Favourite Proverbs.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Closely followed by This too, will pass.

You reap what you sew

Laws control the lesser man; right conduct controls the greater one.

My favourite!

To thine own self be true - Polonius in Hamlet

My Mum's favourite was ' Don't get mad- get even'.
Not sure it is very nice but sometimes I know how she felt!!

“Handsome is as handsome does” - very true!

A calming one from my Father: 'Nothing matters very much; most things don't matter at all'.
Another favourite 'Other people's opinion of you is none of your business'. That one is a most liberating thought.

Mum’s favourite-don’t criticise others until you’ve tried it yourself.
She and my Dad thought along the same lines as he used to say, “Take the plank out of your own eye before you point out the speck in your brother’s eye.”

Oh, geekesse, I haven’t heard that for many, many years. It was my father’s favourite!
I especially like “a good wife is worth more than rubies”.

A cauliflower is just a cabbage that has been to College. Mark Twain l think.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
(From a Sanskrit poem.)

A stitch in time saves nine

My mum's was " rogues never prosper ". If only she lived in this century !
Dad's was the procrastination one.

Always proverbs in our house along with the superstitions.

sodapop, nearly right. Julian of Norwich said “all will be well, all will be well, all manner of things will be well”.
My grandmother would say, “who pays his debts enriches himself”. A bit gnomish...

If all else fails, read the instructions.

Out of the frying pan into the fire
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence (until you get there!)

Be careful what you wish for
Or as St. Teresa of Avila said:
'There are more tears shed over answered prayers than unanswered prayers'

"Discretion is the better part of valour".

Can't say I always follow this but I still like the proverb.

My daughter once had a boyfriend whose first language was Welsh. He used to get a bit confused with English sayings. He once told her”Count your chickens lucky!”

Do as you would be done by.

Least said, soonest mended.

Lettice that is my DH’s well practised favourite-although he usually passes them to me to read.??

Today is the tomorrow you worried about & all is well ?

When one door closes another always opens
I live by this I'm optimistic lol

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

There is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.