Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
ears man short tongue wise
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue
fool fools-and-foolishness holds says speaks wise
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks
belongs good heaven
The world belongs to the rascals, Heaven belongs to the good
gate speakers-and-speaking three tongue words
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
eat man poor rich time
The right time to eat is: for a rich man when he is hungry, for a poor man when he has something to eat
answer fool fools-and-foolishness silence
The right answer to a fool is silence
cannot heart riches stolen
The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen
age age-and-aging miracles youth
There would be miracles if youth could know and age could do
proverbs sage speaks
The sage speaks of what he sees; the fool, of what he hears.
The Saxon shits in his breech, The cleanly Briton in the hedge
brief hour lasts prime rose thorn
The rose's prime lasts one brief hour of morn, That past, I find no rose - only a thorn
late mend ways
It's never too late to mend your ways
men poverty proverbs sin
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
dress eat others thou whatever
Eat whatever thou likest, but dress as others do