Proverbials!

 Ancient Sayings of Argentine Origin Clear accounts and thick chocolate. ~ Argentine Proverb A man who develops himself is born twice. ~ Argentine Proverb You praise yourself so much you're never finished. ~ Argentine Proverb The voice of the people is the will of god. ~ Argentine Proverb Abundance breeds arrogance. ~ Argentine Proverb The person that learns well also defends himself well. ~ Argentine Proverb If a man lends an ear, it's because he, too, wants to speak. ~ Argentine Proverb It's not the heat, it's the humidity. ~ Argentine Proverb Three daughters and a mother are four devils for a father. ~ Argentine Proverb It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman. ~ Argentine Proverb One door is shut, but a thousand are open. ~ Argentine Proverb Dress the monkey in silk and it is still a monkey. ~ Argentine Proverb Woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. ~ Argentine Proverb What is greatly desired is not believed when it co...

Sayings of African American origin In the south they don't care how close you get, as long as you don't get too high. In the north, they don't care how high you get, as long as you don't get too close. One monkey don't stop no show! Black people must stop acting like crabs in a barrel and work together. A heard head makes a soft behind. Burning the candle at both ends. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen Count your blessings, not your problems. Don't beat a dead dog. Do or die. God does not bless mess. Better safe than sorry. If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going. Going to be a cold day in hell. Love don't love nobody. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Eat drink and be merry. Old Satan couldn't get along without plenty of help. All that glitters is not gold. Be careful what you wish for you might get it. Life is short and full of blisters...

Sayings of Native American origin Listen to the silence... It speaks. When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. - Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness . Walk tall as the trees. Looking upwards, I am filled with strength. May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there. Listen to your heart... It knows. Honor the sacred. May beauty surround you both. Treat yourself and each other with respect. The ones that matter most are the children. Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves. Life is not separate from death. Not every sweet root gives birth to sweet grass. All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace... when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives, Cherish youth, but trust old age. A danger foreseen is half-avoided. If...

Vermont Proverbs & sayings To the European, a Yankee is an American. Might as well be hanged for an old sheep as for a lamb. Money is flat and meant to be piled. Talk less and say more. To a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who eats apple pie for breakfast. And to a Vermonter who eats apple pie for breakfast. The world is your cow. But you have to do the milking. The hardest work is to do nothing. It's a good thing for a liar to have a good memory. A slip of the tongue, no fault of the mind. To an American, a Yankee is a New Englander. You can't keep trouble from coming, but you don't have to give it a chair to sit on. An ounce of experience is worth a pound of theory. It won't be warm till the snow gets off the mountain, and the snow won't get off the mountain till it gets warm. Hain't scarcely nuthin' in the world so powerful as perversity if ye knows how to harness it. Take off your flannels before the first of May, and y...

Sayings about Rice With water make rivers, with rice make armies. ~ Cambodian Proverb If you are planning for a year, sow rice ; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. ~ Chinese Proverb Love is like young rice : transplanted, still it grows. ~ Malagasy Proverb Sorrow is like rice in an attic: you use a little every day and at the end it is all gone. ~ Malagasy Proverb Growing rice gives you more than poetry will. ~ Japanese Proverb Laugh at the rice and you will weep for the lentil. ~ Creole Proverb Women are like raindrops: some fall on palaces, others on rice fields. ~ Vietnamese Proverb Don't trust a hungry man to watch your rice . ~ Tibetan Proverb Ants can attack with a grain of rice . ~ Malagasy Proverb A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice . ~ Japanese Proverb The bigger the pot the more rice will stick to it. ~ Solomon Islander Proverb You can't get rice by pounding bran...

Sayings of Bolivian Origin Science makes men arrogant; wealth makes them fools. Love flies away and the pain remains. He who marries prudence is the brother-in-law of peace. Love and prudence are absolutely incompatible. Good comes from far away; evil is close at hand. It's easier to know your enemies than to know your friends. To 'get out of my house.' or 'what do you want with my wife?' there is no answer. The beauty of the man is in his intelligence and the intelligence of the woman is in her beauty. A thrashing river is a fisherman's bounty. A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, and the sourer it grows. Tomorrow is as good as today. May the sun set on where my love dwells. The Plurinational State of Bolivia Bolivia ,  is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west....

Sayings of Fijian origin The white flower has bloomed; it is time to sleep outside. Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes rain. Idleness is to be dead in the limbs but alive within. Each bay, its own wind. Don't do today what you probably can leave undone tomorrow as well. Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island country in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 1,100 nautical miles (2,000 km; 1,300 mi) northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its closest neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec Islands to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast, and Tuvalu to the north. Fiji is an archipelago of more than 332 islands, of which 110 are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 18,300 square kilometres (7,100 sq mi). The farthest island is On...

Sayings about Education An excellent compilation of proverbs and sayings about Education that convey meaningful lessons drawn from life experiences of various Nations, followed by quotations from the world's greatest authors and leaders. Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. ~ English Proverb You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil. ~ Japanese Proverb If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. ~ Chinese Proverb If a son is uneducated , his father is to blame. ~ Chinese Proverb A well educated man always has a kind word to say about the place where he spends the night. ~ Berber Proverb A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated . ~ Chinese Proverb Quotations about Education I don’t believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a pers...

Sayings about School   An excellent compilation of proverbs and sayings about Schools that convey meaningful lessons drawn from life experiences of various Nations, followed by quotations from the world's greatest authors and leaders. Experience runs a valuable  school , but fools learn in no other. ~ Italian Proverb Many pupils have gained more wealth than their masters . ~ Italian Proverb When the student is ready, the master appears. ~ Buddhist Proverb Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs. ~ Chinese Proverb An ounce of a mother's wit is worth a pound of schoolgirl's wit. ~ German Proverb The world teaches you more than your taskmaster . ~ Maltese Proverb One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters . ~ English Proverb Schoolmaster , stick to your books; farmer, to your pigs. ~ Chinese Proverb Quotations about Schools You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. ~ Henry Ford You can acquire a lot of knowledge witho...