English Proverb
71 quotations
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
'Tis money that begets money.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
A young man idle, an old man needy.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
Use soft words and hard arguments.
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.