Proverbs
Family
- The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
- A hungry man is an angry man.
- A tree is known by its fruit.
- All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
- Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
- Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.
- East or West home is best.
- Many hands make light work.
Friendship
- Better an open enemy than a false friend.
- Friends are thieves of time.
- False friends are worse than open enemies.
- A man is known by the company he keeps.
- A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Old friends and old wine are best.
- A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Money, wealth
- Muck and money go together.
- Better be born lucky than rich.
- Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
- Nobees no honey, no work no money.
- A fool and his money are soon parted.
- Easy come, easy go.
- Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
- The more you get, the more you want.
- Time is money.
Health
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Good health is above wealth.
- Health is not valued till sickness comes.
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- Eat to live, not live to eat.
- You are what you eat.
- Eat well, be active, feel good about yourself.
- The less you eat, the longer you live.
Love
- Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.
- Forbidded fruit tastes sweetest.
- Love cannot be forced.
- Love is blind, as well as hatred.
- Affection blinds reason.
- Hot love is soon cold.
Work
- New lords, new laws.
- Business before pleasure.
- As you sow, so shall reap.
- No song, no supper.
- A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
- No pains, no gains.
- Many hands make light work.
Knowledge
- Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
- Live and learn.
- Knowledge is power.
- No man is born wise or learned.
- It is never too late to learn.
- Practice makes perfect.
- Better untaught than ill-taught.