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.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Proverbs Things

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet.

Proverbs

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.

Proverbs

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.

Activities Autos Beliefs Problems Proverbs Travel

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Proverbs

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Future Husbands Marriage Proverbs Time Wives

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

Alcohol Food/Drink Proverbs

In a closed mouth, flies do not enter.

Communication Proverbs Speech

It is easier to pull down than to build up.

Proverbs Reviews/Criticism

He who builds by the roadside has many surveyors.

People Proverbs

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

Friends People Proverbs

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age Proverbs

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Beliefs Life Proverbs

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

Age Old Proverbs Wisdom

Don't sell the skin until you have caught the bear.

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Proverbs

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Marriage Proverbs War

Jimmy Carr My father always used to say, ‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger’… Until the accident.”

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor
Proverbs

Never ride a burning camel.

Animals Proverbs

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Beliefs Honesty Proverbs Truth

If you scatter thorns, don’t go barefoot.

Problems Proverbs

Let every fox take care of his own tail.

Proverbs