Fortune, Ndebele Proverb

Amajodo awela abangelambiza.
Translation: Fortune favours the foolish.

- Ndebele proverb

As quoted in Rev. J.N. Pelling, A Practial Ndebele Dictionary, Longman Zimbabwe, Harare (1994), p. 150.

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Time, Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Various Rules of Conduct, Leviticus

You shall not exploit your neighbor. You shall not commit robbery. You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your laborer. You shall not insult the deaf, or put a stumbling block in front of the blind.

+ Book of Leviticus 19,13-14

http://www.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19

Tomorrow, African Proverb

Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

- West African proverb

Prospectus, Goldman (2011). Baseball Prospectus 2011. John Wiley and Sons. p. 496. ISBN 0470622067.

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Various Rules of Conduct, Leviticus

You shall not steal. You shall not deceive or speak falsely to one another.

+ Book of Leviticus 19,11

http://www.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19

Japan, Hua Chunying (華春瑩)

Abe's visit to the shrine has already attracted the Chinese people's ire and denunciation. How can a person who is not willing to face up to their own history, to facts, win the trust of the international community or cause people to believe he has a role to play in maintaining regional and global peace and stability?

- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying (Dec 27, 2013)

Courage, Chinese Proverb

Only the brave deserve the fair.

- Chinese Proverb

However, only the rich, fat and cowardly merchants can afford the same.