Respect

Some women demand respect, even if they themselves are disrespectful--Melchor F. Cichon

One-Liner Book of Wisdom

Compiled and arranged

By

MELCHOR F. CICHON
January 12, 2008
UPDATED: December 17, 2008

PREFACE


Wits, nuggets, one-liners, wisdom, and proverbs caught my attention since I was in college. This collection is a product of my long time obsession to have a collection of these thought-provoking words.

I am dedicating this work to Bing, and to my children. I hope this work will enlighten them.


Melchor F. Cichon

........Beware, there are some people who die laughing.

ABILITY
Response ability should be firmed up with responsibility.

ACCIDENTS
Accidents respect no precautions. Mel
Take the incident the positive way—you are a success; take the incident negatively, you are a failure.

ACHIEVEMENTS
ACHIEVEMENT: The product of impossibilities.
Achievement is not measured by the number of words spoken, but by the quality of works accomplished. Mel

ACTS
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Percey Bysshe Shelly

ADOLESCENE
Adolescence and snow are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

ADVENTURES
Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. David Grayson

ADVISERS
Too many advisers can unmake a president. Melchor F. Cichon

AGE
The arrogance of age must submit to the taught by youth. Edmund Burke

AIRPLANE
When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford (1863-1947)

ANGER
A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and who asks for it back when it starts to rain.
- Unknown.
A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.
- Unknown.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing well.
- Unknown.
A gentle answer quiets anger, but a harsh one stirs it up.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.
- Turkish Proverb.
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven.
An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity.
Is that the system?
- Robert A. Heinlein.
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
- Unknown.
A man that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green.
- Francis Bacon.
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good.
Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
- Henry Ward Beecher.
A thorn jacket is soon mended
But hard words bruise the heart.
- Unknown.
Always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson.
Anger [is a wind which] blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Robert G. Ingersoll.
Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
- Pythagoras.
Anger is a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
- Malabar Proverb.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
- Seneca.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
- Unknown.
Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.
- Clarendon.
Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
- Benjamin Franklin.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
- Buddha.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- Seneca.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than on anything on which it is poured.
- Seneca.
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
- Alfred A. Montapert.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius... and a lot of courage... to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacker.
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree,at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way... that is not easy.
- Aristotle.
As men in rage strike those that wish them best, [...]
- William Shakespeare, Othello.
Be angry, yet do not sin;
Do not let the sun go down on your anger.
- Unknown.
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
- Thomas A. Kempis.
Be careful of the words you say,
And keep them soft and sweet;
For you never know from day to day,
Which ones you'll have to eat.
- Unknown.
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
- Michael McGriff [Rev. Larry Lorenzoni, M.D.]
Blessed is he who doesn't show hatefulness over what is lost, but instead, shows gratefulness over what is left.
- Unknown.
Blowing out another's candle will not make yours shine brighter.
- Unknown.
Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.
Can you sentence a homeless man to house arrest?
- Unknown.
Consider, when you are enraged at anyone, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
- Shenstone.
Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it yourself.
- Unknown.
Don't ever slam a door, you may want to go back.
- Unknown.
Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Sr.
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
- Leo Buscaglia.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
- Malayan Proverb.
Don't try to have the last word. You might get it.
- Robert A. Heinlein.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
- Will Rogers.
Everytime you point your finger at someone, three fingers point back at you!
- Unknown.
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
- David Borenstein.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.
- Martin Luther.
Government employees (Bureaucrats) like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
- George Van Valkenburg.
Guests and fish start to stink after two days.
- Spanish Proverb.
Hate and bitterness are the only weapons wielded by the blade.
- Thomas Gregory.
Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat.
- Henry Fosdick.
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Having the right to do it doesn't mean it is right to do it.
- Unknown.
He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
- Unknown.
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
- Chinese Proverb.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
- Michel de Montaigne.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
- Walter Savage Landor.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it a someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha.
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Unknown.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- Marcus Aurelius.
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road, and the way is lost.
- Terry Brooks.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy.
I expostulated, but he replied: The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies;
that's fair. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
- Bertrand Russell. (Education and the Social Order)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein.
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
- August Strindberg.
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.
- Bob Dylan.
I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
- Unknown.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington.
If there be devils, would I were a devil,
To live and burn in everlasting fire,
So I might have your company in hell,
But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
- William Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus, V:1.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
- Unknown.
If we preached what we live, we wouldn't have to worry about practicing what we preach!
- Unknown.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb.
If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
- Emily Post.
If you judge people, you will have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Khalil Gibran.
If you step in a puddle, don't blame the puddle.
- Unknown.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
- Khalil Gibran.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath.
It is easier to swallow angry words than to eat them.
It is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.
- Chrystos.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
- Sally Kempton.
It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus.
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
- Francois VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.
- Mark Twain.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- James Thurber.
Love is an emotion a woman always feels for her poodle, and sometimes for a man.
- Unknown.
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
- Lord Dewar.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken.
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
- Anne McCaffrey.
Make sure your critics get maximum publicity at all times. Don't let them fade away quietly, sue, harass, and intimidate them to make sure their story is covered by the national press. Critics hate that.
- Unknown.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
- Isidore Ducasse, Comte De Lautreamont.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study.
- Francis Bacon.
Never appeal to a woman's "better nature." She may not have one.
Invoking her self-interest gives you more leverage.
- Unknown.
Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they will beat you with experience.
- Unknown.
Never say anything unless it is kind, necessary and true.
- Unknown.
Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.
- Unknown.
Never write a letter while you are angry.
- Chinese Proverb.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt.
Nonviolence is about speaking the whole complicated truth, the truth of our rage, the truth of our longing, the truth of our tears and our laughter, the truth of our smallest fears and our grandest dreams.
- Pam McAllister.
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.
- Henry Rollins.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
- Stanley Horowitz.
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your door for years.
- Unknown.
Raise your voice and your dignity is lowered.
- Melchor F. Cichon.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sydney J. Harris.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
- Cindy Clabough.
Respect is mutual, if you don't respect others viewpoints, chances are they won't acknowledge yours.
- Unknown.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
- Eric Hoffer.
Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don't say it mean.
- Unknown.
Show a little bit of your anger everyday instead of showing a lot of it on one day.
- Unknown.
Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.
- Unknown.
Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
- Unknown.
Speak softly and own a big, mean Doberman.
- Dave Miliman.
Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Lawrence J. Peter.
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
- Unknown.
Striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
- Thomas Carlyle.
The best way to beat your enemy is to beat him at politeness.
- Unknown.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world own shame.
- Oscar Wilde.
The continuance of anger is hatred.
- Unknown.
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.
- Bertrand Russell.
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.- Bertrand Russell.
The fire you kindle for you enemy often burns you more than him.
- Chinese Proverb.
The first myth of justice is that it exists (the second myth being that you can obtain it in court).
- FH, paraphrasing Dennis' Law: "The first myth of management is that it exists."
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- Seneca.
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
- Arnold H. Glasgow.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
- Unknown.
The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy. You cannot hate someone you don't care about.
- Unknown.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed.
The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
- Buddha.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
- William Sloan Coffin.
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
- Bede Jarrett.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel.
There was a guy telling his friend that he and his wife had a serious argument the night before. "But it ended," he said, "when she came crawling to me on her hands and knees."
"What did she say?" asked the friend. The husband replied,
"She said, 'Come out from under that bed, you coward!'"
- Unknown.
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
- St. Francis De Sales.
Those who are at war with others are seldom at peace with themselves.
- Unknown.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
- Unknown.
To belittle is to be little.
- Unknown.
To cool a hot attitude, apply nice. To melt a cold attitude, address warmly.
- Unknown.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
- Benjamin Franklin.
Treat anger like gold. Spend it wisely or not at all.
- Grandfather.
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are nice, but because you are.
- Unknown.
Truth fears no trial.
- Proverb.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaak Asimov. Salvor Hardin, Foundation.
War never decides who is right, only who is left.
- Unknown.
We boil at different degrees.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
- Charles Caleb Colton.
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
- Eleanor Roosevelt.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
- Unknown.
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
- Unknown.
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
- Pearl Bailey.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson.
When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.
- Unknown.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Sir Winston Churchill.
When you put somebody down, you have to be down there to hold him down.
You could soar high otherwise.
- Unknown.
Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it.
- Brigid Brophy.
Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?
- Kelly Nelson.
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
- Rosa Luxemburg.
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.--
- George Bernard Shaw, Great Catherine.
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
- George Bernard Shaw, Unsocial Socialist (V).
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- Booker T. Washington.
You never can tell when you send a word,
Like an arrow shot from a bow
By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind,
Just where it may chance to go! ...
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, You never can tell.

