A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.