One Proverb

Goodwill towards all beings is the true religion.

- Buddha

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

- African

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river.

- Madagascar

The dream dreams the dreamer.

- Talaxian

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

- Chinese

We have resentments because we think we should not have to reap what we reap.

- Rosicrucian

The Collective dream is the cornerstone of reality.

- Carl Jung

That which you put into your soup kettle, comes later onto your spoon.

- Arabic

Without retaliation, evils would one day become extinct from the world.

- Nigeria

There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.

- Sufi

No suffering befalls the man who calls nothing his own.

- Dhamapada

There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow.

- Sioux

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

- Yiddish

The stars are the street lights of eternity.

- Rosicrucian

When the mind discriminates, there is manifoldness of things; when it does not, it looks into the true state of things.

- Buddhist

To a friend's house, the road is never long.

- Danish

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.

- Thich Nhat Nanh

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day.

- Chinese

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

- Shawnee

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- Chinese

Our senses serve to affirm, not to know.

- Egyptian

The afternoon knows what the morning never dreamed.

- Swedish

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

- Chinese

A great position entails great responsibility.

- Vietnamese

Life is a treasure hunt - love is the treasure.

- Rosicrucian

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

- Takuan Soho

Let go of the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which you have no doubt.

- Mohammad

If you're attached to anything, you surely will go far astray.

- Zen Buddhist

The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor.

- Romanian

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

- Zen Buddhist

Whoever has walked with truth generates life.

- Sumerian

Carpenters bend wood; fletchers bend arrow; wise men fashion themselves.

- Buddha

As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.

- Blake

It is when a man ceases to do the things he has to do and does the things he likes to do, that the character is revealed.

- Lin Yutang

The axe forgets; the tree remembers.

- African

Your enemy is your greatest teacher.

- Buddhist

The life of day before yesterday has departed today.

- Babylonian

Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer.

- Zen

No matter how the wind howls, the mountain will not bow to it.

- Chinese

In death, I am born.

- Hopi

Hatreds do not ever cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

- Dhamapada

Evil is of old date.

- Arabic

All of life is a dream walking, all of death is a going home.

- Chinese

True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through successive stages.

- Egyptian

He who fears something gives it power over him.

- Moorish

It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.

- Anishinabe

The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.

- Southwest

Only your shadow knows your true height.

- Chinese

Where there is a mountain the up-draft awaits our decision to soar.

- Rosicrucian

We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters, or we shall perish together like fools.

- MLKjr

As the wound inflames the finger, so thought inflames the mind.

- African

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

- William Blake

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

- Tolkein

The spiritual art of no-deception leads to the calm eye of the human hurricane.

- Rosicrucian

God will not change the condition of men, until they change what is in themselves.

- Koran

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.

- Chinese

Meditation is not a means to an end; it is both the means and the end.

- Krishnamurti

The more you know, the less you understand.

- Tao Te Ching

It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the Bullring.

- Spanish

The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain.

- Kahlil Gibran

My barn has burned down, now I can see the moon.

- Basho

In the universe, the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

- Lao tzu

Better than he who knows what is right, is he who loves what is right.

- Confucius

Love unlocks the mysteries of the universe.

- Rosicrucian

As for man, his days are like grass: like a flower of the field, so he blooms.

- Psalms

The wise do not resist change, they ever guide it toward the good.

- Rosicrucian

Do a good deed and throw it into the sea.

- Arabic

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there will be true peace.

- Sufi

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

- Dhamapada

Educate a man and you educate an individual, educate a woman and you educate a nation.

- African

In every vital activity it is the path that matters.

- Egyptian

Learn as if you might not attain your object and were always fearful lest you miss it.

- Confucius

When you boil rice, know that the water is your own life.

- Zen

Those who speak with discretion are respected by mankind, as the sun, emerging from the shadows, by its rays creates great warmth.

- Tibetan

The source of all religion is the recognition of a Higher Power.

- Rosicrucian

The angry man will defeat himself in battle, as well as in life.

- Samurai

The pure unadulterated love of one can nullify the hatred of millions.

- Mohandas Gandhi

Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.

- Egyptian

The constant dripping of water wears away the stone.

- Sufi

The beginning and the end reach out their hands to each other.

- Chinese

If you are ready to believe, you are easy to deceive.

- Vietnamese

The wise search for the herbs they need to heal themselves, so too we gather experiences to purify our hearts.

- Rosicrucian

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

- Blake

The still mind of the sage is a mirror of heaven and earth, the glass of all things.

- Chuang Tse

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

- Zen

Tomorrow or next life - which comes first, we will never know.

- Tibetan Buddhist

Like the head waters of a river, thought gives rise to feeling.

- Rosicrucian

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

- English

Altruism is the mark of a superior being.

- Egyptian

Conquer anger with lack of anger; bad, with good; stinginess, with generosity; a liar, with truth.

- Buddhist

Time is a great story teller.

- Irish

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

- African

Focus, not on the rudenesses of others, not on what they've done or left undone, but on what you have & haven't done yourself.

- Buddhist

The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.

- Yiddish

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.

- Zen

The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.

- Yiddish

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

- Maharshi

Life is instantaneous, and living is dying.

- Buddhist

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

- Lao tzu

The raft of knowledge ferries the worst sinner to safety.