ANT
An ant hole may collapse an embankment. Japanese proverb

ART
Art must be parochial in the beginning to become cosmopolitan in the end. George Moore
The history of art is the history of revival. Samuel Butler

ATTITUDE
Do not boast that you never failed. Maybe you never tried.
Don’t bury the past. Plant it.
Don’t show that you are smart. Show only that others are more stupid than you.
If you cannot lick it, smack it. Mel
If you can’t get the bull’s eye, be contented with the cock’s eye. Mel
If you know how to throw a ball, be sure to know how to catch it too when it is thrown back to you. Mel
Resolve to be yourself, and know that he who finds himself, loses his mercy. Mathew Arnold
Those who keep looking down at the down side of everything will only develop a pain in the neck. Corey Narciso
Those who will always look at the stars will soon see no other things. Mel
Those who will always look up will develop stiff neck. Mel

BACHELOR
Bachelor: A man who has only one thing in his mind.

BANKS
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. Bob Hope.

BATTLE
The angry man will himself be in battle as well as in life. Samurai Maxim

BEAUTY
Black is beautiful. Anon
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. Anon
If beauty is skin deep, give me facial. April Ramirez
Skin-deep beauty is temporary; beauty from the heart is permanent. Mel
The only mender for a fading beauty is unfaded heart. Ella R. Rose

BIKE
A bike rests on its leg because it is too tyred.

BITE
Whoever can lick can bite.

BOYS
Boys are great, every girl should own one.

BRAVERY
Some are weather-wise, others are otherwise.

BREAD
No hard bread can withstand a glass of hot coffee.

BUSINESS
Whenever you see a successful business, someone made a courageous decision. Peter Drucker

BUS
A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast as when you are after it as when you are in it. Jonathan Sanqui

CAN
Place the empty can in its proper place while it still empty. It can break your back once it is filled up. Melchor F. Cichon

CATS
A lot of cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. Louis Armstrong
A cat will teach her kittens all the tricks, except how to jump backwards. Dutch proverb
After dark all cats are leopards. Native American proverb
Sometimes cats cannot catch rats because the way is greasy. Melchor F. Cichon
Cats have nine lives. Anon

CHALLENGE
Chasing a rainbow is nothing to be ashamed of as long as you have the means to do it. Melchor F. Cichon

CHILDREN
If you think children are innocent, try answering their questions. Melchor F. Cichon
It is easier to teach other children, than to teach your own. Melchor F. Cichon
She who has not born a child will never have a chance to pay her mother. Melchor F. Cichon
Some children are nails to their parents’ coffins. Melchor F. Cichon

CHURCH
A man does not have to attend church to be a Christian. English proverb

COMMUNICATION
The communication gap is the mouth that never shuts up.

COMPANION
A good companion shortens the longest road. Kurdish proverb

COMPETITION
In competition, what matters is not your victory, only your opponent’s defeat.
In competition nobody is a loser—in experience. Melchor F. Cichon

CONFLICT
If you cannot settle it at the battlefield, try it on the table. Melchor F. Cichon
If you cannot settle it by standing, try sitting. Melchor F. Cichon
If you cannot stand it, try kneeling. Anon.

CONGRESSMEN
The congressmen, who belong to the silent majority, belong to their spouses.

CONSCIENCE
Conscience is a thing boys don’t listen to. Anon.
In choosing which is right or which is wrong, let your conscience be your guide. But first seek advice from elders. Melchor F. Cichon

CONTENMENT
To achieve contentment when you cannot get what you like, like what you get.

CONVERSATION
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. Chinese Proverb

COURAGE
Courage without love is like a savage fool.

CORRUPTION
Even preachers are charged of corruption. Mel

COUNTRY
Free country can be as fertile as the dessert. Mel

CRITICISMS
Criticisms won’t hurt you unless they should.

CRITIC
The best critic is often times the worst writer. Mel

CROWD
A crowd is not a company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. Francis Bacon

CUP
A full cap must be carried steadily. English proverb

DAY
You will not appreciate the splendor of the day until you reach the sunset. Anon

DEATH
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer
It is better to be killed by time than to kill time?
Some men live by playing dead. Mel

DEBT
A bad debtor is one who knows only how to pay a visit.
Paying a debt is the test of true friendship. Mel
The hardest debt to pay is “utang na loob”. Mel

DELEGATION
The key to an effective delegation is follow-up. Mel
Delegation without freedom is oppression. Mel

DESPOSITION
It is the nature of human disposition to hate whom you have injured. Tacitus

DIET
Some diets last only until dessert is served. Corey Narciso

DIFFERENT
If you want to be different, act normally.

DIGNITY
Raise your voice and your dignity is lowered. Mel
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Masinger

DICIPLINE
National discipline is the prerequisite to national progress. Mel
Those who come first are usually those who come from afar. Mel
Those who touch a hot stove without a pad will surely get burnt. Mel

DILOMAT
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. Carlos P. Romulo

DISCUSSION
Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth. George Campbell

DOGS
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. Washington Irving (1783-1859)

DOUBT
When in doubt, don’t talk about it. Pia Batts

DRAGON
When dragon smiles, think of its fire. Mel

DREAMS
Do not be afraid to dream because it is the first step in fulfilling reality. Cynthia Siruma
Fulfilled dreams do no mean the end of one’s needs. Mel
In following your dreams, be sure to lead the right path. Gracel dela Cruz
To reach for your dreams, you might have to stand on the tips of your toes. Just make sure that you don’t step on the toes of others in the process. Corey Narciso

DRINK
If you drink, don’t drive. If you drive, don’t drink. Mel
Some people put what they drink in their heads, not in their stomachs. Anon

DRIVERS
Reckless drivers are often found at wrecks. April Ramirez
Some drivers are afraid of losing a space in the cemetery. Mel

EDUCATION
A good education is one of the golden keys that can open a door to success. Lovey Pamarano
A good teacher will bend you to her liking, but a better one will stretch you to your limits. Mel
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. George Macaulay Trevelyn
It is a sure thing that one who always misses his classes will miss out on his graduation. Emerson Mines
On graduation day, a proud student is usually equated with even prouder parents. J. Balauag
One sad part about leaving school is saying goodbye to your allowance. April Ramirez
U.P. has produced Ferdinand Marcos, Nur Misuari, Jose Ma. Sison and Ninoy Aquino. Melchor F. Cichon
When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket. Dan Show

EGG
A black hen lays a white egg. French proverb

EGOISM
An egoist is a person who does not respect my ego.
Do not let ego and pride overcome you. Elaine Lim Lu

ENEMY
Our enemy is stubborn. We are only firm.
Never trust your enemy. Mel

ENERGY
Some do not have energy to conserve energy.

