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.

Absence makes the heart go wander.

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

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

A good husband is healthy and absent.

Some of the most well-trodden roads lead nowhere.

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

Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet.

American proverb

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

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt; but familiarity breeds!

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Measure twice, cut once.

If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.