- Bhagavad-Gita

Dawn does not come twice to awaken a man.

- Arabic

Love is the secret key: it opens the door of the divine.

- Jains

The kingdom of heaven is here and now.

- Jesus Christ

Not nakedness, not matted locks, not dirt or fasting or sleeping on the bare earth, or sitting motionless can purify a man who has not overcome his doubts.

- Dhamapada

With all things and in all things, we are relative.

- Sioux

Everything the same; everything distinct.

- Zen

In this treacherous world there is neither truth nor lie; everything is like the color of the crystal through which you gaze.

- Mexican

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Socrates

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

- English

Sorrow unexperienced, happiness cannot be tasted.

- Tibetan

When we understand the sun, our love will warm the earth.

- Rosicrucian

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

- Confucius

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

- Taoist

By acting without attachment a man reaches what is far away.

- Bhagavad-Gita

What we are looking for, is what is looking.

- Zen

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

- Confucius

Consistently beautiful thoughts constitute the master key to the treasury of the heart.

- Rosicrucian

The obstacle is the path.

- Zen

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

- Mohandas Gandhi

Not twice this day; inch time, foot gem.

- Zen

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.

- Tagore

Indulging in one's desires in the hope of transcending them is like attempting to extinguish a fire by pouring kerosene on it.

- Lakshmana

A good example is the tallest kind of preaching.

- African

To understand everything, is to forgive everything.

- Japanese Buddhist

When house and land are gone, then learning is most excellent.

- Zen

My song is my striving, my striving is my song.

- Rosicrucian

The mind is host, the body guest.

- Japanese

Only the ignorant man becomes angry, the wise man understands.

- Hindu

The heavens and the earth cannot contain me, but the heart of my believing servant does contain me.

- Muhammad

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting...

- Gautama Buddha

Beauty and her twin brother Truth require leisure and self control for their growth.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Knowledge is riches, what one learns in youth is engraved in stone.

- African

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

- Spanish

All evil done clings to the body.

- Japanese Buddhist

No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back.

- Turkish

If you derive pleasure from the good which you do, and grieved by the evil which you commit, you are a true believer.

- Muhammad

Conquer your foe by anger and you will increase his anger; conquer by love and you will reap no after-sorrow.

- Buddhist

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

- Chinese

In the minds of the generous contentment is produced.

- Confucius

There is more time than life.

- Mexican

Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother and all things as your Brothers and Sisters.

- Native American

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

- Anais Nin

Long is the night to him who is wakeful; long is the mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

- Dhamapada

He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks inside, awakens.

- Carl Jung

A horse that resists the reins, a car without brakes and a person with no self-control, are all equally headed for disaster.

- Sathya Sai Baba

He who sows the wind harvests the storm.

- Afgani

Even if the water falls drop by drop, it will fill the pot; and the fool will become full of evil, even though he gathers it little by little.

- Buddhist

Love is an escalator of Light, the higher we go the more we glow.

- Rosicrucian

Those who know do not say, and those who say, do not know.

- Tao Te-Ching

Beware, the man of one book.

- St. Thomas Aquinas

It is the great north wind that made the Vikings.

- Scandanavian

There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.

- Venezuelan

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

- Emerson

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great wings across the sky.

- Ojibway

In the swamp of sorrows, regret is an anchor.

- Rosicrucian

A drowning man is not troubled by rain.

- Iranian

The sages ramble in the vacancy of untroubled ease, find their food in the fields of indifference, and stand in the gardens which they had not borrowed.

- Taoist

Writing is the mother of eloquence and the father of artists.

- Babylonian

God bides hidden in the hearts of all.

- Muhammad

He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

- Chinese

A single word may ruin an enterprise, and a single man may pacify the state.

- Taoist

There is nothing infinite apart from finite things.

- Zen

The sun does not charge for the warmth of its rays.

- Rosicrucian

Your focus determines your reality.

- Obiwan Kenobi

Indulging the consciousness of being good is the way to lose that goodness; being vain of one's ability is the way to lose it.

- Buddhist

When there is sincerity there is enlightenment, when there is enlightenment there is sincerity.

- Taoist

The ruins of time build mansions in Eternity.

- Blake

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

- James Thurber

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

- Carl Jung

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

- Black Elk

A monk can be very gentle, very peaceful, while there are no hard words to assail him, but when hard words are directed at him, it is then that he must be really gentle and peaceful.

- Majjhima Nikaya

The future is the harvest of our chosen possibilities.

- Rosicrucian

Truth is not a conquest, it is a total surrender.

- Jains

The sun illuminates the world; knowledge illuminates a man.

- Mongolian

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

- Buddhist

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Einstein

To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting.

- Polish

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

- Iranian

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.

- Einstein

Thoughts and dreams are the foundation of our being.

- Nigerian

There is no fire like passion; there is no evil like hatred; there is no pain like this body; there is no happiness greater than peace.

- Buddhist

Negative thoughts tare the fabric of personal harmony.

- Rosicrucian

What proceeds from you will return to you.

- Confucianism

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

- Hopi

No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival.

- Turkish

You should ceaselessly affirm, with every breath, every heartbeat, every action and intention: I am freedom from every limitation, I am the principle of timeless awareness.

- Ramakrishna

You have come here to find what you already have.

