Proverb
296 quotations
Never find fault with the absent.
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
Good advice is beyond all price.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Measure three times before you cut once.
You cannot be lost on a road that is straight.
Step by step one goes very far.
It is better to run back than run the wrong way.
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.
Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.
Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.
Out of debt, out of danger.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Attack is the best form of defense.
First deserve then desire.
Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
Speak the truth and shame the devil.
When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.
A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.
Better a living dog than a dead lion.
Precept guides, but example draws.
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.