Honesty is the best policy. (A Muslim is always honest, that's the only policy).
Knowledge is proud that it has learned so much,
Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
And Satan trembles when he sees
The humble man upon his knees. (All praises to God)
Shias and Sunnis agree in the essential articles, and their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
Out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil. Machiavelli.
His Christianity was muscular.
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused---Z. A. Bhutto.
He was rich, quiet, and infamous. On Warren Hastings. Robbed his employers and benefactors whom he had promised to defend.
Stain it not with hypocritical tear.
He had a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
O bed! O bed! Delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head!
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
It's where roses and lilies and violets laugh.
Oh, I have roamed over many lands,
And many friends I have met
Not one fair scene or kindly smile
Can this fond heart forget.
I've wandered east; I've wandered west,
But never, never can forget
The love of life's young days.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
All that vibrates in the memory.
Absence increases love.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweetens it.
The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door.
A youth to whom was given
So much of earth, so much of heaven.
Leaves have their time to fall.
The day is past and gone.
Oh, call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone:
The summer's here with flower and bee,
Where is my brother gone?
Abide with me from morn till eve,
For without Thee I cannot live,
Abide with me when night is nigh,
For without Thee I dare not die.
He passes from life to his rest in the grave.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe.
Time, will one day end it.
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
Nobody loves life like an old man.
When he is forsaken,
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.
He thus describes the closing day:
Now twilight lets her curtain down,
And pins it with a star.
He is dead and gone, -- You'll never see him any more.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home,
That peace of mind dearer than all. Home, Sweet Home.
Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens.
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
The knell, the shroud, the hatchet, and the grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.
Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
To feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, man makes a death, which God never made.
The fear of death is more dreaded than death itself.
The Grave, dreadful thing! Men shiver when thou art named.
There is a Reaper whose name is death.
There is a remedy for all things but death.
It is the lot of man but once to die.
Death is certain to all; all shall die.
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry,
And, born in bed, in bed we die.
A man can die but once.
Allah gave him a little earth in charity.
He that lives must die.
He that dies pays all debts.
His cares are now all ended.
By night an atheist half believes in God.
It is only the dead who do not return.
What do you know of death?
The pangs preceding death.
Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
O, call back yesterday, bid time return!
Let 's talk of graves and of worms.
Men have died and worms have eaten them.
I will be soon low laid in my grave.
I have one foot in the grave.
Be not as one that has ten thousand years to live, death is near at hand: while you live, while you have time, be good.
We are all equal in the presence of death.
Death has so many doors to let out life.
And nothing can we call our own but death.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings.
The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.
The ripest fruit falls first.
Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
While man is growing, life is in decrease
The cradles rock us nearer to our tombs.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Our lives are but our marches to the grave.
Child is father of man.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
There are some feelings time cannot benumb.
Truth is always strange, --- Stranger than fiction.
With just enough of learning to misquote.
Let these describe the indescribable.
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.
An unsuccessful author turns critic.
You know who critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!
The Earth full of God's Goodness.
Prayer
is the soul's sincere desire,Uttered or unexpressed, --
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
I say the tale as 't was said to me.
When Prussia hurried to the field,
And snatched the spear, but left the shield.
Groans of the dying.
The silence that is in the starry sky.
Memory images and precious thoughts
That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
There is nothing so powerful as truth.
Enjoy the peace your valor won.
Sometimes there are circumstances over which nobody has any control.
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
There are three sexes, --men, women, and clergymen.
This world consists of men, women, and the hesitant.
If we do well here in this world, we shall do well in the hereafter.
Call things by their right names.... Glass of brandy! That is not the appropriate name: say, a glass of liquid fire.
He had hot and rebellious liquors in his blood.
Drunkenness is an expression identical with ruin.
It is a very fine thing to be father-in-law.
It's a wonderful feeling to be grand father.
He might be a very clever man by nature, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
I weigh the man, not his title.
His/her eyes displayed the joy of youth and health.
I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year.
Bricks and mortar don’t make states, but men who are able to rely upon themselves.
A lunch or dinner lubricates business.
She has a frugal mind.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place for wayfaring men!
Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!
