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LIST OF PROVERBS

101. Fortune favours the hold
102. Look before you leap
103. Money is a good servant but a bad master
104. Men hate more steadily than love
105. Man to command, and woman to obey, all else (is) confusion
106. Man is the only animal that kills for pleasure
107. Marry is haste and repent at leisure
108. If you want peace, be prepared for war
109. It is very disagreeable to seem reserved and very dangerous not to be so
110. It is sometimes better to be feared than loved
111. If a man could have half his wishes, he could double his troubles
112. Every cloud has a silver lining
113. We look before and after and pine fore what is not
114. We have no right to consume happiness without producing it
115. Who knows most says least
116. Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure
117. Strange how much you have got to know before you know how little you know
118. Soldiers are not expected to think
119. Science is more a destroyer then a creator
120. Small beginning make great endings
121. The old order change the yielding place to new
122. There is divinity that shapes our ends
123. The road to hell is paved with good intentions
124. There is no substitute for learning by doing
125. Truth is stranger than fiction
126. The world is too much with us, late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
127. There is no smoke without some fire
128. Those who live in glass houses should throw stones at others
129. The pen is mightier than the sword
130. The child is father of the man
131. Reading is the best recreation
132. Reading is to mind, what exercise is to the body
133. Revolutions begin in the minds of man
134. Sweet are the uses of Adversity
135. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't (know)
136. What is , is, right
137. We all desire for peace but not for things that make for peace
138. Where there's a will there's a way
139. When you choose the lesser of the two evils, always remember that it is still on evil
140. Wisdom lies in cutting one's coat according to one's cloth
141. We live in deeds, not is years
142. The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread
143. The purpose of living is to live
144. The duty of the historian is to narrate to supply the text, not to comment
145. The best party is, but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation
146. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small
147. The love of money is the root of all evil
148. The best way of remembering a thing is to forget everything about it
149. The way to be bore is to say everything
150. The young knows the rules, but the old knows also the exceptions to the rules
151. The wise want love, and those who love want wisdom
152. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so
153. Two is company, three is crowd
154. Today, we know more, but feel less
155. Thinking men are dangerous
156. To err is human, to forgive divine
157. Uneasy lies the head that wears the Crown
158. Union is strength
159. United we stand and divided we fall
160. Variety is the spice of life
161. Virtue is its own reward
162. Virtue and merit are their own recommendations
163. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost
164. No great country was ever saved y good men
165. Travel in the younger sort is a part of education
166. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it
167. They also serve who only stand and wait
168. Tolerance is that uncomfortable feeling that the other fellow might be right after all
169. There is properly no history, only biography
170. Tomorrow is an old deceiver, this cheat never grows stale
171. Truth is often unpleasant
172. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
173. Truth is God, and God is Truth
174. The people are deceived by names but not by things
175. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules
176. The hand that rocks and cradle rules the world


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