A truly wise person uses few words; a person with
understanding is even-tempered.
- Proverbs 17:27
A merry heart does good like medicine.
- Proverbs 17:22
Fish or cut bait
-American Proverb
A wise person is hungry for truth, while the fool
feeds on trash.
- Proverbs 15:14
Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water.
After enlightenment chop wood and carry water.
- Ancient Chinese Proverb
Have a vision not clouded by fear.
- Cherokee Proverb
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
- Chinese Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's
when I really need it
- Swedish Proverb
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
- German Proverb
He who begins many things finishes but a few.
- Italian proverb
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of
learning.
- Danish Proverb
Teach your children to choose the right path, and
when they are older, they will remain upon it.
- Proverbs 22:6
Many daughters have done well, but you excel them
all.
- Proverbs 31:29
Wisdom is a tree of life to those who embrace her;
happy are those who hold her tightly.
- Proverbs 3:18
All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but
the cheerful heart has a continual feast.
- Proverbs 15:15
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But
today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of
happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day.
- Sanskrit Proverb
There is surely a future hope for you, and your
hope will not be cut off.
- Proverbs 23:18
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's
when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love teaches even asses to dance.
- French Proverb
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
- Chinese Proverb
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread.
- German Proverb
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and
more fragile than a rose
- Turkish proverb
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half
a sorrow.
- Swedish Proverb
It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
- Italian proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who
does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Chinese proverb
First secure an independent income, then practice
virtue.
- Greek Proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese proverb
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how
tall your grandfather was.
- Irish Proverb
If a man does only what is required of him, he is
a slave If a man does more than is required of
him, he is a free man.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from a
friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Whoever pursues godliness and unfailing love will
find life, godliness, and honor.
- Proverbs 21:21
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather
roses
- English Proverb
There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool
- Danish Proverb
Rast ich, so rost ich (When I rest, I rust.)
- German Proverb
The torch of love is lit in the kitchen.
- French Proverb
An evil man sows strife; gossip separates the best
of friends.
- Proverbs 16:28
There is surely a future hope for you, and your
hope will not be cut off.
- Proverbs 23:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
- Proverb
The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he
begs during the harvest and has nothing.
- Proverbs 20:4
The Bible
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in
two persons to promote the good and happiness of
one another.
- Proverbs 17:17.