Mean Proverbs - page 4

When one comes to comfort a young widow, he does not mean to perform a good deed. (Yiddish Proverb)
Deal gently with the bird you mean to catch. View proverb
French Proverb
Mean fathers, wasteful sons. View proverb
French Proverb
Seize the day." By Horace, Odes I,11,8, to Leuconoe: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero ("take hold of the day, believing as little as possible in the next"). The verb "carpere" has the literal meaning "to pick, pluck," particularly in reference to the picking of fruits and flowers, and was used figuratively by the Roman poets to mean "to enjoy, use, make use of. View proverb
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