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• A "NO" with deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" to avoid trouble
• A bad peace is even worse than war
• A bad person has always something good in him and a good person has always something bad in him
• A barber who des his job well is better than a professor who blabber in his class room
• A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
• A blind man will not thank you for a looking glass
• A bore is a person who talks when you want him to listen
• A burnt child dreads the fire
• A chain is as strong as its weakest link
• A clear conscience welcomes a crowd, but a bad conscience is disturbed and troubled even in solitude.
• A closed mouth catches no flies.
• A company is known by the people it keeps.
• A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
• A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.
• A creditor is worse than a master for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity, and can belabor that
• A crown if it hurts, is hardly worth wearing.
• A daring beginning is half way to winning
• A debt of money may be paid, a debt of kindness is a debt through life
• A drop of smile makes working together smoother.
• A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
• A fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and will not change the subject
• A father’s greatest reward is a successful son.
• A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him
• A fool and his money are parted soon
• A fool at forty is a fool forever.
• A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in sever years
• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
• A fool utters all his mind
• A friend in need is a friend indeed.
• A friend in power is a friend lost
• A friend is a person who knows all about you and still likes you
• A friend should not be injured even in jest
• A friend’s eye is a good mirror.
• A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship
• A frog in a well should not speak of the sea
• A gem cannot be polished without friction nor a son without trials
• A good denial, the best point in law.
• A good face is the best letter of recommendation
• A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something
• A good traveler does not know where he is going but a perfect traveler where he comes from
• A gossip talks about others, a bore talks about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist talks about you.
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
• A great talker is a great liar.
• A greedy man has no taste while a lazy man has no rest
• A grumbler does not work and a worker does not grumble
• A handful of patience is worth more than a brushes of brains
• A hard beginning makes a good ending.
• A healthy man is a successful man.
• A hound’s food is in its legs.
• A house with two doors is difficult to guard
• A hundred lifetimes may not be enough to rectify the mistake made in a short morning
• A hungry man is an angry man.
• A joke and a truth are not mutually exclusive. 
• A joke is a very serious thing
• A late start is a bad start
• A liar is always lavish of oaths
• A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
• A lier is not believed even though he tells the truth
• A little house well filled, a little land well tilled and a little wife well willed are great riches
• A little too late, is much too late.
• A loan though old is not gift.
• A long dispute means both parties are wrong
• A man can see a speck on someone’s fair, but cannot see the flies on his own nose
• A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm
• A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies
• A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.
• A man is a lion in his own cause
• A man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink and the next drink takes the man
• A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments
• A man who climbs to the peak foot by foot earns far more respect than the one who reaches there by a helicopter
• A man without a smiling face must not open a shop
• A man without money is like a bird without wings
• A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world
• A man’s true wealth is the good he has done to his fellow men
• A meeting is a deliberation where hours are wasted and minutes are recorded.
• A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great
• A modern employer is a person who is looking for men and women between twenty and thirty years of age with forty years of experience.
• A modest man never talks of himself
• A moment’s in sight is sometimes worth a life’s experience
• A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey.
• A penny saved is a penny earned
• A person is known by the company he keeps.
• A person who can’t lead and won’t follow makes a dandy roadblock.
• A person’s true character is so often revealed by the manner in which he receives praise
• A pessimist is a man who thinks that everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it
• A pessimist is one who complaints about the noise when the optimist knocks.
• A picture is equal to 1000 words, A visit is equal to 10,000 words
• A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees
• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience
• A real leader faces the music even when he doesn’t like the tune.
• A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.
• A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
• A short pencil is better than a long memory
• A silent mouth is melodious.
• A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books
• A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it with the first blow, better not strike at it
• A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one makes him your enemy
• A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks
• A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
• A soft voice is heard long after the shout. Gentleness is stronger than anger
• A spark of motivation will fire him to great heights
• A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
• A student acquires a quarter of his knowledge from his teacher, another quarter from his own intelligence, the third quarter from his co-students and the later quarter in course of time from experience.
• A teacher is better than two books.
• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron
• A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
• A tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man of six feet in height.
• A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
• A tree falls the way it leans.
• A watched pot never boils.
• A waterfall and a strong person always channel their own path
• A winner is not one who never fails but one who never quits
• A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain.
• A wise man hears one word and understands two.
• A wise man is one who forgets the faults of others, but always remembers his own
• A wise man knows everything; A shrewd one, every body
• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
• A wiseman adopts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it
• A wiseman will make more opportunities than he finds
• A word spoken in wrath is the sharpest word; covetousness is the deadliest poison; passion is the fiercest fire; ignorance is the darkest night.
• Ability is a poor man’s wealth.
• Absence of punishment always encourages people to commit worse offences
• Accepting responsibility is accepting challenge
• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance
• Adventure is not outside a man; it is within
• Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
• Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission
• Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least
• Advice when most needed is least heeded.
• Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years
• Age is honorable and youth is noble.
• Age is not sage and rage is not courage.
• Agreements get better results than arguments
• Aim above the mark to hit the mark
• Al the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full
• All crooks are intelligent, but all intelligent people need not be crooks.
• All human activity is prompted by desire
• All is well that ends well.
• All righteous words and righteous deeds spring from knowledge and wisdom
• All that glitters is not gold
• All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword
• All things change.  Nothing perishes
• Always put yourself in others’ shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.
• Always remember that you are unique.  Just like everybody else.
• Always use the time you have to finish your work. Never leave it to the last minute. Once time goes away, it never comes back
• An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise
• An age builds up cities. An hour destroys them
• An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason
• An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag
• An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
• An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
• An hour’s less sleep per day will add five years to your working life
• An ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand
• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult
• An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse
• An open mind collects more riches than an open purse
• An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity
• An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds.  A pessimist fears the same may be true
• An organisation is a union of ordinary people doing extra-ordinary work
• Anger can be an expensive luxury.
• Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
• Anger is a momentary insanity
• Anger is only one letter short of danger.
• Anger without power is folly.
• Angry friendship is some times as bad as calm enmity
• Any body who feels at ease in the world today is a fool
• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well
• Any man may make a mistake; but a fool will stick to it
• Apology sometimes is worse than the crime
• As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies, a dull brain
• As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities
• As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do
• Authors in general are not good listeners
• Avoid witticisms at the expense of others
• “They say so” is half a lie