Proverbs and Quotes about Moral values

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains

A man is at his tallest when he stoops to help a child

A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words

A Man of Words and Not of Deeds is Like a Garden Full of Weeds

A man that breaks his word bids other be false to him

A true word needs no oath.

Proverbs and Quotes about Money and Wealth

A bad penny always comes back.

A fair exchange is no robbery

A fool and his money are soon (easily) parted.

A happy heart is better than a full purse

A heavy purse gives to a light heart

A light purse makes a heavy heart.

A little each day is much in a year.

A man's intentions seldom add to his income.

A penny always turns up

A penny saved is a penny earned

A poor man is better than a liar.

A single penny fairly got is worth a thousand that are not.

All beginning is difficult The first million is the hardest

Always you are to be rich next year.

Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse

Better to have than to wish.

By hook or by crook.

Credit won by lying is quick in dying.

Cultivate money and you grow rich, Cultivate mind and you raise culture

Diamonds are forever.

Every man has his price.

Every man is the architect of his destiny.

Experience is the father of wisdom.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves

He has enough who is content.

He is rich that is satisfied.

He that pays last never pays twice.

He who pays the piper calls the tune

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

He who sleeps forgets his hunger.

He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty

Hunger is a good sauce.

Hunger is not dainty.

Hunger is the best sauce

Hunger is the best spice.

Hunger never knows the taste, sleep never knows the comfort

If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.

In for a penny, in for a pound

In for a penny, in for a pound.

It is better to be born lucky than rich.

It’s easy to be generous with another man’s money.

Little and often fill the purse.

Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.

Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.

Money begets money.

Money burns a hole in your pocket.

Money does not grow on trees

Money doesn’t grow on trees.

Money earned by deceit, goes by deceit

Money is not everything

Money is the root of all evil

Money is the root of all evil

Money makes many things, but also makes devil dance

Money makes the mare to go. Money is the key that opens every door. Money talks.

Money makes the world go around

Money makes the world go around

Money makes the world go round.

Money talks

Money talks, bullshit walks.

Money talks.

Money will soothe the itching palm.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Nothing seems expensive on credit

One law for the rich and another for the poor

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Paint applied to wall, money given for slut will never come back

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat

Poverty waits at the gates of idleness.

Ready money is ready medicine.

Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

The best cast at dice is not to play.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

There is no honour among thieves.

Time is money.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs

What you get dirt cheap is often cheap as dirt.

Proverbs and Quotes about Men

Angry Men Make Themselves a Bed of Nettles

Give a man rope enough and he will hang himself

Grow your own dope - plant a man!

In April,a youg mans thoughts turn to fancy!

Man who wants pretty nurse, must be patient

No man can serve two masters.

No man is a hero to his valet

No man is an island

No man is wise at all times

No wise man ever wishes to be younger.

So many men, so many minds.

The best of men are but men at best

The boy is father to the man.

The child is the father of the man

The King can make a knight, but not a gentleman

The more honest the man the worse the luck. Nice guy finishes last.

The obstinate man does not hold opinions; his opinions hold him.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

The wise man never courts danger.

The young man thinks the old mans stupid but the old man KNOWS the young man is

Proverbs and Quotes about Marriage

Marry in haste, and repent at leisure

Proverbs and Quotes about Love

A loveless life is a living death.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

A short absence quickens love, a long absence kills it.

All the world loves a lover.

All you need is love.

As strong as love.

Before you meet the handsome prince you have to kiss a lot of toads.

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Dont make love at the garden gate, love is blind but the neighbours aint

Every Ass Loves to Hear Himself Bray.

Every bird loves to hear himself sing.

Every cook commends his own sauce. Even an ass loves to hear himself bray.

Every devil has not a cloven hoof.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Hatred is as blind as love.

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate, he who loves finds the gates open.

Home is where the heart is.

If you wish to be loved, love.

IT is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

It is better to love and lost than never to love at all.

It is possible to give without loving but it is impossible to love without giving.

It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Love conquers all.

