Favourite Proverbs.

This too will pass.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Be good and let who will be clever.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Don't listen to your gut, it only delivers feaces , or pooh if you prefer.

I've always liked Proverbs 31: a good wife gets up early and tells the servants what to do. If only!!

Don't risk the ship for a halfpenny worth of tar and a stitch in time saves nine.
Have unfortunate experiences as a result of not practising these two!

Procrastination is the thief of time

On the same lines

Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today,
Tomorrow never comes no matter what you say.

I was beside myself with worry.

Be Happy for this Moment. This Moment is Your Life

It's not the one who inflicts the most but the one who endures the most that triumphs in the end.

We are all unique. Just like everyone else.

You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

She who laughs last obviously didn't get the joke!

In the Land of the blind, the one eyed man is king

My dads favourite, and something I’ve always lived by and passed to my kids...” be careful who you tread on , on your way up the ladder, because you may meet them on your way down”

All that glitters is not gold.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Manners maketh man.

In the words of my English teacher when one of us, it may have been me, gave her a back answer: They also enhance woman.

The only place that luck comes before work is in the dictionary.

Revenge is a dish that is eaten cold

One from the writer, James Thurber - You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over backwards too far.

Some days you're a pigeon, some days you're a statue.

We are what our histories make us.

United we stand, divided we fall.

‘Life is what happens while you are making plans’. John Lennon

A good soldier never looks behind. As good is a nod or a wink to a blind donkey. A man on a galloping horse wouldn’t see that ( spoken by my mother if I complained about a stained garment). Och, the things you see when you havna got your gun with ye. Are these strictly proverbs? I love them anyway.

I love that Sark, very wise. ( Dont judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes).

Sorry, Never, not Don't !

Live and let live. Don’t judge a book by its cover, what goes around comes around, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

I've always remembered this piece of graffiti on a wall, not a proverb exactly...

"The meek don't want it".