proverbs

Found 19 thoughts of proverbs

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

African Proverb

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

Never give a child a sword.

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

Chinese Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

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

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb