English Proverb
» Action » “As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.”
» Action » “If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.”
» Adversity » “A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.”
» Adversity » “A stumble may prevent a fall.”
» Age and Aging » “The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”
» Appearance » “Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.”
» Argument » “Use soft words and hard arguments.”
» Beauty » “A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
» Beginning » “A good beginning makes a good end.”
» Blindness » “A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.”
» Cheating » “Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.”
» Children » “Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.”
» Children » “Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.”
» Consultants » “While the doctors consult, the patient dies.”
» Death and Dying » “Death always comes too early or too late.”
» Death and Dying » “Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
» Debt » “Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.”
» Decisions » “The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.”
» Delinquency » “He that seeks trouble never misses.”
» Duty » “Never step over one duty to perform another.”
» Experience » “A burnt child dreads the fire.”
» Fallibility » “The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
» Family » “A small family is soon provided for.”
» Food and Eating » “Don’t dig your grave with your knife and fork.”
» Fools and Foolishness » “Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.”
» Fools and Foolishness » “He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.”
» Gambling » “The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.”
» Goals » “Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.”
» Hair » “Gray hairs are death’s blossoms.”
» Happiness » “If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.”
» Health » “We are usually the best men when in the worst health.”
» Heroes and Heroism » “A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.”
» Hope » “Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.”
» Husbands » “The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.”
» Idleness » “An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.”
» Investments » “‘Tis money that begets money.”
» Jest » “Many a true word is spoken in jest.”
» Kindness » “Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.”
» Laziness » “A young man idle, an old man needy.”
» Learning » “Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.”
» Love » “He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”
» Mobs » “The mob has many heads but no brains.”
» Mothers » “He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.”
» Names » “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.”
» Necessity » “Foul water will quench fire.”
» Neighbors » “Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.”
» Obedience » “The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.”
» Obstinacy » “Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?”
» Opportunity » “Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.”
» Parents and Parenting » “You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.”
» Perfection » “No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.”
» Perseverance » “Don’t halt before you are lame.”
» Poverty and The Poor » “Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.”
» Prosperity » “A full cup must be carried steadily.”
» Proverbs » “A proverb is the child of experience.”
» Rebellion » “When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.”
» Silence » “Still waters run deep.”
» Sleep » “Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
» Talkativeness » “To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”
» Time and Time Management » “There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.”
» Time and Time Management » “Time is the soul of business.”
» Trust » “It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.”
» Variety » “It takes all sorts to make a world.”
» Virtue » “Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.”
» Widowhood » “Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.”
» Will and Will Power » “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
» Wrong » “Two wrongs do not make a right.”
