Proverbs
30Proverbs and sayings connected with this theme.
fool
A fool and his money are soon parted.
pretense
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
parleys
A city that parleys is half gotten.
appearance
A black hen lays a white egg.
start
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
start
Start is the half of everything.
money
A heavy purse makes a light heart.
speech
A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
money
A light purse makes a heavy heart.
relationship
A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
result
A tree is known by its fruit.
appearance
All are not hunters that blow the horn.
feeling
All are not merry that dance lightly.
appearance
Appearances are deceitful.
foolish
As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks
success
Go to the ends of the earth.
beauty
Beauty draws with a single hair.
beauty
Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.
nature
An ape is an ape, a varlet is a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet.
suit
Every Jack has his Jill.
imperfection
Every rose has its thorns.
character
Every one’s faults are not written in their foreheads.
courage
Faint heart never won fair lady.
forgotten
Far from eye, far from heart.
beauty
Fine feathers make fine birds.
visit
Fish and visitors stink in three days.
fate
Every bullet has it billet.
character
The cowl does not make the monk
distance
Distance lends enchantment to the view
mistake
He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.