PROVERBS

FAMOUS  PROVERBS

PROVERBS STARTING WITH ‘A’

     

Ø     Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Ø     Actions speak louder than words.

Ø     Advice is cheap.

Ø     Advice is least heeded when most needed.

Ø     Advisers run no risks.

Ø     All cats are grey in the dark.

Ø     All good things come to those who wait.  

Ø     All that glitters is not gold.

Ø     All days are short to Industry and long to Idleness.

Ø     All is fair in love and war

Ø     All's well that ends well

Ø     All things grow with time - except grief.

Ø     All things are difficult before they are easy.

Ø     All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Ø     An empty purse frightens away friends.

Ø     An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Ø     An onion a day keeps everyone away

Ø     An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Ø     Anger is the one thing made better by delay.

Ø     Any time means no time.

Ø     April showers bring May flowers.

Ø     A bad workman blames his tools.

Ø     A bird in hand is worth two in a bush.

Ø     A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.

Ø     A burden of one's own choice is not felt.

Ø     A cat has nine lives.

Ø     A change is as good as a rest.

Ø     A dry March, a wet April and a cool May fill barn and cellar and bring much hay.

Ø     A fault confessed is half redressed.

Ø     A flower blooms more than once.

Ø     A fool at forty is a fool forever.

Ø     A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Ø     A friend to all is a friend to none

Ø     A friend's eye is a good mirror.

Ø     A good example is the best sermon.

Ø     A good beginning makes a good end.

Ø     A good conscience is a soft pillow.

Ø     A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

Ø     A leopard cannot change its spots.

Ø     A loaded wagon makes no noise.

Ø     A loveless life is a living death.

Ø     A man can die but once.

Ø     A monkey in silk is a monkey no less

Ø     A new broom sweeps clean.

Ø     A rising tide lifts all boats.

Ø     A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Ø     A rotten apple spoils the barrel.

Ø     A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

Ø     A stitch in time saves nine.

Ø     A stumble may prevent a fall.

Ø     A swallow does not make the summer.

Ø     A watched pot never boils

Ø     A young idler, an old beggar.

Ø     As you sow, so shall you reap

Ø     Ask me no questions, I'll tell  you no lies.

Ø     Attack is the best form of defense

Ø     A proverb is good sense brought to a point

Ø     A proverb is the child of experience.

Ø     A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs

Ø     A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom

Ø     Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it

Ø     Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them

Ø   A short saying often contains much wisdom