359 Proverbs about Down / Page 2
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Let what is past flow away downstream.22.
A protruding post is hammered down.23.
To lend your hatchet and get your forest cut down.24.
Looking up we are not ashamed in the presence of heaven, nor bowing down are we ashamed in the presence of earth.25.
Worries go down better with soup than without.26.
Easy to run downhill, much puffing to run up.27.
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.28.
Of all meat in the world drink goes down the best.29.
One cannot manage too many affairs; like pumpkins in water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.30.
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.31.
Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.32.
A louse cannot lift the eiderdown.33.
Deep down all men are alike -- and that is the problem.34.
No iron is so strong that it cannot be melted down, and no business so dirty that can be fixed with money.35.
The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.36.
The scholar builds the cities, the woman knocks them down.37.
Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.38.
Whoever keeps his door locked all the time longs for it to be broken down.39.
Do not tear down the east wall to repair the west wall.40.
When a centipede dies on the wall it does not fall down.Quotes related to Down by Power Quotations