Proverbs
Proverbs
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
anyone
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it
plain scale view
If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain
proverbs punishment
If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
buy lily sell
If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily
africa north proverbs youth
Instruction in youth is like engraving in stones. Berber, North Africa
beauty flower proverbs
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
daughter sister
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
bound proverbs
If one is roasting two potatoes, one of them is bound to get charred. - Kikuyu, Kenya.
caution jump knows proverbs six stream ten wide
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
decide quitting rules three time
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time
dreams proverbs
If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.
consult good proverbs wish
If you wish to do a good deed, consult no one.
black blame dog gets white
The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame
break hurt names proverbs sticks stones
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.