Famous Proverbs
264 Proverbs about Lent / Page 12
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Look and keep silent, and if you are eating meat, tell the world it's fish.112.
Talent without skill is like a desert without an oasis.113.
There are five ways in which to become wise: be silent, listen, remember, grow older and study.114.
Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.115.
If you want to annoy the devil stay silent.116.
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.117.
When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.118.
Laugh at the rice and you will weep for the lentil.119.
Our parents taught us to speak and the world taught us to be silent.120.
When the fool knows when to be silent, he would be sitting among the wise.