Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
gives life unworthy
He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another
expects rope
He hauls at a long rope who expects another's death.
broke fast onion year
He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion
looks verse
He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks
advance employs good living others speech
He does not live in vain; who employs his wealth, his thought, and his speech to advance the good of others
dies hand twice
He dies twice who perishes by his own hand
dies wise
He dies before he is old who is wise before his day
cause friend slight
He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause
blame pure
He must be pure who would blame another
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