Proverb Quotes

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Eat coconuts while you have teeth.

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.

No stake ever grew old with the bark on.

Wrinkled as a prune.

The old ox plows a straight furrow.