Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
enemies friend friends-or-friendship
A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.
everybody friend nobody
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody
friend people
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
blow breath contents friend friends-or-friendship grain hands heart keeping knowing pour rest whom worth
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
drinking sorrow thirst
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
talk vulgar
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar
lack
Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have
good hell
It is good to have friends, even in hell
hanged lack resource
Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
hands man mouse mouth
It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands
good others people unless
People aren't good unless others are made better by them
eggs golden goose lays
Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs
books knowledge load wisdom
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass
cannot distance five hundred man ten wicked yards
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.