Proverbials!

Saying about Adventure Venture a small fish to catch a much greater one. ~ English Proverb Who seeks adventures finds blows. ~ German Proverb Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend. ~ Dutch Proverb Venture all; see what fate brings. ~ Vietnamese Proverb Try the ice before you venture on it. ~ American Proverb Nothing ventured , nothing gained. ~ Traditional Proverb Deep swimmers and high climbers usually don’t die in their beds. ~ Dutch Proverb Adventures are to the adventurous. ~ English Proverb Quotations about Adventure The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to yourself, “Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.” And the sign that something’s wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish. ~ Thornton Wilder Adventure is a state of mind and spirit. It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. ~ Jacqueline Cochran ...

Sayings about Moderation Moderation in all things. ~ Italian Proverb Everything in moderation , including moderation. ~ Buddhist Wisdom No gain satisfies a greedy mind. ~ Latin Proverb Don't be too sweet, or else you will be eaten up; but don't be too bitter, or else you will be spitted out. ~ Jewish Proverb Have a good time if you want -- but don't overdo it. ~ Russian Proverb Happiness is a place between too little and too much. ~ Finnish proverb Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~ Hindu Proverb Moderate profits fill the purse. ~ Italian Proverb Enough is as good as a feast. ~ English Proverb Make the amount of sauce you use correspond to the amount of rice you have. ~ Vietnamese Proverb Quotations about Moderation Balance is a dynamic, never dull process. ~ Kristina Turner He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. ~ Horace The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the...

Sayings about Ropes Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along. ~ Egyptian Proverb The rope will break where it is thinnest. ~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck. ~ French Proverb Buffaloes are held by ropes , man by his words. ~ Malawian Proverb You can lean on a bamboo stick, but not on a rope . ~ Chinese Proverb The older the goat the tighter the rope . ~ Lithuanian Proverb If he gives you a rope , tie him with it. ~ Tunisian Proverb It's not that the well is too deep, but rather the rope is too short. ~ Chinese Proverb Time is longer than a rope . ~ Virgin Islander Proverb Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the mere sight of a rope .~ Chinese Proverb Bad and good are intertwined like rope . ~ Japanese Proverb Having been bitten by a snake, he's afraid of a rope .~ Afghan Proverb Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself. ~ Tradi...

Sayings about Guests Fish and guests smell at three days old. ~ Danish Proverb Money is like a guest : it comes today, leaves tomorrow. ~ Malagasy Proverb If you are a host to your guest , be a host to his dog also. ~ Russian Proverb A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen. ~ Dutch Proverb A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. ~ Polish Proverb The guest who seeks special attention muddies the host's tea. ~ Japanese Proverb The guest who outstays his fellow guests loses his overcoat. ~ Chinese Proverb A guest for a day is welcome the whole year. ~ Yiddish Proverb The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb A guest who breaks the dishes of his host is not soon forgotten. ~ African Proverb Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all. ~ Albanian Proverb The delicacy of the feast is the learned guest . ~ Chinese Proverb The earth is a host who kills his guest s. ~ Iranian Proverb ...

Sayings about Gossip Better lie than gossip . ~ Indian Proverb He who gossips to you will gossip about you. ~ Lebanese Proverb It is easier to dam a river than to stop gossip . ~ Filipino Proverb Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. ~ Traditional Proverb Women never praise without gossiping . ~ Chinese Proverb Whoever gossips about his relatives has no luck and no blessing. ~ Dutch Proverb Gossips always suspect that others are talking about them. ~ Yoruba Proverb The more souls the more gossip . ~ Chinese Proverb Wolves never gossip about each other. ~ German Proverb There is gossip every day, but if no one listens anymore the gossip will die. ~ Chinese Proverb He who gossips and he who listens to it deserve to be thrown to the dogs. ~ Hebrew Proverb A gossip's mouth is the devil's postbag. ~ Gaelic Proverb What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~ Jewish Proverb Gossip needs no carriage. ~ Russian Proverb ...

Sayings about Opera Bed is the poor man's opera . ~ Italian Proverb My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. ~ Renee Fleming An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. ~ Joseph Addison Opera is a type of drama whose integral existence is determined from point to point and in the whole by musical articulation. Dramma per musica. ~ Joseph Kerman To sing opera , one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion. ~ Andrea Bocelli [ Opera ] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths. ~ George Mare The aim of Opera has ever been, and still is today, confined to Music. Merely so as to afford Music with a colourable pretext for her own excursions, is the purpose of Drama drag...

Sayings about Numbers He who can predict winning numbers should not set off fire crackers. ~ Chinese Proverb Our hairs are numbered . ~ French Proverb Our fears always outnumber our dangers. ~ Latin Proverb Look after number one . ~ Traditional Proverb He is great whose faults can be numbered . ~ Hebrew Proverb Quotations about Numbers Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital. ~ Kevin O’Leary In America everything's about who's number one today. ~ Bruce Springsteen Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1 . ~ Arthur Ashe Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. ~ Rene Descartes And what is the greatest number? Number one . ~ David Hume Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers . ~ Shakuntala Devi To be number one , you have to train ...

Sayings about Pleasure If you are up to your knees in pleasure , then you are up to your waist in grief. ~ Indian Proverb The law says what the king pleases . ~ French Proverb One pleasure , a thousand pains. ~ French Proverb Empty hands only please their owner. ~ Ugandan Proverb The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. ~ French Proverb Truthful words are seldom pleasant . ~ Japanese Proverb Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can't get back from revenge. ~ Iranian Proverb Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains. ~ Iranian Proverb After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting. ~ Danish Proverb Even thinking about sexual pleasure has its roots in greed. ~ Japanese Proverb The pleasure of doing good is the only one that will not wear out. ~ Chinese Proverb The one who pleased everybody died before they were born. ~ Traditional Proverb To sin in secret is more pleasant than having pleasure in the...

Sayings about Liberty To whom you tell your secrets you resign your liberty . ~ Spanish Proverb To receive a favor is to sell one's liberty . ~ Japanese Proverb Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil’s. ~ German Proverb Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. ~ French Proverb Liberty has no price. ~ Spanish Proverb He who accepts the gift loses his liberty . ~ Hungarian Proverb A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison. ~ Romanian Proverb Those that marry for money sell their liberty . ~ Traditional Proverb The narrower the cage, the sweeter the liberty . ~ German Proverb Quotations about Liberty Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty . ~ Ronald Reagan Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty . ~ Ho Chi Minh When liberty returns, I will return. ~ Victor Hugo Liberty is not to be had or held without effort. ~ Herbert Clark Hoover Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted b...