Good & Evil | |
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. 9 likes | |
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. 4 likes | |
Conscience | |
The guilty conscience is a secret enemy. — Indian proverb 5 likes | |
Life | |
Life is like an onion, which one peels crying. 7 likes | |
Death | |
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way. — American Indian proverb ‐ Blackfoot 4 likes | |
Religion | |
The nearer to the synagogue, the farther from God. 7 likes | |
Right & Wrong | |
Two wrongs don't make a right. 6 likes | |
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. 6 likes | |
Heaven | |
Even in paradise it is not good to be alone. 9 likes | |
Transience | |
All pass, all fade, all break. Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse. 9 likes | |
Timing | |
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. 7 likes | |
We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. 4 likes | |
Duration | |
Fish and guests smell after three days. 6 likes | |
Past | |
Let bygones be bygones. 3 likes | |
Origin | |
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. 4 likes | |
Age | |
Youth is a mistake, middle age a struggle, and old age a regret. 11 likes | |
Youth is getting drunk without wine and old age is wine without getting drunk. 6 likes | |
If youth knew, if old age could. 4 likes | |
Prophecy | |
The heart is something of a prophet. 3 likes | |
Haste & Delay | |
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. 4 likes | |
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it. 4 likes | |
Better late than never. 3 likes | |
Rome wasn't built in a day. 3 likes | |
Ending | |
All is well that ends well. 4 likes | |
All good things must come to an end. 3 likes | |
Learning | |
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. 5 likes | |
Practice makes perfect. 3 likes | |
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 3 likes | |
Sleep | |
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. — American Indian proverb ‐ Navajo 5 likes | |
Sleep is the best doctor. 4 likes | |
Proximity | |
Your elbow is close, yet you can't bite it. 3 likes | |
Mirror | |
Eyes are the mirror of the soul. 3 likes | |
Road | |
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. 4 likes | |
Absence | |
When the cat's away, the mice will play. 6 likes | |
The absent are always in the wrong. 3 likes | |
House | |
An Englishman’s home is his castle. 2 likes | |
Beginning | |
There’s a first time for everything. 5 likes | |
Difference | |
Long live the difference. Vive la différence! (between the sexes, or any other difference) 4 likes | |
Similarity | |
At night all cats are grey. 5 likes | |
Those who resemble each other, assemble together Qui se ressemble, s'assemble. 4 likes | |
It takes one to know one. (first publ. Wash. Post, 7 Oct. 1951) 4 likes | |
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. 3 likes | |
Like master, like man. Tel maître, tel valet. 2 likes | |
Set a thief to catch a thief. 2 likes | |
Birds of a feather flock together. 2 likes | |
Injustice | |
Some cannot find a bridge to cross the water, while others cannot find water to drink. 5 likes | |
Opposites | |
Loss and profit are brothers. 9 likes | |
To estimate the sweet, you must taste the bitter. 3 likes | |
The reverse side also has a reverse side. 3 likes | |
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. 3 likes | |
Adaptation | |
If the cap fits, wear it. 3 likes | |
At war as at war. A la guerre comme a la guerre. 3 likes | |
In the company of the blind, close your eyes. 2 likes | |
Futility | |
All pass, all fade, all break. Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse. 9 likes | |
Shrouds have no pockets. 3 likes | |
Traps | |
Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself. 10 likes | |
Inevitable | |
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 5 likes | |
Balance | |
You win some, you lose some. 7 likes | |
Relativity | |
In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king. 2 likes | |
Excess | |
Even the priest gets tired of many “Lord have mercy” chants. 3 likes | |
To the great evils great remedies. 2 likes | |
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. 2 likes | |
Rules | |
The exception which proves the rule. 3 likes | |
The forbidden fruit is sweetest. 3 likes | |
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