Love does much but money does all.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Love is blind.

Love is blind The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591)

Love is blind.

Love is like a fire, it can either warm your heart or burn your house down

Love is the strangest thing.

Love laughs at the locksmiths.

Love levels all inequalities.

Love makes a good eye squint.

Love makes the world go around.

Love makes the world go round.

Love many, trust few, but always paddle your own canoe

love me love my dog.

Love nature , live lightly

Love sees no faults.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.

Love thy neighbor as thy self.

Love to live and live to love.

Love will find a way.

Love will find a way.

Love with life is heaven; and life unloving, hell.

Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.

Make love not war.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Misery loves company.

The course of love never did run smooth.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The fairest flowers soonest fade. Whom the Gods love, die youmg.

The Lord loveth a cheerful liar.

The most beautiful women are made for lovers who lack imagination.

The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.

There is a thin line between love and hate.

There is always some madness in love But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love.

To eat one's heart out.

True love is like a teardrop in Niagra falls.

True love never grows old.

When poverty come in the door, love goes out.

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

Whom the Gods love die young.

Proverbs and Quotes about Life and Life Situations

A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it.

A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.

A good thing is all the sweeter when won with pain.

A handsome shoe often pinches the foot.

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

A man too careful of danger lives in continual torment.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

A rotten apple spoils the barrel.

A swallow does not make the summer.

An open door may tempt a saint.

As one door closes, another always opens.

As you go through life, make this your goal, watch the doughnut and not the hole.

Better die with honor than live with shame

Bread is the staff of life

Careless talk costs lives

Do right and fear no man.

Easy come, easy go.

Every step of life is a risk

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Fortune favours the brave.

Fresh pork and new wine kill a man before his time.

Hall binks are oft sliddery.  An explanation

He Lives Long Who Lives Well

He that lives too fast, goes to his grave too soon.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

He who guards his lips guards his life, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword

Home is where the heart is.

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

It never rains but it pours.

Its a dogs life.

Keep your powder dry. Valentine Blacker, 1834 from Oliver's Advice

Leave tomorrow till tomorrow.

Life begins at forty.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Life is beautiful.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Life is like a box of chocolates, sometimes hard, sometimes soft.

Life is like a drawing pin - sharp at one end, and flat at the other.

Life is like a good book, the more you get into it the more it makes sense

Life is like a horse race there are winners and losers.

Life is not all beer and skittles

Life is one long catwalk

Life is what you make it.

Lifes trials may be hard to bear, but patience can outlive them.

Live and let live

Live for today for tomorrow never comes.

Live to the point of tears.

Loving life is living life to the fullest.

Man cannot live on bread alone.

Manners maketh the man.

No man is worse for knowing the worst of himself.

Only the good die young.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones

So long as you do your best in life, whatever happens will be for the best

The best things in life are free

The longer you live the more you see.

The meek shall inherit the earth.

The receiver is as bad as the thief.

The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit

The warrior lives an honorable life even in poverty..

To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.

Up and down like a fiddler's elbow.

Variety is the spice of life.

Variety is the spice of life. William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800)

We cannot erase the sad records from our past.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

While there is life there is hope.

You can't live on bread alone.

Proverbs and Quotes about Learning and knowledge

A book holds a house of gold

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket

A book that is shut is but a block.

A boot licker.

A good example is the best sermon.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Better untaught than ill-taught

Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck an egg.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Experience is the best teacher

Experience is the hardest teacher.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

He that knows nothing, doubts nothing

He who can does, he who cannot, teaches

He Who Keeps Company with the Wolf Will Learn How to Howl

He who knows nothing fears nothing.

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

It is good to be knowledgeable, but better to be lovable

It is never too late to learn.

It is the first step that is difficult.

It is too late to learn how to box, when you are in the ring.

Learn to say no It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin

Learn to walk before you run.

Learn to walk before you run.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

Need teaches a plan.

Never too old to learn

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Step by step one goes far.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself

Teaching of others teacheth the teacher

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

We must learn to walk before we can run.

