Famous Proverbs
613 Proverbs about Them / Page 55
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Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.542.
It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good.543.
If you stab out the eye of thy neighbor cut off two finger and dip them in honey. Cook them in lemon curd and present them to his family in a pigeon pie. If they dine on a full moon his eye will sprout again from it's socket.544.
It is better one time to see things than one hundred times to hear about them.545.
If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.546.
We taught them how to beg, they raced us to the gates.547.
If your parents take care of you up to the time you cut your teeth, you take care of them when they lose theirs.548.
All lizards lie on their bellies, but nobody knows which of them suffers stomach ache.549.
We speak them fairest when thoughts are falsest and wile the wisest of hearts.550.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.