Proverbs2 Flashcards
Learn from your experience and mistakes.
Live and learn.
We should know what we are getting ourselves into before committing to something.
Look before you leap.
Love overcomes all.
Love conquers all. Found in works by the Roman poet Virgil.
Love is the principle force behind human life.
Love makes the world go ‘round.
All wrong doing can be sourced back to an excessive attachment to material wealth.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
The quickest way to accomplish something is to proceed deliberately.
Make haste slowly.
take advantage of favorable circumstances as they may not last.
Make hay while the sun shines.
People have spiritual as well as physical needs.
Man does not live by bread alone. Spoken by Moses to the Israelites and by Christ to Satan.
Our character is reflected by our choice of friends.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
People can make plans but God determines how things turn out.
Man proposes, God disposes.
People enjoy the position of rulers in their own home.
A man’s home is his castle. Legally reflected in the Bill of Rights.
Large tasks become small when divided among many people.
Many hands make light work.
If we marry without thinking about the decision, we will have a lifetime to regret the choice.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Pushy people do not succeed in the end.
The meek shall inherit the Earth. One of the Beatitudes.
People who are unhappy get some consolation from knowing that others are unhappy too.
Misery loves company.
A near miss is still a miss and no better than missing by a large margin.
A miss is as good as a mile.
A more extreme version of “the love of money is the root of all evil.”
Money is the root of all evil.
The more people there are involved in something the more fun it will be.
The more the merrier. Used to welcome those who are hesitant to join something uninvited.
Crime and wrongdoing will eventually be discovered and punished.
Murder will out.
Music has the power to enchant even the roughest of people.
Music has charms to soothe a savage beast. comes form The Mourning Bride by William Congreve.
A need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Appears in the Republic by Plato.
Don’t hesitate to take advantage of a fool.
Never give a sucker an even break. Used as the title of a film by W.C. Fields.
Don’t procrastinate.
Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.
Never give up.
Never say die.
Winning requires toughness, even ruthlessness.
Nice guys finish last. Attributed to baseball manager Leo Durocher.
Loyalties must not be divided.
No one can serve two masters. A teaching from the sermon on the mount.
No one is self sufficient. We rely on others.
No man is an island. Attributed to John Donne.
Not hearing about a situation means nothing bad has happened.
No news is good news.
People can be persuaded to accept inferior ideas or products.
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Attributed to H. L. Menken.
You must keep persevering no matter how tired or overworked you are.
No rest for the weary. A variant is “no rest for the wicked.”
Success breeds more success.
Nothing succeeds like success.
If you don’t take risks, you won’t gain anything.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
You will gain nothing if you invest nothing.
Nothing will come of nothing. Spoken by King Lear in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.
Certain qualities and personalities are incompatible.
Oil and water don’t mix.
A line from a song popular among British soldiers during World War I.
Old soldiers never die; they only fade away. Became more famous after Douglas MacArthur quoted it after being relieved in the Korean War.
An injury makes a person wary of its cause.
Once bitten twice shy.
A kindness is properly met with a kindness.
One good turn deserves another.
What is good for one person may be bad for another.
One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
An image can convey an idea or emotion more effectively than words.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A single bad influence can ruin what is otherwise good.
One bad apple spoils the barrel.
The person who hires another determines the services to be rendered.
The one who pays the piper calls the tune.
A little precaution before a crisis is preferable to a lot of fixing up afterward.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Quoted by Benjamin Franklin.
We often forget about things or people that are absent.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Going from a bad situation to one that is even worse.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Refers to the necessity of making a choice between two difficult options.
Human history is influenced more by the written word than by warfare.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Money not spent is money that is in one’s pocket.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
We shouldn’t complain about others if we are as bad as they are.
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Things should be kept in order.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Poets, like all true artists, possess talent that cannot be taught.
Poets are born, not made.
Political interests can bring together people who otherwise have little in common.
Politics make strange bedfellows. Adapted from a line from The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