EQUALITY
Atis, Manobos, Tbolis also eat, drink and have dreams like anyone of us. Mel
We are born equal in the sense that we are all free to be different.

EVIL
What is less evil is still sordid, however inconspicuous.

EXCUSE
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. Alexander Pope

EXECUTIVE ABILITY
Executive ability is the ability to get the credit of his subordinates.

EXPERIENCE
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Ben Johnson

FAD
FAD: Something that goes in one era and goes out in another.

FAILURE
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George Woodberry

FAITH
A believer can be imprisoned, but not his faith. Mel
To sacrifice for one’s faith is heaven. Mel

FALSEHOOD
It is hard to make falsehood appear true; worse to make truth appears false.

FAME
Fame gives to importance, which is not necessarily essential.

FAMILY
A daughter without a child is a bad debtor. Mel
A dreamy boy belongs to his mother. Mel
A wife, even custom-built, is not maid to order.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy
Children who never run out of alibis will someday outrun themselves. Melchor F. Cichon
Daughters do not pay their debts to their mothers, but to their children. Melchor F. Cichon

FARMING
You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Irish proverb
FEAR
The hardest fear to conquer is your own fear. Mel

FILIPINOS
Filipinos are worth dying for? Ninoy Aquino

FIRE
If you stay close to the fire, you will get more heat. Melchor F. Cichon, 1945-

FISH
Fish do not know they are fishy. Mel

FLATTERER
FLATTERER: A person who makes a flat person fell well-

FOOD
If somebody ate what you have cooked, thanks God somebody took interest in it. Mel

FOOL
You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

FORESTER
Forecaster can easily whether a storm.
FORTUNE
Behind every great fortune, there is a crime. Honore De Balzace
Everyone is the architect of his own fortune. Appius Claudius
Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes only God knows the reason. Anon.

FRANKNESS
It is frankness to speak straight from the shoulder. It is intelligence to speak straight from the head.

FREEDOM
The cause of freedom is the cause of God! William Lisle Bowles
To die for one’s freedom is great. But to die for one’s country is heroic. Mel

FRIEND
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
If you want to have a loyal friend, look for a dog. Mel
It is more disgraceful to distrust than to be deceived by our friends. La Rochefoucald

FRIENDSHIP
A friend is someone you can trust, someone you can turn to. Mel
A true friendship, when put to a test, usually gets an A+. Honey Alvarez
Back: Part of the anatomy your non-friend love to bite.
Be considerate to your enemies. After all, you made them.
Beauties in vain, their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the heart, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope
Better to trust an enemy, than a friend. Mel
Beware of your friends. They can be fatal. Mel
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. Solon
Crocodile’s tears are not worth a thinking. Mel
Do not be selfish in sharing your blessings to others because God has been generous in sharing His. Eileen G. Areglado
Envious people can either butter you up or cut you down to size. April Ramirez

FROWN
Frown can kill you softly. Mel

FUTURE
Looking back into the future is now a past tense. Mel

GAY
Gay, like any one of us, is a normal person. Mel

GIRLS
Sexy girls are no sex machines. They simply are girls to be loved. Mel

GOALS
It is those who set no goals in life who end up miserable.

GOD
God provides us options to select the best. Mel
God’s way is God’s way. God’s path is God’s path. Anon
Even God cannot change the past. Agathon
Obeying God than men is a cleansing endeavor. Mel
The unbeliever say” “God is nowhere.” The faithful declares: “God is now here.”

GOING OUT
Too much going out will end up in going without.

GOODNESS
Goodness is a beauty in its estate. Christopher Marlow

GOVERNMENT
As long as bureaucracy is run by men, corruption is not far behind. Mel
Congressmen who build private zoos out of people’s money should be celled to. Mel
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. Montesquieu

GRAFFITI
The writing on the wall is the mirror of mankind. Mel

GRATITUDE
Gratitude is the timid wealth of those who have nothing.
Emily Dickinson
To the generous mind, the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when ‘tis not in our power to repay it. Dr. Thomas Franklin.

GREATNESS
If you want to be great, follow the footsteps of great men. Mel
The prize of greatness is responsibility. Anon

GROUP
If you want to be a part of the group, learn to laugh at their jokes. Mel

GROWTH
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. Irish proverb

GUARD
Apparently, the knight in shinny armor who was supposed to sweep me off my feet got lost in the wood.

HAPPINESS
A little of what you fancy does you good. Marie Lloyd
Always engage in good conversation; it can make everybody feel better.
Behind the jokes of comedians is real sadness. Mel
Cheerfulness is contagious, but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. Maricel Antonio
Happiness is beyond dictation. Mel
Happiness is the man who does not know what he does not know.
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, rest your tongue. Mel
To be happy, never try to be someone you are not. Annabelle Lee Santos

HEADS
Sometimes, more heads are bitter than one. Mel

HEALTH
A healthy body: Physique. An overweight body: Phys-eek. Armiadel Cudal
A light heart lives long. W. Shakespeare
At the table, the poor count their blessings; the rich count their calories.
Doctors blame relatives of poor patients for sending their patients to the hospital on the brink of death, not knowing that the price of their prescriptions shorten the patients’ lives. Mel
Store up fats in your belly and you wind up a warehouse of idleness.
To a fat fellow: Much of your food goes to waist.

HEIGHT
No height is too arduous for mortal men. Horace

HELL
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo

HELP
If you help others, others will eventually help you. Mel

HEN
A black hen lays a white egg. French proverb



HEROISM
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. Grusppe mazzini
Yesterday rebels are today’s heroes. Mel

HISTORIAN
HISTORIAN: A chronicler who finds future in the past.

HISTORY
History repeated by a fool is fallacy. History repeated by wise men is historical event. Mel
The difficulty of history is, it is always repeated by wise men. Mel

HORSE
A tired horse knows how to run.

HOMES
Homes are built on the foundation of wisdom and understanding.
HONESTY
A public official whose honesty has never been questioned should not be fully satisfied unless it has also been mentioned. Justino A. Jabonero

HONEY
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. Kenneth Kaunda
HUMILITY
If you are a U.P. student, it is difficult to be humble. Anon.

HUSBAND
When a husband gives his wife a gift for no reason, there must be a reason.
ILLEGAL DRUGS
Drug addicts do not worry, except those who love them. Mel
Drug addicts never grow old. They die young. Mel.

IMITATION
A good imitation is the most perfect originality. Voltaire

IMPATIENCE
Impatience destroys dreams. Mel

JOB
The most difficult part of a job is finding it.
To do great tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and quite enough time. Anon.
To find happiness in one’s job, be sure that you work not for the salary but for the intention of doing it wholeheartedly. Aurora E. Silva

JOKES
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. Anon.

JOURNEY
A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath your feet. Anon

JOY
In the midst of joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of anger, do not answer anyone’s letter. Chinese proverb
The end of enjoyment are tears. Mel

JOURNEY
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao-tz (604 B.C.-531 B. C.)
A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath your feet. Anon

JUSTICE
It is better than ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. Sir William Blackstone

KILLJOY
Killjoy: One who brightens a party by not attending it.

KINDNESS
It is good to return kindness, but it is better to pass it on.

