Proverb Quotes

Behind bad luck comes good luck.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.

It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

Weeping bride laughing wife laughing bride weeping wife.

The woman cries before the wedding the man afterward.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

After dinner rest a while after supper walk a mile.

Every invalid is a physician.

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

Invalids live longest.

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

To want to forget something is to think of it.

One dog barks at something the rest bark at him.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.

All sins cast long shadows.

Too much talk will include errors.

Laws go where dollars please.

Money like a queen gives rank and beauty .

Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should ever have it.

You can't force anyone to love you or to lend you money.

With money in your pocket you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them the poor would make a wonderful living.

When I had money everyone called me brother.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

If February give much snow A fine Summer it doth foreshow.

Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.

When a blind man carries the lame man both go forward.

The morning is wiser than the evening.

The morning has gold in its mouth.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

When the flag is unfurled all reason is in the trumpet.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed Mohammed must go to the mountain.

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.

If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.

One can go a long way after one is tired.

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.