No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: War
Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
After dark all cats are leopards.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
The way of the troublemaker is thorny.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
It is good to tell one’s heart.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Talk to your children while they are eating;
what you say will stay even after you are gone.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Sharing and giving are the ways of God.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Listening, Learning
If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Dance
All dreams spin out from the same web.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
The greatest strength is gentleness.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
A good soldier is a poor scout.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Animals
A good chief gives, he does not take.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Judges, Judgment, Judging
He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongdoers.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Guilt
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
One rain does not make a crop.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
A man must make his own arrows.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Our first teacher is our own heart.
—American Indian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
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