Ang hind magmahl sa kaniyng wik ay mahigt pa sa hayop at malansng isd.

(Jos
Rizal)
"He who doesn't love his language is worse than an animal and a rotten fish."
Ang hind marunong lumingn sa pinanggalingan ay hind makararatng sa paroroonan.
"He who does not look back from where he came from, will never reach his destination."
Ang isd ay hinuhuli sa bibig. Ang tao, sa salit.
"Fish are caught by the mouth. People are caught by their words."
Nasa Diyos ang aw, nasa tao ang gaw.
"God has the compassion; man has the action."
Magbir lamang sa lasng, huwg lang sa bagong gising.
"Joke around with someone who is drunk, but not with someone who just woke up."
Matakot ka sa buhay huwag sa patay.
"Fear the living not the dead."
Magsama-sama at malaks, magwatk-watk at babagsk.
"United we stand, divided we fall."
Aanhn pa ang dam kung paty na ang kabayo?
"What's the use of grass if the horse is already dead?"
Walang pangit sa titing galit.
"There's no ugliness when one is hard up."
Habang may buhay, may pag-asa.
"While there is life, there is hope."
Ang magnanakaw ay galit sa kapwa magnanakaw.
"A thief is angry at his fellow thief."
Ang nag-amoy, siya rin ang gumawa.
"He who smelt it, dealt it."
Ang masamang damo, matagal mamatay.
"Bad weeds live long."
Kung ano ang puno, siya ang bunga.

"Whatever the tree is, the seed is it too. (i.e. The acorn never falls too far from the tree)"
Walang bahong hindi naamoy.
"No bad odor will ever be concealed. (That means that a lie will always be found out)"
Matalino man ang matsing, naiisahan din.
"The monkey may be intelligent, but can be outsmarted."
Mas matimbang ang dugo sa tubig.
"Blood is thicker than water."
Nasa hul ang pagsisisi.
Regret is at the end.

Riddles
1. It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and
if you eat it you'll die. What is it? Ans. Nothing. Nothing is greater than God, nothing is
more evil than the devil, the poor have nothing, the rich need nothing and if you eat
nothing you'll die
2. I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation,
and I surround every place. What am I? Ans. The letter e. End, timE, spacE, Every place
3. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never
sleeps, has a mouth but never eats? Ans. River
4. I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the
confidence of all, To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. What am I? Ans. Tomorrow
or the future
5. At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen.
What are they? Ans. Stars
6. What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?
Ans. Letter N
7. Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three
words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that
everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
Ans. It states, "There are only three words in the English language. What is the third
word?" The third word of that phrase is of course "language."
8. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? Ans. Darkness
9. What English word has three consecutive double letters? Ans. Bookkeeper. An alternate,
tricky, answer could be Woollen (where W is a "double u")
10. What's black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you're all through
with it? Ans. Charcoal

11. Until I am measured

I am not known,
Yet how you miss me
When I have flown. Ans. Time
12. I drive men mad
For love of me,
Easily beaten,
Never free. Ans. Gold
13. My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe. Ans. Candle
14. What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves? Ans. Nothing
15. One by one we fall from heaven
down into the depths of past
And our world is ever upturned
so that yet some time we'll last. Ans. Sand in an hourglass
16. Every dawn begins with me
At dusk I'll be the first you see
And daybreak couldn't come without
What midday centers all about
Daises grow from me, I'm told
And when I come, I end all cold
But in the sun I won't be found
Yet still, each day I'll be around ans. D