#verbs

Let Love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. ↗

— Anonymous

#faith

The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you. ↗

— Sherryl Woods

#irish-proverbs #family

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#humor #proverbs #safe #sorry #humor

Life - with or without softener- is hard ↗

— Kate Papas

#divorce #greece #humor #international #marriage

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#paranoia #proverbs #questions #wit #wrong

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society. ↗

— Larry Herzberg

#chinese #culture #language #proverbs #sayings

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth. ↗

— Mac Barnett

#detectives #middle-grade #proverbs #quips #sayings

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake. ↗

— John Bunyan

#either #god #heart #oft #our

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ↗

— William Feather

#experience #fables #folk #into #nation