Traditional proverbs

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Put an Irishman on the spit, and you can always get another Irishman to baste him.

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.

A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.

The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.

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