Some Proverbs and Sayings from around the World.

*American Indian
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

*Arab
God sells knowledge for labour honour for risk.
Those who lose dreaming are lost.

*Belgian
Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.

*Chinese
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
When you have only to pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

*French
He who can lick can bite.

*German
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

*Hindu
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

*Irish
A dimple in the chin; a devil within.

*Japanese
The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

*Jewish
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.

*Nigerian
When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

*Polish
The greater love is a mother's; Then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.

*Scottish
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

*Spanish
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.