Proverbs and old sayings, page 2090

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.

Proverbs and old sayings about end

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.

Proverbs and old sayings

Drink wine, and have the gout; drink no wine, and have the gout too.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking, wine

Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.

Proverbs and old sayings about sacrifice, gifts

Physicians' faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.

Proverbs and old sayings about earth, wealth, money, man

One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

Proverbs and old sayings about justice

A judge knows nothing unless it has been explained to him three times.

Proverbs and old sayings about judges, nothing

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverbs and old sayings about heroism, fight, heart

The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.

Proverbs and old sayings about word

Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings about vice, ignorance, virtue, knowledge, mother

The old man has his death before his eyes; the young man behind his back.

Proverbs and old sayings about eyes, death, man, old, olderness

There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.

Proverbs and old sayings

The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverbs and old sayings about peace

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

Proverbs and old sayings about mind, grace, beauty, man

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

Proverbs and old sayings about flattering

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverbs and old sayings about bankers, common sense

Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing, old, olderness

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about smoke, wife, things, man