Quotes About Proverb

Wine makes old wives wenches.

If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another fight; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.

Yesterday was "ground-hog's day" in many parts of the United States, and Candlemas day in many other parts of the world. From time immemorial, it has been a critical day in the affairs of the weather. The character of the second of February is really of much more importance than whether the first of March comes in like a lion or a lamb. The simplest form of the adage is:— If Candlemas day be bright and clear, There'll be two winters in that year.

Willful waste brings woeful want.

Confucius say: Man who put face in bowl get punch in nose.

Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good.

A disease known is half cured.

One doctor makes work for another.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

The tongue rolles there where the teeth aketh.

Better tooth out than always ache.

A Bulgarian proverb goes: "When you baptize a Jew, hold him underwater for five minutes.

The wealth which enslaves the owner isn't wealth. ~ Nigerian Proverb

Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face. ~ Moroccan Proverb

Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?" "Both," replied Elizabeth archly; "for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

He'd said, "Remember that Chinese curse, 'May you live in interesting times'? The dairy farmer's curse is, may you have an interesting herd of cows.

Seize opportunity by the beard for it is bald behind.

Una vieja y exacta máxima dice que "una gota de miel caza más moscas que un galón de hiel".

Where love is the case, the doctor is an ass.

"Curiosity killed the cat."

Many simple peoples feared the exceptional individual as a disintegrating force; there is a Chinese proverb that "the great man is a public misfortune.

his face expressionless, the tip of his cane planted neatly on the sidewalk and his large hands one atop the other on the brass knob. "First thing that you learn," he said, with the tone of a man reciting a proverb, "is that you always gotta wait . . .

Generative metaphors and proverbs both derive their power from a clever substitution: They substitute something easy to think about for something difficult.

I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county