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1002. By DOING nothing we learn to do ill.

1003. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passerby kill the snake for the beads.

1004. By failing to prepare we prepare to fail

1005. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

1006. By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. --Edmund Burke

1007. By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

1008. By hook or by crook (By fair means or foul.)

1009. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

1010. By losing present time, we lose all time. -W. Gurney Benham

1011. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too.

1012. By meditation upon light and upon radiance, knowledge of the spirit can be reached and thus peace can be achieved.

1013. By my tongue may it get you ---Irish Curse

1014. By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. --George Santayana

1015. By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. --Oscar Wilde

1016. By scattering short apophthegms and little pleasant stories his son was, in his infancy, taught to abhor vice. ---(IZAAK WALTON).

1017. By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. --Joseph Collins

1018. By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

1019. By suffering comes wisdom.

1020. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.

1021. By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed. --Robert S. Hillyer

1022. By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man - man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

1023. By the Heaven and Him who built it, by the earth and Him who leveled it, by the soul and Him who perfected it, then He taught it the ways of its ruin, and the way of its safety.

1024. By the last breath of the fourth winds blow

1025. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd; Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

1026. By the side of honor, humiliation waits. When honored, one ought not be high-spirited. Behind poverty, prosperity follows. When impoverished, why should one by low-spirited.

1027. By the streets of by and by, one arrives at the house of never.

1028. By the time a man finds greener pastures he's too old to climb the fence.

1029. By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

1030. By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

1031. By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

1032. By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.

1033. By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

1034. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

1035. By the work one knows the workman.

1036. By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live. --George F. Kennan

1037. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

1038. By three things is the world sustained: by justice, by truth, and by peace.

1039. By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

1040. By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. -- Mark Twain

1041. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean. -- Mark Twain

1042. By virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

1043. By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else. --Solomon Schechter

1044. By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward- you will never get her full confidence again.

1045. By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is mightier than a strong man; and a man of knowledge than he who has strength.

1046. By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

1047. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

1048. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.--ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)