No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Anger
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
—Common Proverb
He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Guilt
Opportunity knocks but once.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Opportunity
Nothing so bad but it might have been worse.
—Common Proverb
Cold hands, warm heart.
—Common Proverb
The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Food, Weddings
All fair in love and war.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Love
More haste, less speed.
—Common Proverb
Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Gambling
Contraries are cured by contraries.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Behavior, Manners
Blood is thicker than water.
—Common Proverb
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Diet, Weight, Proverbs
Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Insults
A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Discipline
The more laws the less justice.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Law
May good luck be your friend in whatever you do and may trouble be always a stranger to you.
—Common Proverb
Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.
—Common Proverb
It’s always darkest before the dawn
—Common Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Simplicity is the seal of truth.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Simplicity
The cat loves fish, but she’s loath to wet her feet.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Cats, Proverbs
You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.
—Common Proverb
Old habits die hard.
—Common Proverb
A good offense is the best defense.
—Common Proverb
A judge knows nothing unless it has been explained to him three times.
—Common Proverb
Never tell your story to a deaf man.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Listening
Quit not certainty for hope.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Hope
Strike while the iron is hot.
—Common Proverb
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Patriotism, Country
Who knows most believes least.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
Seven’s a banquet nine a brawl.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Food
Possession is nine tenths of the law.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Law
All things are becoming to good people.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Appearance
Better a living dog than a dead lion.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Judging, Judgment
The gods sell all things at a fair price.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Value
Some have been thought brave because they didn’t have the courage to run away.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Courage, Virtues, Bravery
Every family has a skeleton in the closet.
—Common Proverb
The counsel you would have another keep, first keep yourself.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Advice
There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Fortune, Misfortunes
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Reform, Correction