Innocent actions carry their warrant with them.
—English Proverb
Topics: Action
Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
—English Proverb
Topics: Time Management
Rain before seven; clear before eleven.
—English Proverb
Topics: Rain
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
—English Proverb
Topics: Advice
A fool will laugh when he is drowning.
—English Proverb
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
—English Proverb
Topics: Opportunity
A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.
—English Proverb
Topics: Joy, Happiness
There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.
—English Proverb
Topics: Time
Appearances can be deceiving.
—English Proverb
Topics: Appearance
The face is no index to the heart.
—English Proverb
Topics: Heart
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
—English Proverb
Topics: Friendship
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
—English Proverb
Topics: Heroism, Proverbs, Heroes, Heroes/Heroism
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
—English Proverb
Topics: Age
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
—English Proverb
Topics: Confidence, Inaction, Getting Going, Action, Procrastination, Doing, Humankind, Self-reliance
It is not the suffering but the cause which makes a martyr.
—English Proverb
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
—English Proverb
Topics: Conversation
He that has no charity deserves no mercy.
—English Proverb
Topics: Giving, Charity, Kindness, Service
Short counsel is good counsel.
—English Proverb
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
—English Proverb
Topics: Perfection
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
—English Proverb
Topics: Children
When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.
—English Proverb
Topics: Gold
Let your purse be your master.
—English Proverb
Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.
—English Proverb
Topics: Goals
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
—English Proverb
Topics: Poverty
Envy shoots at others and wounds itself.
—English Proverb
Topics: Jealousy, Envy, Proverbs
The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.
—English Proverb
Topics: Decisions
A bully is always a coward.
—English Proverb
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
—English Proverb
Topics: The Poor, Poverty, Beauty
In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.
—English Proverb
Topics: Cats
The absent are always in the wrong
—English Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Absence
A proverb is the child of experience.
—English Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom, Proverbs
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
—English Proverb
Topics: Kindness
Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away.
—English Proverb
The devil dances in empty pockets.
—English Proverb
Topics: Dance
Deeds are fruits, words are leaves
—English Proverb
Topics: Words, Proverbs
Revenge is a dish that should be eaten cold.
—English Proverb
Topics: Revenge
Wine and wenches empty mens purses.
—English Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Wine
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
—English Proverb
Topics: Marriage, Husbands
He that seeks trouble always finds it.
—English Proverb
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Optimism, Trouble
When the cat’s away, the mice will play.
—English Proverb
Topics: Cats