A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain; and the best promise is that which has been proved by rain.
Proverbs and old sayings about promise, fulfillment, rain
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Today is wine, and tomorrow is an assignment. Today we will drink wine, and tomorrow we will work hard.
Proverbs and old sayings about wine, drinking, work
The best place in the world is on the back of a horse, and the best thing to do in time is to read a book.
Proverbs and old sayings about things, world, time
If there's no choice but advice, ask for the decisiveness of an advisor or the advice of a decisive person.
Proverbs and old sayings about advice, people
Your tongue is your horse? if you take care of it, it takes care of you; if you betray it, betrays it will.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Love sees clearly, hate even more so, but jealousy sees the most clear, because it is equal to love plus hate.
Proverbs and old sayings about hate, jealousy, love
He whose ace gets cut on, gets his underpants off. When you cut, cut high. The Third Hand is the highest hand.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more evil.
Proverbs and old sayings about enemies
A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.
Proverbs and old sayings about being, man, good, good luck
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.
Proverbs and old sayings
If someone says There is a wedding ceremony in the clouds, then the women would soon arrive with their ladders.
Proverbs and old sayings about marriage
Everything is small at the beginning and then grows; except trouble, which is big at the beginning and still grows.
Proverbs and old sayings about beginning, problems
How can the person who is eating dates prohibit the eating of dates? It's better to be a free dog than a caged lion.
Proverbs and old sayings about people
It is good to know the truth and to speak the truth. It is even better to know the truth and speak about palm trees.
Proverbs and old sayings about truth, good, good luck
If you hear that a mountain has moved, believe; but if you hear that a man has changed his character, believe it not.
Proverbs and old sayings about faith, character, contentment, man
There are two kinds of men: those who could be happy and are not, and those who search for happiness and find it not.
Proverbs and old sayings about happiness, man
Your tongue is like a horse--if you take care of it, it takes care of you; if you treat it badly, it treats you badly.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Conversation is like making love; the man is the question, the woman the answer, and the union of both will bear fruit.
Proverbs and old sayings about union, conversation, question, woman, love, man
The worst things in life are: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
Proverbs and old sayings about sleep, life, things
A man who was always complaining was quite rightly sent to hell. Why are you burning damp wood? was his first comment.
Proverbs and old sayings about hell, man, contentment
