| 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 |
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Proverbs and Quotes about Home
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 Fools
| A fool at forty is a fool forever. |
| A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions |
| A fool gives; a wise man takes |
| A fool in a gown is none the wiser. |
| A Fool May Give a Wise Man Counsel |
| A fool uttereth all his mind. |
| A fool will laugh when he is drowning |
| A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client |
| A wise man doesn't need advice, and a fool won't take it. |
| Always in a hurry, always behind. |
| An ass loaded with books think himself a scholar. |
| Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain and most fools do |
| Better flatter a fool than fight him. |
| Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly |
| Cheap is dear in the long run. |
| Children and fools tell the truth. |
| Due to the presence of fools, wise people stand out |
| Empty vessels make the most noise. |
| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
| Fools and madmen speak the truth |
| Fools build houses, and wise men live in them |
| Fools rush in where angels fear to tread |
| Fools seldom differ |
| Fortune favors fools. Happy go lucky. |
| He That Teaches Himself has a Fool for his Master |
| He who won't be advised, can't be helped. |
| If the cap fits, wear it. |
| In one ear and out the other. |
| It can't happen here is number one on the list of famous last words. |
| It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. |
| It is foolish to deal with a fool |
| One foolish sheep will lead the flock |
| One of these days is none of these days. |
| Penny wise and pound foolish |
| Pride cometh before a fall. |
| Pride feels no pain. |
| See nothing, say nothing, know nothing. |
| Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both |
| The bigger they are the harder they fall. |
| The fool wanders, the wise man travels. |
| The hood does not make the monk. |
| The wise man is deceived once but the fool twice. |
| There is no fool like an old fool |
| Two fools in a house are too many |
| Use not today what tomorrow will need. |
| What's the good of home, if you are never in it? |
| You cannot lose what you never had. |
Proverbs and Quotes about Facing Reality
| A fault confessed is half redressed. |
| A guilty conscience needs no accuser. |
| A leopard cannot change its spots. |
| Do not cut off your nose to spite your face |
| Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. |
| Face to face |
| Half a loaf is better than none. |
| He has enough who is content. |
| No matter how long a log stays in the water it does not become a crocodile |
| Red in the face |
Proverbs and Quotes about Experience
| Experience is a great servant |
| Experience is a wonderful thing It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again |
| Experience is better bought than taught |
| Experience is the best teacher. |
Proverbs and Quotes about Devil
| Devil take the hindmost |
| Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost |
| God on his mouth and the devil in his heart. |
| He borrows like an angel and pays back like the devil himself. |
| He knows best what good is that has endured evil |
| He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon |
| Needs must when the devil drives. |
| Out of the mouth comes evil Out of the mouth comes evil. |
| Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil |
| The Devil goes shares in gaming |
| The devil looks after his own. |
| The Devil rides upon a fiddle stick. |
| The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil |
Conversational Proverbs and Quotes
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Proverbs and Quotes about Being Content
| A live dog is better than a dead lion. |
| A thin bush is better than no shelter. |
| An old eagle is better than a young bird. |
| Better be the head of a dog then the tail of a lion. |
| Better be the head of a lizard than the tail of a lion. |
| Better bend than break |
| Better have an egg today than a hen tomorrow. |
| Better lose the saddle than the horse. |
| Better some of a pudding than none of a pie. |
| Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud |
| Better to drink the milk than to eat the cow. |
| Half a loaf is better than no bread. |
| Half a loaf is better than none. |
| It is better to be green and growing than ripe and rotten. |
| It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness |
| It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness. |
| Quality is better than quantity |
Proverbs and Quotes about Children
| A burnt child dreads the fire. |
| A man is at his tallest when he stoops to help a child |
| All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. |
| Children and fools tell the truth. |
| Children are to be seen, not heard. |
| Children Have Wide Ears and Long Tongues |
| It’s too late to cover the well when the child is drowned. |
| Its a wise child that knows its own father |
| Necessity is a hard nurse, but she raises strong children. |
| No fathers or mothers think their children ugly. |
| Shoemakers’ children go barefooted. |
| Spare the rod and spoil the child |
