The cat loves fish, but she’s loath to wet her feet.
—Common Proverb
The house of danger is built upon the borders of safety
—Arabic Proverb
Spring has come when you can put your foot on three daisies
—Common Proverb
What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse.
—German Proverb
A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.
—French Proverb
Poverty won’t allow him to lift up his head;dignity won’t allow him to bow it down.
—African Proverb
Few maxims are true from every point of view.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–47) French Moralist, Essayist, Writer
He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers.
—African Proverb
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
—Arabic Proverb
If your time ain’t come not even a doctor can kill you.
—U.S. Proverb
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
—Sophocles (495–405 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Revenge is a confession of pain.
—Latin Proverb
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
—Chinese Proverb
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
—Arabic Proverb
A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground
—Spanish Proverb
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
—Common Proverb
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.
—Common Proverb
Compare your griefs with other men’s and they will seem less
—Spanish Proverb
A good husband is healthy and absent.
—Japanese Proverb
Silence is golden; speech is silver.
—U.S. Proverb
A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.
—Indian Proverb
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
—Common Proverb
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
—Chinese Proverb
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
—Spanish Proverb
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
No one becomes a good doctor before he fills a churchyard
—Swedish Proverb
The guilty catch themselves
—Common Proverb
It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to share.
—Common Proverb
A proverb is the child of experience.
—English Proverb
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.
—French Proverb
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