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"A burnt child dreads the fire."
"Do not add oil to the fire."
"Fight fire with fire."
"No fire without some smoke. (1546)"
"There is no smoke without fire. (15th century, Citatboken)"
"All is fish that comes to the net."
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
"There are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught."
"If you got it, flaunt it."
"Go with the flow."
"Say it with flowers. (Patrick O'Keefe)"
"You can catch more flies with a drop of honey than with a barrel of vinegar."
"A fool is ever laughing."
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. (William Blake)"
"Better foolish by all than wise by yourself."
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
"First come, first served."
"The first chapter of fools is to think themselves wise. (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"
"Every fool is pleased with his own folly."
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
"He is a fool that forgets himself. (14th century)"
"He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance, When fools pipe, he may dance."
"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. (William Blake)"
"Knaves and fools divide the world."
"Natural folly is bad enough, but learned folly is intolerable. (1732)"
"A tongue of a fool carves a piece of his heart to all sit near him. (Strauss, 1994 p. 136)"
"The last fool never dies. (14th century)"
"There's no fool like an old fool. (1546)"
"A wise man changes his mind, but a fool never does."
"If fortune favours, beware of being exalted; if fortune thunders, beware of being overwhelmed."
"Fire, quoth the fox, when he pissed on the ice."
"Set the fox to mind the geese."
"The fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe."
"A friend cannot be known in prosperity nor an enemy be hidden in adversity."
"A friend is best found in adversity."
"A good friend never offends."
"A true friend does sometime venture to be offensive."
"A reconciled friend is a double enemy."
"All are not friends who speak one fair."
"Be a friend to thyself, and others will befriend thee."
"Bought friends are not friends indeed."
"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead."
"False friends are worse than open enemies."
"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom."
"Friends are thieves of time. (17th century)"
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! (William Shakespeare)"
"He is my friend who grinds at my mill."
"He is my friend that succoreth me, not he that pitieth me."
"If you want enemies excel others, if you want friends let others excel you."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.