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Proverbs
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View Afrikaans quotes by this author.A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. ~ Proverbs - Irish Proverb
A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows. ~ Proverbs - Irish Proverb
It takes a village to raise a child.
~ Proverbs - African Proverb
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
~ Proverbs - Chinese proverb
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. ~ Proverbs - Chinese proverb
Don't interrupt a woman fetching water. ~ Proverbs - Namibian Proverb
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~ Proverbs - Chinese proverb
It's better to feed one cat than many mice. ~ Proverbs - Norwegian Proverb
We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverb
A learned man has always wealth in himself. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
A poor joke must invent its own laughter. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Every madman thinks all other men mad. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Deliberate often -- decide once. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
We start to die when we are born, and the end depends on the beginning. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Whatever you do, do with all your might. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Forgetting trouble is the way to cure it. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Glory is the shadow of virtue. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverbs
Everyone must row with the oars he has. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
The absent are always in the wrong. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
They are good that are away. ~ Proverbs - Scottish Proverb
A black plum is as sweet as a white. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. ~ Proverbs
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~ Proverbs - Malabar Proverb
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. ~ Proverbs - Yugoslav Proverb
A wicked book cannot repent. ~ Proverbs
He who borrows sells his freedom. ~ Proverbs - German Proverb
Creditors have better memories than debtors. ~ Proverbs
Examine what is said, not him who speaks. ~ Proverbs - Arabian Proverb
Never swap horses crossing a stream. ~ Proverbs - American Proverb
Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~ Proverbs - German Proverb
Children are poor men's riches. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. ~ Proverbs - Arabian Proverb
Better bend than break. ~ Proverbs - Scottish Proverb
Open confession is good for the soul. ~ Proverbs - Scottish Proverb
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ~ Proverbs - Spanish Proverb
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. ~ Proverbs
A pig bought on credit is forever grunting. ~ Proverbs - Spanish Proverb
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~ Proverbs
The man who lives only by hope will die with despair. ~ Proverbs - Italian Proverb
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. ~ Proverbs - French Proverb
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. ~ Proverbs
Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar. ~ Proverbs
When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs. ~ Proverbs - Russian Proverb
Clothes make the man. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverb
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~ Proverbs
A burnt child dreads the fire. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs. ~ Proverbs - Japanese Proverb
What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning. ~ Proverbs
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ~ Proverbs - French Proverb
God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks. ~ Proverbs
Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble. ~ Proverbs - Yiddish Proverb
I dance to the tune that is played. ~ Proverbs - Spanish Proverb
Gratitude is the heart's memory. ~ Proverbs
It does not depend upon the dog when the horse shall die. ~ Proverbs - Danish Proverb
Love your neighbours, but don't pull down the fence. ~ Proverbs - Chinese proverb
Keep your mouth shut, your eyes open. ~ Proverbs - Japanese proverb
Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all. ~ Proverbs - Albanian Proverb
Good habits result from resisting temptation. ~ Proverbs - Ancient Proverb
Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
Long on hair, short on brains. ~ Proverbs - French Proverb
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. ~ Proverbs - Greek Proverb
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
He cannot lead a good life who serves without wages. ~ Proverbs - Italian Proverb
The customers are known to the shopkeepers. ~ Proverbs - Kashmiri Proverbs
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ~ Proverbs - Scottish Proverb
Fear less, hope more;
Eat less, chew more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Love more, and all good things will be yours. ~ Proverbs - Swedish Proverb
Make haste slowly. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverb
Great hate follows great love. ~ Proverbs - Irish Proverb
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. ~ Proverbs - Arabian Proverb
The healthy die first. ~ Proverbs - Italian Proverb
He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull. ~ Proverbs - French Proverb
Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore. ~ Proverbs - Hindu Proverb
God helps them that help themselves. ~ Proverbs
If you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm. ~ Proverbs - Yiddish Proverb
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
No one can say of this house, "There is no trouble here." ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~ Proverbs - Italian Proverb
An honest man is one who's never been caught. ~ Proverbs - American Proverb
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. ~ Proverbs - Ancient Proverb
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot. ~ Proverbs - French Proverb
From the withered tree, a flower blooms. ~ Proverbs - Zen Saying
He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by a wolf. ~ Proverbs - Italian Proverb
A hungry dog will eat dirty puddings. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverb
A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind. ~ Proverbs - French Proverb
The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~ Proverbs - Congolese Proverb
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
An idle brain is the devil's workshop. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
Want of variety leads to satiety. ~ Proverbs - Danish Proverb
The cask always smells of the herring. ~ Proverbs - French proverb
Millions long for immortality who barely know how to scratch themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~ Proverbs - American Proverb
It is impossible to overdo luxury. ~ Proverbs - French Proverb
You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have indians too. ~ Proverbs - American Proverb
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral. ~ Proverbs - Yiddish Proverb
He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all. ~ Proverbs - Spanish Maxim
A headstrong man and a fool may wear the same cap. ~ Proverbs - Danish Proverb
He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth. ~ Proverbs - French Proverb
Offend one monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as far
as Rome. ~ Proverbs - German Proverb
A canoe does not know who is king. When it turns over, everyone gets wet. ~ Proverbs - Madagasy Proverb
Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~ Proverbs - English Proverb
No news is good news. ~ Proverbs
A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind. ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
Many grains of sand will sink a ship. ~ Proverbs - Danish Proverb
Beautiful things are secured with most difficulty. ~ Proverbs - Latin Proverb
A dead man does not speak. ~ Proverbs - Portuguese Proverb
Give orders, and do it yourself, and you will be rid of anxiety. ~ Proverbs - Portuguese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you
will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~ Proverbs - Chinese Proverb
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