Subject: Proverbs (Page 10)

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

Friends People Proverbs

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Beliefs Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Proverbs

Jealousy and love are sisters.

Emotions Love Proverbs

American proverb

Intelligence Proverbs

It is not a fish until it is on the bank.

Proverbs

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

Activities Health Proverbs Sleep

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Proverbs

Nobody ever committed suicide who had a good two-year-old in the barn.

Activities Animals Proverbs

Sometimes the road is less traveled for a reason.

Activities Proverbs Travel

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Proverbs

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

A father is a banker provided by nature.

Family Fathers Proverbs

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

Appearance Proverbs Situations

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

Proverbs

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.

Marriage Proverbs

When in doubt, gallop!

Proverbs

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Appearance Proverbs

Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.

Proverbs

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

Proverbs

No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

Conflict Housework Husbands Marriage Proverbs

Memory and teeth grow weaker with time.

Intelligence Memory Proverbs