A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. |
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. |
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. |
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing. |
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. |
A stumble may prevent a fall. |
Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance. |
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. |
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. |
Use soft words and hard arguments. |
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. |
A good beginning makes a good end. |
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. |
An idle brain is the devil's workshop. |
Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods. |
While the doctors consult, the patient dies. |
'Tis money that begets money. |
Death always comes too early or too late. |
Death is a shadow that always follows the body. |
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. |
The difference is wide that sheets will not decide. |
He that seeks trouble never misses. |
Never step over one duty to perform another. |
A burnt child dreads the fire. |
A small family is soon provided for. |
Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork. |
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. |
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress. |
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. |
You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years. |
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. |
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. |
Take heed you do not find what you do not seek. |
Gray hairs are death's blossoms. |
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. |
We are usually the best men when in the worst health. |
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. |
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. |
Many a true word is spoken in jest. |
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind. |
A young man idle, an old man needy. |
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others. |
He that plants trees loves others besides himself. |
The mob has many heads but no brains. |
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin. |
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. |
Foul water will quench fire. |
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. |
The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks. |
Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? |
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. |
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders. |
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work. |
Don't halt before you are lame. |
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. |
Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it. |
A full cup must be carried steadily. |
A proverb is the child of experience. |
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away. |
Still waters run deep. |
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. |
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming. |
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one. |
Time is the soul of business. |
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. |
It takes all sorts to make a world. |
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. |
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short. |
Where there's a will, there's a way. |
Two wrongs do not make a right. |
A proverb is the child of experience. |