An alphabet of proverbs and sayings. For each letter in the ABC there is a keyword with a matching proverb. Click on the keyword to get more quotes, proverbs and sayings.
| Apples | A pear tree cannot bear an apple. |
| Butterflies | Love is like a butterfly, hold it to tight it will crush, hold it to loose, it will fly. |
| Coffee | You can’t take the milk back from the coffee. |
| Dogs | A dog’s fleas are its jewels. |
| Earth | We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. |
| Fruits | A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year. |
| Grass | A cat in grass is a tiger in the jungle. |
| Hiking | If you don’t know the way, walk slowly. |
| Insects | Around a flowering tree, there are many insects. |
| Joy | Joy and sorrow sleep in the same bed. |
| Knowledge | Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. |
| Love | Mistrust is an axe in the tree of love. |
| Music | A single tree makes no forest; one string makes no music. |
| Night | Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day. |
| Old | There is no fool like an old fool. |
| Peace | The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. |
| Questions | Every answer can result in a new question. |
| Rain | It is raining cats and dogs. |
| Stupidity | Stupidity is a force unto itself. |
| Trees | When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree. |
| Understanding | A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning. |
| Vegetables | Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. |
| Wisdom | Wisdom consists of ten parts; nine parts of silence and one part with few words. |
| Xmas | Christmas comes but once a year. |
| Young | A young idler, an old beggar. |
| Zero | Do naught, get naught. |