Subject: Proverbs (Page 5)

Better late than… pregnant.

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

Some of the most well-trodden roads lead nowhere.

Fools rush in and get the best seats.

The best way to get praise is to die.

All sizzle and no steak.

When the fox preaches, look to the geese.

Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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

In a closed mouth, flies do not enter.

Where there is a sea there are pirates.

He who follows the river comes at last to the sea.

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

Friends are like fiddle-strings and they must not be screwed too tightly.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

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

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

He who builds by the roadside has many surveyors.

Where there are no swamps there are no frogs.