Favourite Proverbs.

“*Better to wear out than to rust out*” is appropriate for this forum. ?

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on".
F D Roosevelt (I think?)

Manners Maketh Man and A Word to the Wise is Enough were favourites of my English teacher. She would give out lines using them.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

I was brought up on proverbs, at the time I thought they were all just my mother's wise sayings ?

All good things must come to an end (come in from playing outside)
Cleanliness is next to Godliness (go and wash your hands before dinner)
Many hands make light work (you and your brother wash up, please)

Etc etc

I suspect regular patrons of the argy bargy bar might like “many a slip twixt cup and lip”.....

Goodbyetoallthat, yours is new to me but it's wonderfully apposite. Similarly, a favourite of mine is 'Procrastination is the thief of time'.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I like "What goes around comes around"

and "If it's meant for you it won't pass you by"

Oh 25Avalon thanks for that. I am sure though that I did read it in a Cookson book, she was obviously quoting and they were not her words.

Fifty odd years ago there was a competition in, I think, the New Statesman asking people to invent new proverbs.

My ex-H came up with, "An owl in a sack troubleth no man". He didn't win but I don't think you could beat that for Gnomishness.

Curlywhirly it was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and before that an obscure 3rd century Greek Philosopher Sextus Empiricus.

I like “fine words butter no parsnips”which you don’t hear much these days.

Better the Devil you know than the devil you don't.

No good ever came of interfering between man and wife.

"Don't cross the bridge until you come to it".

Well, mine's more of a poem!

The mills of God grind slowly
Yet they grind exceedingly small
With patience he stands waiting
But with exactness grinds he all.

I think it was in a Catherine Cookson book, possibly her autobiography, Our Kate.

'Let he (or she!) who is without sin cast the first stone'