can teach us to soar. by Anne Marie Pierce I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. by Osbert Sitwell The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals. by Richard F Lovelace Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey. by Kristen Ashley Roth Meaningful Memorable Sayings And Wise Quotable Word good one liner

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Famous Long One Liners And Romantic Word

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking. by Joan Rivers Qutations At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. by Jean Houston Qutations During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh. by Bill McKenney Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society August 15 2005 Messages A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. by Euripides Alcestis 438 BC One liners To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. by Chinese Proverb When you sling mud, you lose ground. by Adlai E Stevenson Jr I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. by Victor Hugo Those who wish to sing always find a song. by Swedish Proverb Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. by Abraham Lincoln Music is essentially useless, as life is. by George Santayana There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. by Napoleon Bonaparte Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. by Henry David Thoreau Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater. by William Hazlitt One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. by E V Lucas I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. by Antoine de SaintExupery Meaningful Memorable Sayings And Great Word Nice Motivational Quotes

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Great Long Messages And Nice Proverb

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. by Malcolm Forbes Quotes There must be more to life than having everything. by Maurice Sendak Phrases If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. by Victor Hugo Phrases Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. by D A Battista Qutations Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives. by Willa Foster A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux by American Indian Proverb Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. by C S Lewis He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. by Benjamin Franklin The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. by Dolly Parton When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. by Josiah Quincy Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. by Mark Twain quoted in Mark Twain and I Opie Read 1940 Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark. by L B Walton Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered. by Unknown Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. by John Rogers If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. by J Danforth Quayle Inspirational People Sayings And Famous Saying nice sweet message

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Good Favorite Words And Wise Quotation

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. by Thomas Sowell One liners Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. by Wolcott Gibbs Quotes Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. by Spanish Proverb Sentences There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. by Ovid Sayings I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. (about the award ceremony, Atlanta Olympics) by Matt Ghaffari No one ever understood disaster until it came. by Josephine Herbst I know nothing about sex because I was always married. by Zsa Zsa Gabor Nice guys finish last. by Leo Durocher Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. by Euripides One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. by Marie Henri Beyle Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. by Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. by Hyman Rickover To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. by Steve Prefontaine A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. by Ralph Waldo Emerson Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. by Hesiod Cool Men Quotations And Wise Phrase negative friend quotes