Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
call choice continuum hard inevitable life pleasant problems work
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work
hasty meet
The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry
fox lose tricks
A fox will lose it's hair, but not it's tricks
hears says
He who says what he likes, hears what he does not like
crocodile
If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile
beware shadow sting
Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting
hart house room
If there is room in your hart there is room in your house
borrow marry
Never marry for money. You'll borrow it cheaper.
drink later might spit
Don't spit into the well - you might drink from it later
glass life shed tomb
O Strangers! By Anacreon's tomb who pass, Shed o'er it wine, in life he lov'd his glass
cowboys ride
Real cowboys never run, they just ride away.
exceeding gods grind mills small
The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small
drawing forgiving pictures water
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water
echoes reactions
Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.