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A man often admits that his memory is at fault but never his
judgement.
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
A good head and industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
Always rise from the table with an appetite and you will never
sit down without one.
A fool expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his own
mouth.
A fallen rich man may make a good master, but not an enriched
poor man.
A poor man has not many marks for fortune to shoot at.
A stick is a peacemaker.
A forest is in an acorn.
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots
on.
French Proverb
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning
for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime,
educate people.
Chinese Proverb
Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it.
Russian Proverb
Small children give you headache; big children heartache.
Russian Proverb
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser
than the evening.
Russian Proverb
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest
in creation.
Latin Proverb
To whom you tell your secrets, to him you resign your liberty.
Spanish Proverb
Anonymous
Addison
Dante
The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
Anonymous
Arab Proverb
Italian Proverb
The wise man has long ears, big eyes and a short tongue.
Russian Proverb
Thackery
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions,
but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
Do not choose for anyone what you do not choose for yourself.
Persian Proverb
Buddha
Cervantes
Franklin
Schiller
Persian Proverb
Anonymous
Emerson
Russian Proverb
Persian Proverb
German Proverb
Voltaire
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the heart.
Shakespeare
Anonymous
Cleanse thy heart from greed, and thy foot shall remain free
from fetters.
Arabian Proverb
Anonymous
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in
society.
Thackeray
Southey
Emerson
Irving
Arabian Proverb
Anonymous
Arabian Proverb
Italian Proverb
Addison
Italian Proverb
Joy and Temperance and Repose slam the door on the doctor's
nose.
Longfellow
Italian Proverb
The cask can only yield the wine it contains.
Italian Proverb
Spanish Proverb
Italian Proverb
German Proverb
Italian Proverb
Confucius
Anonymous
Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; suffer them
now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.
Shakespeare
Italian Proverb
Shakespeare
Italian Proverb
Anonymous
French Proverb
Italian Proverb
German Proverb
Russian Proverb
Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number.
Italian Proverb
Italian Proverb
Italian Proverb
Confucius
Chinese Proverb
Author unknown
Arabian Proverb
When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been
saved.
Italian Proverb
Anonymous
Johnson
Italian Proverb
Franklin
The path of duty lies in what lies near at hand; and men seek
for it in what is remote.
Japanese Proverb
Pythagoras
Johnson
Franklin
Japanese Proverb
French Proverb
Pascal
Gray
Milton
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Elliot
A man who is his own doctor has a fool for his patient.
Anonymous
Chinese Proverb
Spanish Proverb
Hazlitt
Anonymous
Addison
Anonymous
Italian Proverb
Shakespeare
Russian Proverb
Japanese Proverb
La Rochefoucauld
Confucius
French Proverb
Anonymous
Seneca
Emerson
Italian Proverb
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
Thackeray
Anonymous
Japanese Proverb
Goethe
Anonymous
Horace
Japanese Proverb
If well thou hast begun, go on; it is the end that crowns us,
not the fight.
Herrick
Italian Proverb
Arabian Proverb
Dryden
Spanish Proverb
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for
them.
Goethe
English Proverb
Anonymous
Chinese Proverb
Shakespeare
We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen the more and
talk the less.
Greek Proverb
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and
they who love it are not equal to those who find pleasure in
it.
Chinese Proverb
Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other
things.
Russian Proverb
Marcus Aurelius
Anonymous
Indian Proverb
Chinese Proverb
Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least
expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens
our skill.
Edmund Burke
Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less.
Spanish Proverb
Seneca
Russian Proverb
Arabian Proverb
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit
of sense beneath is rarely found.
Pope
When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not
ripe.
Greek Proverb
Chinese Proverb
Anonymous
Irish Proverb
Irish Proverb
Three things too much and three too little are pernicious to
man: to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have
little; to presume much, and be worth little.
Cervantes
Anonymous
Russian Proverb
Don't see all you see, and don't hear all you hear.
Irish Proverb
Shakespeare
"Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard; 'tis the living
up to it that is difficult.
Thackeray
Russian Proverb
Vegetables of one's own raising are not relished --- those from
other's gardens are the best.
Chinese Proverb
Russian Proverb
Anonymous
The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Shakespeare
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the
value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once.
Russian Proverb
Shakespeare
Chinese Proverb
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long
enough.
