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“I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Category Archives: MONEY MONEY
Where the gold dust is, that is where the women like to be.
ASHANTI
http://www.archive.org/stream/ashantiproverbs00chrigoog/ashantiproverbs00chrigoog_djvu.txt
“This is a test, isn’t it? It’s like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you’re supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there’s a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels”
― Sophie Kinsella
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
– Giovanni Ruffini.
“Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he’d like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.”
― Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
– Mary Astell An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex.
To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
― Kahlil Gibran
“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Diligence, frugality, and perseverance, are the leading steps to wealth.
DOWNEY'S PROVERBS
PATIENCE
By Lisa Gorton
Stairs that rise to unused rooms, their amber afternoons:
hours that bear the weight – mahogany as patience –of a bed made smooth and leather-bound books sequestered
like shoes queuing – the wrong way – to step out.
A hundred years of slight Make not one hour of Right.
Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand. Japanese.
http://www.inspirationalquotes4u.com/japaneseproverbs/index.html
foto – sand mining at raleigh 2010
A wise woman strengthens her family, but a foolish woman destroys hers by what she does. Proverbs 14:1.
The husband cries out, ” I am hungry! I am hungry! " The wife replies, " Let the morning meal and evening meal be taken together." (Assamese) .
A taunting expression that is applied to women who in excess of economy seek to cut down family expenses to such an extent that suffering ensues.
"Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other …"
(Akinasu wa yome ni kuwasuna) Don’t let your daughter-in-law eat your autumn eggplants. Meaning: Don’t let yourself be taken advantage of.
http://www.linguanaut.com/japanese_sayings.htm
A certain man, on hearing that God would care for those who relinquished all their possessions, left his home and retired to the desert where he gave himself to fasting and prayer. On the third day of his retirement he observed many horses laden with baskets of bread passing over a distant highway. Seeing a loaf fall from one of the baskets, he waited and then cautiously dragged himself over the ground to the spot. Seizing the bread he began to eat. As he did so he re peated to himself: "Yes, it is true, God gives bread, but we must creep along ourselves to get it."
"Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other …"
foto – izzy foreal and his friends at the workers’ cottage 2010
The poor man sleeps upon a bed (without a care), but the rich man sleeps upon the stairs (for fear of thieves).
"A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs & Sayings: Explained and Illustrated from …"
Swears hourly by your name" means she makes great profes sion of love for you. Kashmiris frequently swear by the person or thing they most love.
foto – raleigh mists 2010.
The unequal man says " I have not an equal ”; (but the really great man thinks himself less than the least).
"A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs & Sayings: Explained and Illustrated from …"
De dinero y bondad, siempre la mitad.
Of money and kindness, always the middle.
Spanish.
foto – raleigh mists 2010
Nothing is profitable which is dishonest. Cicero.
Money made through dishonest practices will not last long.
Chinese.
foto – ulmarra yard 2010
The end of the song is money.
"The proverbs of Wales: a collection of Welsh proverbs, with English Translations"
With money in you pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well, too.
Yiddish.
foto – clothesline raleigh 2010
He cannot afford rice-gruel, yet he (drinks) toddy ! Extravagance in a drunkard.
Your eyes are full of intoxicating wine. You increase their power by applying antimony. Stupid ! Does any one ever place a weapon in the hands of a drunkard ?
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 