Subject: Proverbs (Page 3)

The grass is always greener on the side that’s watered.

Proverbs Situations

You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar, but either way you’ve got flies.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor
Proverbs

There is hope as long as your fishing-line is in the water.

Miscellaneous Proverbs

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age Proverbs

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… prepare to die.

Intelligence Proverbs Wisdom

Memory and teeth grow weaker with time.

Intelligence Memory Proverbs

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

Communication Proverbs

Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse.

Appearance Proverbs Situations

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Animals Characteristics Proverbs

What the mulla says, you must do; what he does, you must not do.

Proverbs

A good appetite needs no sauce.

Food/Drink Proverbs

There is not a single proverb in favor of early rising that appeals to the higher nature of man.

(1879 – 1949) Irish writer
Proverbs

There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.

Alcohol Food/Drink Proverbs

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Proverbs

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

People Proverbs Wealth

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Beliefs Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Proverbs

Cat bathing is a martial art.

Proverbs

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.

Food/Drink Proverbs Science/Weather Time

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Proverbs

A girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play.

Proverbs

You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.

Proverbs Work