Famous English Proverb Quotations

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"We are usually the best men when in the worst health."
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"Use soft words and hard arguments."
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"We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry."
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"Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind."
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"A stumble may prevent a fall."
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"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."
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"A full cup must be carried steadily."
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"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."
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"This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."
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"Danger and delight grow on one stalk."
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"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."
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"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
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"A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for."
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"A man is as old as he feels himself to be."
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"A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world."
by English Proverb
"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."
by English Proverb
"Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie."
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"Don't fall before you're pushed."
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"Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork."
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"Every path has its puddle."
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"First deserve, and then desire."
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"Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it."
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"He that has no charity deserves no mercy."
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"He laughs best who laughs last."
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"He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones."
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"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree."
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"In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish."
by English Proverb
"In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty."
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"Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason."
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"Many things are lost for want of asking."
by English Proverb
"Never fall out with your bread and butter."
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"One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls."
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"Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect."
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"Spread the table and contention will cease."
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"The eyes are the window of the soul."
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"The shortest answer is doing."
by English Proverb
"When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured."
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"If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing."
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"While the doctors consult, the patient dies."
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"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune."
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"Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance."
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"A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands."
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"In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats."
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"Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old."
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"Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off."
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"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."
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"Death always comes too early or too late."
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"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."
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"The difference is wide that sheets will not decide."
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"Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods."
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"Never step over one duty to perform another."
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"A burnt child dreads the fire."
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"A small family is soon provided for."
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"Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork."
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"He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress."
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"Fools build houses, and wise men buy them."
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"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
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"Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight."
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"You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years."
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"The best throw of the dice is to throw them away."
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"Take heed you do not find what you do not seek."
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"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree."
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"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."
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"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."
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"Many a true word is spoken in jest."
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"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
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"'Tis money that begets money."
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"An idle brain is the devil's workshop."
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"A young man idle, an old man needy."
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"Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others."
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"The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives."
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"He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin."
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"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge."
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"Foul water will quench fire."
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"The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks."
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"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood."
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"You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders."
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"The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them."
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"No barber shaves so close but another finds his work."
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"Don't halt before you are lame."
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"Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is."
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"Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it."
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"A proverb is the child of experience."
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"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."
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"Two wrongs do not make a right."
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"Still waters run deep."
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"A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass."
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"Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool."
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"The soul is healed by being with children."
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"Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?"
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"Time is the soul of business."
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"There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one."
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"It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody."
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"The mob has many heads but no brains."
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"Gray hairs are death's blossoms."
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"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth."
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"Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short."
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"Where there's a will, there's a way."
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"Don't drown the man who taught you to swim."
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