- Buddhist

See simplicity in the complicated, achieve greatness in little things.

- Tao Te-Ching

The passion of a heedless man grows like a creeper, and he runs from life to life, like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest.

- Dhamapada

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

- Yiddish

Poverty is the child of greed.

- Rosicrucian

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

The beauty remains; the pain passes.

- Renoir

Thou canst not gather what thou dost not sow; as thou dost plant the tree so it will grow.

- Hinduism

The wound of the arrow heals; the wound of the tongue festers.

- Turkish

We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.

- Shawnee

Meditation is neither a journey in space nor a journey in time, but an instantaneous awakening.

- J. Krishnamurti

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

- Mark Twain

There is one whom you may call your own, and that is God.

- Ramakrishna

Love burns, in driftwood fire, those splintered hopes of past desire that we may feel our way along the night's rocky shore.

- Rosicrucian

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

- Leo Tolstoy

What was is no more, what if is just if.

- Maltese

Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow; if you delight in existence, you will become a guide to those who need you, revealing the path to many.

- Sutta Nipata

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.

- John Barrymore

The Mystery of mysteries is the Door of all essence.

- Tao Teh Ching

Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.

- Hasidic

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

- Oscar Wilde

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

- William Blake

Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by and is no more.

- Madagascar

Only in the deepest silence of the night the stars smile and whisper among themselves; vain is this human seeking; unbroken perfection is over all...

- Tagore

It doesn't take time to change one's destiny.

- Kashmiri

Be passersby.

- Jesus Christ

Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.

- Omaha

Water flows from its source to the sea; Evil acts return to the doer.

- Mongolian

Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, from the Absolute.

- Rumi

Like a flower, bloom.

- Robert Crise, Jr

One ray of light from the Goddess of Wisdom stuns a thousand scholars.

- Ramakrishna

If you are too excited by joy, later you will have to cry.

- Tibetan

When the right hand washes the left hand and the left hand washes the right hand, both hands become clean.

- Nigeria

The heart is the battlefield of perfection.

- Rosicrucian

We do not walk on our legs, but on our will.

- Sufi

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired; In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

- Tao Teh Ching

Behind the mountains, more mountains.

- Haitian

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

- Taoist

The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.

- Abd al-Kader

To see what is right and not do it, is want of courage.

- Confucius

Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions.

- Egyptian

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

- Maori

Sharing and giving are the ways of God.

- Sauk

A child's tear rends the heavens.

- Yiddish

When the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.

- Taoist

All's alike at the latter day: a bag of gold and wisp of hay.

- Chinese

Everyone has turned his face toward some direction, but the saints have turned in the direction without directions.

- Rumi

Those who justify themselves, do not convince.

- Lao tzu

Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook.

- Zen

Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward the ocean.

- Rumi

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.

- Romanian

A noble heart never forces itself forward - its words are as rare gems, seldom displayed and of great value.

- Zen

If you're going to tell the truth, you better have one foot in the stirrup.

- Armenian

A man whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow an elephant.

- Chinese

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.

- Muhammad

A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.

- Crazy Horse

All dreams spin out of the same web.

- Hopi

The Teacher's patience must be greater than the student's frustration.

- Rosicrucian

The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.

- Yiddish

The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams.

- Belgian

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

- African

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

- Chinese

Intelligence without love has much to learn.

- Rosicrucian

Keep everything in your mind, but forget your dream sack.

- Finnish

Like wind blown seeds, are thoughts from an undiscerning mind.

- African

The mouth is the front-gate of all misfortune.

- Japanese Buddhist

The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.

- Greek

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

- Rumi

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

- Nigerian

If we wonder often the gift of knowledge will come.

- Arapaho

There is no King on the Road of Death.

-Japanese Buddhist

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

- Romanian

Have much and be confused.

- Tao Te Ching

The stargazer's toe is often stubbed.

- Russian

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill; to subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

- Sun-Tzu

The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.

- Yiddish

By these three steps you will come near to the gods: speak the truth; do not yield anger; give even though you have but a little to give.

- Dhamapada

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

- Turkish

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

- Lucius Seneca

Go to sleep in reverence of yourself as infinity, and wake up the same way.

- Ramakrishna

A sandal is not a shoe; a cap is not a turban.

- Afgani

If you want to get rid of your enemy, the true way is to realize that your enemy is delusion.

- Buddhist

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

- Buddha

There is strife where servants are, slander where anointers anoint.

- Babylonian

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

- Seneca

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

- Emily Dickinson

We are what we repeatedly do.

- Aristotle

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

- Chinese

The universe is an on-going construction project by its thoughtful inhabitants.

- Rosicrucian

Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.

- Chinese

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and is made up of our thoughts.

- Dhamapada

African Proverbs

A wise man who knows proverbs, reconciles difficulties.

- Ashanti

Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots.

- Ashanti

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.

- Ashanti

Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.

- Ashanti

The moon moves slowly, but it crosses the town.

- Ashanti

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

- Ashanti

When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.

- Ashanti

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

- Ashanti

When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.

- Ashanti

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.

- Ashanti

It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.

- Ashanti

Money is sharper than a sword.

- Ashanti

When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.

- Ashanti

It is Mr. Old-Man-Monkey who marries Mrs. Old-Woman-Monkey.

