Proverbs and Quotes about Human Nature

A barking dog never bites

A bird can sing with a broken wing, but you cant pluck feathers off a frog

A constant guest is never welcome

A creaking door hangs longest

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

A gentleman without an estate is a pudding without suet

A good name is better than a good face

A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold

A loaded wagon makes no noise.

A man with a hammer sees every problem as a nail

A person who can smile when things go wrong has found someone to blame it on

A positive pessimist is better than a negative optimist

A slap on the back is only a few inches away from a kick in the butt

A slip of the tongue is no fault of the mind and he who laughs is very unkind

A tree loaded with fruits is always bowed

All aren't hunters that blow the horn.

All is fair in love and war

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

An idle man is the devil's playfellow.

Ask me no questions, I'll tell  you no lies.

Best to bend it while it's a twig.

Confess and be hanged.

Confession is good for the soul

Constant occupation prevents temptation.

Diamond cuts diamond.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Empty vessels make the most noise.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Every path has its puddle.

Everything in the garden is rosy.

Fresh as a daisy.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang

Good and quickly seldom meet.

Grief divided is made lighter

Haste makes waste.

One man's meat is another man's poison

Sometimes the majority only means all the fools are on the same side

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

Proverbs and Quotes about Home

As safe as houses

At home a lion, outide a lamb.

Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife

Better one house spoiled than two

Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.

Charity begins at home.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

East or West, home is best.

East, west, home is best,

East, West, home’s best. There is no place like home.

Home is where the heart is

Home is where you hang your hat

Home sweet home

If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain

It takes one day to destroy a house but to build a new one will take months, perhaps years

Make haste slowly. The longest way round is the shortest way home.

Many go out for wool and come home shorn.

Men make houses, women make homes.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

The house is a man’s castle.

There is a skeleton in every home.

There is no place like home

Proverbs and Quotes about Health and Fitness

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.

A merry heart makes a long life.

A sound mind in a sound body.

After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.*

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

As fit as a fiddle.

As hard as nails.

As sick as a dog.

Better late thrive than never do well.

Better to be poor and healthy rather than rich and sick.

Better to wear out than rust out.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

Content is health to the sick and riches to the poor.

Diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot.

Doctors make the worst patients.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.

Eat to live, don’t live to eat.

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

Eat when you’re hungry, and drink when you’re dry.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

God cures and the physician takes the fee.

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

He who rises late must trot all day.

Health is better than wealth.

If wealth is lost,nothing is lost.If health is lost, something is lost. If character is lost, everything is lost.

Like cures like.

One doctor makes work for another.

Past cure, past care.

Prevention is better than cure.

The best doctors are Dr Diet, Dr Quiet and Dr Merry man.

The first step to health is to know that we are sick.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Without sleep, no health.

Proverbs and Quotes about Hardwork

90% of Inspiration is Perspiration. (Thomas Edison).

A little of what you fancy does you good.

A velvet saddle doesn’t fit on the back of a jackass.

Another day, another dollar

Anybody can make history Only a great man can write it

April showers bring May flowers.

Better do it than wish it done.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Constant dripping wears away the stone.

Dont count the days, make the days count!

Faith will move mountains.

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

God gives every bird its food, but does not always drop it into the nest.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

It is the empty can that makes the most noise.

Leave no stone unturned.

Many a little makes a mickle.

Many drops make a shower.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Practice makes perfect.

The difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer.

The fruit does not fall far from the tree.

The greatest things are done by the aid of small ones.

Proverbs and Quotes about Gift

It’s better to give than to receive.

Some of the best gifts come in small packages.

The giver makes the gift precious.

Proverbs and Quotes about Friendship

A best friend is like a four leaf clover, Hard to find and lucky to have

A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound

A faithful friend is a medicine for life

A friend in need is a friend indeed

A friend is easier lost than found.

A friend is not so soon gotten as lost

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.

A friend's eye is a good mirror.

A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.

A good mate is the road map for the spaghetti junction of life

A hedge between keeps friendship green

A man is known by the company he keeps.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart.

Age has no friend but the wrinkles of the mind

An empty purse frightens away friends.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Books and friends should be few and good

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from a friends forehead

False friends are worse than open enemies.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Friend to all is a friend to none.

Friends are made by many acts - and lost by only one

Friendship is like money,easier made than kept

Friendship is love with understanding.

Give credit where credit is due.

God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself

Good accounting makes good friends.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget

Grief divided is made lighter.

Honey catches more flies than vinegar.

In times of prosperity friends are plentiful.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Lend your money and lose your friend

Memory is the treasure of the mind.

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

Old friends and old wine are best.

Old friends and old wine are best.

Old friends and wine are best

Only real friends will tell you when your face is

Pick your friends like you pick your fruit

Short reckonings make long friends.

Strangers are just friends you have not met yet

Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are

The best of friends must part.

The best things are not bought and sold.

There is no better looking-glass than an old friend.

There is no physician like a true friend

True friends are tested in adversity.

Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.