Nature is new every morning. More often, someone will say just part of a proverb like this: You know what they say: when the going gets tough... (Read #5 below to learn the rest of this proverb and what it means.) ~ Bulgarian Proverbs. The Indian is like that. Be truthful and honest at all times; Take full responsibility for your actions; Compiled by Kathy Weiser-Alexander, updated April 2020. It is common for countries to have their own versions of a proverb. American Proverbs Download or Share Proverb Images. When to use it: This proverb can be used for someone who is going through a difficult time while working towards something worthwhile. ~ Traditional Proverb. What says Don Ferdinando?Threatened folks may live the longest: they take numerous precautions.Three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.More flies are caught with honey than with molasses.Through wisdom is a house built, and by understanding it is established.Dreams are what you hope for; reality is what you plan for.To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.Not he who has many ideas but he who has one conviction may become a great man.A fool might be counted wise if he kept his mouth shut.Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.To have a friend, close one eye; to keep him, close both.To laugh at a man with sense is the privilege of fools.Early childhood should be as happy and carefree as you can make it.Old friends are the best, but new ones are the most fun.Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.One at a time is good fishing; two at a time is making a hog of yourself.Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow your wife may come home.Education doesn't come by bumping your head against the school house.Be civil to every man; you know not who may prove to be your friend.True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare; false ones like autumn leaves, found everywhere.One half the troubles in this world can be traced to saying 'yes' too quick or saying 'no' not soon enough.True generosity is the ability to accept ingratitude.One may get up late if one has the name of getting up early.Be content and do not heed the goadings of ambitions.A man never becomes an orator if he has something to say.One tree can make a million matches, and one match can destroy a million trees.A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself to keeps his friends in countenance.Two clocks don't run alike; two men don't think alike.Our bread today is better than a hundred in the air.Advisers get away with it.

Nothing defines a culture as distinctly as its language, and the element of language that best encapsulates a society's values and beliefs is its proverbs. A bee works; a beaver works and plays.Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out.Wise men learn from other men's mistakes; fools insist on learning from their own.Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.A good doctor treats both the patient and the disease.Genius is one part inspiration and three parts perspiration.Sweep the dirt from in front of your own door, and don't worry about your neighbour's.Words and deeds are not weighed in the same balance.Get what you can, and what you get, hold; it's the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.Age gives good advice when it is no longer able to give a bad example.Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.Take a friend for what he does, a wife for what she has, and goods for what they are worth.Getting what you go after is called success, but liking it while you are getting it is called happiness.Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.Take care of the dimes and the dollars will take care of themselves.Keep the weekdays honest and it will be easy to keep the Sabbath holy.A cat has nine lives; for three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays.You can bear with your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?.God promises a safe landing, but not a calm passage.You can drive sixty miles a minute, but there is no future in it.Business goes where it is invited and stays where it is well treated.Judge a Dutchman by what he means, not by what he says.It's not the gale but the set of the sail that determines the way you go.You can hardly keep from getting soiled if you fight with a skunk.You can never tell what's in a package by its cover.Air castles are good; now put foundations under them.You can shut the door on a thief, but you can do nothing about a liar.The baby who always gets carried will never learn to walk.By the yard, life is hard. For example, the Dutch proverb "Do not wake sleeping dogs" appears in the U.S. as "Let sleeping dogs lie." Also See: Native American Facts & Trivia. A father is a banker provided by nature.

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