Quotes About Proverb

A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shepherd's delight.

Be not imitator; freshly act thy part; Through this world be thou an independent ranger; Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.

As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

Age 30 & the 30s. — Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.

The medicine man never cures his own illness.

The War, ' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.

The early bird catches the worm.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

All the words of wisdom sound the same.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

The beauty of the soul is shown in the face

Make hay while the sun shines.

The wolf cried when the sheep got drenched in rain.

Curiosity killed the cat," Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? "People always forget the rest of the saying," she complained. "'And satisfaction brought it back.

Weeping bride laughing wife laughing bride weeping wife.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.