- Ashanti

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

- Ashanti

Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue.

- Ashanti

To engage in conflict, one does not bring a knife that cuts -- but a needle that sews.

- Bahumbu

Sickness accompanies a waning moon; a new moon cures disease.

- Budanda

When the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly.

- Budanda

A strawberry blossom will not sweeten dry bread.

- Budanda

Water always finds a way out.

- Cameroon

Do not step on the dog's tail, and he will not bite you.

- Cameroon

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers.

- Cameroon

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

- Cameroon

The cricket cries, the year changes.

- Cameroon

Thought breaks the heart

- Cameroon

Rain does not fall on one roof alone.

- Cameroon

Children are the reward of life.

- Congo

Little by little grow the bananas.

- Congo

Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.

- Congo

You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.

- Congo

Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.

- Congo

The friends of our friends are our friends.

- Congo

Death does not sound a trumpet.

- Congo

No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come.

- Congo

To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.

- Congo

Sleep is the cousin of death.

- Congo

Those who are absent are always wrong.

- Congo

A single bracelet does not jingle.

- Congo

Taking water from the same well doesn't make all the wives' gravy taste good.

- Cote D' Ivoire

When your neighbour is wrong you point a finger, but when you are wrong you hide.

- Ekonda

To one who does not know , a who garden is a forest.

- Ethiopia

When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.

- Ethiopia

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like a oak tree.

- Ethiopia

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

- Ethiopia

Restless feet may walk into a snake pit.

- Ethiopia

Snake at your feet - a stick at your hand!

- Ethiopia

The witness of a rat is another rat.

- Ethiopia

He who learns, teaches.

- Ethiopia

Woman without man is like a field without seed.

- Ethiopia

Unless you call out, who will open the door?

- Ethiopia

When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth.

- Ethiopia

You cannot build a house for last year's summer.

- Ethiopia

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

- Ethiopia

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

- Ethiopia

A cat may go to a monastery, but she still remains a cat.

- Ethiopia

A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children.

- Ethiopia

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

- Ethiopia

The fool is thirsty in the midst of water.

- Ethiopia

As the wound inflames the finger, so thought inflames the mind.

- Ethiopia-Oromo

Move your neck according to the music.

- Ethiopia-Oromo

One is born, one dies; the land increases.

- Ghana

Two waterfalls do not hear each other.

- Gikuyu

One camel does not make fun of the other camel's hump.

- Guinea

A good deed is something one returns.

- Guinea

He who does not cultivate his field, will die of hunger.

- Guinea

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

- Guinea

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

- Guinea

After a foolish deed comes remorse.

- Kenya

Talking with one another is loving one another.

- Kenya

Good millet is known at the harvest.

- Liberia

A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.

- Madagascar

A child without a mother is like a fish in shallow water.

- Mynamar

Earth is the queen of beds.

- Namibia

He who marries a beauty marries trouble.

- Nigeria

Thoughts and dreams are the foundation of our being.

- Nigeria

When one is in trouble, one remembers God.

- Nigeria

Time destroys all things.

- Nigeria

Without retaliation, evils would one day become extinct from the world.

- Nigeria

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.

- Rwanda

An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.

- Senegal

Equality is not easy, but superiority is painful.

- Serere

It is better to be loved than feared.

- Sierra Leone

A big fish is caught with big bait.

- Sierra Leone

A cow must graze where she is tied.

- Sierra Leone

Do not tell the man who is carrying you that he stinks.

- Sierra Leone

To try and fail is not laziness.

- Somalia

Poverty is slavery.

- Somalia

Wisdom does not come overnight.

- Somalia

Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.

- Sudan

The wind does not break a tree that bends.

- Sukuma

To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.

- Tanzania

A roaring lion kills no game.

- Tanzania

The tears running down your face do not blind you.

- Togolese

In all the world, things are two and two.

- Uganda

Water that has been begged for does not quench the thirst.

- Uganda

It takes a whole village to raise a child

- Yoruba

Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.

- Yoruba

If you damage the character of another, you damage your own.

- Yoruba

The horse that arrives early gets good drinking water.

- Zulu

Proverbs are the daughters of experience.

- African

If you're not living on the edge... you're taking up too much room.

- African

Knowledge is not the main thing, but deeds.

- African

The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life.

- African

He who runs after good fortune runs away from peace.

- African

The heart of man and the bottom of the sea are unfathomable.

- African

Men fall only in order to rise.

- African

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

- African

Call kinship with the hyena, and all hyenas are your friend.

- African

Oh hyena, don't give me excuse to eat me.

- African

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

- African

As the dog said, 'If I fall down for you and you fall down for me, it is playing.'

- African

The axe forgets; the tree remembers.

- African

Chinese Proverbs

Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger, but a heart as soft as tofu.

- Chinese

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

- Chinese

If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.

- Chinese

Dream different dreams while on the same bed.

- Chinese

Better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness.

- Chinese

Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.

- Chinese

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

- Chinese

Looking for the ass on its very back.

- Chinese

The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be.

- Chinese

No wind, no waves.

- Chinese

Of all the strategems, to know when to quit is the best.

- Chinese

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day.

- Chinese

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

- Chinese

One monk shoulders water by himself; two can still share the labor among them, when it comes to three, they have to go thirsty.

- Chinese

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

- Chinese

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

- Chinese

A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den.

