Nature is the true law.
—English Proverb
Topics: Nature
Innocent actions carry their warrant with them.
—English Proverb
Topics: Action
There’s no place like home.
—English Proverb
Topics: Home
The face is no index to the heart.
—English Proverb
Topics: Heart
Sail! quoth the king; Hold! saith the wind.
—English Proverb
Topics: Nature
Envy shoots at others and wounds itself.
—English Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Jealousy, Envy
A young man idle, an old man needy.
—English Proverb
Topics: Laziness
They are not all saints who use holy water.
—English Proverb
Topics: Hypocrisy
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
—English Proverb
Topics: Self-reliance, Procrastination, Confidence, Humankind, Getting Going, Action, Inaction, Doing
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
—English Proverb
Topics: Book
Beware of a man of one book.
—English Proverb
Topics: Book
April showers bring May flowers.
—English Proverb
Health is better than wealth.
—English Proverb
Topics: Health
Many things are lost for want of asking.
—English Proverb
Topics: Success, Simplicity, Opportunity
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
—English Proverb
Topics: Kindness
Let your purse be your master.
—English Proverb
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: Anger, Self-Control
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
—English Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
He is lifeless that is faultless.
—English Proverb
Topics: Perfection
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
—English Proverb
Topics: Children
Appearances can be deceiving.
—English Proverb
Topics: Appearance
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
—English Proverb
Topics: Perfection
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
—English Proverb
Topics: Fools, Foolishness
Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
—English Proverb
Topics: Time Management
Revenge is a dish that should be eaten cold.
—English Proverb
Topics: Revenge
Short counsel is good counsel.
—English Proverb
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
—English Proverb
Topics: Fools, Foolishness
He who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
—English Proverb
Topics: Mistakes
An hour may destroy what an age was building.
—English Proverb
Topics: Age