Joubert Proverbs
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(818 votes) If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
Indian Proverbs
Indian Proverbs
Sayings of Indian Origin
(731 votes) Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Chinese Proverbs
Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin
(643 votes) What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Jewish Proverbs
Jewish Proverbs
(642 votes) Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
German Proverbs
German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin
(569 votes) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Chinese Proverbs
Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin
(525 votes) Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing. - Ethiopia
African Proverbs
African Proverbs
(518 votes) Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
(499 votes) A boys best friend is his mother and there's no spancel stronger than her apron string.
Irish Proverbs
Irish Proverbs
(431 votes) There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
(428 votes) Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
(414 votes) The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
(410 votes) One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
(408 votes) Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
(391 votes) The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long. - Ethiopia (Ayele, p. 23, Amharic)
African Proverbs
African Proverbs
(374 votes) The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
English Proverbs
English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin
(373 votes) Humor to a man is like a feather pillow.It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.
Irish Proverbs
Irish Proverbs
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