KISS
If you want to kiss the sky, learn to kneel. U2
If you want a lasting kiss, play a rugby---Melchor F. Cichon

KNOWLEDGE
The more you know, the less you understand. Mel
The more you know, the more you question. Mel

LANGUAGE
Language that hides thought is bad. Worse is language that substitute for thought.

LAUGH
It is easier to forget to laugh than to laugh to forget.
The most utterly lost of all days, is that in which you have not laughed. Chamfort
To laugh with someone is laudable, but to laugh alone is questionable. Mel

LAZINESS
LAZINESS: A waiter of orders. Mel

LEADERASHIP
A wise leader delegates; the inept dictates.
GOOD LEADER: One who works and strives for the well-being of his followers.
Good leadership is not pushing but pulling your subordinates. Melchor F. Cichon
The world has a natural leader, because of natural followers.

LEAK
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner. John Bunyan

LEARN
Learn more from what you already know. Melchor F. Cichon, 1945-

LIAR
The tragedy of a liar is not that others do not believe him but rather he cannot believe others.

LIBRARIANSHIP
LIBRARIAN: The binder of books and readers. Melchor F. Cichon
A library is a place to study and a place to look for a mate. Melchor F. Cichon
Don’t throw old books. They are history in the making. Melchor F. Cichon
To some students, the library is the best place to chat with friends. Melchor F. Cichon

LIFE
Boiler chicks live for 45 days, and they are useful. Some men live more than 45 years, and they are useless. Melchor F. Cichon
Fulfilling life means aiming to fill the unfilled half of life. Melchor F. Cichon
In the gamble of life, if you have nothing up in your sleeve, you will lose your shirt.
It matters not how man dies, but how he lives. Samuel Johnson
Make the best of your life. It is the only one you have. Melchor F. Cichon
Many people cannot live with life.
The game of life is not necessarily a rat race. April Ramirez
The most important part of being alive is to be able to enjoy the beauty of God’s wonders. Edmund Alviar
What matters between life and death are the contributions we have to humanity. Melchor F. Cichon
When a man is born, his palms are open. He closes them only after birth, but opens them again before his death. Melchor F. Cichon
When you learn to live with others, they will live for you. Paramahansa Yoganada

LITTER
A man who throws papers anywhere is a man of litter. Melchor F. Cichon
A litterman is a man of wastes.--Melchor F. Cichon

