Proverbs Quotations

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

You win a few, you lose a few.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.

More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.

One of these day is none of these days.

On the first of March, the crows begin to search.

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

One person is thin porridge or gruel; two or three people are a handful of stiff cooked corn meal. - Kuria, Kenya/Tanzania and Ngoreme, Tanzania

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him.

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

More than we use is more than we want.

More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

No one knows how the poor man dines.

No one should be judge in his own cause.

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.

Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.

Never marry for money, but marry where money is.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Revenge is a dish that can be eaten cold.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

The pitcher will go to the well once too often.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.

May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.

May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river twice in a year.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

Many will show you the way once your cart has overturned.

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth

When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own.

When things are at the worst they begin to mend.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

Half the truth is often a whole lie.

From the faults of another, a wise man will correct his own.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

Forsake not God till you find a better master.

God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.

God has created us brothers but has given us separate purses.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.

God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers

Happy is the country that has no history.

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.

If the sky falls we shall catch larks.

If the insolent man is strong, the one in the right is considered guilty.

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.

He who sends a child on an errand must go after him as well.

He who sleeps with a blind man will wake up cross-eyed.

He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

God never sends mouths but He sends meat.

God's rain falls even on the . - Fipa, Tanzania

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.

There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill.

The rainmaker who doesn't know what he's doing will be found out by the lack of clouds. Luganda, Uganda

There is no bad patience. - (Knappert, p. 46, Swahili).

He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

He flees from the roaring lion to the crouching lion. Sechuana

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Many hands make light work. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.

Live to live and you will learn to live.

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

Part with your head, but not with your secret.

Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)