Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
daylight doth good trade work
A hangman is a good trade, he doth his work by daylight
hard work
He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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
expect life works
Life works out - but not as you expect it
hand work worse
Your hand is never the worse for doing its own work
good leave none poor rich work
If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor
america black far half hard twice white work
You've got to work twice as hard to get half as far as a Black person in white America.
buried house married three woman women
A woman is to be from her house three times; when she is christened, married and buried
heals lie truth
Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds.
holds smells tub wine
Every tub smells of the wine it holds
praised remark silence
Some things are better praised by silence than by remark
tail tongue women
A woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail
bees fly hay july load worth
A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay but a swarm in July is not worth a fly
affection drunk sober thoughts words
A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts