Quotes About Proverb

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I

Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

Spanish proverb: honor and money are not to be found in the same purse.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

We were to do more business after dinner; but after dinner is after dinner—an old saying and a true, "much drinking, little thinking."

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

A good maxim is never out of season.

Ya estaba preparando la huida, la muy cerda. Bien lo decía el proverbio chino: cuando la pobreza entra por la puerta, el amor salta por la ventana.

There was a saying in Provence: "Those foolish enough to keep a snake as a companion will get bitten sooner or later".

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

For age and want save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day.

We have an English proverb that says, "He that would thrive, must ask his wife.

Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness - cleanliness, not purity.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

a good tooth, gets no gold

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

Early bird Oh, if you're a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you're a bird, be an early bird— But if you're a worm, sleep late.

The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin.

The cobbler's children go barefoot