Proverb Quotes

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• Do business best when the wind's in the west
• Don't change horses in midstream
• Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
• Luck is the idol of the idle.
• Now for good luck, cast an old shoe after me
• The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
• If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas
• It pays to be honest, but it's slow pay
• Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
• Children and fools cannot lie.
• Too aim is not enough, you must hit!
• A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
• Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief
• He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot
• While it pays to be honest you are often a long time collecting
• Wealth makes everything easy - honesty most of all
• He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
• He who sows virtue reaps fame
• Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.
• He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggles like a swimmer against the stream.

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