Subject: Proverbs (Page 7)

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

Friends People Proverbs

Familiarity breeds contempt; but familiarity breeds!

Proverbs Sex

Sometimes the road is less traveled for a reason.

Activities Proverbs Travel

Memory and teeth grow weaker with time.

Intelligence Memory Proverbs

A father is a banker provided by nature.

Family Fathers Proverbs

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

Proverbs Work

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

Alcohol Food/Drink Proverbs

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

Friends People Proverbs

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

Miscellaneous Proverbs

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverbs Time

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Proverbs Situations

People living in glass houses should not!

People Proverbs

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

Proverbs Situations Time

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

Activities Health Proverbs Sleep

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

(1879 – 1949) Irish writer
Proverbs

If you suspect a man, don’t employ him, and if you employ him, don’t suspect him.

Proverbs

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

Appearance Proverbs Situations

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank Him for not having given it wings.

Proverbs Situations

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

Communication Proverbs Speech

One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.

Alcohol Food/Drink Proverbs

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Beliefs Honesty Proverbs Truth