Proverbs Quotes

Envy shoots at others and wounds itself

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked

The reputation of a man is like his shadow: it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

Laughter is the best medicine.

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation

A good listener is a silent flatterer

Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps.
Argentine Proverb

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies

In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends

Silence is medication for sorrow

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections

Arrogance diminishes wisdom







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