Proverbs
Proverbs
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
choose few friend man plenty
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
card people perform poker tricks
Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
fire himself hunter lie oil proverbs rub sleep
The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep
charitable charity door god puts
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
beauty grows heart love
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
bad proverbs robber worse
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
change proverbs
To change and change for the better are two different things
kenya praised proverbs
To be praised is to be lost. - Kikuyu, Kenya
belief believe impossible proverbs
To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so.
hard marrow proverbs
What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.
age-and-aging man mature proverbs running twenty
Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.
judge judgment-and-judges meet proverbs
When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
action proverbs vision
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.
proverbs talk
Those who know do not talk; those who talk do not know.