Proverb Proverb Quotations

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Six feet of earth make all men equal.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

He has hard work who has nothing to do.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

It is better to finish something than begin.

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

Better a living dog than a dead lion.

Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.

Curses are like chickens, they always come home.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

The mother-in-law remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

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.

Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

By doing nothing we learn to do ill.

You can't take it with you when you go.

The longest day soon comes to an end.