"Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave." - Chinese Proverb

"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not." - Chinese Proverb

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion." - Chinese Proverb

"Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb

"Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat." - Chinese Proverb

"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words." - Chinese Proverb

"Climb mountains to see lowlands." - Chinese Proverb

"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount." - Chinese Proverb

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead." - Chinese Proverb

"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." - Chinese Proverb

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." - Chinese Proverb

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb

"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." - Chinese Proverb

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." - Chinese Proverb

"The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood." - Chinese Proverb

"Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves." - Chinese Proverb

"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years." - Chinese Proverb

"The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship." - Chinese Proverb

"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs." - German Proverb

"If one branch doesn't move, the many branches won't stir. T: 'If someone does not lead, no one will follow.'" - Chinese Proverb

"Better late than never." - Heywood, John c1565

"The Windy day is not a day for scallops (thatching)" - Irish Proverb

"People live in each other's shelter" - Irish Proverb

"The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey" - Irish Proverb

"There is no fireside like your own fireside" - Irish Proverb

"You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail," - Irish Proverb

"and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner." - Irish Proverb

"There is no strength without unity." - Irish Proverb

"You must live with a person to know a person. If you want to know me come and live with me." - Irish Proverb

"Praise the young and they will blossom" - Irish Proverb

"The raggy colt often made a powerful horse." - Irish Proverb

"Age is honorable and youth is noble." - Irish Proverb

"Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever." - Irish Proverb

"When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak." - Irish Proverb

"Youth does not mind where it sets its foot." - Irish Proverb

"It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while." - Irish Proverb

"Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die." - Irish Proverb

"The smallest thing outlives the human being." - Irish Proverb

"The well fed does not understand the lean." - Irish Proverb

"He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you" - Irish Proverb

"It is not a secret if it is known by three people." - Irish Proverb

"It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal." - Irish Proverb

"Quiet people are well able to look after themselves." - Irish Proverb

"If you hit my dog you hit myself." - Irish Proverb

"A friends eye is a good mirror." - Irish Proverb

"It is the good horse that draws its own cart." - Irish Proverb

"A lock is better than suspicion." - Irish Proverb

"Even a small thorn causes festering." - Irish Proverb

"Two shorten the road." - Irish Proverb

"It is better to exist unknown to the law." - Irish Proverb

"If you want to be criticized, marry." - Irish Proverb

"What fills they fills the heart." - Irish Proverb

"A trade not properly learned is an enemy." - Irish Proverb

"Two thirds of the work is the semblance." - Irish Proverb

"It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself." - Irish Proverb

"He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday." - Irish Proverb

"It takes time to build castles. Rome wan not built in a day." - Irish Proverb

"Mere words do not feed the friars." - Irish Proverb

"The work praises the man." - Irish Proverb

"If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn." - Irish Proverb

"A drink precedes a story." - Irish Proverb

"Good as drink is, it ends in thirst." - Irish Proverb

"When the drop (drink) is inside the sense is outside." - Irish Proverb

"When the liquor was gone the fun was gone." - Irish Proverb

"It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for." - Irish Proverb

"Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness." - Irish Proverb

"Wine divulges truth." - Irish Proverb

"As the big hound is, so will the pup be." - Irish Proverb

"Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat." - Irish Proverb

"You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." - Irish Proverb

"Instinct is stronger than upbringing." - Irish Proverb

"A poor person is often worthy." - Irish Proverb

"A barrel that contains the wine will retain the drop in its staves." - Irish Proverb

"It is often that a cow does not take after its breed." - Irish Proverb

"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout." - Irish Proverb

"A hounds food is in its legs." - Irish Proverb

"A persons heart is in his feet." - Irish Proverb

"The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail." - Irish Proverb

"It is a long road that has no turning." - Irish Proverb

"Spalds (small stones) suit walls as well as big stones." - Irish Proverb

"When fire is applied to a stone it cracks." - Irish Proverb

"Necessity knows no law." - Irish Proverb

"Need teaches a plan." - Irish Proverb

"Necessity is the mother of invention." - Irish Proverb

"Lack of resource has hanged many a person." - Irish Proverb

"The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches." - Irish Proverb

"The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely." - Irish Proverb

"There is no luck except where there is discipline." - Irish Proverb

"A hen is heavy when carried far." - Irish Proverb

"The hole is more honorable than the patch." - Irish Proverb

"Time is a great story teller." - Irish Proverb

"Patience is poultice for all wounds." - Irish Proverb

"There is no need like the lack of a friend." - Irish Proverb

"The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot." - Irish Proverb

"The light heart lives long." - Irish Proverb

"Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab." - Irish Proverb

"May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son." - Irish Proverb

"Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst." - Irish Proverb

"Proverbs are short sayings drawn from long experience." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha

"Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people." - JAMES HOWELL, Proverbs

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it." - JOHN KEATS, letter (1819)

"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim." - THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, Literary Essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review

"The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude." - NORMAN MAILER, Advertisements for Myself

"A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom." - JOHN RUSSELL, quoted in James Mackintosh's Memoirs

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." - GEORGE SANTAYANA, Little Essays