| Good & Evil | |
 | Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. 10 likes |
| See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. 5 likes |
| Conscience | |
 | The guilty conscience is a secret enemy. — Indian proverb 6 likes |
| Life | |
 | Life is like an onion, which one peels crying. 9 likes |
| Death | |
 | Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way. — American Indian proverb ‐ Blackfoot 6 likes |
| Religion | |
 | The nearer to the synagogue, the farther from God. 8 likes |
| Right & Wrong | |
| Two wrongs don't make a right. 7 likes |
 | Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. 7 likes |
| Heaven | |
 | Even in paradise it is not good to be alone. 10 likes |
| Transience | |
| All pass, all fade, all break. Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse. 11 likes |
| Timing | |
 | The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. 8 likes |
 | We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. 5 likes |
| Duration | |
 | Fish and guests smell after three days. 7 likes |
| Past | |
| Let bygones be bygones. 4 likes |
| Origin | |
| Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. 5 likes |
| Age | |
| Youth is a mistake, middle age a struggle, and old age a regret. 12 likes |
 | Youth is getting drunk without wine and old age is wine without getting drunk. 7 likes |
| If youth knew, if old age could. 6 likes |
| Prophecy | |
| The heart is something of a prophet. 4 likes |
| Haste & Delay | |
| Don't count your chickens before they hatch. 5 likes |
| Don't cross the bridge till you come to it. 5 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 6 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. 4 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. 11 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. 4 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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