Taken from Proverbs, Words of Wisdom, by Alice O’Neil
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/proverbs-9781632864420/Transcript:
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Speaker 1 (19s): Like a dog returning with a Frisbee. I came back to you, my friends I'm here waiting for you. I'm just ready to play. I love you guys like man's best friend. Well, I think this might be the last edition of this set of Proverbs. So let's enjoy him. Friends and enemies. Friends be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends for a man is known by the company he keeps listen for.
When a stranger cares enough to speak. He becomes a friend and make time for friendship is a plant. Which one must water often never forget. There's safety in numbers. If you play alone on the beach, the sea monster will get you. So two heads are better than one and a house can hold a hundred friends, old wine and friends improve with age. So of friends, the oldest of everything else, the newest indeed.
Nobody should forget old friends and old goats, maybe because strangers, forgive friends, forget, treat your friends. Well. If your friend is honey, don't lick it all up for friends are lost by calling often or calling seldom take heed. Many, a friend is not known until they are lost. And remember a friend accepts another warts and all because the eyes of a friend do not see the words.
Good friends. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend for iron sharpens iron and one man sharpens another. So hold a true friend with both hands. And remember a cup of coffee brings 40 years of friendship. A friend will tell you the world is your oyster because like stars, a friend will guide you just as an old friend, as like a saddled horse.
And no camel journey is long in good company. A real friend holds your hand in times of distress. So share your path with a friend for a friend who shares is a friend who cares. And a friend with weed is a friend, indeed. And a friend in need is a friend. Indeed. In fact, friendship is a single soul in two bodies. Thus a true friend is like a mirror.
So listen to friendly criticism for, without an opposing wind, no kite can fly bad friends. Sometimes new friends can be as deceptive as spring ice for trusting. Some men is like having water in a sieve. In other words, if your friend is an ass, expect nothing but kicks distance makes the heart grow fonder for a hedge between keeps friendships green, but money doesn't lend your money and lose your friend.
Tellingly. A friend to all is a friend to none as everybody's friend is everybody's fool, which is why a man of many companions may come to ruin since bad company ruins good morals. So be aware of a man's shadow and to BS sting for cobras bite, whatever you call them. And if you live in the river, then make friends with the crocodile.
Remember a great talker can be a great liar. So stay alert for a friend who leads one. Astray is an enemy. Indeed. An insider can bring down a kingdom above all. Bear in mind that a Wolf with no failings, doesn't lose its hunger and be aware of the dog that doesn't bark. He'll be the first to bite enemies. All too often close friends can become close enemies for people with the same ideas can be enemies.
So keep your friends close and your enemies closer and never forget. A friend looks you in the eye and enemy at your feet while they wise, man is better than a foolish friend. Generally, you should eat an enemy for lunch before he has you for dinner. Use an enemy's hand to catch a snake. And if possible, give your enemy a hungry elephant fight or flight fight, better death before dishonor for you may as well die fighting as become a slave.
Pick your battles as a hungry Wolf is stronger than a well fed dog and only an ignorant rat will fight a cat. However much fortune favors the brave, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. So meet roughness with toughness for when the going gets tough. The tough get going. And although attack is the best defense. Never forget that one, man can guard a narrow pass.
Often enough showing off is half the fight for you should deal gently with the bird you mean to catch as the greatest victories spill no blood, and there's no need for poison. If you can kill with sweets, keep your eyes open and tread carefully for a thousand good moves are ruined by one bat. And if you have no horse, you have no feet.
Avoid chasing cowards less. They become brave and take care. Loose lips, sink ships, just as ski tracks can be followed. Never forget. The weakest man can cause hurt and blood does not wash out blood. So you'll generally find that if your fist is in his mouth, his fist is in your eye. Remember if a man bites a dog, it will say he has poor teeth.
So better way than wisdom. You can't carry because it ain't over till it's over peace. Often discretion is the better part of Valor. So if you won't bite, don't bear your teeth. Anyway, the strong don't need clubs for war is a bad chisel with which to carve out tomorrow. And no war has a cause that reason cannot settle.
Why is up to live in peace? You must be on good terms with your neighbors for only crow's rejoice when grasshoppers fight so better, a bad piece than a good war and hope that peace does not need a guard for although there's strength in unity and weakness in division. If the lion and the sheep lie down together, the sheep won't get any sleep.
Bear in mind that the more you spend on peace, the less you spend on war. So if you can't beat them, join them flight beating. The enemy takes true courage. There are no atheists in foxholes. However, although tottering is not necessarily falling. And sometimes it's true. That flight is the beginning of collapse.
At other times, it's better to live a coward than be a dead hero as he, that lights and runs away may live to fight another day. So who, who has no courage must have legs. Indeed. Fear, lens wings. As an old man will run through a Thorne forest if he is being chased. So find any port in a storm, but remember the world's a small place for a fugitive.
Why not watch and wait for a barking dog, seldom bites and heroes only appear once the tiger is dead.
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Speaker 1 (9m 31s): Success and failure success. A good beginning makes a good ending. Just as a small key can open big doors, be patient great Oaks from little acorns grow as being, by being the sack gets full. Always take things one step at a time, because if you go, as far as you can see, you'll see further when you get there, which is why the true artist preserves, whatever his critics say.
So hang your clothes in some sunshine. Keep your eyes on the prize and make hay while the sun shines because growing millet doesn't fear the sun be bold for nothing ventured, nothing gained and keep your options open for the mouse that has. But one hole is quickly taken and don't use an ax to embroider nor a sledgehammer to crack a nut because succeeds breeds success.
In fact, nothing succeeds like success. Even though the bigger a man's head, the greater his headache warning, don't count your chickens before they've hatched. And don't say hooray until you've jumped. The barrier for the proof of the pudding is in the eating and all too often, a water pot only falls off your head. When you reach your front door, be prepared to a read before the wind lives on while mighty Oaks do fall.
And if you want a Rose respect, the thorn don't daydream, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, just as an imaginary mill grinds, no flour indeed, as you make your bed. So must you lie on it or as they say in America, garbage in garbage out. So bear in mind, success comes from hard work.
As without working, you won't get fish from the pond and he who would eat the fruit must climb the tree. It's up to you. Failure is the child of neglect. And if you snooze, you lose. So if a job's worth doing it's worth doing well and don't play to clean, nice guys finish last or to brash a barking dog catches no hairs or too fast, nothing so bold as a blind mayor.
And look before you leap as most shipwrecks happen in unknown waters, even good swimmers can sing. Remember too, that you can't unscramble eggs and that you're fine. As long as there are no cows on the ice failure, chin up failure is the source of success for failure teaches you more than success.
And he who never fails will never grow rich grin and bear it for you. You can't be a good doctor if you've never been ill and calm seas, don't make good sailors. Moreover, even the best scribes make blots. So learn to take the rough with the smooth as often, the obstacle is the path. All in all.
Life is not a bed of roses for where wood is chopped splinters fly. But when you do get hurt, weeping washes the face, therefore suffer, suffer, suffer, and you will get the brightest crown and discover along the way that adversity makes a strange bedfellow.
Speaker 0 (14m 10s): Well, my friends, we did it. We knocked down number five, five, and live. If you guys enjoyed it, we'll be back there soon. Some more things to keep you thinking and keep you smiling. I love you guys. Hello.