Proverb Quotes

The Devil's boots don't creak.

A kind word is like a Spring day.

Charity looks at the need not at the cause.

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

Two thirds of help is to give courage.

Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.

Avarice hoards itself poor charity gives itself rich.

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.

Clever father clever daughter clever mother clever son.

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

Hope is the last thing ever lost.

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

He that jokes confesses.

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.

The teeth are smiling but is the heart?

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

Hypocrite - mouth one way belly 'nother way.

When the fox preaches look to your geese.

The hardest work is to go idle.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

The work will teach you how to do it.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Truth is the safest lie.

Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Go and wake up your luck.

Blue eyes say "Love me or I die" black eyes say "Love me or I kill thee."

There is one who kisses and the other who offers a cheek.

The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's.

Where there is love there is pain.

Love rules without rules. (Amore regge senza legge.)

Love is a kind of military service.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.

Like father like son.

One crow will not pick out another crow's eyes.

Like mother like daughter.

Birds of a feather flock together.

People in the West are always getting ready to live.

After the game the king and pawn go into the same box.

The best way to get praise is to die.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

A heart that loves is always young.

When a man begins to reason he ceases to feel.

To the good listener half a word is enough.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.