Traditional Proverbs Love Sayings
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
Health is better than wealth. |
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance. |
One of these days, is none of these days. |
First deserve then desire. |
Measure three times before you cut once. |
Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark. |
He has hard work who has nothing to do. |
Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel. |
He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. |
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised. |
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony. |
A cat may look at a king. |
Traditional Sayings in English |
A mother's heart is always with her children. |
Love will find a way. |
The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish. |
Strike while the iron is hot. |
A penny saved is a penny earned. |
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. |
Some evils are cured by contempt. |
Laughter is the best medicine. |
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. |
Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration. |
Long absent, soon forgotten. |
A scalded cat dreads cold water. |
Nature surpasses nurture. |
The eye is the mirror of the soul. |
People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine. |
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. |
A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar. |
You can't get blood out of a stone. |
Tomorrow is another day. |
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. |
The tallest tree is rooted in the ground. |
The hardest work of all is to do nothing. |
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. |
They that envy others are their inferiors. |
Competition is the whetstone of talent. |
Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot. |
The devil looks after his own. |
Sickness is felt, but health not at all. |
Never judge from appearances. |
When one is prepared, difficulties do not come. |
Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure. |
Caution is the parent of safety. |
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. |
Look before you leap. |
Slow help is no help. |
Every one is innocent until he is proved guilty. |
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. |
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. |
How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. |
Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. |
Traditional Proverbs about Love |
Love rules his kingdom without a sword. |
Love makes the world go round. |
Love laughs at locksmiths. |
Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. |
Love me, love my dog. |
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Swedish Sayings |
True love never grows old. |
No love like the first love. |
He who begins and does not finish loves their pains. |
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love. |
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. |
The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves. |
Salt water and absence wash away love. |
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. |
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. |
The heart that truly loves never forgets. |
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. |
All the world loves a lover. |
All is fair in love and war. |
Traditional Proverbs about Life |
Life is sweet. |
Life is just a bowl of cherries. |
Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. |
Bread is the staff of life. |
A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life. |
The best things in life are free. |
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. |
While there's life there's hope. |
Lose a leg rather than life. |
Ever since dying came into fashion, life hasn't been safe. |
We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death. |
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live. |
Quackery has no friend like gullibility. |
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. |
The time to make friends is before you need them. |
A hedge between keeps friendship green. |
Hedges between keep friendships green. |
A Friend in need is a friend indeed. |
The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend. |
Short judgments make long friends. |
Books and friends should be few but good. |
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do. |
Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing. |
A reconciled friend is a double enemy. |
The best of friends must part. |
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps. |
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them. |
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound. |
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. |
Fools live poor to die rich. |
Better be a fool than a knave. |
A fool believes everything. |
He that is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. |
They are fools whose sheep run away twice. |
A fool and his money are soon parted. |
Penny wise, pound foolish. |
A fool at forty is a fool indeed. |
There's no fool like an old fool. |
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. |
The fool is always beginning to live. |
Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do. |
Death is the great leveller. |
Death defies the doctor. |
Death is the poor man's best physician. |
Fear of death is worse than death itself. |
After death the doctor. |
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. |
Grey hairs are death's blossoms. |
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. |
The first breath is the beginning of death. |
The old man has his death before his eyes; the young man behind his back. |
God helps them that help themselves. |
God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks. |
God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself. |
Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. |
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window. |
Man does what he can, God does what he will. |
Weave in faith and God will find the thread. |
No pillows so soft as God's Promise. |
Danger past, God forgotten. |
The gods sell all things at a fair price. |
Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain. |
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash. |
If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money. |
No bees, no honey; no work, no money. * |
Physicians' faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money. |
Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent. |
When money is taken freedom is forsaken. |
Patience, money and time bring all things to past. |
Those that marry for money sell their liberty. |
How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best. |
Truth is God's daughter. |
Truth fears no trial. |
Truth will out. |
Truth is the daughter of time. |
Truth fears nothing but concealment. |
Truth is the safest lie. |
Truth is stranger than fiction. |
Children and drunks always speak the truth. |
Simplicity is the seal of truth. |
Better a lie that heals than a truth that wounds. |
Speak the truth and shame the devil. |
Tell the truth and then run. |
Ridicule is the test of truth. |
Time cures the sick man, not the ointment. |
Time is a great healer. |
Time tries truth. |
Time will tell. |
No time like the present. |
It is never too late to ask what time it is. |
A stitch in time saves nine. |
Quicker by taking more time. |
The person who is tired will find time to sleep. |
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. |
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. |
There is a time and place for everything. |
The man who builds his own throne rules over a desert. |
The poor man's budget is full of schemes. |
The poor man seeks only a crumb, then finds he still hungers. |
Every man after his fashion. |
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. |
A man can die but once. |
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. |
Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost. |
The man who can't dance says the band can't play. |
Never tell your story to a deaf man. |
The style is the man. |
Throw dirt enough, and some will stick. |
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence. |
Every man is his own worst enemy. |
No man is a good physician who has never been sick. |
A man need not look in your mouth to know how old you are. |
First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man. |
Benefits make a man a slave. |
A man of straw is worth a woman of gold. |
Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife. |
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas. |
No man is infallible. |
A good wife and health is a mans best wealth. |
Find a cruel man and you see a coward. |
A drowning man will clutch at a straw. |
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. |
A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. |
One man's meat is another man's poison. |
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of his tools. |
Every man to his trade. |
People lend only to the rich. |
Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle. |
As soon as man is born he begins to die. |
Speak and the man shall be shown. |
Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave. |
Do not look to the peaceful man for cudgels. |
Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die. |
Fine feathers make fine birds. |
Let them be birds. |
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
The early bird catches the early worm. |
A fine cage won't feed the bird. |
Birds of a feather flock together. |
Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish. |
Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white. |
Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills. |
Possession is nine points of the law. |
The more laws the less justice. |
A lawyer never goes to law himself. |
There's one law for the rich, and another for the poor. |
Possession is nine tenths of the law. |
The law does not concern itself about trifles. |
A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for. |
The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep. |
Where the law is uncertain there is no law. |
A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are. |
Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit. |
Dog does not eat dog. |
A dog that barks much is never a good hunter. |
Every dog has his day. |
A good dog deserves a good bone. |
Better a living dog than a dead lion. |
Take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
Every dog is allowed one bite. |
The loudest bark rids not a dog of his fleas. |
Barking dogs seldom bite. |
The silent dog is the first to bite. |
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. |
The dog that quits barking can get some sleep. |
Why keep a dog and bark yourself? |
The most noble dog can only bark. |
Let sleeping dogs lie. |
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. |
Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking. |
Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it. Traditional Sayings |
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