"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"A bird in hand is not as good as two in bed"

"War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left."

"Virginity is like a bubble, one prick and its all gone."

"Wife who often puts her husband in the doghouse soon will find him in a cathouse."

" A man who lives in a glass house should change clothes in the basement."

If Russian ones are acceptable then: "There is no such thing as an ugly woman - only bad vodka"

Saying rahter than proverbs

"I am that knackered I could sleep on a clothes line" ex girlfriend from Penwortham

Settle down and stop wandering around like a fly without a head - origin Bulgaria

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to Heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven.

The fly without a head is a known variety of the common house fly (musca domestica) in Bulgaria ;) Say hi to the wife.

"Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you."

"The only consistent feature in all of your dissatisfying relationships is you."

(Irish) sayings...

A bird never flew on one wing....

you may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb....

"Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots."

(stolen from demotivators.com)

Indeniablement!

LOL!!! Good idea!

One of my favourites... from : Lawrence of Arabia

Nothing is written 

Truly, for some men nothing is written unless THEY write it

·                Nothing is written.

·                Truly, for some men nothing is written unless THEY write it.

Simiilarly - "However far you've gone down the wrong road - turn back" Turkish Proverb :-)

LOL brilliant,..

One I use on my employees:

"If you started working on it when you started complaining about it, you would be done by now." (not sure who said it, or where it came from. I just picked it up along the way...)

Not sure why this one sticks with me? Might be the author

"Live life long... you'll be dead forever." (my father)

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ?

Too right – and another flipping freezing Winter after that.

I should copyright this

Ubi pecunia, ibi amor.

One arabic proverb I like pretty much says something like this:

One can defeat with a sword and be defeated by a kiss

Much more romantic than 'The power of the pen is mightier than the sword'.

R.

I like these ones:

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ship are build for.

There is no failure; either you succeed or you learn.

That's thoughtful, and it reminded me The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde:

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard.
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Thanks very nice one!!! 

Ready, fire, aim. 

BTW - I like this thread. Good idea Celeste!

"He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, and gold for life. In the end he traded life for sand."

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."

Thanks Nir :)

"C'est dans les vieux pots qu'on fait la bonne soupe"

"Love is the song, Life is the music"

"Mieux vaut avoir des regrets que des remords"

"Considérons chacune de nos journées comme un cadeau précieux"

There is no place quite like 127.0.0.1

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux"

"Que l'importance soit dans ton regard, non dans la chose regardée."

"Il faut rire avant que d'être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri."

" Le coeur perçoit ce que l'oeil ne voit pas."

Hear, hear !  R.

C'etait la marmitte et non le pot... ;)

Theres no place like localhost...

'Marmite' makes more sense.

"we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars"

                                                   oscar Wilde

also 

"we get too soon old and too late smart"

                                            a yiddish saying 

and 

"from your mouth to the ear of God"

                                An Arabic saying 

"Every dog has his (or her) day"

                          An Arabic saying

"learn from every man"

                           somewhere in the bible 

LOL! oups... ;)

My take on when the going gets tough: the 'tough' are gone!

On a maritime theme:

Don't sit waiting for your ship to come in, if you didn't have the courage to send one out :-)

Nothing exceeds like excess

The harder I try, the luckier I get

Imitation is the mother of invention

Rather a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy (Tom Waits)

Statistics don’t lie; people do

There but for the grace of God, go I.

"we will obey and we will listen"
          -The Bible. The fact that they did it the other way around lead to a lot of trouble.

"The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought no to do and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot"
           -Mark Twain

"The graveyards are full of people who thought they are ireplacable"

"sanity is not statistical"

"we all form our questions by the answers we want to hear"
           -Dr. House

Ïdiots are fun. No wonder each village wants one"
           -Dr. House 

Бързата кучка слепи ги ражда - the hasty bitch gives birth to blind puppies

Да бe мирно седяло, не би чудо видяло.

 If you had acted calmly, you wouldn't have seen a miracle.

Каквото посадиш, такова ще ожънеш.

За някой сватба, за други брадва.

I started liking this one since I became a dad:"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. "

Nice one about being pro-active:
"Build the well before you are thirsty"

And a last about not being scared to ask stupid questions:
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. "

One of my dad's favourite ones:

"You can bring the horse to the river, but you can't force it to drink".

My dad always uses this one when he's frustrated that I don't implement advice he's given me. As in I'm the horse, and his advice is the river...(-, I love that guy.

The version I grew up with is:

You can take a horse to the river, but you can’t make it drink.

An observation made many times by, in my case, my mother for similar reasons.

Ritchie

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen !

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Where there's muck, there's brass.

It's a poor heart that never rejoices.

“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”