Subject: Proverbs

Proverbs:

Short sayings that express a simple truth based on experience or common sense and often offer practical advice. Here are some humorous ones.

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.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Where there are no swamps there are no frogs.

Angels carry drunkards on their arms.

A good appetite needs no sauce.

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

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Jealousy and love are sisters.

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.

You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.

God gives nuts to those who have no teeth.

In a closed mouth, flies do not enter.

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

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

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.

Set a thief to catch a thief.