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Proverbs 4.8 (14)

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1/1/26 Thursday “Do not cast your pearls before swine.”
1/2/26 Friday “There is no smoke without fire/Where there is smoke, there is fire.”
1/3/26 Saturday “A woman's work is never done.”
1/4/26 Sunday “There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.”
1/5/26 Monday “Ashes to ashes dust to dust.”
1/6/26 Tuesday “Rules were made to be broken.”
1/7/26 Wednesday “The moon is made of green cheese.”
1/8/26 Thursday “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”
1/9/26 Friday “Wherever you wander, there's no place like home.”
1/10/26 Saturday “Do not try to walk before you can crawl.”
1/11/26 Sunday “Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living, and a child that is born on the Sabbath day is fair and wise and good and gay.”
1/12/26 Monday “Least said, soonest mended.”
1/13/26 Tuesday “The child is the father of the man.”
1/14/26 Wednesday “Let the buyer beware.”
1/15/26 Thursday “Do not rock the boat.”
1/16/26 Friday “Good things come to those that wait.”
1/17/26 Saturday “Fake it til' you make it.”
1/18/26 Sunday “There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.”
1/19/26 Monday “It's the empty can that makes the most noise.”
1/20/26 Tuesday “Empty vessels make the most noise.”
1/21/26 Wednesday “He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC)”
1/22/26 Thursday “Little pitchers have big ears.”
1/23/26 Friday “Money is not everything.”
1/24/26 Saturday “A bad penny always turns up.”
1/25/26 Sunday “A word to the wise is enough.”
1/26/26 Monday “As you sow so shall you reap.”
1/27/26 Tuesday “A watched pot never boils.”
1/28/26 Wednesday “Tell the truth and shame the Devil (Shakespeare, Henry IV),.”
1/29/26 Thursday “The longest day must have an end.”
1/30/26 Friday “Needs must when the devil drives.”
1/31/26 Saturday “A stitch in time saves nine.”
2/1/26 Sunday “Two heads are better than one.”
2/2/26 Monday “There are none so blind as those who will not see — attributed variously to Edmund Burke or George Santayana.”
2/3/26 Tuesday “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
2/4/26 Wednesday “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.”
2/5/26 Thursday “The bigger, the better.”
2/6/26 Friday “Like father, like son.”
2/7/26 Saturday “Nothing new under the sun.”
2/8/26 Sunday “As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.”
2/9/26 Monday “If you can't be good, be careful.”
2/10/26 Tuesday “It's easy to be wise after the event.”
2/11/26 Wednesday “A picture paints a thousand words.”
2/12/26 Thursday “Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.”
2/13/26 Friday “There's more than one way to skin a cat.”
2/14/26 Saturday “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
2/15/26 Sunday “The law is an ass.”
2/16/26 Monday “You cannot push a rope.”
2/17/26 Tuesday “If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well.”
2/18/26 Wednesday “It is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.”
2/19/26 Thursday “Open confession is good for the soul.”
2/20/26 Friday “Don't get mad, get even.”
2/21/26 Saturday “You've got to separate the wheat from the chaff.”
2/22/26 Sunday “(Only) time will tell.”
2/23/26 Monday “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
2/24/26 Tuesday “Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.”
2/25/26 Wednesday “Do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.”
2/26/26 Thursday “Honesty is the best policy.”
2/27/26 Friday “Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.”
2/28/26 Saturday “Cowards may die many times before their death.”
3/1/26 Sunday “A mill cannot grind with the water that is past.”
3/2/26 Monday “The die is cast.”
3/3/26 Tuesday “Quid pro quo.”
3/4/26 Wednesday “Cut your coat to suit your cloth.”
3/5/26 Thursday “The best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry.”
3/6/26 Friday “If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll always ask for a glass of milk.”
3/7/26 Saturday “There are two sides to every question.”
3/8/26 Sunday “You pay your money and you take your choice.”
3/9/26 Monday “Worrying never did anyone any good.”
3/10/26 Tuesday “If you have never seen the bottom of the tree, you cannot know how tall it stands.”
3/11/26 Wednesday “Fools rush in (where angels fear to tread)”
3/12/26 Thursday “Never go to bed on an argument.”
