Proverbs

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst…British saying

Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end!…Unknown

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile…Indian Proverb

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head…Chines Proverb

A smooth sea never never produce a skillful sailor…African Proverb

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be…German Saying

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary…Jewish Proverb

When ambition ends, happiness begins…Hungarian Proverb

Blind belief is dangerous…Kenyan Saying

However long the night, the dawn will break…African Proverb

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket…English Proverb

He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble…Ghana Proverb

One does not love if one does not accept from others…Nigerian Proverb

There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught…Irish Proverb

Fall seven times and stand up eight…Japanese Proverb

There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don’t know what’s happening…American Proverb

Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it…Spanish Proverb

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it…French Proverb

The person who lives by hope will die by despair…Italian Proverb

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue…Unknown

The pillar of the world is hope…Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors…Arabic Proverb

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies…Spanish Proverb

Risk — If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn’t know how wide it is, he’ll jump and six times out of ten he’ll make it…Persian Proverb

An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold…Chinese Proverb

Experience is the best teacher…English Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever…Chinese Proverb

A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man, of happiness…Turkish Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you…Latin Proverb

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy…Persian Proverb

People know each other better on a journey…African Proverb

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred…Korean Proverb

It is better to walk than curse the road…Senegalian Proverb

A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood…Irish Proverb

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet…African Proverb

Gray hairs are death’s blossoms…English Proverb

A hyena cannot smell its own stench…Kenyan Proverb

In too much discourse, truth ist lost…French Proverb

A busy mother makes slothful daughters…Portuguese Proverb

May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river twice in a year…Uknown Proverb

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue…German Proverb

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do…Unknown Proverb

Patience is the best medicine…Unknown Proverb

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn…Latin Proverb

None but a mule denies his family…Arabian Proverb

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far place…Russian Proverb

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes…Persian Proverb