Proverbs By Language

"God helps the rich, the poor can beg. (1659)"

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

"What goes up must come down."

"Don't go between the tree and the bark. (Strauss, 1998 p. 204)"

"Follow glory and it will flee, flee glory and it will follow thee. (Strauss 1994, p. 832)"

"He gives twice who gives in a trice."

"Give him an inch and he'll take a yard."

"Give, and ye shall receive."

"Give and take is fair play."

"From those to whom much is given, much is expected. (Luke 12:48"

"Once a gentleman, always a gentleman. (Charles Dickens)"

"It takes three generations to make a gentleman. (Robert Peel)"

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."

"A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds."

"Garbage in, garbage out."

"You know the tree by its fruit."

"Stolen fruit is the sweetest. (Strauss, 1994 p. 835)"

"With friends like that, who needs enemies?"

"When thy friend asks, let there be no to-morrow."

"Perfect friendship cannot be without equality."

"Our friends are our mirrors and show us ourselves."

"No longer foster, no longer friend."

"It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. (1640)"

"It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be never so little."

"If you want enemies excel others, if you want friends let others excel you."

"He is my friend that succoreth me, not he that pitieth me."

"He is my friend who grinds at my mill."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! (William Shakespeare)"

"Friends are thieves of time. (17th century)"

"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom."

"False friends are worse than open enemies."

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead."

"Bought friends are not friends indeed."

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will befriend thee."

"All are not friends who speak one fair."

"A reconciled friend is a double enemy."

"A true friend does sometime venture to be offensive."

"A good friend never offends."

"A friend is best found in adversity."

"A friend cannot be known in prosperity nor an enemy be hidden in adversity."

"The fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe."

"Set the fox to mind the geese."

"Fire, quoth the fox, when he pissed on the ice."

"If fortune favours, beware of being exalted; if fortune thunders, beware of being overwhelmed."

"To err is human, to forgive divine. (Alexander Pope)"

"Forgive and forget."

"Forewarned, forearmed."

"A wise man changes his mind, but a fool never does."

"There's no fool like an old fool. (1546)"

"The last fool never dies. (14th century)"