Proverbs
Proverbs
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
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
garden gardener grows knows proverbs
More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.
mind money spent
Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
bank common sings
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
god man
Man does what he can, God does what he will.
half knows life proverbs spent time-and-time-management
Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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.
bad proverbs robber worse
There is no robber worse than a bad book.