Subject: Proverbs (Page 5)

You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar, but either way you’ve got flies.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor
Proverbs

Familiarity breeds contempt; but familiarity breeds!

Proverbs Sex

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

Age Old Proverbs Wisdom

You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Activities Proverbs Sleep

If all else fails, try the obvious.

Problems Proverbs Situations

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Beliefs Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Proverbs

He who follows the river comes at last to the sea.

Proverbs

To err is human, to forgive is human.

Mistakes Proverbs

A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.

Animals Cats Dogs Proverbs

May you come to the attention of the authorities.

Government Proverbs

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

(1879 – 1949) Irish writer
Proverbs

A good painter need not give a name to his picture, a bad one must.

Proverbs Work

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

Friends People Proverbs

No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

Conflict Housework Husbands Marriage Proverbs

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

Proverbs Situations

Some of the most well-trodden roads lead nowhere.

Life Proverbs

Even a dog knows the difference between being tripped-over and kicked.

Animals Dogs Proverbs

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

Life Proverbs

Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Family Proverbs

God gives nuts to those who have no teeth.

Proverbs

Faith can move mountains, but not furniture.

Beliefs Proverbs