3/13/26 Friday “The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.”
3/14/26 Saturday “From the sublime to the ridiculous (is only a step)”
3/15/26 Sunday “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
3/16/26 Monday “One swallow does not make a summer.”
3/17/26 Tuesday “You cannot have your cake and eat it too.”
3/18/26 Wednesday “Do not cry over spilled milk.”
3/19/26 Thursday “If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.”
3/20/26 Friday “It takes two to tango.”
3/21/26 Saturday “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
3/22/26 Sunday “You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds.”
3/23/26 Monday “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
3/24/26 Tuesday “Laugh before breakfast, cry before supper.”
3/25/26 Wednesday “There but for the grace of God go I.”
3/26/26 Thursday “What the eye does not see (the heart does not grieve over.)”
3/27/26 Friday “A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.”
3/28/26 Saturday “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
3/29/26 Sunday “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
3/30/26 Monday “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
3/31/26 Tuesday “Two can play at that game.”
4/1/26 Wednesday “What cannot be cured must be endured.”
4/2/26 Thursday “Fight the good fight.”
4/3/26 Friday “Do not wash your dirty linen in public.”
4/4/26 Saturday “It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.”
4/5/26 Sunday “Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.”
4/6/26 Monday “A poor workman always blames his tools.”
4/7/26 Tuesday “It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
4/8/26 Wednesday “Ignorance is bliss.”
4/9/26 Thursday “One good turn deserves another.”
4/10/26 Friday “He who laughs last laughs longest.”
4/11/26 Saturday “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
4/12/26 Sunday “Pearls of wisdom.”
4/13/26 Monday “It's the singer not the song.”
4/14/26 Tuesday “Truth is stranger than fiction.”
4/15/26 Wednesday “Give a dog a bad name and hang him.”
4/16/26 Thursday “Nature abhors a vacuum.”
4/17/26 Friday “The customer is always right.”
4/18/26 Saturday “No man is an island.”
4/19/26 Sunday “Don't put the cart before the horse.”
4/20/26 Monday “Jack of all trades, master of none.”
4/21/26 Tuesday “The work praises the man.”
4/22/26 Wednesday “Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.”
4/23/26 Thursday “To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world. Chinese proverb.”
4/24/26 Friday “Out of the frying pan and into the fire.”
4/25/26 Saturday “Thou shalt not kill.”
4/26/26 Sunday “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
4/27/26 Monday “You can't have your cake and eat it too.”
4/28/26 Tuesday “One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people. Turkish Proverb.”
4/29/26 Wednesday “A watched man never plays.”
4/30/26 Thursday “To every thing there is a season.”
5/1/26 Friday “Cleanliness is next to godliness.”
5/2/26 Saturday “A soft answer turneth away wrath.”
5/3/26 Sunday “Great minds think alike.”
5/4/26 Monday “After a storm comes a calm.”
5/5/26 Tuesday “A watched pot/kettle never boils.”
5/6/26 Wednesday “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
5/7/26 Thursday “Hope for the best, and prepare for the worst.”
5/8/26 Friday “Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.”
5/9/26 Saturday “Careless talk costs lives.”
5/10/26 Sunday “What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tombs.”
5/11/26 Monday “Crime doesn't pay.”
5/12/26 Tuesday “Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.”
5/13/26 Wednesday “Late lunch makes day go faster.”
5/14/26 Thursday “Red sky at night shepherds delight; red sky in the morning, shepherds warning.”
5/15/26 Friday “There's none so blind as those who will not see.”
5/16/26 Saturday “All that glitters is not gold.”
5/17/26 Sunday “Never give advice unless asked.”
5/18/26 Monday “Two blacks don't make a white.”
5/19/26 Tuesday “Prevention is better than cure.”
5/20/26 Wednesday “You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.”
5/21/26 Thursday “Do not let the grass grow beneath (one's) feet.”
5/22/26 Friday “The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton.”
5/23/26 Saturday “Good things come in small packages.”
5/24/26 Sunday “Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
5/25/26 Monday “When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.”
5/26/26 Tuesday “Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.”
