Hooting all right and sleeping all day, doesn't make an owl wise.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness, day
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The palm-wine we drink, some people can drink it and remain wise; others lose all their senses.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about drinking, wine, people
The most praised form of fluency is silence when talk isn't wise.
Proverbs and old sayings about silence
A mad man drops a rock into water well, so that thousand wise men can not take it out.
Proverbs and old sayings Azere about rocks, man, water
He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs and old sayings about problems, home, house, heart
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people, sleep, old, olderness
When the fool knows when to be silent, he would be sitting among the wise.
Proverbs and old sayings Czech
When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.
Proverbs and old sayings Czech about wealth, man
When a son attends to his father, it is a twofold joy for both; when wise things are prescribed to him, the son is.
Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about joy, things
Almsgiving never impoverished, stealing never enriched, and prosperity never made wise.
Proverbs and old sayings English about thieves, prosperity
The heart of a fool is in his mouth and the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about heart, man
When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.
Proverbs and old sayings French about truth
Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise.
Proverbs and old sayings German about clowns, intelligence, teachers, experience
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
Proverbs and old sayings German about clowns, praise, nothing, man
The hearts of fools are in their mouths but the mouths of the wise are in their hearts.
Proverbs and old sayings
The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about people, happiness
A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man
If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about commerce, family, world, contentment
For every hundred lashes needed by the foolish, only one word is needed by the wise.
Proverbs and old sayings about word
