A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
—English Proverb
Topics: Heroes, Heroism, Heroes/Heroism, Proverbs
Don’t fall before you’re pushed.
—English Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
A young man idle, an old man needy.
—English Proverb
Topics: Laziness
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
—English Proverb
Topics: Fools, Foolishness
‘Tis money that begets money.
—English Proverb
Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
—English Proverb
Topics: Revenge, Proverbs, Vengeance
There’s no place like home.
—English Proverb
Topics: Home
Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.
—English Proverb
Topics: Goals
Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
—English Proverb
Topics: Prayer
Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
—English Proverb
Topics: The Body, Nature, Dying, Death
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
—English Proverb
Topics: Action, Humankind
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
—English Proverb
Topics: Age
Poor men seek meat for their stomachs, rich men stomachs for their meat.
—English Proverb
Topics: Wealth
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
—English Proverb
Topics: Virtue, Virtues
Everyone must row with the oars he has.
—English Proverb
Topics: Secrets of Success
Appearances can be deceiving.
—English Proverb
Topics: Appearance
A good beginning makes a good ending.
—English Proverb
Topics: Beginnings, Proverbs, Beginning
An hour may destroy what an age was building.
—English Proverb
Topics: Age
Beware of a man of one book.
—English Proverb
Topics: Book
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
—English Proverb
Topics: Willpower, Will Power, Will
He that has no charity deserves no mercy.
—English Proverb
Topics: Service, Giving, Charity, Kindness
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
—English Proverb
Topics: Health
A burnt child dreads the fire.
—English Proverb
Topics: Experience
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
—English Proverb
Topics: Perfection
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
—English Proverb
Topics: Neighbors
Gray hairs are death’s blossoms.
—English Proverb
Topics: Hair, Vanity
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
—English Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship
He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.
—English Proverb
Topics: Failures, Mistakes
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
—English Proverb
Topics: Laziness, Idleness
April showers bring May flowers.
—English Proverb