LOVE
“Sweet-heart” and “Honey-bird” keep no house.
A dreamy girl is always a dream girl.
A girlfriend or a boyfriend is sometimes one’s best accessory.
A god could hardly love and be wise. Publilus Syrus, first century B.C.
A loving heart is more precious than gold.
A loving person will have many friends.
A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.
A man may woo where he will, but he will wed where his happiness is.
A man who is in love with many will not marry any.
A mother’s love is best of all.
A mother’s love never ages.
A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of law.
A person in love will exchange even his life.
A person must first love himself before he can love others.
A silent love is dangerous. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
A woman in love is heedless. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
A woman in love sees no other colors but red and pink. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Absence is the common cure of love. Miguel de Cervantes
Affection blinds reason.
All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
All the world loves a lover.
Although you may not love a man, give him honor so that others will be pleased with him.
Although you may not love him, just don’t humiliate him.
An old man’s love is like a snail that crawls.
As good love comes as goes.
At times, love is a rainbow: it can be admired, but it cannot be touched. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Bad lovers always end up in jails, if not in hell. Melchor F. Cichon
Better a dinner of herbs where love there is love than a stalled ox where hate is.
Better a hut full of love and laughter than a palace full of tears and fear.
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Biting and scratching is Scots folk’s wooing.
Body weakens, but love never changes.
Boys: respect girls, otherwise they will dump you. Melchor F. Cichon
Calf love, half love; old love, cold love.
Can you hate only what a man did but not the man himself? Yes, if that man is you!
Cold pudding will settle your love.
Congruity is the mother of love.
Conquer your enemies with love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Cupid’s darts make a lot of Mrs.
Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you.
Don’t be so much in love when you cannot tell when rain is falling
Don’t fall in love with one who is not your social equal.
Don’t waste your tears to an unfaithful girl, she is nothing but a spoiled sweet potato. Melchor F. Cichon
Easy love is easily lost. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Even if we have nothing but banana as long as there is love.
Even the wisest man can be fooled because of love.
Even tigers can be trained by love.
Faults are thick where love does not pay.
Fear is stronger than love.
First love never dies. But people die.
Follow love and it will flee you; flee love and it will follow you.
Forced love is bitter.
God is love.
God loves even those who despise themselves. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Great achievements happened because of love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Guys do not love girls who love at purse sight.
Happy is the wooing that is not long a-doing.
Hatred is appeased by love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.
He that cannot hate cannot love.
He that does not love a woman, sucked a cow.
He that has no children knows not what is love.
He that loves the tree, loves the branch.
He that woos a maid, must seldom come in her sight; but he that woos a widow must woo her day and night.
He that would daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates closed friends.
He who easily falls in love is easily forsaken.
He who is unlucky in gambling is lucky in love.
He who loves his country is ready to die for her.
He who loves his lover can bequeath his throne. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
He who loves his wife can give her his heart. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
He who loves to the fullest suffers.
He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.
He who truly loves his mistress can leave his wife and children. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
He whom you love is the one who devours your liver; he whom you value most will make you weep.
Hot love is soon cold.
If a man has not started to love, he has not started to live yet. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
If a man truly loves, he becomes fearful.
If Jack is in love, he is no judge of Jill’s beauty.
If love commands, even in a storm, one paddles on.
If love is true, there is no need for many words.
If nobody loves you, it is your fault.
If you are really in love, you are ready to endure all sorrows and problems.
If you know how to love, you will also be loved.
If you love only one, that is the proper.
If you love several women at a time, you will end up marrying no one.
If you love the boll, you cannot hate the branches.
If you love, you will know life. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life. Agatha Christie, 1891-1976.
If you reject love, it will be gone when you look for it.
If your love is really true, be patient to endure.
If your love is true, nothing can stop it.
In love, there is always a lover’s quarrel. Melchor F. Cichon
In lover’s war, he who flies is conqueror.
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man is. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900
In the eyes of the lover, pork-marks are dimples.
In the game of heart, you must maintain the right pressure.
Inday, do not trust Nonoy’s promises for his love that is flowing is not as forceful as the water.
It is a dear offspring that is cut out of your own flesh.
It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new one.
It is better to have loved and lost than to have not loved at all.
It is easier to dam the rushing water than love.
It is easier to guard a hundred carabaos than to guard a woman who is in love.
It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Jealousy is the twin sister of love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Jove laughs at lover’s perjuries.
Let the belfry be thrice bent rather than lose the one I love.
Likeness causes liking.
Looks breed love.
Love and business teach eloquence.
Love and cold escape no one. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. Russian proverb
Love and faithfulness keep a king safe; through love his throne is made secure.
Love and hate are blood relations.
Love and leprosy few escape.
Love and lordship like no fellowship.
Love and vinegar are two dangerous things.
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
Love at first sight does not last long.
Love begets love.
Love begets love.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Love being jealous, makes a good eye look acquaint.
Love breeds problems. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love brightens up a gloomy day. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love can conquer you subtly. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love can raise you to Heaven.
Love can wait.
Love cannot be compelled.
Love causes sleepless nights. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love cements democracy. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love comes to a man by way of his eyes.
Love comes to the giants and to the dwarfs.
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), 70-19 B.C.
Love covers many infirmities.
Love creeps in the night. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love cures all people: those who give it and those who receive it.
Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Dr. Carl Menniger
LOVE Deep quarrel, deeper love. Melchor F. Cichon
Love delights in praise.
Love delights the most trivial things. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love does much, money does everything.
Love does not care to know the past to know its future. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love does not choose between the rich and the poor.
Love does not look back. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love eases pain. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love entertains. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love finds a way to another heart.
Love for one’s enemy is true bravery.
Love God more than you fear hell.
Love has its own rules where everybody wins. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love has reasons that reason knows nothing.
Love in its fresh bloom is sweet, but when faded turns bitter.
Love in small doses once entrenched is strong.
Love in small doses will not run out.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love is a chain whereby to bind a child to his parents. (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Love is a game in which both players always cheat.
Love is a great deceiver. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love is a lodestar of the heart. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love is a mixture of laughter and tears. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love is a sweet torment.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz, 1914-
Love is as strong as death.
Love is blind to blemishes and faults.
Love is blind.
Love is blind; marriage is the eye opener.
Love is born even before we open our eyes. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love is deceitful, when blighted by heat, it immediately withers.
Love is eternity. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love is fair
Love is forgiving.
Love is free.
Love is full of fear.
Love is known, yet unknown. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love is lawless.
Love is life.
Love is like a fire that burns the heart.
Love is like a magic spell that can capture a hardened heart.
Love is like a plant in the heart. It can bear leaves, flowers, and fruits.
Love is like a shower that waters dry gardens and brings to earth a flower that blooms, but cannot wither.
Love is like a spine in the throat; the more you scratch it, the more it feels deliciously itchy.
Love is like a well from which you drink water but into which you may fall.
Love is never without jealousy.
Love is not blind; it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon
Love is not found in the market.
Love is not just gazing at each other but looking together in the same direction.
Love is not only omnipresent, but also omnipotent. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love is not paid back only passed on. Nancy Pettit
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes
Love is shown by deeds, not by words.
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
Love is sweet when watered with tears.
Love is sweeter when spiced with loving words. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your won.
Love is the foundation in solving conflict. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love is the fruit of idleness.
Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
Love is the loadstone of love.
Love is the most important thing on earth.
Love is the one word that we use everyday, and the one word that words cannot define. Anna K. Schwartz
Love is the only fire hot enough melt the iron obstinacy of a creature’s will.
Love is the salt of life.
Love is the touchstone of virtue.
Love is the true reward of love.
Love is the unity of two hearts beating together as one.
Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship, and find out you still care for that person.
Love is without reason.
Love lasts as long as many endure.
Love lasts as long as money endures.
Love laughs at locksmith.
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
Love locks no cupboards.
Love makes a blind man see. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love makes a house a home.
Love makes a man. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love makes a wit of the fool.
Love makes all hard heart gentle.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
Love makes all men equal.
Love makes man a poet. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love makes one fit for any work.
Love makes the day worth remembering. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love makes the world go round.
Love makes you young. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love many, trust a few, and always paddle your own canoe.
Love me, love my dog.
Love needs no teaching.
Love obtained without hardship is easily lost and is not treasured.
Love of elders are always fresh. Melchor F. Cichon, 1945-
Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out.
Love opens the heart of iron-men. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love powers everything. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age. John Dryden.
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
Love sees neither color nor height. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love sees no ceilings, nor walls. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love sees no faults.
Love sees no faults; even the ugly, if love, is still the most beautiful.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. William Shakespeare
Love speaks, even the lips are closed.
Love suppresses hatred. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love takes away your mind from your work. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love tests a man. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love that comes too late, like a remorseful pardon slowly carried. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Love that is paid for is easily lost; love solicited on the knees is never endangered.
Love that is sudden quickly gets broken.
Love that was made pure by true and sincere feelings has a sweetness that will not spoil.
Love the babe for her that bares it. (Love her children too.)
Love touches all hearts. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love turns work into rest. Theresa of Avila
Love unexpressed is useless.
Love vanishes when you love to excess.
Love will creep where it may not go.
Love will find a way.
Love will go through stone a wall.
Love without end has no end.
Love without restraint ends all too soon.
Love without return is like a question without an answer.
Love your country if you do not want to be oppressed.
Love your enemies, but don’t love to hate them.
Love your fellowmen as you love yourself.
Love your neighbor, yet pull down not your hedge.
Love your neighbors, but don’t shower them with everything you have.
Love your parents as you love your God.
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. George Herbert, 1593-1633
Love, it’s wonderful. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Love, like death levels all ranks. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton, 1803-1873
Love, like plants, can make things beautiful when you spread it, but it simply dries up when you don’t use it.
Love, so that you will be loved.
Loved while he has wealth; ignored when he loses it.
Lovers are madmen.
Lovers feel they are always right. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Lovers have short memories. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended.
Loving you is like putting the rainbow between the sun and me. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-.
Loving your enemies is not difficult, what is difficult is to accept that you have them. Andrea Sandoval
Luck in love is not for everybody. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Lucy at cards, unlucky in love.
Man dies, but his love stays forever. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Man’s love has three or four parts; woman’s love is only one but very powerful.
Many a heart is caught in the rebound.
Many a man claims to have unfailing love, but a faithful man who can find?
Marrying easily will end easily.
Money is the sinew of love as well as of war.
More quarrels, more babies. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Never rely on love or the weather.
Next to love, quietness.
No folly to being in love.
No herb will cure love.
No love if visit is empty handed.
No love is foul, or prison.
No one is young or old in matters of love.
No other love like the first love.
No other love to a father’s.
Nothing can conquer love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Of honey and gall in love there is store.
Of soup and love, the first is better.
Old love does not rust.
Old love will not be forgotten.
One cannot be love and be wise.
One love expels another.
Patience with others is love. Adel Bestavros
Perfect love casts out fear. (1 John 4:18)
Poets dry their hearts in poems, not in passion. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Possess your heart with love and you will smile forever. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Puddings and paramours should hotly handled.
Puppy love lasts less than a year; platonic love lasts forever. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Pure love ennobles life.
Reject a man, but never humiliate him. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Rose smells sweeter when laced with love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Scorn at first makes after-love the more.
Secret love is a pain in the neck. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Secret love is an unpaid debt. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome.
She, who has never loved, has never lived. John Gray
Sound love is not soon forgotten.
Sunday’s wooing draws to ruin.
Superficial love is displayed only in times of calm, but true love rides over the waves.
Superficial love is like a shooting star; its beauty soon disappears.
Superficial love is like borrowed clothing.
Superficial love is like smoke that dissipates.
Sweet smile invites love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Sword cannot bend love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
The best smell is bread, the best savor salt, and the best love that of children.
The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The eyes of a lover are weak, for even pork marks appear as dimples.
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
The heart has to be wounded before attaining happiness in the field of love.
The last suitor wins the maid.
The love of a widower is like leftover rice; no matter how much you hear it, its coldness shows.
The love of one’s country is greater than love of parents.
The love of the old is like the snail that crawls; no matter how you put it aside, it will cling to the young.
The love of the wicked is more dangerous than their hatred.
The love of virgins is sweet like sugar but the love of widows is hard but mellow.
The more quarrels they couples have, the more children they have. Melchor F. Cichon
The new love drives out the old love.
The number and value of one’s gift do not measure love. Melchor F. Cichon
The purest love is that of a mother.
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
There is nothing so depressive than to lose a love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
There is nothing so sweet in life as love.
There is still love after 50. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
They love too much that die for love.
They that too deeply loved too deeply hate.
Those who love their enemies are true Christians. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Those who love their neighbors are near the grace of God.
Those whom we truly love we make them suffer.
Through love and faithfulness, sin is atoned for; through fear of the Lord a man avoids evil.
Time, not the mind, puts an end to love.
To be beloved is above all bargains.
To be loved, be lovable. Albius Tibullus, c.54-c19 B.C.
To love is like gambling, if there’s the possibility of winning, there is also the possibility of losing.
To woo is a pleasure in a young man, a fault in an old.
Too demonstrative a love partakes of dislike.
Too much love causes heartbreak.
Too much love sometimes destroys.
True love does not choose place or time.
True love involves no money. Melchor F. Cichonl
True love is coupled with understanding.
True love is friendship set on fire.
True love is nourished by sacrifices.
True love is sweet until the end.
True love never grows old.
True love shows in time of need.
True love shrinks from no one.
True loves involves no money. Melchor F. Cichon
Unwanted love is bitter than bile.
Use your third eye, if your love is a Miss Universe. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
War, hunting, and love are as full of trouble as pleasure.
Well thrives he whom God loves.
What a man desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.
What is love? Is it joy, or sorrow?
When girls woo, boys flee. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
When love begins, discouragement follows.
When love comes to Inday who is living in a tower, she will slide down the post.
When love is gone, sorrows take over.
When love is greatest, words are fewest.
When love puts in, friendship is gone.
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
When you are in love, you easily get lost. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Where love fails, we espy all faults.
Where love is, there is faith.
Where there is love, there is peace. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Where there is no trust, there is no love.
Whom we love best, to them we say least.
Whom we love best, to whom we can say least.
With love, everything is set. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
With love, you will have no quarrel. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Woman’s love can move a mountain. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
Worries are felt only after making love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
You always love your native land.
You can buy anything, but love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
You cannot live on love alone.
You cannot seize love by the sword, but by love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
You don’t need a doctor to know that you are in love. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
You might know better how to stop the sun from shining than to stop the love of a man.
You will know how much you are loved by the way you are welcomed. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-
You will miss the love of your parents when they are gone.