5/27/26 Wednesday “An Englishman's home is his castle.”
5/28/26 Thursday “There are none so blind as those, that will not see.”
5/29/26 Friday “There are always more fish in the sea.”
5/30/26 Saturday “Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”
5/31/26 Sunday “It takes one to know one.”
6/1/26 Monday “There's no smoke without fire.”
6/2/26 Tuesday “In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.”
6/3/26 Wednesday “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”
6/4/26 Thursday “Absence makes the heart grow fonder .”
6/5/26 Friday “Birds of a feather flock together.”
6/6/26 Saturday “If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
6/7/26 Sunday “Some are more equal than others.”
6/8/26 Monday “Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.”
6/9/26 Tuesday “Horses for courses.”
6/10/26 Wednesday “If anything can go wrong, it will.”
6/11/26 Thursday “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story .”
6/12/26 Friday “Comparisons are odious.”
6/13/26 Saturday “Woman's work is never done.”
6/14/26 Sunday “One man's trash is another man's treasure.”
6/15/26 Monday “Let sleeping dogs lie.”
6/16/26 Tuesday “The best defense is a good offence.”
6/17/26 Wednesday “A stitch in time (saves nine)”
6/18/26 Thursday “Early marriage, earlier pregnant.”
6/19/26 Friday “Boys will be boys.”
6/20/26 Saturday “Marry in haste, repent at leisure.”
6/21/26 Sunday “Seeing is believing.”
6/22/26 Monday “You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family.”
6/23/26 Tuesday “A leopard cannot change its spots.”
6/24/26 Wednesday “Put your money where your mouth is.”
6/25/26 Thursday “There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.”
6/26/26 Friday “Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.”
6/27/26 Saturday “If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.”
6/28/26 Sunday “The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.”
6/29/26 Monday “Rome wasn't built in a day.”
6/30/26 Tuesday “Finders keepers, losers weepers.”
7/1/26 Wednesday “A fish always rots from the head down.”
7/2/26 Thursday “Do not look a gift horse in the mouth.”
7/3/26 Friday “Fortune favours the bold/brave.”
7/4/26 Saturday “You are what you eat.”
7/5/26 Sunday “Use it or lose it.”
7/6/26 Monday “Never tell tales out of school.”
7/7/26 Tuesday “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it – George Santayana.”
7/8/26 Wednesday “Do not make a mountain out of a mole hill.”
7/9/26 Thursday “A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
7/10/26 Friday “If wealth is lost, nothing is lost. If health is lost, something is lost. If character is lost, everything is lost.”
7/11/26 Saturday “Don't let the cat out of the bag.”
7/12/26 Sunday “First impressions are the most lasting.”
7/13/26 Monday “Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak' all, keep all, gie nowt, and if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thysen.”
7/14/26 Tuesday “Don't wash your dirty linen in public.”
7/15/26 Wednesday “Everyone has their price.”
7/16/26 Thursday “Where there is a will there is a way.”
7/17/26 Friday “Make love not war.”
7/18/26 Saturday “Business before pleasure.”
7/19/26 Sunday “Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day....”
7/20/26 Monday “A friend in need (is a friend indeed)”
7/21/26 Tuesday “Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”
7/22/26 Wednesday “Birds of a feather (flock together)”
7/23/26 Thursday “Who will bell the cat?.”
7/24/26 Friday “Barking dogs seldom bite.”
7/25/26 Saturday “Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.”
7/26/26 Sunday “The Devil finds work for idle hands to do.”
7/27/26 Monday “You win some, you lose some.”
7/28/26 Tuesday “Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.”
7/29/26 Wednesday “Procrastination is the thief of time.”
7/30/26 Thursday “Into every life a little rain must fall.”
7/31/26 Friday “All publicity is good publicity.”
8/1/26 Saturday “Money earned by deceit, goes by deceit.”
8/2/26 Sunday “Penny, Penny. Makes many.”
8/3/26 Monday “The female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
8/4/26 Tuesday “Man does not live by bread alone.”
8/5/26 Wednesday “You can't judge a book by its cover.”
8/6/26 Thursday “Bread always falls buttered side down.”
