Slow and steady wins the race. |
Slow but steady wins the race |
The boy cried `Wolf, wolf!' and the villagers came out to help him. |
The gods help them that help themselves. |
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales |
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted |
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. |
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. |
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit |
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. |
There can be little liking where there is no likeness |
Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find - nothing. |
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves |
Union gives strength. |
United we stand; divided we fall |