Proverbs

September, 2012

East or West, home is best.

Great boast, small roast.

Man proposes, God disposes.

No pains, no gains.

To hope against hope.

Wherever you may roam, there’s no place like home.

The busiest man finds the most leisure.

All is not gold that glitters.

Leave well alone.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. It only doubles trouble and troubles others too.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Well begun is half done.

Friends are thieves of time.

Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.

Custom is a second nature.

Needles and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries his trouble begins.

We wonder whether the wether will weather the weather, Or whether the weather the wether will kill.

After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

Blood is thicker than water.

The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.

Better short of pence than short of sense.

A fault confessed is half redressed.

All is well that ends well.

If ifs and ans were pots and pans.

A light purse is heavy curse.

Birds of a feather flook together.

Many words hurt more than swords.

Fine words dress ill deeds.

The cobbler’s wife is the worst shod.

It is an early bird that catches the worm.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise; Wise, healthy and wealthy.

Habit cures habit.

Neither here nor there.

If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.

One must be sometimes cruel to be kind.

An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Wealth is nothing without health.

Lost time is never found again.

Joy and sorrow are as near as today and tomorrow.

Cowards die many times, the brave but once.

It is better to die standing than to live kneeling.

Let bygones be bygones.

When the cat is away, the mice will play.

Better late than never.

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