Thought-provoking proverbs and sayings that will catch your intellectual attention.
- One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future.~ Anonymous
- Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African proverb
- People will pay more for lies than for the truth. ~Unknown
- He that has time has life. ~English Proverb
- One step at a time is good walking. ~Chinese proverb
- It is the beautiful bird which gets caged. ~Chinese proverb
- Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~ Spanish proverb
- Men build houses; women build homes. ~American Proverb
- Failing to plan is planning to fail. ~Chinese proverb
- Govern yourself and you can govern the world. ~Chinese proverb
- Kindness breaks no bones. ~German proverb
- Wasting time is robbing oneself. ~Estonian Proverb
- If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. ~Chinese proverb
- A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. ~Chinese proverb
- Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. ~Chinese proverb
- One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade. ~Chinese proverb
- Know thyself to know others, for heart beats like heart. ~Chinese proverb
- A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy. ~Chinese proverb
- A bad worker quarrels with his tools. ~Chinese proverb
- Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese proverb
- A man’s conversation is the mirror of his thoughts. ~Chinese proverb
- A good neighbor is a found treasure. ~Chinese proverb
- Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ~Chinese proverb
- Time and tide wait for no one. ~Irish Proverb
- Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~ Swedish Proverb