A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Words
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Humankind
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Experience
If you want to clear the stream get the hog out of the spring.
—Common Proverb
We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Procrastination
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Charity
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
—Common Proverb
When money speaks the truth is silent.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Money
A dimple in the chin, a devil within.
—Common Proverb
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
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Ignorance
Only the good die young.
—Common Proverb
It is a blessing in disguise
—Common Proverb
Topics: Blessings, Proverbs
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Crime
The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.
—Common Proverb
He who trusts all things to chance, makes a lottery of his life
—Common Proverb
Topics: Trust, Proverbs, Chance
To dare, To Will, To Know, To keep silent, To imagine.
—Common Proverb
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
—Common Proverb
How to make the summer months pass quickly: Borrow money in June, make the note payable in three months, and fall will be here before you know it.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Money
You can’t tell a book by its cover.
—Common Proverb
He has hard work who has nothing to do.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Rest, Leisure
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn’t be done.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Age
Patience is a virtue.
—Common Proverb
A fool believes everything.
—Common Proverb
Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Insults
He buys honey too dear who licks it from thorns.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Pleasure
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Time, Time Management, Adversity
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
—Common Proverb
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Laziness
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
—Common Proverb
Topics: Friendship, Eyes