PROVERBS I

Love

1. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
2. Appearances are deceptive.
3. Beauty is only skin-deep.
4. First impressions are the most lasting.
5. God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
6. Let bygones be bygones.
7. Love is blind.
8. Love makes the world go round.
9. Love sees no faults.
10. Never judge from appearances.
11. Never marry for money but marry where money is.
12. No rose without a thorn.
13. The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams.
14. The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
15. True love never grows old.
16. Variety is the spice of life.
17. Variety is the spice of life.
18. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
19. When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth.

Friends and Family

20. A bird is known by its song.
21. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
22. A friend who shares is a friend who cares.
23. A man is known by his friends.
24. A man is known by the company he keeps.
25. An Englishman's house is his castle.
26. Birds of a feather flock together.
27. Blood is thicker than water.
28. East, west, home's best.
29. If you are looking for a friend who has no faults, you will have no friends.
30. If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.
31. Lend your money and lose your friend.
32. Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
33. The family that prays together stays together.
34. There's no place like home.

Encouragement

35. A book holds a house of gold.
36. A fault confessed is half redressed.
37. A little pot is soon hot.
38. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
39. A stitch in time saves nine.
40. A teacher will appear when the student is ready.
41. Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
42. Diligence is the mother of good luck.
43. Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today.
44. Eat to live, not live to eat.
45. Empty sacks will never stand upright.
46. Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
47. Every cloud has a silver lining.
48. Every man has his faults.
49. Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
50. Experience is the best teacher.
51. He who laughs last, laughs best.
52. If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.
53. Little strokes fell great oaks.
54. Make hay while the sun shines.
55. Necessity is the mother of invention.
56. No pain, no gain.
57. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
58. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
59. The early bird catches the worm.
60. The first step is the hardest.
61. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
62. There's a first time for everything.
63. Thinking without learning is a dangerous thing.
64. To err is human.
65. Where there is a will, there is a way.
66. You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough.
67. You never know what you can do till you try.