Solitude is often the best society
—Common Proverb
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
—Common Proverb
A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.
—Joan Walsh Anglund (1926–2021) American Poet, Children’s Book Author
Insults should be written in the sand, and praises carved in stone.
—Arabic Proverb
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
—Yiddish Proverb
Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid
—Arabic Proverb
A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
—Common Proverb
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
—Indian Proverb
Opportunity only knocks once
—Common Proverb
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has entrusted it.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.
—French Proverb
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
—Common Proverb
Children are poor men’s riches.
—English Proverb
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
—African Proverb
Seeing is believing.
—Common Proverb
He who eats alone chokes alone.
—Arabic Proverb
A word uttered cannot be taken back
—African Proverb
May your charity increase as much as your wealth
—Common Proverb
Every animal knows more than you do.
—American Indian Proverb
A scholar’s ink lasts longer than a martyr’s blood.
—Irish Proverb
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
—Indian Proverb
He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.
—Common Proverb
He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me.
—Chinese Proverb
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
—Common Proverb
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
—Common Proverb
Bygone troubles are good to tell.
—Yiddish Proverb
The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients
—Common Proverb
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
—Chinese Proverb
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
—Chinese Proverb