8/7/26 Friday “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
8/8/26 Saturday “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.”
8/9/26 Sunday “Kill two birds with one stone.”
8/10/26 Monday “Right or wrong, my country.”
8/11/26 Tuesday “There is safety in numbers.”
8/12/26 Wednesday “Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.”
8/13/26 Thursday “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”
8/14/26 Friday “Good talk saves the food.”
8/15/26 Saturday “Give credit where credit is due.”
8/16/26 Sunday “Time flies.”
8/17/26 Monday “Do not cut off your nose to spite your face.”
8/18/26 Tuesday “It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
8/19/26 Wednesday “Distance lends enchantment to the view.”
8/20/26 Thursday “Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away..”
8/21/26 Friday “Be yourself.”
8/22/26 Saturday “The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800)”
8/23/26 Sunday “Time is a great healer.”
8/24/26 Monday “Might makes right.”
8/25/26 Tuesday “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
8/26/26 Wednesday “It ain’t what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
8/27/26 Thursday “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
8/28/26 Friday “Nothing succeeds like success,.”
8/29/26 Saturday “He who hesitates is lost.”
8/30/26 Sunday “The grass is always greener (on the other side) (of the fence)”
8/31/26 Monday “Another day, another dollar.”
9/1/26 Tuesday “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”
9/2/26 Wednesday “Never cast a clout until May be out.”
9/3/26 Thursday “Put the cart before the horse.”
9/4/26 Friday “Youth is wasted on the young.”
9/5/26 Saturday “All hands on deck/to the pump.”
9/6/26 Sunday “Men are blind in their own cause. Heywood Broun (1888–1939), American journalist.”
9/7/26 Monday “Practice makes perfect.”
9/8/26 Tuesday “Many a true word is spoken in jest.”
9/9/26 Wednesday “The apple does not fall/never falls far from the tree.”
9/10/26 Thursday “Well done is better than well said.”
9/11/26 Friday “You can't get blood out of a stone.”
9/12/26 Saturday “Variety is the spice of life. William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800)”
9/13/26 Sunday “There's always more fish in the sea.”
9/14/26 Monday “There's no time like the present.”
9/15/26 Tuesday “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Trojan War, Virgil in the Aeneid.”
9/16/26 Wednesday “There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.”
9/17/26 Thursday “Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom.”
9/18/26 Friday “Ugly is as ugly does.”
9/19/26 Saturday “You can have too much of a good thing.”
9/20/26 Sunday “Hard cases make bad law.”
9/21/26 Monday “Make hay while the sun shines.”
9/22/26 Tuesday “Let the cat out of the bag.”
9/23/26 Wednesday “(Speech is silver but) Silence is golden.”
9/24/26 Thursday “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
9/25/26 Friday “When in Rome, (do as the Romans do). St. Ambrose 347AD.”
9/26/26 Saturday “Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.”
9/27/26 Sunday “East, west, home is best,.”
9/28/26 Monday “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
9/29/26 Tuesday “You cannot get blood out of a stone.”
9/30/26 Wednesday “Look before you leap.”
10/1/26 Thursday “Where there's a will there's a way.”
10/2/26 Friday “It ain't over till/until it's over.”
10/3/26 Saturday “Charity covers a multitude of sins.”
10/4/26 Sunday “March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.”
10/5/26 Monday “Don't rock the boat.”
10/6/26 Tuesday “Live and learn.”
10/7/26 Wednesday “Don't cast your pearls before swine.”
10/8/26 Thursday “A rising tide lifts all boats.”
10/9/26 Friday “You cannot win them all.”
10/10/26 Saturday “Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families)..”
10/11/26 Sunday “Shiny are the distant hills.”
10/12/26 Monday “Nine tailors make a man,.”
10/13/26 Tuesday “There is an exception to every rule.”
10/14/26 Wednesday “A dog is a man's best friend.”
10/15/26 Thursday “If you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
10/16/26 Friday “With great responsibility comes great power.”
10/17/26 Saturday “Half a loaf is better than no bread.”
10/18/26 Sunday “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.”
10/19/26 Monday “Cross the stream where it is shallowest.”
