proverbs

1.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

- Malayan Proverb

2.

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

3.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

- Jewish Proverb

4.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

- Irish Proverb

5.

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.

- Japanese Proverb

6.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]

- Bible

7.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

- Chinese Proverb

8.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

- Bible

9.

The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]

- Bible

10.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

- Nigerian Proverb

11.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

- Chinese Proverb

12.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

- Bible

13.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

- Jewish Proverb

14.

Never give a child a sword.

- Latin Proverb

15.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

16.

Complain to one who can help you.

- Yugoslav Proverb

17.

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

18.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

- Swedish Proverb

19.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24]

- Bible

20.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

- Scottish Proverb