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Proverbs

Family

  1. The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
  2. A hungry man is an angry man.
  3. A tree is known by its fruit.
  4. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
  5. Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
  6. Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.
  7. East or West home is best.
  8. Many hands make light work.

 

Friendship

  1. Better an open enemy than a false friend.
  2. Friends are thieves of time.
  3. False friends are worse than open enemies.
  4. A man is known by the company he keeps.
  5. A friend to all is a friend to none.
  6. Old friends and old wine are best.
  7. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

 

Money, wealth

  1. Muck and money go together.
  2. Better be born lucky than rich.
  3. Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
  4. Nobees no honey, no work no money.
  5. A fool and his money are soon parted.
  6. Easy come, easy go.
  7. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
  8. The more you get, the more you want.
  9. Time is money.

 

Health

  1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
  2. Good health is above wealth.
  3. Health is not valued till sickness comes.
  4. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
  5. Eat to live, not live to eat.
  6. You are what you eat.
  7. Eat well, be active, feel good about yourself.
  8. The less you eat, the longer you live.

 

Love

  1. Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.
  2. Forbidded fruit tastes sweetest.
  3. Love cannot be forced.
  4. Love is blind, as well as hatred.
  5. Affection blinds reason.
  6. Hot love is soon cold.

 

Work

  1. New lords, new laws.
  2. Business before pleasure.
  3. As you sow, so shall reap.
  4. No song, no supper.
  5. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
  6. No pains, no gains.
  7. Many hands make light work.

 

Knowledge

  1. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
  2. Live and learn.
  3. Knowledge is power.
  4. No man is born wise or learned.
  5. It is never too late to learn.
  6. Practice makes perfect.
  7. Better untaught than ill-taught.