GRE Vocab; some Useful Proverbs for GRE

1. Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. (Spanish Proverbs )
2. It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep harms away from an arrow shot from behind. (Chinese Proverbs)
3. Epigrams succeed where epics fail. (Persian Proverbs )
   
4. It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet (African Proverbs)  
5. A dog won't forsake his master because of his poverty; a son never deserts his mother for her homely appearance. (Chinese Proverbs )
   
   
6. Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. (Proverbs )
7. I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
8. Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. (William R. Alger)
9. As you sow, so shall you reap. (English Proverbs )
10. A busy mother makes slothful daughters. (Portuguese Proverbs)