Traditional Proverbs (2298 Proverbs)
- An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.
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- Hunger is a good cook.
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- Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
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- Tobacco hic,/ Will make a man well if he be sick.
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- Attack is the best form of defense.
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- If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
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- See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin before you die.
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- Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children
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- Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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- If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
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- See Naples and die.
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- Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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- Children and drunks always speak the truth.
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- If you play with fire you get burned.
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- Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.
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- We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.
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- Could everything be done twice it would be done better.
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- It is better to be without a wife for a bit than without tobacco for an hour.
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- Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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- When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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- Curses are like chickens, they always come home.
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- Kings have many ears and eyes.
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- Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.
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- Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.
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- Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
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- Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.
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- Step by step one goes very far.
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- Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools.
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- Every little helps.
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- Listeners never hear good of themselves.
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- Take a hair of the dog that bit you.
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- Fish and guests smell in three days.
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- Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.
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- Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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- Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
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- Marry in Lent, and you'll live to repent.
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- Tell the truth and then run.
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- Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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- Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.
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- Temperance is the best physic.
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- From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
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- Measure three times before you cut once.
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- The best things come in small parcels.
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- Gifts dissolve rocks.
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- Much meat, much disease.
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- The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.
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- A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of his tools.
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- Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day
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- No wonder lasts over three days.
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- The old man has his death before his eyes; the young man behind his back.
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- A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
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- Give neither counsel or salt till you are asked for it.
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- One father is better at caring for ten children than ten children are for one father.
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- The style is the man.
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- A person who doesn't know but knows that he doesn't know is a student; teach him. A person who knows but who doesn't know what he knows is asleep; awaken him. But a person who knows and knows that he knows is wise; follow him.
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- He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
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- Opportunities may come but they never linger.
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- Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.
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- A young doctor makes a humpy graveyard.
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- A friend is one who warns you.
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- An adulteress was forgiven, who passed by a dog at a well, and the dog was holding out his tongue from thirst, which was near killing him. The woman drew off her boot and tied it to the end of her veil, and drew water for the dog, and gave him to drink, and for this she was forgiven.
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- All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.
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- Act as though it is impossible to fail.
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- A windy day is not the day for thatching.
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- A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay.
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- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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- A people without faith in themselves cannot survive
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- A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good.
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- A life lived in fear is half lived.
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- A horse cannot gain weight if not fed with extra fodder during the night a man cannot become wealthy without earnings apart from his regular salaries.
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- A good face is a letter of recommendation.
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- A famine in England begins at the horse-manger
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- A complete catastrophe includes not learning from the experience.
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- A bird in the hand is bad table manners.
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- Among noblemen, high rank is attained by knowledge among warriors, by valor among businessmen, by grain and money only among the poor by birth.
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- All beings seek for happiness so let your compassion extend itself to all.
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- Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
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- A white day sheds light, and a black day sheds darkness.
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- A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon.
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- A quitter isn't a very good beginner either.
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