Anonymous
Irish Proverb
Chinese Proverb
Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.
Shakespeare
Arabian Proverb
They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
Hindu Proverb
Spanish Proverb
Confucius
Anonymous
Wordsworth
Russian Proverb
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb
The greater the obstacle the more the glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
German Proverb
Latin Proverb
What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away.
Russian Proverb
Saadi
Chinese Proverb
Pope
Russian Proverb
It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and
cypress to be evergreens.
Chinese Proverb
Anonymous
Italian Proverb
Russian Proverb
Shakespeare
Love the truth but pardon error.
Voltaire
One's good deeds are only known at home; one's bad deeds far
away.
Chinese Proverb
French Proverb
Anonymous
German Proverb
Russian Proverb
Anonymous
Congreve
Thackeray
Shakespeare
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of
all animals the nimblest tongue.
Swift
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.
Anonymous
Look for a thing till you find it and you'll not lose your
labor.
Chinese Proverb
Schiller
Spanish Proverb
German Proverb
Anonymous
Franklin
Milton
Emerson
Thach your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you
become parched with thirst.
Chinese Proverb
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Bacon
Anonymous
Russian Proverb
Irish Proverb
Chinese Proverb
Pope
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock
to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb
Anonymous
Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached
the shore.
Hindu Proverb
Spanish Proverb
Make every bargain clear and plain, that none may afterwards
complain.
Anonymous
If the child does not cry, the mother knows not its wants.
Russian Proverb
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Voltaire
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has
everything.
Arabian Proverb
Anonymous
Confucius
Good, better, best; never rest till good be better, and better,
best.
Anonymous
Ovid
Russian Proverb
Anonymous
French Proverb
German Proverb
Who will eat the kernel of the nut must break the shell.
Anonymous
Persian Proverb
A diamond with a flaw is preferable to a common stone with
none.
Chinese Proverb
Emerson
Spanish Proverb
It is not only what we do, but what we do not do, for which we
are accountable.
Moliere
Irish Proverb
Anonymous
Arabian Proverb
When the cat mourns for the mouse do not take her seriously.
Japanese Proverb
Those who know when they have enough are rich.
Chinese Proverb
The more difficult the obstacle, the stronger one becomes after
hurdling it.
Only the best behavior is good enough for daily use in the
home.
Better to let them wonder why you didn't talk than why you did.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out --- it's the
grain of sand in your shoe.
The fellow who worries about what people think of him wouldn't
worry so much if he only knew how seldom they do.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they
could and should do for themselves.
One of the biggest thrills in life comes from doing a job well.
The door to the human heart can be opened only from the inside.
Friends are made by many acts --- and lost by only one.
Many might have attained wisdom had they not thought that they
had already attained it.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you
do not know it, to admit that you do not --- this is true
knowledge.
The Devil has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits
them all.
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of
men.
There is only one person with whom you can profitably compare
yourself, and this person is your yesterday self: You.
The steam that blows the whistle can't be used to turn the
wheels.
What you are in the sight of God, that you truly are.
Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some people
will ever read.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your
lips.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
English Proverb
Work while it is day.
John
Sophocles
R. Steels
Disraeli
W. E. Henley
The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.
English Proverb
English Proverb
Browning
The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time;
the best book is the world; the best friend is God.
Norman Cousins
Ideals are like the stars - we never reach them, but like
mariners, we chart our course by them.
C. Schurz
Herrick
English Proverb
Jesus
Sophocles
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.
Cicero
Mencius(Meng Zhi)
Herbert
Fuller
English Proverb
Hesiod
Patience is virtue.
Langland
Edmund Burke
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the
determination to attain it.
Goethe
Chinese Proverb
B. Franklin
Scott
Taverner
Heywood
Chinese Proverb
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
L. Seneca
Emerson
German Proverb
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that
ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
English Proverb
C. Kingsley
Chaucer
Marryat
Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty
ocean and the pleasant land.
Julia Carney
Eddie Cantor
Spencer
Cervantes
Fuller
English Proverb
Camden
Rabbi Shammai
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you
don't try.
Beverly Sills
Samuel Goldwyn
Scott
G.B.Gelli
Burns
Nicolas Ling
Latin Proverb
Chinese Proverb
George Herbert
Hark
Dickens
Shakespeare
Bon
Bon
A mother's love never changes.
