Famous Proverbs
351 Proverbs about Stil / Page 14
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The chicken also knows when it's morning, but still watches the mouth of the cock.132.
When you don't wait for it tomorrow still comes.133.
When you wait for tomorrow it never comes. When you don't wait for it tomorrow still comes.134.
While the sun is still up, let people work that the earth may live.135.
It is a fine thing to die for one's fatherland, but a still finer thing to live for it.136.
A pearl is worthless as long as it is still in its shell.137.
Better than the ignorant are those who read books; better still are those who retain what they read; even better are those who understand it; the best of all are those who go to work.138.
These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.139.
Though the snake be small, it is still wise to hit it with a big stick.140.
You may lock up the cock, but the sun will still rise.