Traditional Proverbs (2298 Proverbs)
- 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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- 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 young doctor makes a humpy graveyard.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
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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 friend is one who warns you.
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- An answer if profitable is in proportion to the intensity of the quest.
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- All life is choice. You can be stopped only if you choose to allow it to happen.
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- Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
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- A wise man knows everything, a shrewd one, everybody.
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- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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- A saver grows rich by seeming poor. A spender grows poor by seeming rich.
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- A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband.
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- A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
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- A little smile adds a great deal to your face value.
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- A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel
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- A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind.
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- A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure.
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- A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
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- A bird in your hand is worth more than 100 in the forest.
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- An answer brings no illumination unless the question has matured to a point where it gives rise to this answer which thus becomes its fruit. Therefore learn how to put a question.
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- All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature.
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- Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
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- A wise fox will never rob his neighbours hen roost.
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- A swift flowing stream does not grow stagnant.
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- A sane person has difficulty in insane surroundings.
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