SOME ENGLISH PROVERBS

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Saying and doing are two things. 
-John Forwood

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. 
-Charles Buxton

Slow and steady wins the race.
-Robert Lloyd

Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming.
-Spanish proberb

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
-Shakespeare

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
-George Eliot

There is no royal road to learning.
-Trollope

Thought is the seed of action.
-Emerson

The less one thinks, the more one speaks.
-French proverb

Only educated mem are self-educated.
-J. Bennett

It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. 
-R. Jefferies

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein

Great man are not always wise.
-Bible

Doubting and questioning, you have got through half of your studying course.
-Chan Fsien. Chang

Better to read litter with thought than much with levity and quickness.
-Tupper

Conduct is three - fourths of our life and its largest concern.
-Mathew Arnold

A fault confessed is half redressed.
- F. G Bon

Never give advice in a crowd.
-Arab proverb

A good book is the precious life - blood of a master - spirit.
-Milton

A wise man thinks before he speaks, but a fool speaks and then thinks of what he has been saying.
-French proverb

All men naturally desire to know.
-Aristotle

Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
-German proverb

「They say so」is half a lie.
-Thomas Fuller

Tie is rich enough that wants nothing.
-G. Herbert

Time and industry produce every day new knowledge.
-Gobbes

Great man are not always wise.
-Bible

A fault confessed is half redressed.
-H. G. Bohn

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein.

High thoughts must have high language.
-Aristophanes

Our life is frittered away by detail ... Simplify, simplify.
-Henry Thoreau

Things are always at their best in their beginning.
-Blaise Pascal

Seeing is believing.
-Old Proverb

Form ever follows function.
-Louis Henri Sullivan

Intelligence ... is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
-Henri-Louis Bergson

"Where shall I begin, please your majesty?" she asked. "Begin at the beginning," the king said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
-Lewis Carroll

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
-Arthur Conan Doyle

... the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
-Horace Walpole

An actor entering through the door, you've go nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
-Billy Wilder

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow or margin.
-Richard Brinsely Sheridan

Exit, pursued by a bear.
-William Shakespeare

Use it up, wear it out; Make it do, or do without.
-Anonymous

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, when's it going to end?
-Tom Stoppard

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The Peter Principle[1969] Laurence Johnston Peter

Who can control his fate?
-William Shakespeare, Othello

Man is a tool-making animal.
-Benjamin Franklin

Intelligence ... is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
-Henri Bergson

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