some more popular proverbs
1. Buy the truth and sell it not.
2. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
3. It is not good to eat much honey.
4. Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out.
5. All that glitters is not gold.
6. Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
7. Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
8. Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.
9. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
10. The chameleon may change its color, but it is the chameleon still.
11. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.
12. It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and angry woman.
13. The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
14. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
15. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.
16. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
17. Open rebuke is better than secret love.
18. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
19. The venom of the female viper is more poisonous than that of a male viper.
20. Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter.
21. There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise.
22. Iron sharpeneth iron.
23. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.
24. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
25. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
26. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.
27. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
28. That which is crooked cannot be made straight.
29. So the eyes of man are never satisfied.
30. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
31. A man’s pride shall bring him low.
32. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread.
33. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
34. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
35. When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it.
36. Two are better than one.
37. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon the earth: therefore let thy words by few.
38. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
39. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
40. The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
41. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
42. Spare not the rod and spoil the child.
43. A wise son maketh a glad father.
44. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
45. Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
46. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
47. None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
48. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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