Proverbs
Proverbs
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
ahead lies lies-and-lying proverbs
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
broken
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
cape ghana heavy orphan proverbs rejoice
The orphan does not rejoice after a heavy breakfast. - Cape Coast, Ghana
cry
We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.
cannot proverbs
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
hanged proverbs sheep
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
count faults men proverbs
Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
cooked corn handful people proverbs stiff thin three
One person is thin porridge or gruel; two or three people are a handful of stiff cooked corn meal. - Kuria, Kenya/Tanzania and Ngoreme, Tanzania
proverbs
One may go a long way after one is tired.
kindness proverbs warm winter word
One kind word can warm 3 winter months.
best quit
Of all the stratagems, to know when to quit is the best
meat men poor proverbs rich seek stomach
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
keeps man proverbs tells troubles trust
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
crosses knows light man night river value
Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day