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Proverbs

African Proverbs

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

Arab Proverbs

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.

Bulgarian Proverbs

We learn to walk by stumbling.

Burmese Proverbs

Parents are the first teachers of the children.

Chinese Proverbs

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Danish Proverbs

He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.

Dutch Proverbs

One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burnt.

English Proverbs

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Elbow grease is the best polish.

Estonian

Patience makes all hardships light.

French Proverbs

Enough is better than too much.

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.

Better a good dinner than a fine coat.

German Proverbs

Choose thy love. Love thy choice.

Greek Proverbs

The heart that loves is always young.

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Guatemalan Proverbs

Everyone is the age of their heart.

Gypsy Proverbs

We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.

Hebrew Proverbs

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Icelandic Proverbs

Eyesight is more powerful than hearsay.

Irish Proverbs

You never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Italian Proverbs

Respect others and you will be respected

We do not age at the dinner table

You can't make good wine from a bad grape

Arithmatic is not an opinion

Friendship and macaroni are best when warm

Laughter is the best medicine

Who eats well, lives well

As ye sows, to shall ye reep

Old friends and old wine are best

Japanese Proverbs

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

Fall down seven times. Get up eight.

Maori Proverbs

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Persian Proverbs

The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Go and wake up your luck.

Russian Proverbs

Trust but verify.

Serbian Proverbs

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Spanish Proverbs

A little spark kindles a great fire.

Swedish Proverbs

Advice should be viewed from behind.

In spring no one thinks of the snow that fell last year.

One should choose one's bedfellow whilst it is daylight.

One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.

Who lives on the waves and makes his living from the wind? - a fisherman.

Yiddish Proverbs

If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

Yoruba Proverbs

Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.