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.

The dog’s kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.

No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.

People living in glass houses should not!

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.

The grass is always greener on the side that’s watered.

Don't stand behind a coughing cow.

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

A good husband is healthy and absent.

If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Chaste makes waste.

A dog is wiser than a woman; it doesn’t bark at its master.

For every proverb that so confidently asserts its little bit of wisdom, there is usually an equal and opposite proverb that contradicts it.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Love your neighbor, but don’t tear down your fence.

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