Proverbs – Quotes and Sayings

Proverbs – Quotes and Sayings

A black plum is as sweet as a white

Once a word leaves your mouth, you cannot chase it back even with the swiftest horse

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground

Visit your aunt, but not every day of the year

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire

A book holds a house of gold

Red sky at night shepherds delight,red sky in the morning,shepherds warning

Never make a mountain out of a molehill – The mountain will arrive soon enough

A cat may look at a Queen

A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized

A friend in need is a friend indeed

A gift given in secret soothes anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great wrath

Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another

Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places

Too many chiefs and not enough indians

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world

The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr Cobra

Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice inside the ceiling laugh

Sex takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble

He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son

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