Proverb Quotes

All be the same in a hundred years.

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

He who trusts all things to chance, makes a lottery of his life.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Lightning never strikes twice (in the same place).

Even a blind hog will find an acorn now and then.

If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.

A book whose sale’s forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.

Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced.