Proverbs
Proverbs
A proverb is a simple and concrete statement popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience...
adversity gives prosperity proves
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
christian heart adversity
Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.
faith god weave
Weave in faith and God will find the thread.
lies life wish
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
black blue eyes love
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
courtesy hurt kindly speak
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
cross drink earth face proverbs river sleep twice wander water
May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river twice in a year.
ear fall left proverbs
May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.
coming love prevent pushed scholars-and-scholarship
Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.
greater
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
draws horse motivational proverbs
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
correct faults man proverbs wise
From the faults of another, a wise man will correct his own.
break breaks cannot man proverbs
If man can make it he can break it, if man breaks it he cannot re make it
believe gotten men wrong
If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.