Best 223 quotes in «proverb quotes» category

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.

A yellow dog is brother to the jackal.

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother. Proverb.

Be a tiger — if you are ready for a tiger's problems.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. -Proverb

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

Cry is a sound in woman’s ear; it is a volcano in man’s heart.

Dance with your rhythm.

Demand one thing from the Lord wisdom or wealth do not demand both at the same time, because you will only get one.

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

Better an empty house than a bad tenant’ and ‘something is better than nothing’- these proverbs are contradictory! 1st one says, ‘it is better not to have something than having something’ but 2nd one says, ‘it is better to have something than not having something’! If the tenant is bad, then he is rejectable as per 1st proverb but acceptable as per 2nd one. The two proverbs are balanced if we say, ‘something good is better than nothing’!

Do a bit research before you plan.

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

Escape from goblins to be caught by wolves.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.

Folk who turn their backs on trouble only get their arses kicked.

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

Ever so welcome, wait for a call" (West Indian proverb)

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water is salt.

For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often.

Furat chie benit dae su mare

Give a man a proverb and he’ll muse for a moment. Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb and he’ll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.

God provides the food, men provide the cooks.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Haste is from the Devil.

...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu.

Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart.

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.

He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours." This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, "One cloud feels lonely": and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast.

I am reminded of the proverb about the man with a single teacup to fetch water for his plants. In order to keep some alive, he had to let others die or run himself ragged. I have chosen to water this particular plant despite all its thorns, and I must simply hope my relationship with Tom can survive my absence.

I can only run the rate in which my heart beats.

If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose.

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

If it is dark enough, one candle is plenty.

I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify').

If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.

If there is a snake in the grass, you have to set the field on fire to draw it out.

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

If the river stops, we are not going to stop.

If you are penniless you will have a thousand dreams. Get even a single piece of money, however, and you will have only twenty options.