Proverbs
Proverbs
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
fire himself hunter lie oil proverbs rub sleep
The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep
charitable charity door god puts
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
beauty grows heart love
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
coming love prevent pushed scholars-and-scholarship
Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.
believe gotten men wrong
If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.
knowing
It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing
equal failing proverbs trust
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
coward coward-and-cowardice dead minute proverbs rest
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
bad fall luck proverbs window
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
digging dying late planning proverbs thirst
When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.
home sign trouble
Over no home can the sign be hung:There is no trouble here.
jump knows proverbs risk six stream ten wide
Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.
early proverbs rising road
Rising early makes the road short. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
greater proverbs report
Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.