Inspirational Quotations

Common Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes

Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.
Common Proverb
Topics: Rain

Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit.
Common Proverb

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Common Proverb

You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.
Common Proverb
Topics: Preparation, Negotiation

Fools live poor to die rich.
Common Proverb

Practice what you preach.
Common Proverb
Topics: Example

Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Common Proverb
Topics: Competition

All is fair in love and war.
Common Proverb

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
Common Proverb
Topics: Marriage, Wives

The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
Common Proverb
Topics: Work

When someone is going downhill everyone likes to give them a kick.
Common Proverb
Topics: Failure

No one sees the wallet on his own back, though every one carries two packs, one before, stuffed with the faults of his neighbors; the other behind, filled with his own.
Common Proverb
Topics: Faults

There’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Common Proverb

Waste not, want not. Wilful waste makes woful want.
Common Proverb
Topics: Waste

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
Common Proverb
Topics: Law, Lawyers, Proverbs

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Common Proverb

Kings have many ears and eyes.
Common Proverb
Topics: Queens, Eyes, Kings, Royalty

Hope for the best.
Common Proverb

The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don’t have it in your size.
If you like it and it fits, you can’t afford it.
If you like it, it fits and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wear it.
If the shoe fits, its ugly.
Common Proverb
Topics: Shopping

History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
Common Proverb
Topics: Historians, History

You are only worth has much as you have.
Common Proverb
Topics: Value

An apple-pie without some cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
Common Proverb

The more laws the less justice.
Common Proverb
Topics: Law

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero’s heart.
Common Proverb
Topics: Fighting, Heroes, Heart, Heroism

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
Common Proverb
Topics: Humankind

Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Common Proverb

Better a lie that heals than a truth that wounds.
Common Proverb

He travels fastest who travels alone.
Common Proverb

Want is the mother of industry.
Common Proverb
Topics: Work

Patience is a virtue.
Common Proverb

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