- Chinese

There are always ears on the other side of the wall.

- Chinese

Crows everywhere are equally black.

- Chinese

Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.

- Chinese

We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt.

- Chinese

A weasel comes to say "Happy New Year" to the chickens.

- Chinese

Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.

- Chinese

The more you sweat in Peacetime, The less you bleed during War.

- Chinese

Pure gold does not fear furnace.

- Chinese

Those who do not read are no better off than those who can not.

- Chinese

Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.

- Chinese

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- Chinese

He painted a tiger, but it turned out a dog.

- Chinese

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

- Chinese

The beginning and the end reach out their hands to each other.

- Chinese

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

- Chinese

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

- Chinese

Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.

- Chinese

With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.

- Chinese

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

- Chinese

When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.

- Chinese

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.

- Chinese

He who rides the tiger can never dismount.

- Chinese

Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.

- Chinese

I was angered, for I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.

- Chinese

There is no one to sweep a common hall.

- Chinese

A book holds a house of gold.

- Chinese

The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.

- Chinese

Virtue never dwells alone; it always has neighbors.

- Chinese

He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place while all other stars bow towards it.

- Chinese

The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.

- Chinese

Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.

- Chinese

When you bow, bow low.

- Chinese

A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not notice them.

- Chinese

I dreamed a thousand new paths I woke and walked my old one.

- Chinese

When men discuss the things which are to be, the rats laugh in the rafters.

- Chinese

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

- Chinese

If you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned.

- Chinese

The first blow is half the battle.

- Chinese

Every bird likes his own nest best.

- Chinese

A little body often harbors a great soul.

- Chinese

Beware of the camel going to seek horns, he lost his ears.

- Chinese

It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand.

- Chinese

A ragged colt may make a good horse.

- Chinese

A guilty conscience feels continual fear.

- Chinese

Full of courtesy, full of cunning.

- Chinese

Of a small spark, a great fire.

- Chinese

Wake not a sleeping lion.

- Chinese

Fie upon hens! quoth the fox, because he could not reach them.

- Chinese

Where we least think, there goeth the hare away.

- Chinese

Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.

- Chinese

Much law, little justice.

- Chinese

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

- Chinese

Mischief has swift wings.

- Chinese

The wolf barks in vain at the moon.

- Chinese

Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it.

- Chinese

The peacock hath fair feathers, but a foul voice.

- Chinese

Rage is not without reason.

- Chinese

Praise the sea, but keep on land.

- Chinese

The lone wolf may yet kill as many deer as a pack.

- Chinese

War is Death's feast.

- Chinese

Paper can't wrap up a fire.

- Chinese

The fly that plays too long in the candle, singes his wings at last.

- Chinese

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

- Chinese

In the ant's house, the dew is a flood.

- Chinese

You think you lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday.

- Chinese

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.

- Chinese

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

- Chinese

A fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.

- Chinese

One day as a tiger is worth a thousand as a sheep.

- Chinese

An ant may well destroy a dam.

- Chinese

Crows everywhere are equally black.

- Chinese

Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.

- Chinese

Kill one to warn a hundred.

- Chinese

Once bitten by a snake, he is scared all his life at the sight of rope.

- Chinese

The dog that has bitten bites again.

- Chinese

No matter how the wind howls, the mountain will not bow to it.

- Chinese

Only your shadow knows your true height.

- Chinese

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

- Chinese

It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

- Chinese

Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.

- Chinese

It is easy to dodge the arrow of an enemy, but difficult to avoid the spear of a friend.

- Chinese

We know the worth of water when the well is dry.

- Chinese

Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.

- Chinese

Killing the dog does not heal the bite.

- Chinese

If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.

- Chinese

All of life is a dream walking, all of death is a going home.

- Chinese

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

- Chinese

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

- Chinese

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

- Chinese

If everyone swept the pavement in front of his house, the whole street would be clean.

- Chinese

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

- Chinese

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

- Chinese

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.

- Chinese

Sleep is the brother of Death.

- Chinese

People can no more be judged by their looks than the sea can be measured in bushels.

- Chinese

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.

- Chinese

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.

- Chinese

Everyone pushes a falling fence.

- Chinese

Mexican Proverbs

There is more time than life.

- Mexican

When hunger comes through the door, love jumps out the window.

- Mexican

Let water run that you do not intend to drink.

- Mexican

In this treacherous world there is neither truth nor lie; everything is like the color of the crystal through which you gaze.

- Mexican

Don't break down, rope; this is the last jerk!

- Mexican

The most desirable woman is always the one who belongs to someone else.

- Mexican

He who lives with hope dies happy.

- Mexican

God does not hear you if you do not speak.

- Mexican

Pray indeed, but get to work!

- Mexican

You judge the way you live.

- Mexican

The sin carries its own penance.

- Mexican

The devil is wiser not because he's the devil, but because he's old.

- Mexican

Yes, old: But never sexually cold!

- Mexican

In youth we learn, in old age we understand.

- Mexican

Youth is a folly; maturity, a struggle; old age a remorse.

- Mexican

Revenge is a dish that tastes better cold.

- Mexican

The brave man lives until the coward wants.

- Mexican

The lazy is a brother of the begger.

- Mexican

Money is a good servant, but an evil master.

- Mexican

Jealous about honor and careless about providing.

