Proverbs Quotes

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.