A collection of quotes by English Proverb.
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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
Lewis Thomas
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
English Proverb
Don't halt before you are lame.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
A proverb is the child of experience.
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
Foul water will quench fire.
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
