MIX PROVERBS
If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.
Molasses catches more flies than vinegar.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable,
those that are movable, and those that move.
Experience is a comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and
you feed him for a lifetime.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected
without trials.
If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred
days of sorrow.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something
is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of
your life.
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
If the rich could hire people to die for them, the poor could make a
wonderful living.
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Be always a little afraid so that you never have need of being much
afraid.
If one has nothing to answer, it is best to shut up.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
The early bird catches the worm.
Better a friend's bite than an enemy's caress.
There is no bone in the tongue, but it often broke a man's head.
A load of books does not equal one good teacher.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
A piece of bread in one's pocket is better than a feather in one's
hat.
If you destroy a bridge, be sure you can swim.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know the new one holds
water.
It is better to be a bull for a year than a cow for a hundred years.
You cannot sew buttons on your neighbor's mouth.
Better inside a cottage than outside a castle.
You can't whistle and drink at the same time.
Don't climb a tree to look for fish.
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
It's not the position that makes the man, but the man the position.
The ocean cannot be emptied with a can.
A name doesn't harm a man if a man doesn't harm the name.
The mouth is easy to open but difficult to close.
Men trip not on mountains, they stumble over stones.
A wise man knows what he says, a fools says what he knows.
A little leak will sink a great ship.
