1. Proverb - “Judge by cause, not by effect.”

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2. Proverb - “Risk — If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.”

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3. Proverb - “Dig your well before you are thirsty.”

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4. Proverb - “Don't upset the apple cart.”

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5. Proverb - “Don't put all your eggs in one basket.”

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6. Proverb - “If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.”

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7. Proverb - “When the cup is full, carry it even.”

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8. Proverb - “Wait till it is night before saying it has been a fine day.”

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9. Proverb - “Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.”

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10. Simone Weil - “What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.”

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11. William Shakespeare - “There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.”

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12. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus - “Hasten slowly. Festina lente.”

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13. John W. Scoville - “No cause is hopeless, if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.”

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14. Thomas Paine - “It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”

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15. Thomas Paine - “A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.”

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16. William P. Merrill, DD - “Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.”

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17. Herman Melville - “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

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18. Abraham Lincoln - “The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.”

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19. Stanislaw Jerszy Lec - “I prefer the sign NO ENTRY to the one that says NO EXIT.”

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20. Dr. Samuel Johnson - “How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place ensigned Our own felicity we make or find.”

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21. Dr. Samuel Johnson - “How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.”

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22. Dr. William Ralph Inge - “The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.”

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23. Eric Hoffer - “To believe that is we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.”

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24. Augustus William Hare - “If you and your lips would keep from slips Of five things have a care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.”

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25. François Pierre Guillaume Guizot - “It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that the cause triumphs.”

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