Quotes by Proverb, English

"A stumble may prevent a fall."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune."

Proverb, English on age and aging   

"Death is a shadow that always follows the body."

Proverb, English on death
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"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on death
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"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."

Proverb, English on debt
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"The difference is wide that sheets will not decide."

Proverb, English on decisions   

"He that seeks trouble never misses."

Proverb, English on delinquency
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"Never step over one duty to perform another."

Proverb, English on duty
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"A burnt child dreads the fire."

Proverb, English on experience
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"The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them."

Proverb, English on fallibility   

"A small family is soon provided for."

Proverb, English on family   

"Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork."

Proverb, English on food and eating   

"Fools build houses, and wise men buy them."

Proverb, English on fools and foolishness   

"He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress."

Proverb, English on fools and foolishness
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"You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years."

Proverb, English on friends and friendship   

"Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight."

Proverb, English on friends and friendship   

"The best throw of the dice is to throw them away."

Proverb, English on gambling   

"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him."

Proverb, English on gentlemen   

"Take heed you do not find what you do not seek."

Proverb, English on goals   

"Gray hairs are death's blossoms."

Proverb, English on hair   

"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree."

Proverb, English on happiness
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"We are usually the best men when in the worst health."

Proverb, English on health
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"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."

Proverb, English on heroes and heroism
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"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Proverb, English on hope
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"The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives."

Proverb, English on husbands   

"An idle brain is the devil's workshop."

Proverb, English on idleness   

"'Tis money that begets money."

Proverb, English on investments   

"Many a true word is spoken in jest."

Proverb, English on jest   

"Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind."

Proverb, English on kindness
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"A young man idle, an old man needy."

Proverb, English on laziness   

"Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others."

Proverb, English on learning   

"Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance."

Proverb, English on appearance   

"Use soft words and hard arguments."

Proverb, English on argument   

"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."

Proverb, English on love
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"The mob has many heads but no brains."

Proverb, English on mobs   

"He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin."

Proverb, English on mothers
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"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

Proverb, English on names   

"Foul water will quench fire."

Proverb, English on necessity   

"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge."

Proverb, English on neighbors