English Proverb Quotes
- All happiness is in the mind
- You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.
- Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it
- Advice is least heeded when most needed.
- Death always comes too early or too late.
- Try your skill in gilt first, then in gold
- All be the same in a hundred years
- Fame is a magnifying glass
- Hope for the best but prepare for the worst
- Age is a bad traveling companion.
- A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
- Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox
- Use soft words and hard arguments.
- Raw cucumber makes the churchyards prosperous
- Confession is the first step to repentance.
- Deeds are fruits, words are leaves
- In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish
- The old ox plows a straight furrow
- The devil is in the dice
- Envy shoots at others and wounds itself