Proverbs
Proverbs
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
greater
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
brink horse late pull reins
When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins
eye proverbs
The eye is a coward. - Kalenjin (Kenya)
half knows life proverbs spent time-and-time-management
Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
begin proverbs worst
When things are at the worst they begin to mend.
attain depends greatest himself
He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.
converts great proverbs revenge
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
greater proverbs report
Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.
addition great proverbs
A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe.
greater proverbs sinner
The greater the sinner the greater the saint.
charitable charity door god puts
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
lies life wish
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
adversity gives prosperity proves
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
cross drink earth face proverbs river sleep twice wander water
May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river twice in a year.