LOYALTY
*Loyalty ends when benefits starts to fall. Melchor F. Cichon
So long as there are people who are ready to die for their country, no bombs can stop their desire for freedom. Melchor F. Cichon

LUCK
When it rains, it pours. Anon
*Be sure to be inside your house when lucks at your door. Melchor F. Cichon,1945-

MAN
A few honest men are better than numbers. Oliver Cromwell
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon
If man can do it, women can do it better. --Melchor F. Cichon
It is useless to have a photographic mind if nothing develops.
Man grows old to become young. --Melchor F. Cichon
Man has his will, but woman has her way. Oliver Wendell Homes
Man is faster than cold, because he can catch it. --Melchor F. Cichon
Man is not praised in the promises he makes but in the decision he and actions he makes.
Man marries to be happy, not to be marred. --Melchor F. Cichon
Men can motivate, but women can manipulate. --Melchor F. Cichon
Men of few words are the best men. W. Shakespeare
Men of great deeds are lesser than men of great words. --Melchor F. Cichon
Other men will get the better of you, if you are not good at anything.
Some men, who raise their fists in public, rest in peace privately. --Melchor F. Cichon
The best man is sometimes the worst enemy. --Melchor F. Cichonchor F. Cichon
The errors of a wise man make your rule, rather than the perfections of a fool. William Blake
The mind of a perfect man is like a mirror. It grasps nothing. It expects nothing. It reflects but does not hold. Therefore a perfect man can act without effort. Chuang Tzu

MANAGEMENT
Advice to employees: Don’t take your vacation too long; your boss might not miss you.
An effective manager is no pusher but taker. --Melchor F. Cichonchor F. Cichon
Are you going to places or just being taken? H. F. Hendricks
Are you part of the problem, or the solution? --Melchor F. Cichon
Authority and responsibility are twins that should not be operated apart. --Melchor F. Cichon
Casual employees work permanently. Permanent employees work casually. Anon

MARRIAGE

A married man turns his staff into a stake.
A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
A good husband makes good wife.
A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth.
A good wife makes a good husband.
A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.
A groaning horse and a groaning wife never fail their master.
A maid marries to please her parents; a widow to please herself.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. George Moore (1852-1933
A man without a wife is but half a man.
A poor man gets a poor marriage.
A prudent life is from the Lord.
A wife is sought for her virtue; a concubine for her beauty.
A young maid married to an old man is like a new house thatched with old straw.
Age and wedlock tame men and beast.
An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
An obedient wife commands her husband.
An ox, when he is loose, licks himself at pleasure.
An ugly wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels.
As your wedding ring wears, your cares will wear away.
Be smart: Seek the advice of your mother-in-law even if you won’t take it. --Melchor F. Cichon
Because some men are generous, they have more children outside of their marriage than inside. --Melchor F. Cichon
Better be an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave.
Better be half hanged, than ill wed.
Better one house spoiled than two.
Choose a wife by your ear than by your eye.
Choose not a wife by the eye only.
Couples are said to belong to the peak level of communication: A silent hubby and a high-pitched wife. George Gregorio
Early wed, early dead.
Frequent remarriages give room for scandal.
Go down the ladder when you marry a wife; go up when you choose a friend.
He is an ill husband who is not missed.
He that has a wife has a master.
He that is needy when he is married, shall be rich when he is buried.
He who marries might be sorry; he who does not will be sorry.
Honest men hurry soon, wise men not at all.
Husbands are in heaven whose wives scold not.
If you make your wife an ass, she will make you an ox.
In choosing a wife, and buying a sword, we ought not to trust another.
It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles.
It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell.
It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.—Arab proverb
It is better to marry a shrew than sheep.
It is good to marry late or never.
It is unlucky to marry for love.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything.
Marriage are made in heaven.
Marriage is a lottery.
Marriage is destiny.
Marriage is sharing of blessings, not shredding them. --Melchor F. Cichon
Marriage makes or mars a man.
Marriage the happiness bond of love might be. If hands were only joined when hearts agree. Baron Lansdowne George Granville
Marriage the happiness bond of love might be. If hands were only joined when hearts agree. Baron Lansdowne George Granville
Marry a widow before she leaves mourning.
Marry first, and love will follow.
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
Marry in May, rue for aye.
Marry your like.
Mary in lent, and you will live to repent.
Mary your son when you will, your daughter when you can.
More belongs to marriage, than four bare legs in a bed.
My son is my son till he has got him a wife; but my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.
Never marry a widow, unless her first husband was hanged.
One wedding brings another.
She is well married, who has neither mother-in-law nor sister-in-law.
Something old, something new; something borrowed, something blue.
The first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.
The married man has many cares, the unmarried one many more.
The wife is the key of the house.
The wife is the speaker of the house.
The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward. Polish proverb
To marry once is a duty; twice a folly, thrice is madness. Dutch proverb
To some men, marriage is the end of their responsibilities to their wives. --Melchor F. Cichon
Two bachelors drinking to you at once: you will soon be married.
Two things do prolong your life: a quiet heart and a loving wife.
We bachelors laugh and show our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ache.
Wedlock is a padlock.
Weeping bride, laughing wife; laughing bride, weeping wife. German proverb
When a man marries, his troubles begin.
Where the mistress is the master, the parsley grows the faster.
Who has a fair wife needs more than two eyes.
Who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.

