Some important Proverbs
- If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Let us sit bent, but talk straight.
- Every seed knows its time.
- Everybody laughs in the same language.
- Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.
- The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams.
- No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come.
- Paper can't wrap up a fire.
- He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
- We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
- The heart of man and the bottom of the sea are unfathomable.
- One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
- You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough.
- There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
- Sharing and giving are the ways of God.
- The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
- Few desires, happy life.
- The dawn does not come twice to awaken a man.
- Let us sit bent, but talk straight.
- The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams.
- Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
- If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
- A teacher will appear when the student is ready.
- The eyes are the mirror of the soul.
- He who touches honey is compelled to lick his fingers.
- If you are ready to believe, you are easy to deceive.
- Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
- Rats desert a sinking ship.
- You can't tell a book by its cover.
- Great minds think alike.
- Recognize and deal with reality, no matter how unpleasant it may be.
- Experience is the best teacher.
- Speak when you're spoken to.
- Business before pleasure.
- They that dance must pay the fiddler.
- No news is good news.
- You cannot have your cake and eat it.
- Might is right.
- Fear of death is worse than death itself.
- Time is a great healer.
- Laughter is the best medicine.
- You don't get something for nothing.
- Old habits die hard.
- Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
- Familiarity breeds contempt.
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- Something is better than nothing.
- Jack of all trades, master of none.
- Better late than never.
- Appearances are deceptive.
- When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth.
- Prevention is better than cure.
- Forgive and forget.
- To err is human.
- You don't get something for nothing.
- Blood is thicker than water.
- Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.
- One man's loss is another man's gain.
- He who is master of himself will soon be master of others.
- Something is better than nothing.
- Man cannot live by bread alone.
- United we stand, divided we fall.
- The more one knows, the less one believes.
- Beware of a quiet dog and still water.
- It is best to be on the safe side.
- He knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
- Each person is his own judge.
- If you are ready to believe, you are easy to deceive.
- If you are looking for a friend who has no faults, you will have no friends.
- A man should not be struck when he is down.
- Still waters run deep.
- True love never grows old.
- Let bygones be bygones.
- Every man has his faults.
- Time cures all things.
- Spare the rod and spoil the child.
- Things are not always what they seem.
- Never speak ill of the dead.
- Love is blind.
- Variety is the spice of life.
- Great minds think alike.
- Beauty is only skin-deep.
- Love sees no faults.
- A teacher will appear when the student is ready.
- Money isn't everything.
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Things are not always what they seem.
- You never get something for nothing.
- You can't wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep.
- The hand you cannot bite, kiss.
- A book holds a house of gold.
- Dream different dreams while on the same bed.
- Laughter is the best medicine.
- No man is indispensable.
- After a storm comes a calm.
- The first step is the hardest.
- If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
- Never judge from appearances.
- Better die with honor than live in shame.
- Paper can't wrap up a fire.
- We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt.
- Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.
- All the fingers can't be of the same length.
- When in doubt, do nothing.
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