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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
A meowing cat can't catch mice.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
The show must go on.
- Proverb
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
A lie travels round the world while
truth is putting her boots on.
- French Proverb
(also attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others)
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
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