Subject: Proverbs (Page 3)

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

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

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.

Absence makes the heart go wander.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

A rolling stone gathers momentum.

A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.

If the baby is happy, don’t try to make it happier.

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 two quarrel, both are to blame.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come home a horse.

You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

The doctor demands his fees whether he has killed the illness or the patient.

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

A good husband is healthy and absent.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Let every fox take care of his own tail.

Give a man a fish and it will feed him for a day, give the man a fishing rod and he will sell it for more fish, or burn it for firewood.

(1968 – ) English impressionist & comedian

Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.