He has spent all his life in letting down buckets into empty wells; and he is throwing away his last days in trying to draw them up in vain.
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
In such a crisis the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
At this situation morality is perplexed, reason staggered.
Invention was unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole nation. ?
Is march of the human mind slow?
His desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours.
Honor your father and your mother.
Think of your ancestors and your progeny.
People will not look forward to descendants who never look backward to their ancestors.
On the very first scarcity they turned and did bite the hand that fed them.
There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
Half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a bush make the field ring with their insistent sharp noise.
Our antagonist is our helper.
Niagara stuns with thundering sound.
The dog bit the man.
The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.
The scorpion died of the bite.
Blaspheme no Divine Ordinances, Reveal no secrets, Pick no quarrels, Make no comparisons, Maintain no ill opinions, Keep no bad company, Encourage no vice, Make no long meals, Repent no grievances.
Facts are stubborn things.
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
Go, ye devil get thee gone!
That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force.
It's where ignorance is bliss. ?
He is a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel against religion and morality, a coward, because he had no resolution.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
When he was a young man, being anxious to distinguish himself, he was perpetually starting new propositions.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say. ?
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Vessels large may venture more,
But little boats should keep near shore.
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
I'll light a candle of understanding in your heart, which shall not be put out.
Who drives strong oxen should himself be strong.
The law is the last result of human wisdom for the benefit of the public.
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none.
Hunting was the labor of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. (Necessity of life of the former and cruelty and sport of the latter).
His ready help was always near.
A human being is a human being the age or country makes the least difference, no, nor the language they speak, nor the religion which they profess, whether an Arab in the desert, or a Frenchman in the Academy an African in a jungle or a Chechan in a mountain.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
If a foreign troop lands in my country I never would lay down my arms, ---never, never, never.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the invader. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, ---but the invader cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the poor dwelling.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
God helps those who help themselves.
Be wise today, it is madness to defer. A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
Be wise with speed
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Penny saved is a penny got.
A penny saved is two pence dear.
"Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Their ultimate aim entirely is gratifying the stomach.
Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament.
Health is the vital principle of bliss.
It is as if there were a lion in the lobby, and we should vote to let him in and chain him, instead of fastening the door to keep him out.
Some say there never was a good war or a bad peace. ?
It has been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war. ?
Laws were like cobwebs, ---for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast, while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
Lawyers smile in your face while they pick your pocket.
Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases in the hereafter too, ---most of them in hell.
And do as adversaries do in law,
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
The potter envies the potter.
In every age and clime we see
Two of a trade can never agree.
While there is life there is hope.
To err is human, to forgive Divine.
It is but a part we see, and not a whole.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Look at the whole race of politicians put together.
Politicians are like stars, ---they rise and they set.
Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Years following years steal something every day
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
Too much rest itself becomes a pain.
Horrific is the pains and penalties of idleness.
Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you? (When a dog barks at you)? His master's voice. ?
His bark is worse than his bite.
Dogs! You have had your day! His wit invites you by his looks to come, but when you knock, it never is at home. Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. Trees and fields tell me nothing, men are my teachers. I war not with the dead. Who dies in youth and vigor, dies the best. A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. The good suffered while the bad prevailed. Discourse is the sweeter banquet of the mind. Blessed is he, who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. I am the darling of Nature. Is it not man that keeps and serves me? --- A pet. It is impious in a good person to be sad.
Praising the undeserved is scandal in disguise.
"This is the Jew
That Shakespeare drew!"
He taught them how to live and how to die.
He, who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.
Eunuchs are the guardians. ?
He holds a candle to the sun.
They changed their principles not themselves.
The course of Nature is the art of God.
True as the needle to the pole.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention.
The dignity of history commands respect.
History is philosophy teaching by examples.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
Possession is eleven points in the law.
'T is the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,
"You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again."
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigor is in our immortal soul.
With the morning, cool reflection comes.
I am weary of conjectures.
Much may be said on both sides.
Words are but empty thanks.
'T is an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to scoundrels.
Books are the children of the brain.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
What religion is he of?
Why, he is an Anythingarian.
He died in a rage, as a poisoned rat in a hole.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
They were hand-in-glove.
She watches her as a cat would watch a mouse.
