Proverb Quotes

We must endure what fortune sends.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more for anyone can save his purse but none can win back lost time.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows he breathes but does not live.

Every day is a messenger of God.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

Three Spaniards four opinions.

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

If Fortune calls offer him a seat.

What you can't get is just what suits you.

Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.

We all envy other people's luck.

A tale never loses in the telling.

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

Live and let live.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Time gives good advice.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

When thieves fall out honest men come by their own.

There is honor among thieves.

Summer is the mother of the poor.

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.

Yesterday is ashes tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

A great city a great solitude.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Everyone to his taste.

Talk is cheap.

Speech is silver silence is golden.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

If there is no wind row.

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.

A man is a lion in his own cause.

Better silent than stupid.

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.

Skeptics are never deceived.

Though a tree grow ever so high the falling leaves return to the root.

He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.

Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food.

Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

Still waters run deep.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.