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Duty Proverbs
To marry one is a duty; twice a folly; thrice is madness.
Dutch Proverb
It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children.
Kenyan Proverb
Duty before devotion.
Mexican Proverb
To do one's duty is to eat the prized fruit of honor.
Nigerian Proverb
To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times - madness.
Dutch Proverb
The first duty of a soldier is obedience.
Spanish Proverb
To serve our elders is a duty, our equals it is polite, but serving the young is humiliating.
Serbian Proverb
He is not to blame who does his duty.
Mexican Proverb
To die in the line of duty is the hope of every klingon.
Klingon Proverb
Duty knows no family.
Japanese Proverb
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote.
Japanese Proverb
Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather.
Japanese Proverb
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote.
Chinese Proverb
Respect for one's parents is the highest duty of civil life.
Chinese Proverb
The hen knows that dawn has arrived but it leaves the duty of crowing to the cock.
African Proverb
A neglected duty may returns tomorrow with seven others at its back.
American Proverb
What isn't your duty isn't your business.
American Proverb
Never step over one duty to perform another.
English Proverb
It is the duty of friends mutually to correct each other.
Latin Proverb
Duty is weightier than a mountain, while death is lighter than a feather.
Japanese Proverb
When the eye sees you then your bound to go for duty.
African Proverb
There is one moral duty that moralists underrate almost criminally - the duty to enjoy god's world.
Jewish Proverb
