Famous Proverbs
1911 Proverbs about America / Page 21
201.
Without justice, courage is weak.202.
You cannot drive a windmill with a pair of bellows.203.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.204.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.205.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.206.
All poor people ain't black/ and all black people ain't poor.207.
If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.208.
If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.209.
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.210.
It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark.