Assorted Proverbs

   A child among men will soon be a man. 

    
   A lazy youth, a lousy age. 


   A man among children will be long a child. 


   A man as he manages himself, may die old at thirty or be young 
      at eighty. 

    
   A man often admits that his memory is at fault but never his 
      judgement. 


   A new net won't catch an old bird. 


   A prudent youth is superior to a stupid old man. 
   
    
   A wild colt may become a sober old horse. 
   
    
   A young man negligent, an old man necessitous. 


   A bad excuse is better than none. 


   A barking dog never bites. 


   A brain is worth little without a tongue. 


   A civil question deserves a civil answer. 


   A clean glove often hides a dirty hand. 


   Behind a fair face may be a foul brain. 


   A fair face may hide a foul bargain. 


   A fair face will get its praise though the owner keep silent. 
   
    
   A gentleman should be honest in his actions and refined in his 
      language. 
   
    
   A good anvil does not fear the hammer. 


   A good archer is not known by his arrow but by his aim. 


   A good horse is never of a bad colour. 


   A good name is a second inheritance. 


   A good name keeps its lustre in the dark. 


   A good word is as soon said as a bad one. 


   A grave and majestic outside is as it were the palace of the 
      soul. 


   A hog in armour is still but a hog. 


   A leopard cannot change its spots. 


   A liar ought to have a good memory. 
   
    
   A loud voice bespeaks a vulgar man. 


   A bad dog never sees the wolf. 


   A bad penny always come back. 


   A bad tree does not yield young apples. 


   A crow is never the whiter for ever washing. 


   A fair booty makes a fair thief. 


   A fault confessed is half redressed. 
   
    
   A gold ring does not cure a felon. 


   A great crime is in a great man greater. 


   A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. 


   A mischievous dog must be tied short. 


   A monarch should be slow to punish, swift to reward. 


   A rotten egg cannot be spoiled. 


   A sinful heart makes a feeble hand. 


   A thief is better than a lazy servant. 


   A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. 


   A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich. 


   A thief thinks every man steals. 


   A thief seldom grows rich by thieving. 


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


   A dead man does not make war. 
   
    
   A dead man does not speak. 


   A dead man has neither friends or relations. 
   
    
   A dead mouse feels no cold. 


   A drowning man will clutch at a straw. 


   A living dog is better than a dead lion. 


   A man can die but once. 


   A man has learned much, who has learned to die. 


   A small tear relieves a great sorrow. 


   A sudden death is the best. 


   All death is sudden to the unprepared. 
   
    
   All men are born richer than they die. 


   All sorrows are bearable if there is bread. 
   
    
   Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. 


   An honourable death is worth more than an inglorious life. 


   Another's suffering is but skin deep. 


   Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of real 
      good. 
   
    
   As a man lives so shall he die. 


   As soon as man is born he begins to die. 


   A carpenter is known by his chips. 


   A good beginning is half the work. 


   A good head and industrious hand are worth gold in any land. 


   A handful of trade is a handful of gold. 


   A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. 


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


   A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. 


   A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his 
      knees. 


   A poor workman blames his tools. 


   A weak foundation destroys the work. 


   A work ill done must be done twice. 


   A work well begun is half done. 


   Absence of occupation is not rest. 


   Adversity makes men, prosperity monsters. 


   Adversity overcome is the highest glory. 
   
    
   All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 


   Ambition has no rest. 


   Ambition is no cure for love. 


   An oak is not felled at one stroke. 


   A babe in the house is a wellspring of pleasure. 


   A babe is a mother's anchor, she cannot swing far from her 
      moorings. 


   A babe is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. 


   A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound. 
   
    
   A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity. 


   A bustling mother makes a slothful daugther. 


   A child may have too much of his mother's blessing. 


   A clear bargain, a dear friend. 


   A courageous is better than a cowardly friend. 


   A fair weather friend changes with the wind. 


   A faithful friend is the true image of the deity. 


   A false friend has honey in his mouth, gall in his heart. 


   A father ia a treasure, a brother a comfort, but a friend is 
      both. 


   A father lives after the death of his son. 


   A father loves his children in hating their faults. 


   A father maintains ten children better than ten children one 
      father. 


   A father's blessing cannot drowned in water nor consumed by 
      fire. 

  
   A black plum is as sweet as a white. 


   A day without bread is a long day indeed. 


   A drunkard's purse is a bottle. 


   A drunken man may soon be made to dance. 


   A man that has had his fill is no eater. 


   A rotten egg cannot be spoiled. 


   After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk awhile. 


   Ale sellers should not be tale tellers. 


