Proverbs and old sayings, page 274

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Sweep before your own door before you sweep before others.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, contentment

Better a little fire to warm us than a big one to burn us.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about fire, fire brigade, americans

A thimbleful of experience is worth a tubful of knowledge.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about experience, knowledge, americans

Hell is populated with the victims of harmless amusements.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about victims, hell, americans

Absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about tact, art, magic, enemies, americans

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about sleep, americans

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about pray, americans, man

The daughter of a spry old woman makes a poor housekeeper.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about woman, americans, old, olderness

Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about chance, americans, contentment

The baby who always gets carried will never learn to walk.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

All are architects of fate working in these walls of time.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about destiny, time, americans

He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about truth, americans

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife, americans

Professionals built the 'Titanic, ' amateurs built the ark.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about diplomacy, art, magic, americans

Rise early, live soberly, and apply yourself with industry.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

There is a remedy for everything, could we but hit upon it.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, contentment

He who is no friend to the good cause is no friend of mine.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, good, good luck