The busiest men have the most leisure.
—English Proverb
Topics: Busy
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
—English Proverb
Topics: Laziness, Idleness
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
—English Proverb
Topics: Happiness, Garden
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
—English Proverb
Topics: Health
A disease known is half cured.
—English Proverb
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
—English Proverb
Topics: Kindness
Appearances can be deceiving.
—English Proverb
Topics: Appearance
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
—English Proverb
Topics: Trust
The mob has many heads but no brains.
—English Proverb
Topics: Tyranny
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
—English Proverb
Topics: Food, Eating, Proverbs
You may poke a man’s fire after you’ve known him for seven years.
—English Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
—English Proverb
Topics: Will Power, Will, Willpower
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
—English Proverb
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
—English Proverb
Topics: Love, Gardening
April showers bring May flowers.
—English Proverb
Rain before seven; clear before eleven.
—English Proverb
Topics: Rain
The face is no index to the heart.
—English Proverb
Topics: Heart
He is lifeless that is faultless.
—English Proverb
Topics: Perfection
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
—English Proverb
Topics: The Poor, Poverty, Beauty
Faults become thick where love is thin.
—English Proverb
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.
—English Proverb
Topics: Self-Control, Anger
Innocent actions carry their warrant with them.
—English Proverb
Topics: Action
The absent are always in the wrong
—English Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Absence
Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
—English Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Sleep
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
—English Proverb
Topics: Perfection
Never step over one duty to perform another.
—English Proverb
Topics: Duty, Proverbs, Performance
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
—English Proverb
Topics: Age
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
—English Proverb
Topics: Book
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
—English Proverb
Topics: Perfection
Conscience cannot be compelled.
—English Proverb
Topics: Conscience
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