Proverbs

“Haste makes waste.”

• Whether the subject is food available to eat, or other opportunities we have in life, we often must settle, at least initially, for less than we might have hoped for.

• Avoid superficial evaluations. Do not judge people, things or situations by their appearance.

• If you’re kind to people, they will return the favor and be kind to you.

• If you act too quickly, your work may need to be redone.

“Let bygones be bygones.”

• Forgive and forget past quarrels.

• If you delay your decisions too long, you will miss an opportunity.

• If the law is applied two late, there is no justice.

“Kill the goose that lays the golden egg.”

• Inexperienced people may act in situations that more intelligent people would avoid.

• Destroying something that is a source of value or wealth

• Extra caution is a good policy.

Learn to walk before you run.

• Don’t rush into doing something until you know how.

• If you act too quickly, your work may need to be redone.

• Is not a smart strategy. If you’re a dog, for instance, you’ll be on the street soon to find your food.

Bite the hand that feeds you.

• is not a smart strategy. If you’re a dog, for instance, you’ll be on the street soon to find your food.

• reminds us that if we anxiously await something it will often seem to take a very long time to arrive, or may never materialise.

• Learn, gentlemen, from your mistakes.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

• is to multi task.

• is when your situation goes from bad to worse.

• Is what you do when if you exaggerate a minor inconvenience or irritation, foolishly, into a big deal.

A stitch in time saves nine.

• fix a problem early, as soon as you discover it. If you delay, the difficulty of your task will rise.

• A quiet person can have much knowledge and wisdom

• is advice not limited to farmers. Do not anticipate outcomes. Work for them and wait for them to appear.

Birds of a feather flock together.

• People with similar attitudes, beliefs and goals often find themselves together.

• Extra caution is a good policy.

• There are some characteristics, beliefs or behaviors that a person has which simply cannot be changed or removed

A leopard can’t change its spots.

• There are some characteristics, beliefs or behaviors that a person has which simply cannot be changed or removed.

• Life is cyclical, fortunes reverse and yesterday’s loser is today’s winner…. who has the last laugh.

• Whether the subject is food available to eat, or other opportunities we have in life, we often must settle, at least initially, for less than we might have hoped for.

Better safe than sorry.

• Extra caution is a good policy.

• Reminds us that it is much easier and more effective to avoid a problem in the first place than to try to fix one after it has arisen.

• rarely or infrequently encountered. “Well written television shows are few and far between.”