Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
fruit gain loss neither nor timidity
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss
daytime frog nigeria run
The frog does not run in the daytime for nothing. - Igbo, Nigeria
child fox hundred
The fox is one hundred years old its' child is one hundred and ten.
belongs future knows wait
The future belongs to him who knows how to wait
accused court merciful rich
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich
cure disease step toward
The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is
blood common general great
The common soldier's blood makes the general great
breaks hold jug until water
The jug will hold water until it breaks
inside slave turned tyrant
The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out
hundred
All be the same in a hundred years
proverbs tongue wound
A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
proverbs son
A king's son is no nobler than his company.
man proverbs three throughout word
A kind word warms a man throughout three winters.
house rest woman
The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman