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-You can Lead a fool to wisdom, but you can't make him think!

-A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain.

-You never test the depth of a river with both feet

-The believer is happy. The doubter is wise

-It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.

-Familiarity breeds contempt

-Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind

-Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.

-There are no short cuts to any place worth going

-A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato�the best part of him is underground.

-A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for

-Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart

-Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it

-Faint heart never won fair lady

-Faith will move mountains

-Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

-Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

-Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains

-The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

-You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

-A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do

-It takes one tree to make 10,000 matches, but one match to burn 10,000 trees.

-A real friend is one who takes the hand of his friend in time of distress and helplessness

-As the dog said, 'If I fall down for you and you fall down for me, it is playing.'

-Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped

-Looking at a king's mouth one would never think he sucked his mother's breast

-Revenge is a dish best served cold

-People living in glass houses should not pelt stones

-The liar needs a good memory

-You catch more flies with honey than a barrel of vinegar

-ABSENCE sharpens love, presence strengthens it

-A scalded CAT fears cold water

Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.

It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.

-Don't gripe about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn't be a member.

-I climbed up the door, Opened the stairs, I said my pajamas, And put on my prayers, I switched off the bed, And climbed in the light, All because he kissed me goodnight.

-If the church wants a better pastor, it only needs to pray for the one it has.

-Antiques are things one generation buys, the next generation gets rid off, and the following generation buys at auction at amazing prices.

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

-Don't keep a dog and bark yourself

-Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can't hold back

-Keep eye on many, but thoughts on one.Shake hands with many, but give your heart to one.

-Falling in love is awfully simple. Falling out of love is simply awfull.

-I've learned to pick my battles; I ask myself, "Will this matter one year from now? How about one month? One week? One day?"

-People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Love is like war: easy to begin. Hard to end.

-Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say

-Old soldiers never die, they just fade away

Love was not put in your heart to stay. Love is not Love until you give it away.

-Fish and guests smell after three days

-Humans are the only animals that lie standing up

-There's no smoke without fire

-A man is at his tallest when he stoops to help a child.

-90% of men kiss their wife goodbye when they leave the house. The rest kiss their house goodbye when they leave the wife.

-There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught

-Its for her own good that the cat purrs.

-Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and, you weep alone

-He who laughs last laughs longest

-He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword

-He who pays the piper calls the tune

-A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

-When the apple is ripe, it will fall

-To the fighting man peace is sure

-Half a loaf is better than no bread

-A live dog is better than a dead lion

-Poor is the church without music

-The horse with the most scars is the one that highest kicks his rear

-If God had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings

-The cobbler always wears the worst shoes

-The darkest hour is just before the dawn

-A man may be his own ruin

-A closed mouth--a wise head

-It's often a man's mouth broke his nose

-Never trust a spiteful man

-A hut is a palace to a poor man

-Do it as if there was fire in your skin

-The person of the greatest talk is the person of the least work

-The young shed many skins

-Cleanliness is next to godliness

-All monkeys can not hung on the same branch

-A word in the heart does not win

-The Devil turns against its friend

-It is better to walk than curse the road

-The haughty blind person picks a fight with his guide.

-By coming and going, a bird weaves its nest

-He who refuses to obey cannot command

-Those who respect the elderly pave their own road toward success

-No matter how full the river is, it wants to swell further

-A child's lie is like a dead fish in a pond that in the end, always comes to the surface

-The day never turns back again

-Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

-The tail of the cow watches to the right and left

-The best blessing for a good harvest is a pumpkin full of sweat

-'You learn how to cut down trees cutting them down

-Even your dog knows the homes of your friends

-The womb is not a boat, it cannot carry as much.

-Who does not love to dance, does not love to sing

-Those who seek revenge must remember to dig two graves

-Between imitation and envy, imitation is better

-Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.

-Have one's ears pierced only before the wedding ceremony starts

-Lift a stone only to drop on your own feet.

-Paper can't wrap up a fire

-You can't catch a cub without going into the tiger's den

-Every best friend get a next best friend

-If yuh plant plantain yuh can't reap cassava

-The eye never forgets what the heart has seen

-Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years.

-Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty

-I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.

-Men can only see the present, heaven can see the future.

-Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

-Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

-Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

-The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the Lord tests the hearts.

-Children's children are the crown of old men,and the glory of children is their father.

-For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

-Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart

-The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

-The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

-If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers

-A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

-The wood will renew the foliage it sheds.

-Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

-Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt

-Possession is nine-tenths of the law

-She would drink the cream and say the cat she had was an old rogue

-A story without an author is not worth listening to

-Don't say everything you want to say lest you hear something you would not like to hear

-It's the empty can that makes the most noise

-Spread your cloth only as you can draw it

-A watched kettle never boils

-Withouth pressing too little or too hard, hold tight the reins for he's a fool who would not get value from a borrowed horse

-Better April showers than the breadth of the ocean in gold

-Make love not war

-Women are stronger than men, they do not die of wisdom

-A tree is known by its fruit.

-God, and parents, and our master, can never be requited.

-A young devil, an old saint

-Every Jack has his Jill.

-When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

-A chain is only as strong as its weakest link

-A fool and his money are soon parted

-A friend in need is a friend indeed

-A good man is hard to find

-Behind every great man there's a great woman