- Mexican

A lamp in the street, obscurity at home.

- Mexican

The good judge starts at home.

- Mexican

Hell must be in bad condition when even the devil stays out.

- Mexican

When you see that someone is cutting your neighbor's beard, start wetting yours.

- Mexican

Make deaf ears to stupid words.

- Mexican

Parrots are green everywhere; the idiot loses wherever he is.

- Mexican

The deaf does not listen, but invents well.

- Mexican

It is not enough to know how to ride - you must also know how to fall.

- Mexican

The seagull thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.

- Mexican

Don't cut your cactus in a neighbor's garden.

- Mexican

It's better to be poor, than to live alone.

- Mexican

The fewer donkeys, the more corncobs.

- Mexican

Conversation is food for the soul.

- Mexican

Hope dies last of all.

- Mexican

A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch.

- Mexican

It's not the fault of the mouse, but of the one who offers him the cheese.

- Mexican

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.

- Mexican

The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor, when he has something to eat.

- Mexican

We were born to die anyhow.

- Mexican

Moon Over Morocco Proverbs

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

- Moon Over Morocco

For the sake of a single rose, the gardener becomes servant to a thousand thorns.

- Moon Over Morocco

Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face.

- Moon Over Morocco

Plans fail for lack of counsel but with many advisors, succeed.

- Moon Over Morocco

Angels bend down their wings to a seeker of knowledge.

- Moon Over Morocco

He who touches honey is compelled to lick his fingers.

- Moon Over Morocco

Some will learn through pain and sorrow, others through joy and laughter, so it is written.

- Moon Over Morocco

One who prevades the great universe is seen by none unless a man knows the unfolding of love.

- Moon Over Morocco

Think of the 'going out' before you enter.

- Moon Over Morocco

He who is a mocker dances without a tamborine.

- Moon Over Morocco

By all means make friends with the dog, but do not lay aside the stick.

- Moon Over Morocco

Better a handful of dried figs and content with that, than to own the gate of peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.

- Moon Over Morocco

The hand you cannot bite, kiss.

- Moon Over Morocco

He who eats when he is full digs his grave with his teeth.

- Moon Over Morocco

The driver of an ass must by necessity know its wind.

- Moon Over Morocco

Catch the halter rope and it will lead you to the donkey.

- Moon Over Morocco

With much knowledge there is much sorrow, with much wisdom there is much weeping.

- Moon Over Morocco

In his heart a man may plan his course but God determines his every step.

- Moon Over Morocco

By all means trust in Allah, but tie your camel first.

- Moon Over Morocco

Do not shoot a glass arrow into a painted deer.

- Moon Over Morocco

Open your door to a good day and prepare yourself for a bad one.

- Moon Over Morocco

He is a good storyteller who can turn a man's ears into eyes.

- Moon Over Morocco

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone.

- Moon Over Morocco

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

- Moon Over Morocco

A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but Allah tests the heart.

- Moon Over Morocco

He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker.

- Moon Over Morocco

He who lacks knowledge derides his neighbor, but the man of understanding holds his tongue.

- Moon Over Morocco

If you're going to tell the truth, you better have one foot in the stirrup.

- Moon Over Morocco

A devil takes one and makes two, a saint takes two and makes one.

- Moon Over Morocco

What is past is gone, what is hoped for is absent, for you is the hour in which you are.

- Moon Over Morocco

Few desires, happy life.

- Moon Over Morocco

Better the gurgling of a camel than the prayers of a fish.

- Moon Over Morocco

For he who builds his casbah out of halava; beware the nibblers.

- Moon Over Morocco

A wise woman has much to say and yet remains silent.

- Moon Over Morocco

As the sands of the desert are to the weary traveler, so are words to he who loveth silence.

- Moon Over Morocco

That which you put into your soup kettle, comes later onto your spoon.

- Moon Over Morocco

If a man puts a cord around his neck, God will provide someone to pull it.

- Moon Over Morocco

A book is like a garden in the pocket.

- Moon Over Morocco

A teacher will appear when the student is ready.

- Moon Over Morocco

If a man told you that a dog had run off with your ear, would you go after the dog or search first for your ear?

- Moon Over Morocco

Let us sit bent, but talk straight.

- Moon Over Morocco

Every rose has a thorn as its friend.

- Moon Over Morocco

The camel driver has his plans and the camel has his.

- Moon Over Morocco

If at noon the King declares it is night, behold the stars.

- Moon Over Morocco

If you see a man riding a wooden stick, say to him "Good health to your horse".

- Moon Over Morocco

If the prayers of dogs were answered, bones would rain from the sky.

- Moon Over Morocco

Do not judge a man by the whiteness of his turbin, soap is bought on credit.

- Moon Over Morocco

A camel never sees his own hump, but those of his brothers are always before him.

- Moon Over Morocco

A dog on the run is safely kicked.

- Moon Over Morocco

The same destiny awaits both the wise man and the fool.

- Moon Over Morocco

Do not correct with a strike that which can be taught with a kiss.

- Moon Over Morocco

A fool's lips bring him strife and invite a beating.

- Moon Over Morocco

Like a gold ring in a pigs snout is a woman without descretion.

- Moon Over Morocco

Better a patient man than a warrior, one who controls his temper than one who takes a city.

