Famous Proverbs
157 Proverbs about Rate
1. When a rich man's dog died, everyone commiserated. When a poor man lost his mother, no one noticed.
2. If an enemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.
3. Desperate ills require desperate remedies.
4. Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
5. 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.
6. He who prates much, lies much.
7. One marriage is never celebrated but another grows out of it.
8. Priests should not prate out of the confessional.
9. Where there is a sea there are pirates.
10. The donkey sweats so the horse can be decorated with lace.