Who keeps company with the wolves, will learn to howl.

You are never too old to learn

You are never too old to learn.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

You have to crawl before you walk.

Proverbs and Quotes about Law and Legality

A good denial, the best point in law

A good lawyer must be a great liar

Agree, For The Law is Costly

Hard cases make bad law

Possession is nine tenths of the law.

The more laws, the more offenses.

Proverbs and Quotes about Laughter

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief.
He who laughs last laughs best.
He who laughs last laughs longest.
He who laughs last, thinks the slowest!
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and, you weep alone.
Laugh before breakfast, cry before supper.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Proverbs and Quotes about Job / Skill

A bad carpenter quarrels with his tools.

A bad workman blames his tools.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain

A jack of all trades is master of none.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

All days are short to Industry and long to Idleness.

Easier said than done.

Elbow grease is the best polish.

He has two stomachs to eat and none to work.

If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well

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.

It's all in a days work.

Jack of all trades, master of none

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth

Least talk most work.

Many hands make light work

No life can be dreary when work is a delight.

Only fools and horses work

Poverty is a stranger to industry. At the work man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Rest breeds rust. Fall behind in practice and your skills will be gone.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors

The devil find work for idle hands to do

The devil finds work for idle hands.

The harder you work, the luckier you are.

The hardest work is to do nothing.

The world is full of willing people: some willing to work and some willing to let them

Tis better to get things for free, than to work up a sweat

To scare a bird is not the way to catch it.

Work as if everything depends on me, but pray as if everything depends on God.

Work expands so as to fill the time available

Proverbs and Quotes about Husband and Wife

A hairy man is a happy man, a hairy wife is a witch

A man’s best fortune, or worst, is his wife.

A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day

Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion

Dump husband in September, you have to get rid of the spiders

Four things drive a man out of his house: too much smoke, a dripping roof, filthy air and a scolding wife

He who does not honor his wife dishonors himself

If you get a good wife you will be happy, if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher

Marriages are made in heaven

Never choose bedlinen or a wife by candlelight

Take your wife's first advice.

The husband is always the last to know

The ugliest girl makes the best housewife.

Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife.

Proverbs and Quotes about Human Psyche

A bad workman blames his tools.

A barking dog never bites

A burden of one's own choice is not felt.

A change is as good as a rest.

A constant guest is never welcome

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

A fool at forty is a fool forever.

A gentleman without an estate is a pudding without suet

A good example is the best sermon.

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 guilty conscience needs no accuser.

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

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 smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

A tree loaded with fruits is always bowed

A young idler, an old beggar.

All cats are grey in the dark.

All is fair in love and war

All things are difficult before they are easy.

An empty purse frightens away friends.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Better the devil you know than the devil you do not.

Confession is good for the soul

Constant occupation prevents temptation.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Give someone an inch and they will take a mile

Give someone enough rope and they will hang

Grief divided is made lighter

Hunger is a good sauce.

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 Humor

A Deaf Husband and a Blind Wife are Always a Happy Couple

A fool at forty is a fool forever.

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 will laugh when he is drowning

A hairy man is a happy man, a hairy wife is a witch

A man’s best fortune, or worst, is his wife.

A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day

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

An ass loaded with books think himself a scholar.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion

Dump husband in September, you have to get rid of the spiders

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

Four things drive a man out of his house: too much smoke, a dripping roof, filthy air and a scolding wife

He who does not honour his wife dishonours himself

He who laughs last laughs best.

He who laughs last laughs longest

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

He who laughs last, thinks the slowest!

If you get a good wife you will be happy, if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher

Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and, you weep alone.

Laugh before breakfast, cry before supper.

Laughter is the best medicine

Laughter is the closest distance between two people

Love laughs at the locksmiths

Marriages are made in heaven

Never choose bedlinen or a wife by candlelight

One foolish sheep will lead the flock

Take your wife's first advice.

The husband is always the last to know

The ugliest girl makes the best housewife.

Two fools in a house are too many

Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife.

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