- Moon Over Morocco

The mind is free and the slightest thought has great influence, it is therefore important that you think enlightened thoughts.

- Moon Over Morocco

To the dog who has money, men say: my lord dog.

- Moon Over Morocco

Man alone is the measure of all things.

- Moon Over Morocco

Every dog thinks of his own fleas as gazelles.

- Moon Over Morocco

He who follows the crow will be led to the corpses of dogs.

- Moon Over Morocco

The dawn does not come twice to awaken a man.

- Moon Over Morocco

The palm of ones hand does not eclipse the sun.

- Moon Over Morocco

The best fighting is often against yourself.

- Moon Over Morocco

A narrow space looks wide to the narrow minded.

- Moon Over Morocco

Kindness can pluck the whiskers of a lion.

- Moon Over Morocco

He who has patience with his enemy, rewards himself.

- Moon Over Morocco

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

- Moon Over Morocco

The weight of the burden is known only by he who caries it.

- Moon Over Morocco

If I listen, I have the advantage; if I speak, others have it.

- Moon Over Morocco

The village gate can be closed, the mouth of the fool, never.

- Moon Over Morocco

Without fingers, the hand would be a spoon.

- Moon Over Morocco

The barking of dogs does not hurt the clouds.

- Moon Over Morocco

The tongue has no bone yet it crushes.

- Moon Over Morocco

Often the best way to give oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has.

- Moon Over Morocco

The understanding of an Arab is in his eyes.

- Moon Over Morocco

Patience is the key of paradise.

- Moon Over Morocco

The candle is put into the lantern, and the moth is left outside, fluttering.

- Moon Over Morocco

The air of heaven is that which blows between the horse's ears.

- Moon Over Morocco

Allah gives dry beans to eat to him who has no teeth left.

- Moon Over Morocco

If a man puts a cord around his neck, God will provide someone to pull it.

- Moon Over Morocco

The beard of the guest is in the hands of the owner of the tent.

- Moon Over Morocco

If you see him riding on a bamboo cane, say to him: 'Good health to your horse.'

- Moon Over Morocco

Unless you open every door -- every door -- it is fear that hides behind all our movements.

- Moon Over Morocco

When a dog cannot bite, it has a bone in its mouth.

- Moon Over Morocco

The day has its eyes, the night has its ears.

- Moon Over Morocco

The most wonderful thing in the world is the success of a fool and the failure of a wise man.

- Moon Over Morocco

A strainer is none the worse for having another hole.

- Moon Over Morocco

Take care. The sleep of nonexistence will overtake you at last, for the coming and going of the breath is but the rocking of the cradle.

- Moon Over Morocco

He who houses a camel must make his door higher.

- Moon Over Morocco

A small date stone props up the water jar.

- Moon Over Morocco

May Allah protect me from my friends, my enemies I can handle.

- Moon Over Morocco

If the light serves to see, it also serves to be seen.

- Moon Over Morocco

Push a lucky man into the Nile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

- Moon Over Morocco

The moon shines in the absence of the sun. Do not strike a rail with your fist, nor mistake the sun for the puff of a candle.

- Moon Over Morocco

Manage with bread and butter until God brings the jam.

- Moon Over Morocco

The bear knew nine songs, all were on honey.

- Moon Over Morocco

If you are an anvil, you will suffer like an anvil. If you are a hammer, you will strike like a hammer.

- Moon Over Morocco

An egg cannot break a stone.

- Moon Over Morocco

The biggest nuts are those which are empty.

- Moon Over Morocco

Let us sit bent but talk straight.

- Moon Over Morocco

When the chicken's feathers are of gold, it isn't smart to make broth out of the hen.

- Moon Over Morocco

The fish in the trap will begin to think.

- Moon Over Morocco

A smooth lie is better than a distorted truth.

- Moon Over Morocco

Every sheep hangs by its own leg.

- Moon Over Morocco

If the prayers of dogs were answered, bones would rain from the sky.

- Moon Over Morocco

Don't be deceived by the whiteness of the turban; soap is bought on credit.

- Moon Over Morocco

Allah may love a poor man, but not a dirty one.

- Moon Over Morocco

Put your dates in the honey pot, but don't sink it afterwards in the mud of the Nile.

- Moon Over Morocco

If you make yourself honey, the flies will eat you.

- Moon Over Morocco

To a donkey, one thistle is better than two ass-loads of jewels.

- Moon Over Morocco

Every man thinks of his own fleas as gazelles.

- Moon Over Morocco

Mother a weed, father a weed. Do you expect the daughter to be a saffron root?

- Moon Over Morocco

One cannot hold two watermelons in one hand.

- Moon Over Morocco

You can count the number of apples in one tree, but you can never count the number of trees in one apple.

- Moon Over Morocco

Life is a perpetual drunkenness; the pleasure passes, but the headache remains.

- Moon Over Morocco

However high the eye may rise, it will find the eyebrow above it.

- Moon Over Morocco

If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways of catching it: By the blade and by the handle.

- Moon Over Morocco

It's easy to carry on war -- through a spyglass.

- Moon Over Morocco

When you have put your head into the mortar, it is useless to dread the sound of the pestle.

- Moon Over Morocco

Nourish a vulture and it will pick out your eyes.

