Amish Proverbs
August 4, 2011 Leave a comment
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I have a fascination with the Amish. They remind me of my growing up years. Living on the farm and simple times when life wasn’t in a hurry. When I read a book about them it takes me back. I wanted to share with you some wonderful Amish Proverbs I found in a book I’m reading called Amish Values for Your Family.
- The kind of ancestors you have is not as important as the ones your children have.
- The best things in life are not things.
- A family that works together, grows together.
- Keeping a neat house is like threading beads on a string with no knot on it.
- Very few burdens are heavy if everyone lifts.
- A happy memory never wears out.
- Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.
- The dearest things of life are mostly near at hand.
- Pray for a good harvest but continue to hoe.
- A happy home is more than a roof over your head, it’s a foundation under your feet.
- A forest would be quiet if no birds sang except the best.
- A pulling horse cannot kick.
- He is the happiest, be he peasant or king, who finds peace at home.
- Teamwork divides the effort and multiplies the effect.
- Marriage may be made in Heaven but man is responsible for the upkeep.
- We pass our convictions to our children by the things we tolerate.
- No joy is complete unless it is shared.
- Half done is far from done.
- The more a child is valued, the better his values will be.
- Keep your words soft and sweet just in case you have to eat them.
- You can tell when you’re on the right track. It’s usually uphill.
- Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing whom to thank.
- No winter lasts forever. No spring skips it’s turn.
- If God is not first in our thoughts in the morning He will be last in our thoughts all day.
- My job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.
- Instead of putting others in their place, put yourself in their place.
- When a man won’t listen to his conscience, it’s usually because he doesn’t like taking advice from strangers.
- If at first you succeed, try not to look astonished.
- To return good for good is human, to return good for evil is divine.
- A memory is a treasure that survives.
- By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
- Some may see a hopeless end, but as a believer we rejoice in an endless hope.
- People don’t care about how much you know until they know how much you care.
- Trouble is easier to get into than out of.
- Experience is a different teacher; giving you the test first and the lesson later.
- A word to the wise is unnecessary.
- The right to do something doesn’t always make it the right thing to do.
- In youth we learn, in age we understand.
- Greet the dawn with enthusiasm and you may expect satisfaction at sunset.
- The yoke of God does not fit a stiff neck.
- Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs little but it needs that little so much.
- A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
- Be life long or short, it’s completeness depends on what it was lived for.
- To grow old gracefully you must start when you are young.
- Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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