Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
For proverbs are the pith the proprieties the proofs the purities the elegancies as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace to understand them a good.
Possessions dwindle; I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.- Latin Proverb
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.- Earl Shoaf