Meaning Proverbs - page 2

Meaning: Wait too long and the opportunity is sure to vanish. (Polish Proverb)
A scribe who does not know how to grasp the meaning -- from where will he produce a translation? View proverb
Sumerian Proverb
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. View proverb
African American Proverb
Meaning: Nature can help and harm you. The people (the water) can raise someone (a boat) to power, but can also take that power away (sinking the boat). View proverb
Chinese Proverb
Meaning: Work hard and you shall gain success. View proverb
Chinese Proverb
Meaning: "Those who are late to act, arrive, or get up tend to miss opportunities already seized by those who came earlier." View proverb
Chinese Proverb
When the fool is told a proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him. View proverb
African Proverb
Italian devotion and German fasting have no meaning. View proverb
Danish Proverb
Meaning: When a wife cooks well the husband will love her until the end of life. View proverb
Thai Proverb
Seize the day." By Horace, Odes I,11,8, to Leuconoe: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero ("take hold of the day, believing as little as possible in the next"). The verb "carpere" has the literal meaning "to pick, pluck," particularly in reference to the picking of fruits and flowers, and was used figuratively by the Roman poets to mean "to enjoy, use, make use of. View proverb
Latin Proverb
"Where there is doubt, there is freedom." legal, meaning when in doubt the prisoner has to be freed. (Latin Proverb)