Proverbs

1. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.

2. Men make houses, women homes.

3. Charity begins at home.

4. Many hands make light work.

5. Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

6. After rain comes fair weather.

7. So many countries, so many customs.

8. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.

9. Health is better than wealth.

10. Time is the great healer.

11. Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

12. Procrastination is the thief of time.

13. What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.

14. What the eyes do not see the heart does not grieve ever.

15. He that has not silver in his purse must have silk in his tongue.

16. A still tongue makes a wise head.

17. If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

18. Water is a boom in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

19. Idle folk has the least leisure.

20. Business first, pleasure afterwards.

21. Customs make all things easy.

22. So many countries, so many customs.

23. It's pretty, but is it art.

24. Man does not live by bread alone.

25. Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration.

26. The purse of the patient protracts the disease.

27. While the doctors consult, the patient dies.

28. What can't be cured must be endured.

29. Death is the great leveller.

30. While there is life there is hope.

31. Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

32. The remedy may be worse than the disease.

33. Hard words break no bones.

34. Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

35.One foot is better than two crutches.

36. Many physicians have killed the king.

37. The town for wealth, the country for health.

38. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

39. A honey tongue, a heart of gall.

40. A fair face may hide a foul heart.

41. It is a poor heart that never rejoices.

42. The heart that once truly loves never forgets.

43. Kind hearts are more than coronets.

44. Paint heart never won fair lady.

45. The belly is not filled with fair words.

46. A closed mouth catches no flies.

47. Now drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.

48. The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

49. If the doctor cures, the sun sees it, but if he kills, the earth hides.

50. Who shall decide if doctors disagree?

51. Diet cures more than doctors.

52. The evil wound may be cured but not the evil name.

53. He who pleased everybody died before he was born.

54. Laughter is the best medicine.

55. Conscience does make cowards of us.

56. An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

57. Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.

58. There is no medicine to cure stupidity.

59. A good surgeon must have: an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and hand.

60. Cheerfulness is the best medicine a family can keep.

61. An ounce of preventation is worth a pound of cure.

62. Patience is virtue.

63. Even if a doctor is good, he is best seen departing.

64. He that fears death lives not.

65. As the man lives so shall he die.

66. It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest.

67. If the pills were pleasant they would not be gilded.

68. The course of true love never did run smooth.

69. He knows not what love is that has no children.

70. No herb will cure love.

71. Prettiness dies first.

72. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.

73. Love and cough can not be hidden.

74. All is fair in love and war.

75. You must learn to creep before you walk.

76. It is love that makes the world go round.

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