Proverbs
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
- Malayan Proverb
- Malayan Proverb
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
- Baker, Nicholson
- Baker, Nicholson
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
- Jewish Proverb
- Jewish Proverb
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Irish Proverb
- Irish Proverb
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
- Japanese Proverb
- Japanese Proverb
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
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- Bible
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
- Chinese Proverb
- Chinese Proverb
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]
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- Bible
The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]
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- Bible
Hold a true friend with both hands.
- Nigerian Proverb
- Nigerian Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
- Chinese Proverb
Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]
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- Bible
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
- Jewish Proverb
- Jewish Proverb
Never give a child a sword.
- Latin Proverb
- Latin Proverb
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Complain to one who can help you.
- Yugoslav Proverb
- Yugoslav Proverb
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
- Florio, John
- Florio, John
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
- Swedish Proverb
- Swedish Proverb
One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]
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- Bible
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
- Scottish Proverb
- Scottish Proverb


















