Proverbs
Proverbs
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
bank common sings
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
eye proverbs
The eye is a coward. - Kalenjin (Kenya)
budget full poor
The poor man's budget is full of schemes.
chasm leap work
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
greater proverbs report
Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.
man pity proverbs
Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.
die leave proverbs un
Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)
proverbs
Part with your head, but not with your secret.
knowing
It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing
cold pine season
It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens
curse proverbs walk
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
camel ditch easier fool jump listen proverbs
It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.
friend gained lost none proverbs
Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.
busiest procrastination proverbs
Manana is often the busiest day of the week.