God is not always angry when He strikes,
But most chastises those whom most He likes.
It's a law, which he happens not to like.
After a storm comes a calm.
See how the rascals behave!
Weighty sense flowing in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
You can feel the speech of his silence and the eloquence of his eyes.
Watch the words that weep and the tears that speak.
None but the braves deserve the fair share.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow! Bless you, for I have lived today.
What has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong
But they never pardon who have done the wrong.
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
A knockdown argument: It is but a word and a blow.
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
Your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.
Men lived like fish; the great ones devoured the small.
They always talk who never think.
An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
It's not without good reason said that he who has not a good memory should never lie.
Children and fools cannot lie.
They grieved, they sighed, and they wept.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. ? Angels of hell are the ones who will be reigning and guess who will be at the receiving end?
He grinned, what a horrible and ghastly smile.
Accuse not Nature: she has done her part; Those graceful acts,
In our life we behave as children gathering pebbles on the shore.
His words are adding fuel to the fire.
Neither fear nor wish for your last day.
Nature is the art of God.
"T is folly to be wise." ?
Although he had much wit, he was very shy of using it. (Perhaps afraid of finishing it up.)
"He who flees will fight again."
He that fights and runs away
May turn and fight another day
But he that is in battle slain
Will never rise to fight again.
The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things
There is no armor against fate
Death lays his icy hand on kings.
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
No man can lose what he never had.
Have the cake and eat it too.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly fine.
God's mill grinds slow, but sure.
And he that does one fault at first, and lies to hide it, makes it two.
Nothing is so hard but search will find it out.
Beggars are not choosers
From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, he is all cheerfulness.
After the war, aid.
Beware of the magic of a face.
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
They that govern the most make the least noise.
Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is blowing.
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
There is nothing said which has not been said before.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.
Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
Like fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
Penny-wise pound-foolish.
Who cannot give good counsel? It is cheap it costs them nothing.
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
The exception proves the rule.
Why does one man's yawning makes another yawn?
I started yawning just upon reading it.
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Matches are made in heaven.
Carpet knights are men who are so by the prince's grace and favor. They are carpet knights because they receive their honors in the court and upon carpets.
Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.
There is many a fair pearl lying in the bosom of the sea that never was seen, nor never shall be.
A wise man poor is like a sacred book that is never read, --- to himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
They always talk who never think.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the country.
I begin to smell a rat.
She Stoops to Conquer.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The brave man carves out his fortune,
and every man is the son of his own works.If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
Divine Nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
As clear and manifest as the nose in a man's face.
The law has not been dead, though it has slept.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
This is the short and the long of it.
Measure for Measure.
Much Ado about Nothing.
The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
He is of a very melancholy disposition.
He that has a beard is more than a youth, and he that has no beard is less than a man.
When the wine is in the wit is out.
Thank God you are rid of a rogue.
There was never a philosopher who could endure the toothache patiently.
That unlettered small-knowing soul.
My heart is true as steel.
Eyes have not seen, nor ears heard of what we have.
And when you have them, they are not worth the search.
A good looking apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood has!
I am a Jew. Has not Jew eyes, hands, organs, senses, affections, and passions?
You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gabardine,
O father Abram! What these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealings teach them suspect
The thoughts of others!
It all happened in the twinkling of an eye.
All that glitters is not gold.
Young in limbs, in judgment old.
I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
A Daniel come to judgment! Yea, a Daniel!
The seeming truth which fools the wisest.
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
Here are a few of the most unpleasant words that ever blotted paper!
Let no such man be trusted.
Let it serve for table talk.
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
These blessed candles of the night.
As You Like It.
He is oppressed with two evils, age and hunger.
All the world 's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
Let us make an honorable retreat.
The Taming of the Shrew.
He is highly fed and lowly taught.
The place is dignified by the doer's deeds.
They say miracles are past. ?
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
I'll not budge an inch.
He has an eye behind him.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.
We always saw him smiling at grief.
Courage mounts with occasion.
Lying at the proud foot of a conqueror.
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.
Truth has a quiet breast.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. ---Mathew.
Give the devil his due.
There is neither honesty or manhood, nor good fellowship in him.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
If I tell you a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.