English Proverb
Howell
A. Dumas
Scott
German Proverb
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
Talmud Kidskin
Ann Landaus
English Proverb
Torriano
Emerson
N. Boileau
English Proverb
English Proverb
Franklin
Samuel Johnson
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
English Proverb
Colton
Knowledge is power.
F. Bacon
Samuel Johnson
Addison
German Proverb
E. Burke
Learning without thought means labour lost, thought without
learning is perilous.
Confucius(Kong Zhi)
Emerson
Chinese Proverb
Catherall
R. Jefferies
William of Wykeham
Herbert Spencer
Danish Proverb
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from
fools.
Lavater
Latin Proverb
English Proverb
English Proverb
French Proverb
English Proverb
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
Latin Proverb
English Proverb
English Proverb
Emerson
William Dunbar
Good words cost nothing, but are worth much.
T. Fuller
Philip Chesterfield
English Proverb
Cicero
Heywood
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Cervantes
Johnson
Slow help is no help.
R. C. Trench
B. Franklin
Herbert
Fuller
G.W.Curtis
Bacon
Chinese Proverb
Servants
Howell
Horace
Dickens
English Proverb
Fuller
English Proverb
Francesco Patriss
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
Fuller
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner
or later to find time for illness.
J. Wanamaker
English Proverb
Albert Einstein
Chinese proverb
One who desires the attention of others has not yet found
himself.
Rav Shlomo Wolbe
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COMMON PROVERBS AND SAYINGS
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English Proverb
John
Sophocles
R. Steels
Disraeli
I am the captain of my soul.
W. E. Henley
The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.
English Proverb
English Proverb
Browning
The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time;
the best book is the world; the best friend is God.
Norman Cousins
Ideals are like the stars - we never reach them, but like
mariners, we chart our course by them.
C. Schurz
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Herrick
English Proverb
Jesus
Sophocles
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.
Cicero
Mencius(Meng Zhi)
Herbert
Fuller
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
English Proverb
Hesiod
Patience is virtue.
Langland
Edmund Burke
Goethe
Chinese Proverb
B. Franklin
Scott
Rome was not built in a day.
Taverner
Heywood
Chinese Proverb
L. Seneca
Emerson
German Proverb
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that
ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
A workman is known by his work.
English Proverb
C. Kingsley
Chaucer
Marryat
Julia Carney
Eddie Cantor
Spencer
Cervantes
One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
Fuller
English Proverb
Camden
Rabbi Shammai
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you
don't try.
Beverly Sills
Samuel Goldwyn
Scott
G.B.Gelli
Man's best plans often miscarry.
Burns
Nicolas Ling
Latin Proverb
Better return home and make a net than long for fish by the
waterside.
Chinese Proverb
George Herbert
Hark
Love makes the world go round.
Dickens
Shakespeare
Bon
Bon
English Proverb
Howell
A. Dumas
Scott
German Proverb
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
Talmud Kidskin
Ann Landaus
English Proverb
Torriano
Emerson
English Proverb
English Proverb
Franklin
Samuel Johnson
English Proverb
Colton
Knowledge is power.
F. Bacon
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we
know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Addison
German Proverb
E. Burke
Confucius(Kong Zhi)
Emerson
Chinese Proverb
R. Jefferies
William of Wykeham
Herbert Spencer
English Proverb
Danish Proverb
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from
fools.
Lavater
Latin Proverb
Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud.
English Proverb
English Proverb
French Proverb
English Proverb
Aristotle
Latin Proverb
English Proverb
English Proverb
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Emerson
William Dunbar
T. Fuller
Philip Chesterfield
English Proverb
Cicero
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
Heywood
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Cervantes
Johnson
R. C. Trench
B. Franklin
Herbert
Fuller
Health is better that wealth.
G.W.Curtis
Bacon
Chinese Proverb
Shakespeare
Servants
Howell
Horace
Dickens
After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
English Proverb
Fuller
English Proverb
Francesco Patriss
Fuller
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner
or later to find time for illness.
J. Wanamaker
English Proverb
The important thing is never to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Chinese proverb
One who desires the attention of others has not yet found
himself.
Rav Shlomo Wolbe