What are some people's favorite proverbs/sayings?

When the apple is ripe, it will fall
I am so tired of seeing parents at the rink I skate at push their children into something they either don't want to do at all or just aren't ready for. If a kid wants to skate just for fun, don't make them compete if for no other reason than it costs money you don't need to spend and tends to make the child miserable.

And I don't think this one is a proverb but it was on a button I got at navy pier and thought it was great: those who dance are often thought fools by those who can't hear the music

Don't judge a book by it's cover.

And/or

Don't judge a picture by it's frame.

Ok here are a few:

"The early bird catches the most worm. ' Meaning when you are early for something, you always here and get everything.

"The sky is the limit. " It says it all the sky is the limit so do not aim for anything low because you ca achieve anything because the sky is the limit.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. " It speaks for itself.

I think my favorite is " no one is worth your tears and if they are, they would never make you cry in the first place"...wish I could believe that but I've always loved the saying

Oh Nashie... Lets see... Mine is " I know you are but what am I" and " I rubber and you are glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you" HA!!!! I love those darn Brady Kids!!

Show me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are! Most of the times this saying is so true! And also it takes one to know one - when people don't make an effort nothing really happens!

My mom always says what goes around comes around, and I know that it is so true. That is the most truthful and helpful one in my opinion.

Heres one that I love.
"He who can see the invisible, can do the impossible. " He can be changed to she for girls hehe I have done that a lot.

Everyone walks to the beat of their own drum. Everyone has a song in their heart.

I always liked this one from Vince Lombardi:
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all"

My favorite is from Ronald Reagan:
"There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit"

Well you can't forget these:

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

almost only counts in horse shoes and grenade's

Take it to the mattress's (gotta love the godfather)

where there is a will, there is a way


-------Just to name a few of the ones that I like and that come to mind.

There is no right or wrong, just opinion.

A wise man has something to say, a fool *has* to say something.

Common sense is much less common than we give it credit for!

There are so many potential answers (this question rocks! ).

The first one that comes to mind - and it may not be a Phil Jackson original but he's the first I heard it from - is "Time heals all wounds, but time also wounds all heels. "

I think it's great - just a reminder to those who dismiss someone else's pain with one of those hackneyed platitudes (like "plenty of fish in the sea") that life itself brings challenges and they are real, emotional, and important.