I had rather be a kitten and cry meow.
Praise be to Him who invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man as equal.
O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Allah's soft nurse!
Men of few words are the best men.
A valiant insect that dare eat its breakfast on the lip of a lion.
He made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it.
His nature is too noble for the world.
Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. ?
O, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king; He would not in my old age
Have left me naked to my enemies.
Swearing more performance than they are able, vowing more than the production of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
The weakest goes to the wall.
He that is struck blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
One's pain is lessened by another's anguish.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name, it would smell as sweet.
We have seen better days.
I am constant as the northern star
Who is here so base that would be a bondman?
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:
I am no orator, as Brutus is,
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.
Where is the milk of human kindness?
He heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more"!
Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!
There are daggers in men's smiles.
For murder, though it has no tongue, will speak.
Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
It was the flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt my sincerity.
Rich gifts wax the poor when givers prove unkind.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
If we could carry cannon by our sides.
Silence gives consent.
Nothing will come of nothing.
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train; they tread each other's heel.
And woe succeeds to woe.
I am here with all my imperfections on my head.
The best of me is diligence.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 't is something, nothing;
'T was mine, 't is his, but he that snatches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
Bid me discourse, I will enchant your ear.
He/she is the very pineapple of politenes.
She has more goodness in her little finger than her friend has it in her whole body.
Be to her virtues very kind
Be to her faults a little blind.
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?
'T is chastity, my brother, chastity:
She that has it is clad in complete steel.
Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
A woman's work is never done.
Men must work, and women must weep. (sleep) ?
What a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small one tear.
We bear it calmly and still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Hard was the hand that gave the blow,
Soft were those lips that bled.
Rebuke on his lips, but a smile in his eyes.
She wept with delight when you gave her a smile, and trembled with fear at your frown!
The big round tears stood trembling in her eyes.
His/her virtues were so rare.
Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit
Is feathered oftentimes with heavenly words.
Words sweet as honey distill from his/her lips.
They shed honeyed dew on her tongue and from her lips drop sweet and gentle words.
We ought to do our neighbor all the good we can. If you do, good will be done to you
It is good to be merry and wise.
Enough is as good as a feast.
It is now in many peoples' mouths, and likely to pass into a proverb.
To be noble we'll be good.
'T is only noble to be good.
They are truly great who are truly good.
I will neither yield to the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
O wearisome condition of humanity!
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
Let pride go before, shame will follow after.
Pride goes before, and shame comes behind.
Haughtiness will have a fall.
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
A tale which holds children from play, and old men from the fire place.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
The soft drops of rain pierce the hard marble.
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
A delightful old man busy as a bee.
To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery
Your eyes are so sharp that you can look through the mind.
A rose is sweeter in the bud than full blown.
It is a world to see.
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.
They ravage a rose with their nose.
My heart leaps up when I behold it.
O splendor in the grass, O glory in the flower.
I love the flowers and plants that perfume the air.
Some aromatic plants spread spicy fragrance while they grow.
Flower or herb that grows on ground,
And smelling sweet, and throw her sweet smells all around.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.
The gentle mind by gentle deed is known.
His golden locks time has to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
My mind to me a kingdom is.
Such perfect joy therein I find.
A good mind possesses an empire.
He was beaten with his own rod.
By his own stick the prudent one is often beaten.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Better to give than to take.
Better to bow than to break.
Two heads are better than one.
The rolling stone never gathers moss.
Ill weed grows fast.
A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink without his will.
Children learn to crawl before they can learn to walk.
All is not Gospel that you speak.
There is no fire without some smoke.
To leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
To set the cart before the horse.
Love me love my dog.
This hits the nail on the head
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
When the horse has been stolen, the fool shuts the stable.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
He who makes shoes goes barefoot himself.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
He knew what is what.
He that spares the rod hates his son.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
Truth is the highest thing that you may keep.
One ear it heard, at the other out it went.
Walls too have ears.
A man's heart devises his way; but the Lord directs his steps.
'T is man's to fight, but God's to give success.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Who thinks not God at all?
More will follow INSHA ALLAH.
ALHAMDULILLAAHI RABBIL AALAMEEN.