Proverbs and old sayings, page 2091

43574 proverbs and old sayings

It is better to be without a wife for a bit than without tobacco for an hour.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife

Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.

Proverbs and old sayings about respect, happiness

Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.

Proverbs and old sayings about memory

You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.

Proverbs and old sayings about order, contentment

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, wealth, nothing

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverbs and old sayings about thinking, courage

Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.

Proverbs and old sayings about politeness, nothing

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Proverbs and old sayings about common sense, knowledge, people

Put an Irishman on the spit, and you can always get another Irishman to baste him.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverbs and old sayings about memory, world

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment

If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, contentment

A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.

Proverbs and old sayings

The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.

Proverbs and old sayings about mistake

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, children

It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.

Proverbs and old sayings about destiny, earth

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs and old sayings about anger

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Proverbs and old sayings about obstacles, merit, envy, reason, wealth, fear, bad luck, bad

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Proverbs and old sayings about faith