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• Proverbs
  • Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something
  • Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing
  • If a person lacks problems he will invent them
  • May you live as long as you want - and never want as long as you live
  • Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice
  • If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree
  • Two Dogs Fight for a Bone, and a Third Runs Away With it
  • A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it
  • A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret
  • Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved
  • Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism
  • Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun
  • A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself
  • What you see in yourself is what you see in the world
  • Four things drive a man out of his house: too much smoke, a dripping roof, filthy air and a scolding wife
  • If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there
  • If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative
  • When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead
  • It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness
  • Habit is a shackle for the free
  • Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged
  • Life would be tolerable but for its amusements
  • Dont count the days, make the days count!
  • Nothing seems expensive on credit
  • A gentleman without an estate is a pudding without suet
  • Fame always brings loneliness
  • What a pity we don't pursue the salvation of humans with the same verve we pursue the salvation of animals
  • Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune
  • The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance
  • No one who lives in error is free
  • Your day starts with what you say to yourself
  • I pointed out to you the stars and all you saw was the tip of my finger
  • To listen is to learn, and to understand is to inspire
  • Lots of people confuse bad management with destiny
  • A positive pessimist is better than a negative optimist
  • Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit
  • The early worm enjoys a leisurely breakfast
  • Red sky at night shepherds delight, red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
  • You are never a loser till you quit trying
  • As useful as a chocolate fireguard
  • As useful as a chocolate teapot
  • One who has the reputation of an early riser may safely lie in bed until noon
  • Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole
  • It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact
  • Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose
  • When a fool is silent, he too is counted among the wise
  • The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
  • Sometimes the majority only means all the fools are on the same side
  • A little of what you fancy does you good
  • A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense
  • A good denial, the best point in law
  • Once a word leaves your mouth, you cannot chase it back even with the swiftest horse
  • When the blind leadeth the blind.. get out of the way
  • No one grows old by living; only by losing interest in living
  • A closed mouth gathers no feet
  • Your future lies before you like a field of driven snow. Be careful how you tread it for every step will show
  • Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment
  • You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren
  • We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country
  • We all get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads
  • After a storm comes a calm
  • When fortune smiles, embrace her
  • The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads
  • Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details
  • Gluttony kills more than the sword
  • Nowt so queer as folk!
  • Constant dripping wears away the stone
  • The world is full of willing people: some willing to work and some willing to let them
  • Never go to bed on an argument
  • The early bird catches the worm, but it is the early worm that gets caught
  • Sleep is better than medicine
  • The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
  • Is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
  • Happiness is wanting what you have - not having what you want
  • He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount
  • Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth
  • The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything
  • War does not always decide who it right but it always decides who is left!
  • A tidy house holds a bored woman
  • If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before
  • We do not care of what we have, but we cry when it is lost
  • Two wrongs may not make a right but three rights make a left
  • A man is at his tallest when he stoops to help a child
  • Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow
  • Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned
  • No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness
  • Keep your mouth shut and your ears open
  • A dog who attends a flea circus most likely will steal the whole show
  • Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood Only today does the fire burn brightly
  • To deceive oneself is very easy
  • If life deals you lemons make lemonade
  • A stumble may prevent a fall
  • You never know what you can do until you try
  • Smile and the world smiles with you, snore and you sleep alone
  • If you are planning for a year - sow rice, if you are planning for a decade - sow trees, if you are planning for a lifetime - educate people
  • He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup
  • Your troubles seem larger the longer you look at them
  • Always yield to temptation, because it may not pass your way again
  • A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den
  • After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box
  • A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread
  • I have found at my age going bra-less pulls all the wrinkles out of my face
  • Every body wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
  • Honesty is the best policy
  • Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong
  • The pen is mightier than the sword
  • One cannot quarrel without an opponent
  • He Who Keeps Company with the Wolf Will Learn How to Howl
  • Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company
  • Fish are no respectors of human boredom, so why go angling
  • One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold seven for a secret not to be sold Eight for heaven nine for hell and ten for the devils own cell
  • Rain before seven, fine before eleven
  • None so deaf as those who will not hear
  • A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold
  • Ask no questions and hear no lies
  • Don't bite the hand that.. looks dirty
  • If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame
  • Opportunity makes a thief
  • What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity
  • You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom
  • A person who can smile when things go wrong has found someone to blame it on
  • Good fences make good neighbours!
