Proverbs and old sayings South American about Man, page 8

153 proverbs and old sayings south american about man

What a man can be is born with him; what he becomes is a result of his environment.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

When a dog bites a man, that is not news; but when a man bites a dog, that is news.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

The outward forms the inward man reveal - we guess the pulp before we cut the peel.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

If a man is right, he cannot be too radical; if wrong, he cannot be too conservative.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

In great action, men show themselves as they ought to be, in small action as they are.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

Ability will enable a man to get to the top, but character will keep him from falling.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

A physician is also a man who pours special drugs into lots of bodies he rarely loves.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

Naught's a naught and figger's a figger - all for the white man and none for the nigger.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself to keeps his friends in countenance.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

In spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to what the woman has been thinking all winter.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

Women are like books: too much gilding makes men suspicious that the binding is the most important part.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man

A wise man learns by the experiences of others; an ordinary man learns by his own experience; a fool learns by nobody's experiences.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about man