Proverbs
[Cervantes defined a proverb as a short sentence derived from long experience.]

• You never test the depth of a river with both feet. — African Proverb
• By trying often the monkey learns to jump from the tree. —African Proverb
• The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery. —African Proverb
• The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces. — African Proverb
• "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters." —African Proverb
• "You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." — American Proverb
• Love many, hate few, learn to paddle your own canoe. — American Proverb
• All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. — Arabian Proverb
• Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. — Arabian Proverb
• The cat was created when the lion sneezed. — Arabian Proverb
• Who lies for you will lie against you. — Bosnian Proverb
• Great souls have wills, feeble souls only wishes. — Chinese Proverb
• One picture is worth more than a thousand words. — Chinese Proverb
• Pity those who laugh too much, for they are always unhappy. — Chinese proverb
• Beware the wrath of a quiet man. — Chinese Proverb
• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. — Chinese Proverb
• You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. — Chinese proverb
• Nobody's family can hang out the sign "Nothing the matter here." — Chinese Proverb
• Happy owner, happy cat. Indifferent owner, reclusive cat. —Chinese Proverb
• Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. —Chinese Proverb
• Time and tide wait for no man. — English Proverb
• "In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats." — English Proverb
• "Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy." — Eskimo Proverb
• Sell your dog and do your own barking. — German Proverb
• The silent dog is the first to bite. — German Proverb
• The heart that loves is always young. — Greek Proverb
• Gratitude is the heart's memory. — French Proverb
• Love teaches even asses to dance. — French Proverb
• A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved. —Indian Proverb
• A goose never voted for an early Christmas. —Irish Saying
• Illness tells us what we are. — Italian Proverb
• Marriage has teeth, and him bite very hot. — Jamaican Proverb
• If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. — Japanese Proverb
• Beginning is easy — continuing hard. —Japanese Proverb
• Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death. — Jewish Proverb
• Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer. — A Jewish Parable
• Man thinks. God laughs. — Jewish Proverb
• God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers. — Jewish Proverb
• Where there is sunshine, there is also shade. — Kashmiri Proverb
• Opportunity can often sway even an honest man. — Latin Proverb
• A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. — Navajo Proverb
• When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. — Nigerian Proverb
• If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth. — Persian Proverb
• One good father can do more than 100 schoolmasters. — Persian proverb
• Visitors always give you pleasure--if not on their arrival, then their departure. — Portuguese Proverb
• Love and eggs are best when fresh. — Russian Proverb
• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of preachers. — Spanish Proverb
• You can't have more bedbugs than a blanket-full. — Spanish Proverb
• He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes. — Spanish Proverb
• Love your neighbor, but don't pull down the hedge. — Swiss Proverb
• Truth is the safest lie. — Yiddish Proverb
• If you would have a hen lay, you must bear with her cackling. — Proverb
• Every end is a new beginning. —Proverb
• The old bromide Nothing succeeds like success originated on Oct. 16, 1846. Reporters heard a doctor say it in Boston's General Hospital, after surgeons proved what few believed: that ether really could make patients insensible to pain.
• Loose lips sink ships. — Anonymous [World War II poster]