  • There is more than one way to skin a cat
  • My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother
  • To thine own self be true
  • Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere
  • Age is a very high price to pay for maturity
  • For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program
  • Nothing succeeds like success
  • Never speak ill of the dead
  • There is a time to speak and a time to be silent
  • A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains
  • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
  • A gossips mouth is the devils postbag
  • Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself
  • Aaah, a man who runs through airport swing-doors is going to Bangkok
  • Opportunities always look bigger going than coming
  • A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good
  • The bigger they are, the harder they fall
  • Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places
  • To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world
  • Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear
  • There is an exception to every rule
  • Love sees no faults
  • Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale
  • To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding
  • Every bird loves to hear himself sing
  • You cannot lose what you never had
  • I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet
  • A friend to all is a friend to none
  • Too many clicks spoil the browse
  • Empty sacks will never stand upright
  • Keep your friends close but your enemies closer
  • He that plants a tree plants for posterity
  • A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day
  • Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; nor let her take thee with her eyelids
  • Quality is better than quantity
  • Practice makes perfect and Nobody's perfect
  • Cut your coat according to your cloth
  • The best throw of the dice is to throw them away
  • Experience is a great servant
  • If you educate a man you educate an individual but if you educate a woman you educate a family
  • Dont make love at the garden gate, love is blind but the neighbours aint
  • To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart
  • It is possible to give without loving but it is impossible to love without giving
  • Laughter is the closest distance between two people
  • Wherever you may be let your wind go free
  • An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept
  • Know which side your bread is buttered
  • Abstinence makes the heart go wander
  • He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing
  • The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly
  • Work is the curse of the drinking classes
  • A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other
  • One mans loss is another mans gain
  • Well done is better than well said
  • Where there's a will, there's a relative
  • An English Summer, Three Hot Days and a Thunderstorm
  • Never choose bedlinen or a wife by candlelight
  • A Good Example is the Best Sermon
  • Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone
  • One good turn deserves another
  • God helps those who help themselves
  • He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others
  • Watch your thoughts, they become words Watch your words, they become actions, watch your actions, they become habits, watch your habits, they become characer Watch your character, it becomes your destiny
  • Life is like a drawing pin - sharp at one end, and flat at the other
  • Take your time and time will take you
  • The squeaky wheel gets the grease
  • The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones
  • A best friend is like a four leaf clover, Hard to find and lucky to have
  • Fair exchange is no robbery
  • A Man of Words and Not of Deeds is Like a Garden Full of Weeds
  • Faint heart never won fair lady
  • A guilty conscience needs no accuser
  • You win some, you lose some
  • To know the road ahead, ask those coming back
  • After a famine in the stall comes a famine in the hall
  • Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger
  • If fortune calls, offer him a seat
  • From the sweetest wine the tartest vinegar
  • Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks
  • A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels
  • No Good Building Without a Good Foundation
  • Everyone must row with the oars he has
  • They that walk much in the sun will be tanned at last
  • A squirrel is just a rat with good PR
  • Death pays all debts
  • Six of one, half a dozen of the other
  • Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
  • Make hay while the sun shines
  • When the student is ready, the master will appear
  • If you believe everything you read, you better not read
  • Time and tide wait for no man
  • Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me
  • Bitter pills may have blessed effects
  • So long as you do your best in life, whatever happens will be for the best
  • In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has
  • The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction
  • Art has no enemy but ignorance
  • Better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
  • To say that a man cannot love one woman at a time is ridiculous. It is like saying a musician needs more than one violin to play the same piece of music
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
  • Rats desert a sinking ship
  • Share and share alike!
  • Dump husband in September, you have to get rid of the spiders
  • After all is said and done, more is said than done
  • When one shears the sheep, the skin on the ram trembles
  • A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click
  • Many hands make light work
  • Doubt is the beginning of wisdom
  • A man's reach should exceed his grasp
  • Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
  • Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches
  • If you get it overnight, you can lose it just as quick
  • You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
  • Loving life is living life to the fullest
  • Only fools and horses work
  • To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings
  • What flares up fast, extinguishes soon
  • Hate is like cancer slowly eating us away inside
  • Cultivate money and you grow rich, Cultivate mind and you raise culture
  • A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions
  • Many a true word is spoken in jest
  • If in doubt, mumble
  • March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
  • A problem is a chance for you to do your best
  • Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain and most fools do
  • A hairy man is a happy man, a hairy wife is a witch
  • If you get a good wife you will be happy, if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher
  • Life is like a horse race there are winners and losers
  • The difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer
  • A penny saved is.. not much
  • Where there's smoke, there's.. pollution
  • Early to bed and early to rise, make a man healthy, wealthy and wise
  • Divide and rule
  • A camel is a horse designed by a committee
  • One good turn deserves half the blankets
  • Walk before you can run
  • Have you ever noticed? anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac
  • The first step is the hardest
  • Borrowed Garments Never Fit Well
  • The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil
  • Youth and Old Age Will Never Agree
  • The Ass Loaded With Gold Still Eats Thistles
  • If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip
  • When two buffalo fight, it is the grass that gets hurt!
  • One of those days is none of these days
  • It is never too late to be what you might have been
  • Two heads are better than one
  • So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent
  • When distrust enters in at the foregate, love goes out at the postern
  • Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise
  • If you lie down with the dogs, you'll stink in the morning
  • The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail
  • A fly will not get into a closed mouth
  • To do nothing is also a good remedy
  • Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
  • The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost
  • A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself
  • Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new
• Smile - if all else fails
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