   All meat is not the same in every man's mouth. 


   Always rise from the table with an appetite and you will never 
      sit down without one. 
   
    
   An army marches on its stomach. 


   An old dram drinker is the devil's decoy. 

          
   A barber learns to shave by shaving fools. 


   A braying ass eats little hay. 


   A cucumber being offered a poor man, he refused it because it 
      was crooked. 


   A fair promise makes a fool merry. 


   A flatterer is the shadow of a fool. 


   A fool always comes short of his reckoning. 


   A fool always finds a greater fool than himself. 


   A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. 


   A fool and his money are soon parted. 
   
    
   A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 


   A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot. 

 
   A fool can dance without a fiddle. 


   A fool cannot be silent. 


   A fool cut down the oak to plant a thistle. 


   A fool demands much, but he is a greater one that gives it. 


   A fool digs a well by the river. 


   A fool expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his own 
      mouth. 


   A fool expects to find water at the first stroke of his spade. 


   A fool fights with his own shadow. 

      
   A book that remains shut is but a block. 


   A book's a book though there is nothing in it. 


   A flow of words is no proof of wisdom. 


   A gem unwrought is a useless thing, so a man unlearned is a 
      senseless being. 


   A golden key can open any door. 


   A good book praises itself. 


   A learned man can only be appreciated by another learned man. 


   A library is a repository of medicine for the mind. 


   A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 


   A man becomes learned by asking questions. 


   A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of 
      himself. 


   A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well 
      educated family. 


   A man is not known until he comes to honour. 


   A man knows no more to any purpose than he practices. 


   A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the oration 
      of the learned. 
   
    
   A man who is wise and learned, but without virtue, shall be 
      despised. 


   A mind quite vacant is a mind quite distressed. 


   A bonny bride is sound dressed. 


   A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. 


   A fence between makes love more keen. 


   A good Jack makes a good Jill. 


   A good son makes a good husband. 
   
    
   A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. 


   A good wife makes a good husband. 


   A kiss of the mouth often touches not the heart. 


   A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst. 


   A man has a choice to begin love, but not to end it. 


   A man without a wife is a man without a care. 


   A man without a wife, a house without a roof. 


   A pretty face is half a dowry. 


   A beggar can never be bankrupt. 


   A beggar's purse is bottomless. 
   
    
   A clown enriched knows neither relation of friend. 


   A fallen rich man may make a good master, but not an enriched 
      poor man. 


   A great fortune is a great slavery. 


   A hungry man is an angry man. 


   A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. 


   A light purse makes a heavy heart. 


   A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a 
      little wife well willed are great riches. 


   A man who is proud of his money rarely has anything else to be 
      proud of. 


   A man without money is like a bow without an arrow. 
   
    
   A man without money is like a ship without sails. 


   A miser grows rich by seeming poor, an extravagant man grows 
      poor by seeming rich. 


   A moneyless man goes quick through the market. 


   A penny is sometimes better spent than spared. 


   A poor man has not many marks for fortune to shoot at. 


   A brave man will yield to a brave man. 


   A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. 


   A bully is always a coward. 


   A cake eaten in peace is worth two in trouble. 


   A cat may look at a King. 


   A certain peace is to be preferred to an expected victory. 


   A chain is no stronger than it's weaker link. 


   A crown is no cure for the headache. 


   A foreign war is preferable to one at home. 


   A gallant man needs no drums to rouse him. 


   A good cause make a stout heart and a strong arm. 


   A good prince does not cut out freedom's tongue. 


   A house divided against itself cannot stand. 


   A king is never powerful that hath not power on the sea. 


   A patriot is a fool in any age. 


   A poor freedom is better than a rich slavery. 


   A proud soldier is fellow to the king. 


   A short sword for a brave man. 


   A stick is a peacemaker. 


   A tyrant's breath is another's death. 


   A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly. 


   A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 


   A bird never flew on one wing. 


   A bite in the morning is better than nothing all day. 


   A burnt child fears fire. 


   A closed mouth catches no flies. 


   A coconut shell full of water is an ocean to an ant. 


   A covetous man is good to none, but worse to himself. 


   A covetous man makes no friend. 


   A danger foreseen is a half avoided. 


   A fine cage won't feed the bird. 


   A full belly neither fights nor flies well. 


   A glutton is never generous. 


   A good "take heed" will surely speed. 


   A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft. 


   A jest driven too far often brings home hate. 


   A little pot is soon hot. 


   A little too late is much too late. 


   A bolt does not always fall when it thunders. 


   A foul morn may turn to a fine day.