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Favourite Proverbs.

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Esspee Tue 25-Aug-20 14:20:31

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

Juno56 Tue 25-Aug-20 14:18:39

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

Oldbat1 Tue 25-Aug-20 14:15:02

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

Callistemon Tue 25-Aug-20 14:14:33

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

Lucca Tue 25-Aug-20 14:03:36

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

annodomini Tue 25-Aug-20 14:01:12

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

Goodbyetoallthat Tue 25-Aug-20 13:23:43

Comparison is the thief of joy.

DanniRae Tue 25-Aug-20 13:17:50

I like "What goes around comes around"

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

Curlywhirly Tue 25-Aug-20 13:06:13

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.

boat Tue 25-Aug-20 13:01:19

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.

25Avalon Tue 25-Aug-20 12:52:25

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.

grandtanteJE65 Tue 25-Aug-20 12:46:49

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

No good ever came of interfering between man and wife.

BlueSky Tue 25-Aug-20 12:43:14

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

Curlywhirly Tue 25-Aug-20 12:41:26

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.

boheminan Tue 25-Aug-20 12:30:54

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

Calendargirl Tue 25-Aug-20 12:22:26

What is your favourite proverb?

So many to choose from, but one of mine is;

‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’.