MARTYR
It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. Napoleon Bonaparte

MEMORIES
Concentrate on the present instead of dwelling in the past to erase your painful memories. Anon.
Memories: Pieces of mind put together in an album.
Bad memory is the best answer to forgetfulness. --Melchor F. Cichon
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful and a thousand times as true. George Prentice
Good memory cannot guarantee that you will have good memories.

MIND
The best consolation of a crocked mind is to see a crocked mirror. --Melchor F. Cichon
The mind of the young should be molded. The mind of the old should be kept from getting molded.

MINORITY
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. Martin Luther King, Jr.

MISTAKES
Mistakes are lessons that we should learn from. Alice Bautista Baesa
The man who can't make mistakes, can't make anything.--Abraham Lincoln
Mistakes are the fruit of risks, but mistakes can bear wisdom. --Melchor F. Cichon
Do not be afraid to commit a mistake because that’s the beginning of wisdom. --Melchor F. Cichon
Don’t be ashamed of committing a mistake because you can always charge it to experience. --Melchor F. Cichon
Erasers were invented because everybody commits mistakes. --Melchor F. Cichon
More mistakes, more lessons. --Melchor F. Cichon

MODESTY
We can never be modest with our modesty.

MONEY
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. Olivia Llanes
Money is not a good measure of self-worth. April Ramirez
Money is not the root of all evils. Evil is the fruit of money.
Money is the bridge between love and marriage. --Melchor F. Cichon
Money is worthless until you part from it.
The rays of money can blind even holy men. --Melchor F. Cichon
If money is the root of all evils, it can also be the fruit of all evils. --Melchor F. Cichon

MOTH
The moth seeks light even if he knows it can kill him. --Melchor F. Cichon

MOUSE
When a mouse laughs at the cat, there must be a hole somewhere. Norwegian Proverb

MOVIE
A bad movie has a happy ending; everybody is happy it is ending.

MURDER
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. George Henry Leaves

MUSIC
Worldly music seems healing to the heart but secretly damaging the soul.

NATION
This nation can be great again. Ferdinand E. Marcos

NATURE
We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein

NEEDS
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. George Moore (1852-1933)

NIGHT
Pushing a night is living dangerously. --Melchor F. Cichon

NOISY PERSON
The noisy person belongs to the middle class.

OPINION
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings and not by the intellect. Herbert Spencer
Everyone is entitled to his opinion, provided the opinion is acceptable to everyone. --Melchor F. Cichon

OPPORTUNITIES
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch
It is sad if when opportunity knocks, you are out.

ORATOR
ORATOR: A man who talks better than he thinks.

PAIN
No pain, no gain. Anon
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil Gibran

PAINTING
A lot of cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. Louis Armstrong

PARENTS
Parents are always ready to help their children to fill up their emptied glasses. --Melchor F. Cichon
Parents who shout at their children are often not heard. --Melchor F. Cichon

PATIENCE
Patience is sorrow’s salve. Winston Churchill

PEDESTRIAN
Be careful while crossing a street, otherwise you become a bumper sticker.

PEOPLE
Conceited people do not like to be corrected. They never ask for advice from those who are wiser.
People seldom improve, when they have no other model but themselves to copy. Goldsmith
The world is made of two people: the dreamers and the doers. J. Balauag

PERFECTION
Perfectionism is a serious symptom of insecurity. Sem. Joel A.Bernasor

PERSON
The difficult part of a soft person is to make him hard. --Melchor F. Cichon
PIT
Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it to his own size. Kurdish proverb

POEM
A real poem is one that gives different meanings to different people. --Melchor F. Cichon

POLICE
Police also listen to those who are victims of injustices even if they are poor. --Melchor F. Cichon
If some policemen can solve a crime, it is because they are involved in it. --Melchor F. Cichon

POSSESSION
We are not rich by what we possess, but rather by what we can do. Charina Anna B. Dojoles

POVERTY
Sidewalk people are not contended being sidelined. --Melchor F. Cichon

POWER
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Sir J. E. E Delberg
What are in power for?

PRAISE
Praise those who work in the night while others are sleeping. --Melchor F. Cichon
If you feel you need praise, you do not deserve it.
The most difficult to disagree with is the fellow who praises you.

PRAYING
Praying is believing that God exists. Rose Bonaobra

PROBLEM
Every problem has a corresponding solution. --Melchor F. Cichon
Every problem is a challenge for us to find the solution. --Melchor F. Cichon
Every problem is an assignment from your soul. Robin Norwood
Every solution is a possible problem. --Melchor F. Cichon
Do not be burdened with problems because their weight will make you strong. Kathrine Fortin
The best time to solve a problem is before it starts.

PROMISES
Promises are sweetest when they are left unsaid. --Melchor F. Cichon

PROSPERITY
Prosperity usually goes to a person’s head. More often it goes to his stomach.

RAIN
Rain is welcome with open heart in summer. --Melchor F. Cichon

RAINBOW
A rainbow is God’s way of smiling down at us. Honey Alvarez
If you are chasing a rainbow, don’t forget to look down from time to time, or you might trip and fall. J. Balauag
Learn to realize that you will always be between the sun and the rainbow. --Melchor F. Cichon

RATS
Even rats can save a lion. --Melchor F. Cichon
A rat that does not smell is a mouse.

RELATIONSHIP
A relationship is like a pair of jeans, the scruffier it gets, the more comfortable it is. Honey Alvarez
Both the teenagers and their mothers claim they don’t understand each other. --Melchor F. Cichon
Blood is thicker than water, but water is purer than blood. Bong Gutierrez

RELIGION
A man does not have to attend church to be a Christian. English proverb
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. G. K. Chesterton
Birds sing in praise of God. Rochelle Idea.
Christians will arrive in heaven, not because they are perfect, but because they are forgiven. Joanee Demate
Christmas is for the sharing of one’s bounties to others. --Melchor F. Cichon
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees. Douglas William Jerrold

RESTAURANT
Many restaurants offering shapely, savory dishes do not ask for cover charge, only uncover charge.

REST
If you don’t take time to rest, you will soon have the rest of your life in peace.

RICH
If you want to be richer, make your pleasure less expensive.
It is not what is in your pocket, which makes you rich, but what is in your heart.

RISKS
Risks make the world a better place to live in. --Melchor F. Cichon

ROCKS
Rocks have been shaken from their solid base. But what shall move a firm and dauntless mind? Joanna Bailee

ROOSTERS
Roosters even if they have the same feathers will always fight each other. --Melchor F. Cichon

SADNESS
The most important part of sadness is its opposite side. --Melchor F. Cichon

SAILOR
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. Leon Tec
The sailor cannot see the North -- but knows the Needle can -- Emily Dickinson

SALVATION
The only test of a soul’s salvation is its inward happiness. Lin Yutang

SATISFACTION
Satisfaction is a star that is beyond our reach. --Melchor F. Cichon
Satisfaction always seeks its highest point.--Melchor F. Cichon

SECRET
Two people always promise to keep a secrete.--Melchor F. Cichon

SELF-PITY
Self-pity is too much self-love.

SENIOR CITIZEN
An old-timer is someone who remembers every detail of his life story, but cannot remember how many times he has told it to the same person. Jet Agustin

SEX
The thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount is sex. Juliet Temporosa

SHAME
A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass. Colin Powell

SHIP
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. William Shedd

SHOES
The sole of shoes is sweet when coated with sugar. A Chinese maxim

SILENCE
A man’s silence can beak a woman’s heart into a thousand pieces. But a woman’s silence can give a man a thousand moments of peace. Malou Pimentel

SIN
All sins cast long shadows. Irish proverb
There is no sin except stupidity. Oscar Wilde

SKIN
The old skin has to be shed first before the new one can come. Anon.