- Moon Over Morocco

Whosoever pats scorpions with the hand of compassion gets stung.

- Moon Over Morocco

Every knot has an unwraveller in Allah.

- Moon Over Morocco

There are men who are keys to good and locks to evil.

- Moon Over Morocco

O destiny, it pleases you to caress a few -- and molest others.

- Moon Over Morocco

The donkey must make itself smelt before we can breathe the perfume of the flowers.

- Moon Over Morocco

The dogs may bark, but the caravan passes on.

- Moon Over Morocco

A sponge to wipe out the past, a rose to make the present sweet, and a kiss to salute the future.

- Moon Over Morocco

Native American Proverbs

It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.

- Anishinabe

What the people believe is true.

- Anishinabe

If we wonder often the gift of knowledge will come.

- Arapaho

All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them.

- Arapaho

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

- Arapaho

Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.

- Assiniboine

Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

- Blackfoot

Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

- Blackfoot

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

- Cherokee

The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.

- Cherokee

A good soldier is a poor scout.

- Cheyenne

Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.

- Cheyenne

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.

- Cheyenne

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

- Cheyenne

Our first teacher is our own heart.

- Cheyenne

All who have died are equal.

- Comanche

One rain does not make a crop.

- Creole

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.

- Crow

You already possess everything necessary to become great.

- Crow

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

- Dakota

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

- Duwamish

In age, talk; in childhood, tears.

- Hopi

One finger cannot lift a pebble.

- Hopi

All dreams spin out from the same web.

- Hopi

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

- Hopi

The rain falls on the just and the unjust.

- Hopi

Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

- Hopi

Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you.

- Hopi

The rainbow is a sign from Him who is in all things.

- Hopi

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

- Iowa

Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.

- Kiowa

When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.

- Lakota

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

- Lakota

Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand.

- Lakota

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

- Lumbee

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

- Maricopa

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

- Minquass

A good chief gives, he does not take.

- Mohawk

There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail.

- Navajo

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

- Navajo

A rocky vinyard does not need a prayer, but a pick ax.

- Navajo

Every animal knows more than you do.

- Nez Perce

White men have too many chiefs.

- Nez Perce

To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.

- Oglala Sioux

When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.

- Oklahoma

A starving man will eat with the wolf.

- Oklahoma

The coward shoots with shut eyes.

- Oklahoma

It is easy to be brave from a distance.

- Omaha

The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry.

- Omaha

Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.

- Omaha

A hungry stomach makes a short prayer.

- Paiute

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

- Pima

Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.

- Plains

Cherish youth, but trust old age.

- Pueblo

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

- Shawnee

It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.

- Shenandoah

Sharing and giving are the ways of God.

- Sauk

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

- Seneca

We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.

- Shawnee

Each person is his own judge.

- Shawnee

We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.

- Shenandoah

There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow.

- Sioux

With all things and in all things,we are relatives.

- Sioux

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.

- Sioux

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.

- Sioux

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

- Sioux

The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.

- Southwest

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

- tribe unknown

Listening to a liar is like drinking warm water.

- tribe unknown

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

- tribe unknown

If a man is to do something more than human, he must have more than human powers.

- tribe unknown

The soul would have no rainbow if the eye had no tears.

- tribe unknown

Even a small mouse has anger.

- tribe unknown

Not every sweet root give birth to sweet grass.

- tribe unknown

Man has responsiblity, not power.

- Tuscarora

Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river.

- Tuscarora

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

- Tuscarora

The way of the troublemaker is thorny.

- Umpqua

God gives us each a song.

- Ute

A man must make his own arrows.

- Winnebago

After dark all cats are leopards.

- Zuni

Yiddish Proverbs

He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks.

- Yiddish

The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.

- Yiddish

One hand washes the other.

- Yiddish

All signs are misleading.

- Yiddish

The eyes are the mirror of the soul.

- Yiddish

A dog without teeth will also attack a bone.

- Yiddish

When the light is crooked, the shadow is crooked.

- Yiddish

A childs tear rends the heavens.

- Yiddish

One person enjoys a piece of hard cheese, a second a spun out prayer chant, and a third a door to the street.

- Yiddish

The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.

- Yiddish

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

- Yiddish

Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out.

- Yiddish

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.

- Yiddish

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

- Yiddish

He who puts up with insult invites injury.

- Yiddish

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

- Yiddish

If you can't go over, you must go under.

- Yiddish

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.

- Yiddish

A rich man has no need of character.

- Yiddish

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

- Yiddish

The wheel turns round.

- Yiddish

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant.

- Yiddish

The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.

- Yiddish

It is not good to be alone, even in Paradise.

- Yiddish

If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you.

- Yiddish

Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.

- Yiddish

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

- Yiddish

If we all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.

- Yiddish

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

- Yiddish

A half-truth is a whole lie.

- Yiddish

Bygone troubles are good to tell.

- Yiddish

If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.

- Yiddish

If you cannot bite, don't show your teeth.

- Yiddish

A snake deserves no pity.

- Yiddish

Show a dog a finger, and he wants the whole hand.

- Yiddish

In time, even a bear can be taught to dance.

- Yiddish

Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal.

- Yiddish

Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy.

- Yiddish

Too humble is half proud.

- Yiddish

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

- Yiddish

Praise the young and they will blossom.

- Yiddish

 from the One Proverb web site

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