Little pot,
Don't get hot
On the spot. [ Proverb ]
Don't irritate lions. [ Motto ]
Good goose, don't bite. [ Proverb ]
Stand firm, don't flutter! [ Franklin ]
Lawyers don't love beggars. [ Proverb ]
Leisurely, and don't lose heart. [ French ]
I don't know, I'm not in shape yet. [ Yogi Berra , when asked what size cap he wanted ]
Don't get me right, I'm just asking. [ Yogi Berra ]
A strong nor'wester's blowing. Bill!
Hark! don't yet hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pities them
Unhappy folks on shore now! [ William Pitt ]
In baseball, you don't know nothing. [ Yogi Berra ]
Look for squalls, but don't make them. [ Proverb ]
If you have time, don't wait for time. [ Franklin ]
What has been done don't do over again. [ Cicero ]
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. [ Yogi Berra ]
The facts don't agree with the statements. [ Cicero ]
Roasted pigeons don't fly through the air. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it
Is a proverb old, and of excellent wit. [ Longfellow ]
All the keys don't hang at one man's girdle. [ Proverb ]
A thing you don't want is dear at any price. [ Proverb ]
Wisdom don't always speak in Greek and Latin. [ Proverb ]
I don't know. They had bags over their heads. [ Yogi Berra , when asked if the fans that ran naked on the field were men or women ]
Luther's shoes don't fit every country parson. [ German Proverb ]
What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve. [ Proverb ]
Either don't attempt it, or go through with it. [ Ovid ]
He is a fool who thinks that others don't think. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Don't choose me because I am faithful,
Don't choose me because I am kind,
If your heart settles on me, I'm for the taking,
Take me for longing or leave me behind. [ Mark Simos, Take Me for Longing ]
Don't carry your head too high; the door is low. [ German Proverb ]
Peter is so godly that God don't make him thrive. [ Proverb ]
I don't remember leaving, so I guess we didn't go. [ Yogi Berra ]
Light another's candle, but don't put out your own. [ Proverb ]
Love your neighbour, but don't tear down the fence. [ German Proverb ]
Don't cast out your foul water till you have clean. [ Proverb ]
Greater and less don't change the nature of a thing.
If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the time. [ Turk. Proverb ]
Do not cry out to no purpose (don't bark at the moon). [ French Proverb ]
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. [ Dr. Seuss ]
80% of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in. [ Yogi Berra, on golf ]
Husband, don't believe what you see, but what I tell you. [ Proverb ]
If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there. [ Yogi Berra ]
If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer. [ Yogi Berra ]
If you are going to cheat, it's better if you don't get caught. [ Yogi Berra ]
You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope. [ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (Katniss Everdeen) ]
Stay at home in your mind, - don't recite other people's opinions. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Consider, I'm a peer of the realm, and I shall die if I don't talk. [ Reynolds ]
Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it should get blunted. [ Cervantes ]
Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once and have it over. [ Haliburton ]
Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt. [ Stephen Colbert ]
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
If you suspect a man, don't employ him; if you employ him, don't suspect him. [ George Horace Lorimer ]
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Rumor is like bees: the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Buy not what you want, but what you need; what you don't want is dear at a cent. [ Cato ]
Don't seem to be on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching. [ George Eliot ]
Political parties are the only places left to us where people don't talk politics. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them. [ Yogi Berra ]
Don't contend with words against wordy people; speech is given to all, wisdom to few. [ Cato ]
Don't drive at a fellow-creature, so long as there is a reasonable chance of hitting him. [ W. E. Norris ]
Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place. [ Alan Turing ]
If one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth: but trust and pity, love and constancy, they do. [ Dickens ]
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye, or a lie to the ear. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]
God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living. [ Amer. Proverb ]
In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. [ Yogi Berra ]
Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and don't daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. [ Emerson ]
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there. [ Yogi Berra ]
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
To do good needs no consideration; it is doubt that makes good evil. Don't reflect; do good as you feel. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Marta likes to talk about sensuality, but I don't think she would know sensuality if it bit her on the ass." [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Women are pictures, men are problems: if you want to know what a woman really means, look at her, don't listen to her. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Learn a man's limitations. If you make him bite off more than he can chew, don't get mad at him if he has to spit it out. [ George Horace Lorimer ]
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know it when you find it. [ Steve Jobs ]
Bring yourself up. Only you can do that. Don't bring others down. This does not improve you. This does not improve anything.
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it. [ George Eliot ]
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]
If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The one advantage of playing with fire is that one never even gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it that get burned up. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Was there ever anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe and the Pilgrim's Progress? [ Dr. Johnson ]
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. [ Beecher ]
I don't believe that the way to make a man love heaven is to disgust him with earth. Let us love all that is bright and beautiful and good in this world. [ Beecher ]
I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The junk you collect today is the garbage your children have to deal with after you die. Don't burden them with this. They have their own lives to live. Don't make garbage your legacy.
Women always want one to be good. And if we are good when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad and to leave us quite unattractively good. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have 'under' in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, I swallowed it. So sue me.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallowtrade; you must know where to find yourself. [ George Eliot ]
Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas. [ A. de Gasparin ]
If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes fill with tears when he thinks of the famous inventor of logarithms. [ Holmes ]
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]
I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, What was that?
! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. [ Lytton ]
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me!
[ Charles Dickens ]
A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker?
I don't know,
was the answer, what was the name of his other eye?
[ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]
Most people give up before they start because they think it is too hard, there is too much against me here, I can’t do this on my own, I don’t have the resources. I was on the back to work scheme when I applied. I didn’t have resources... It never occurred to me to fail. I always knew it was part of my destiny to do that thing. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show ]
If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars!
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]
I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me,
I said. I'm off the team, aren't I?
Well,
said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times.
It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother.
The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother,
stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother.
I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]