Subject: Proverbs (Page 7)

He who builds by the roadside has many surveyors.

People Proverbs

Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

Failure Mistakes Problems Proverbs

People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.

Communication Fools Intelligence Proverbs Speech

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

Intelligence Proverbs Wisdom

If a patient dies, the doctor killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.

Doctors Health Proverbs

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.

Food/Drink Proverbs Science/Weather Time

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

People Proverbs Women

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

Proverbs Situations

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

Proverbs

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

People Proverbs

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Proverbs

If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come home a horse.

Characteristics Proverbs Situations

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

Activities Animals Proverbs

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

Proverbs Work

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Proverbs

Friends are like fiddle-strings and they must not be screwed too tightly.

Friends People Proverbs

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

Proverbs

No need to teach an eagle to fly.

Proverbs

If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.

Miscellaneous Proverbs

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Conflict Proverbs

To err is human, to forgive is human.

Mistakes Proverbs