Subject: Proverbs (Page 5)

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Beliefs Proverbs Situations

If you go to war pray once; if you go on a sea journey pray twice; but pray three times when you are going to be married.

Marriage Proverbs

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

Proverbs

Fools rush in and get the best seats.

Fools Proverbs

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

Friends People Proverbs

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Beliefs Intelligence Proverbs Understanding

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

Proverbs Work

Measure twice, cut once.

Proverbs

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

Proverbs Situations

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

People Proverbs Wealth

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

Education Learning Proverbs

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Marriage Proverbs

If a patient dies, the doctor killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.

Doctors Health Proverbs

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

Miscellaneous Proverbs

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

Life Proverbs

Familiarity breeds contempt; but familiarity breeds!

Proverbs Sex

You can grow as much corn on a crooked row as on a straight one.

(1926 – 1998) American country comedian
Proverbs

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Beliefs Proverbs

When spiders unite they can tie down a lion.

Proverbs

Cat bathing is a martial art.

Proverbs

When in doubt, gallop!

Proverbs