| Spare the rod and spoil the child. |
Proverbs and Quotes about Boss & Employees
| It is better to cultivate a Land with two Bulls, rather working under Boss |
| It's a poor job that can't carry one boss. |
| No man can serve two masters. |
| The apprentice outperforms the master. |
Proverbs and Quotes about Birds
| A bird can sing with a broken wing, but you cant pluck feathers off a frog |
| A bird in hand is worth two in a bush. |
| A bird makes his nest little by little. |
| An old eagle is better than a young bird. |
| Birds of a feather flock together. |
| Early bird gets the worm. |
| Every bird loves to hear himself sing |
| Fine feathers make fine birds. |
| God gives every bird its food, but does not always drop it into the nest |
| It is the early bird that gets the worm |
| It’s the early bird that gets the worm. |
| It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest. |
| Kill two birds with one stone |
| One beats the bush, another takes the bird |
| The birds and the bees |
| The early bird catches the worm |
| To kill two birds with one stone. |
| To scare a bird is not the way to catch it. |
Proverbs and Quotes about Beauty
| A thing of beauty is a joy forever. |
| Age before beauty |
| Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes |
| Beauty and Honesty Seldom Agree |
| Beauty is but skin deep. |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
| Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume |
| Goodness is better than beauty |
| One must suffer to be beautiful. |
| True beauty lies within. |
Proverbs and Quotes about Authority
| Absolute power corrupts absolutely. John Dalberg-Acton, 1887, |
| Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
| The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory |
| With a responsibility comes great power |
Proverbs and Quotes about Dog
| A barking dog never bites |
| A dog who attends a flea circus most likely will steal the whole show |
| A live dog is better than a dead lion. |
| As sick as a dog. |
| Barking dogs seldom bite |
| Better be the head of a dog then the tail of a lion. |
| Do not keep a dog and bark yourself |
| Dogs of the same street bark alike. |
| Don’t keep a dog and bark yourself. |
| Every disease will have its course Every dog has his day. |
| Every dog has its day. |
| Give a dog a bad name and hang him. |
| Help a lame dog over a stile. |
| If you lie down with dogs you will come up with fleas |
| Its a dogs life |
| It's an old dog for a hard road. |
| Let sleeping dogs lie |
| Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas. |
| love me love my dog. |
| Only mad dogs and englishmen go out in the midday sun |
| Take a hair of the dog that bit you |
| The dog that trots about finds a bone. Seek and ye shall find. |
| The Moon does not heed the barking of dogs |
| Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas |
| Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas. |
| Trust not a horse's heel nor a dog's tooth. |
| Two Dogs Fight for a Bone, and a Third Runs Away With it |
| Why keep a dog and bark yourself? |
| You cannot teach an old dog new tricks |
| You can't teach an old dog new tricks. |
Proverbs and Quotes about Cat
| A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion. |
| A burnt cat will avoid a cold stove. |
| A cat has nine lives. |
| A scalded cat fears cold water |
| All cats are grey in the dark. |
| cat may look at a king |
| Curiosity killed the cat. |
| Life is one long catwalk |
| Put the cat out |
| The cat is honest when the meat is out of her reach. |
| There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream |
| There is more than one way to skin a cat |
| There’s more than one way to skin a cat. |
| While the cat is away, the mice will play. |
Proverbs and Quotes about Horse
| A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse |
| All lay loads on a willing horse! |
| Better lose the saddle than the horse. |
| Diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot. |
| Do not change horses in midstream |
| Do not look a gift horse in the mouth |
| Do not put the cart before the horse |
| Don’t shut the barn door after the horse is gone. |
| Don’t shut the gate after the horse has bolted. |
| If wishes were horses beggars would ride. |
| It’s a good horse that never stumbles. |
| Life is like a horse race there are winners and losers |
| Like flogging a dead horse |
| Once a word leaves your mouth, you cannot chase it back even with the swiftest horse |
| One can lead a horse to the water but can not make him drink. |
| Only fools and horses work |
| The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly |
| There's no use in flogging a dead horse. |
| Trust not a horse's heel nor a dog's tooth. |
Proverbs and Quotes about Age
| Age is a very high price to pay for maturity |
| Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage |
| If you're growing in Age,then you're nearing to the Graveyard |
| Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places |
| The age of miracles is past |
| The golden age never was the present one. |
| The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything |
| With age comes wisdom. Wisdom comes from experience. |
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