The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment
Don’t do what you’ll have to find an excuse for.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Excuses
How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Fashion, Dress
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn’t be done.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Age
It’s tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Focus, Concentration
We must learn to walk before we can run.
—Common Proverb
Better late than never.
—Common Proverb
Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Forgiveness
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
—Common Proverb
Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Medicine, Proverbs
All’s well that ends well.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Resolve, Perseverance, Endurance
A beetle is a beauty in the eyes of his mother.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
—Common Proverb
In teaching others we teach ourselves.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Teachers, Education, Teaching
You’ll repent if you marry, and repent if you don’t.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Marriage
Revenge is a dish that tastes better cold.
—Common Proverb
Sloth is the key to poverty.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Laziness
Forgive and forget.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Forgiveness
A young physician fattens the churchyard.
—Common Proverb
The secret of two is God’s secret, the secret of three is everybody’s secret
—Common Proverb
Topics: Secrets, Proverbs
Change is the only constant
—Common Proverb
Topics: Change
Still waters run deep.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Silence
What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Eyes, Admiration
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Honesty
Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Teachers, Teaching
Mind your own business.
—Common Proverb
Try and trust will move mountains.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Humankind, Action
Man does what he can, God does what he will.
—Common Proverb
Topics: God
The weapon of the brave is in his heart.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Courage, Warfare
Opportunity only knocks once
—Common Proverb
Topics: Opportunity, Proverbs
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