SLEEPING
Sleeping is practice dying. --Melchor F. Cichon

SMILE
A smile is one of the cheapest things that you can share. Jesusa Swanie Zaragosa
Smile can please the Lord. Frown makes a devil smile. --Melchor F. Cichon
Learn to put smiles in good times and in bad times. Lourdes Priscila Lewis

SNOB
He who meanly admires mean things is a snob. William Makepeace Thackery

SNORING
Snoring husband is a menace to the wife if he has no means. --Melchor F. Cichon

SPIRITS
Those who err in spirits will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instructions. Isaiah 29:12-14

STATEMENTS
Broad statements are the product of a narrow mind.

STRENGTH
One’s strength is measured by doing the right thing. --Melchor F. Cichon
We are all like tea bags.
We do not know our strengths until we get into hot water.

SUCCESS
A minute’s success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
A successful person makes his failures as his strengths. --Melchor F. Cichon
Success and failures is a matter of opinion and attitude.
Success depends not on what you know but on what you say.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.. - Winston Churchill
Success is planned, implemented, and controlled, not just dreamed. --Melchor F. Cichon
Success requires persistence. Anon
If you want to go up, do down. --Melchor F. Cichon
If you want to start from the top, be a burrowing rat.
It does not matter how long a man lives, but how great his deeds are. --Melchor F. Cichon
It doesn’t matter what a man believes. What matters are what he does. Anon
It is okay for success to go to a man’s head, so long as it does not go to his mouth.
Others are faster than you because you don’t move fast yourself. --Melchor F. Cichon
Remember that even you are on top of the heap, you are still a part of it.
The road for the lucky is always the extra mile.
The road less travailed by can make a difference. Robert Frost

SUFFERING
All suffering prepares the sould for vision. Martin Buber
SUGAR
Even sugar gets bitter when it is overcooked. --Melchor F. Cichon

SUNSHINE
All sunshine makes the desert. Arabian proverb

SUPERVISOR
A rich man is like sugar. Many ants like to taste its sweetness. --Melchor F. Cichon
A supervisor who breaks her promises ia an eyesore.

SWEAT
No sweat. No problem. --Melchor F. Cichon

SWIMMING
You can’t tell who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out. Victor Kiam
TACT
If you want to be tactful, power your no’s.

TALK
Talk to your heart when the world can’t listen.
If you talk, don’t mulch; if you mulch, don’t talk. --Melchor F. Cichon
Talking to a yes man is nothing but a one-way traffic. --Melchor F. Cichon

TAX
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

TEARS
No tears, no smile. --Melchor F. Cichon
The end of tears is smile. --Melchor F. Cichon

THOUGHT
Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasure. Anon.

TIME
Wasting time is not a waste at all, if it is for the benefit of others. Ella R. Mesa

TONGUE
While you live, keep a good tongue in your hand. W. Shakespeare

TOOTHBRUSHES
Toothbrushes also need some cleaning. --Melchor F. Cichon
TRANSPORTATION see Specific vehicle

TREE

A tree will not rot if it does not grow worms internally. Kurdish proverb*
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather
The area a tree can cover is parallel to the area of its shade. --Melchor F. Cichon
Though the tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root. Malay Proverb
Truth is not stranger than fiction, only more embarrassing.
Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Nadine Gordimer
Truth looks good without makeup.
Truth never hurts the teller. Robert Browning
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal
We seek for the truth even though it can hurt us. --Melchor F. Cichon

TRUTH
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. Otto von Bismarck

TSISMIS
Tsismis is the fastest media of communication. --Melchor F. Cichon
Tsistmis breaks the speed of light. --Melchor F. Cichon

TURTLE
Turtle: Congenital stay-in.

TV
TV addicts: Remote control freaks. Armiadal Cudal

TYRANT
All tyrants do not reign forever. --Melchor F. Cichon
All tyrants are smaller than their tombs. --Melchor F. Cichon

UNION
In union there is strength, provided the leader is not corrupt. --Melchor F. Cichon

VALUE
You will never realize the value of a thing unless you lose it. Anon

VICE
Giving too much is a vice.

VICTORIES
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Charina Anna B. Dojoles

VIRUS
A virus can knock down a heavyweight boxer. Melchor F. Cichon

WALLPAPER
Being a wall paper is like being in an auction wherein no one is bidding. Emilie Cosme

WANT
To be free from wants is to indulge in don’ts.

WAR
In war, nobody wins. Only losers.
All wars are settled on the table. --Melchor F. Cichon

WATER
Water will always seek its own level. Anon
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. French proverb

WEALTH
Wealth is nothing but a decoration in life. --Melchor F. Cichon

WIFE
WIFE: A multi-purpose person. --Melchor F. Cichon
We know a wife who should work in a battery shop, she charges everything.
WIFE: A woman of all seasons. --Melchor F. Cichon

WISDOM
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Coloridge
I wish I had a wish that does not come true to keep me wishing for it. --Melchor F. Cichon
It is better to have kin wit than to have sharp tongue. April Ramirez
It is easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself. La Rochefoucald
It is easier to dispense words of wisdom than to apply them. Regina Pia
The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others as much as the profoundly ignorant. Colton
The wisdom of the age must be tested against the wisdom of the youth. --Melchor F. Cichon
Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald. Irish proverb

WOMAN
A nutritious dessert follows a beautiful woman. Anon
A woman creates an aura of mystery about her beckons to be discovered. Ninette O. Claudio
The ideal woman is one with a sound mind and a sound body.
The most successful women are those who are persistent and who work hard in the truest spirit.
To hate the woman who loves you is to love the woman you hate. --Melchor F. Cichon
Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power by their tears than we have by our arguments. George Savile
Woman is between a rose and an angel. Aaron Hill
Woman’s natural mission is to love, to love but one, to love always. Michelet
Women can do everything men can do better.

WORK
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis
Doing nothing is so tiring because you cannot stop and rest.
Every work is tiring, including doing nothing. --Melchor F. Cichon
Everybody wants to eat; nobody wants to wash the dishes. --Melchor F. Cichon
I planted, I sow, I reaped, I cooked, and somebody ate it. --Melchor F. Cichon
I saw, I came, I conquered. Alexander the Great
If you do not begin something, you will never finish anything. Emilio Dabaay, Sr.
If your world is dark and gloomy, turn to the Lord who is the greatest source of light. Mary Kristine Calimlim
Sometimes, something worth doing is worth overdoing. David Letterman
There are reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
There is always a place for the best. --Melchor F. Cichon
Those who attempt to do the impossible are often rewarded with results. Swannie Zaragoza
Work fast, but eat slowly. --Melchor F. Cichon
Work when considered a play is done overtime. --Melchor F. Cichon
Work as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow. Kurdish proverb

WORRIES
Do not worry when you are not sure of everything. You can always have the benefit of the doubt.

WRITERS
There are only two kinds of writers: the creator and the critic. --Melchor F. Cichon

WRITING
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Enrique Jardiel Poncala

YOUNG
We grow old to become young.--Melchor F. Cichon
Young people wish to grow old. Old people wish to get young.--Melchor F. Cichon

YOUTH
It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore, they attempt the impossible—and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck
If youth will always submit to the whims of their elders, there will be no revolution. --Melchor F. Cichon
The youth has the fire; the elders have the water. --Melchor F. Cichon