10/20/26 Tuesday “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
10/21/26 Wednesday “A penny saved is a penny earned.”
10/22/26 Thursday “The last drop makes the cup run over.”
10/23/26 Friday “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.”
10/24/26 Saturday “Do not bite the hand that feeds you.”
10/25/26 Sunday “Many hands make light work.”
10/26/26 Monday “Hope springs eternal.”
10/27/26 Tuesday “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”
10/28/26 Wednesday “Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.”
10/29/26 Thursday “Beat swords into ploughshares.”
10/30/26 Friday “Put your best foot forward.”
10/31/26 Saturday “Never reveal a man's wage, and woman's age.”
11/1/26 Sunday “There's one born every minute.”
11/2/26 Monday “The devil is in the details.”
11/3/26 Tuesday “It never rains but it pours.”
11/4/26 Wednesday “The exception which proves the rule.”
11/5/26 Thursday “Time and tide wait for no man.”
11/6/26 Friday “It goes without saying.”
11/7/26 Saturday “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.”
11/8/26 Sunday “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”
11/9/26 Monday “It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.”
11/10/26 Tuesday “Honey catches more flies than vinegar.”
11/11/26 Wednesday “One kind word can warm three winter months.”
11/12/26 Thursday “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
11/13/26 Friday “A man is known by his friends.”
11/14/26 Saturday “Slow but sure.”
11/15/26 Sunday “A woman's place is in the home.”
11/16/26 Monday “Do not sympathize with those who can not empathize.”
11/17/26 Tuesday “Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.”
11/18/26 Wednesday “Faith will move mountains.”
11/19/26 Thursday “Penny wise and pound foolish.”
11/20/26 Friday “It is the early bird that gets the worm.”
11/21/26 Saturday “(March comes) in like a lion, (and goes) out like a lamb.”
11/22/26 Sunday “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), polymath and Founding Father of the United States.”
11/23/26 Monday “No names, no pack-drill.”
11/24/26 Tuesday “All good things come to he who waits.”
11/25/26 Wednesday “Oil and water do not mix.”
11/26/26 Thursday “Fretting cares make grey hair.”
11/27/26 Friday “The devil makes work for idle hands to do.”
11/28/26 Saturday “There is no fool like an old fool.”
11/29/26 Sunday “You scratch my back and I will scratch yours.”
11/30/26 Monday “What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”
12/1/26 Tuesday “Don't bite the hand that feeds you.”
12/2/26 Wednesday “It is all grist to the mill.”
12/3/26 Thursday “Don't put all your eggs in one basket.”
12/4/26 Friday “It is better to cultivate a Land with two Bulls, rather working under Boss who never gives Wage when asked.”
12/5/26 Saturday “Eat, drink and be merry, (for tomorrow we die)”
12/6/26 Sunday “It needs a hundred lies to cover a single lie.”
12/7/26 Monday “One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.”
12/8/26 Tuesday “No news is good news.”
12/9/26 Wednesday “He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon.”
12/10/26 Thursday “Haste makes waste.”
12/11/26 Friday “It will be the same a hundred years hence.”
12/12/26 Saturday “(A) swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.”
12/13/26 Sunday “Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves.”
12/14/26 Monday “If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.”
12/15/26 Tuesday “Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.”
12/16/26 Wednesday “Respect is not given, it is earned.”
12/17/26 Thursday “If life deals you lemons, make lemonade.”
12/18/26 Friday “Still waters run deep.”
12/19/26 Saturday “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”
12/20/26 Sunday “Where there's muck there's brass.”
12/21/26 Monday “Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.”
12/22/26 Tuesday “Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare.”
12/23/26 Wednesday “Money demands care, you abuse it and it disappears. Rashida Costa.”
12/24/26 Thursday “First come, first served.”
12/25/26 Friday “All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
12/26/26 Saturday “It is like juggling sand (Ian Murray)”
12/27/26 Sunday “Absolute power corrupts absolutely. John Dalberg-Acton, 1887.”
12/28/26 Monday “It is what it is.”
12/29/26 Tuesday “Pride comes before a fall.”
12/30/26 Wednesday “All good things must come to an end.”
12/31/26 Thursday “Free is for me.”