Famous Proverbs
451 Proverbs about Fort / Page 2
11. Another's misfortune is only a dream.
12. April showers bring forth May flowers.
13. Fortune can take from us only what she has given us.
14. Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her to-day, expect not to regain her to-morrow.
15. Greater qualities are needed to bear good fortune than bad.
16. He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after.
17. Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot.
18. Misfortune upon misfortune is not wholesome.
19. Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
20. One has always strength enough to bear the misfortunes of one's friends.