Proverb
Proverb
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
avoid enterprise fixed
Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.
good merchant money neither nor proverbs
A good merchant has neither money nor goods.
citizen country good life owes
A good citizen owes his life to his country
expected gift given
A gift long expected is sold, not given
elephant gentle hair hand lead
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair
bent bow break
You will break the bow if you keep it always bent
either fear found hope
All temptations are found either in hope or fear
bar carefully church far near road walk
The church is near but the road is icy, the bar is far away but I will walk carefully
inside slave turned tyrant
The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out
hundred
All be the same in a hundred years
proverbs tongue wound
A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
cannot carve handle kitchen knife
A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle
proverbs son
A king's son is no nobler than his company.
man proverbs three throughout word
A kind word warms a man throughout three winters.