Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
fool help himself
He who would make a fool of himself will find many to help him
infinite instant
The infinite is in the finite of every instant
proverbs tongue wound
A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
enjoys good health knows though
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not
cannot distance five hundred man ten wicked yards
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
dignity lightly raises rank takes
He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity
expects rope
He hauls at a long rope who expects another's death.
dies
He who stands, lives, he who sleeps, dies
listen river sound
Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
road
It is a long road that has no turning.
flies mouth
If you keep your mouth shut, the flies won't get in
dies hand twice
He dies twice who perishes by his own hand
knowledge knows proverbs unless
It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.
chameleon leave sure tree until
A chameleon does not leave one tree until he is sure of another