Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
boat help reached shore thine thy
Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore
heart tongue whatever
Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue
ask four god men pray
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four
time
What may be done at any time will be done at no time
departing law words
There is no departing from the words of the law
oneself
What is done for another is done for oneself
money pocket sing
With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too.
best forget revenge wrong
To forget a wrong is the best revenge
found save
What you save is, later, like something found
eyes gossip witness
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
eyes invent mouth
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth
follows generation great happy listen small
Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great
consists hanging heroism longer minute
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer
father itself noble regards religion
Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble