Subject: Proverbs

Proverbs:

Short sayings that express a simple truth based on experience or common sense and often offer practical advice. Here are some humorous ones.

Where there’s smoke, there’s… pollution.

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

To err is human, to forgive is human.

Even a dog knows the difference between being tripped-over and kicked.

You can put a coat and tie on a goat, and it’s still a goat.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

The man who can’t dance thinks the band is no good.

Where there are no swamps there are no frogs.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed are kings.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Never give advice in a crowd.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.

Familiarity breeds contempt; but familiarity breeds!