Proverbs and old sayings, page 109

43574 proverbs and old sayings

The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

Proverbs and old sayings about thinking, time, americans

If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.

Proverbs and old sayings about secret, magic, americans, contentment

We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment, god, americans

Occasionally a man with a right smart education can't find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings about education, intelligence, bad, rightness, americans, man

The squirrel can beat the rabbit climbing a tree, but then the rabbit makes the best stew that sort of equalizes the thing.

Proverbs and old sayings about things, americans

In the South they don't care how close you get, as long as you don't get too high. In the North, they don't care how high you get, as long as you don't get too close.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment, americans

A single bracelet does not jingle.

Proverbs and old sayings

Life is vanity.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about proudness, vanity, life

Debt is slavery.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about slavery

Time is a healer.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about time

Death is a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about thieves, death

Love begets love.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about love

Call a cat a cat.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Who forgives wins.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Time is a teacher.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about teachers, time

Kings beget kings.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Eating is kinship.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Life is a teacher.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about teachers, life

No sweat, no sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Poverty is slavery.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about slavery, poverty