1.  An often quoted Polish proverb says, "If a man does not beat his wife, her liver rots."

2.  An old Chinese proverb says falling leaves return to their roots.

3.  An old African proverb says, "He who forgives ends the quarrel."

4.  As the Russian proverb says, let's cope with the problems when they come."

5.  "A Mongolian proverb says: If the lake is tranquil, the ducks are calm.

6.  "As the Kurdish proverb says," he said, "fighting is better than idleness."

7.  "As the proverb says,'If you want peace, prepare for war,' " said Serge Menard, Quebec's minister for public security.

8.  Dolivier, 38, explained that in his native Haiti a proverb says that when you open a school, you close a jail.

9.  If, as the British proverb says, the first service a child does his father is to make him feel foolish, my services clearly were not wanted.

10.  Prophets are supposed to be shunned in their own lands, the proverb says, so consider the tale of Ludwig van Beethoven and his birthplace in Bonn.