Famous Proverbs
44 Proverbs about Wide / Page 2
11. If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
12. Keep your ears wider and your mouth narrower.
13. When fortune knocks upon the door open it widely.
14. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
15. It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
16. Wide ears and short tongue are the best.
17. A wide garment does not tear, a proverb does not spoil.
18. What is the use of a big wide world when your shoes are too small?
19. Wide will wear, but tight will tear.
20. The heart is small and embraces the whole wide world.