Evil, Example, Experience and Eyes : Proverbs





Key-Words Based Proverbs



Evil :



  • Evil begets evil.



  • Evil be to him who evil thinks.



  • Money is the root of all evils.



  • The evil that men do lives after them.



  • Of the two evils the less is always to be chosen.



  • Evil news rides post, while good news baits.



  • Do evil and look for the like.



  • Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.



  • Example :



  • Do as you would be done by.



  • Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.



  • Law makers should not be law breakers.



  • A good example is the best sermon.



  • Do as I say, not as I do.



  • Example is better than precept.



  • Precepts may lead but examples draw.



  • Experience :



  • Once bitten, twice shy.



  • Though the wound be healed, yet a scar remains.



  • Experience is the best teacher.



  • Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.



  • Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.



  • It is good to learn at other men's cost.



  • In doing we learn.



  • The burnt child dreads the fire.



  • Experience is the mother of wisdom.



  • Eyes :



  • The eyes have one language everywhere.



  • Seeing is believing.



  • One eye witness is better than two hear says.



  • The eyes are the window of the soul.



  • The eyes believe themselves. The ears believe others.



  • What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.











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