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| #8994 | | An idle mind is worth two in the bush.
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| #8995 | | An ounce of clear truth is worth a pound of obfuscation.
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| #8996 | | An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
-- Michael Korda
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| #8997 | | An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
-- Spanish proverb
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| #8998 | | "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge."
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| #8999 | | And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.
-- Isaiah 56:12, New Standard Version
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| #9000 | | Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
-- Proverbs, 26:5
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| #9001 | | Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche --
a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my
grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off the fence."
I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
-- Solomon Short
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| #9002 | | Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.
-- Sydney J. Harris
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| #9003 | | Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere.
Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain.
From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
-- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune"
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