Proverbs

1. The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.

2. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
3. Faults are thick where love is thin.
4. Fortune smiles upon those who are brave.
5. Strike the iron while it is hot.
6. Fools rush where angels fear to tread.
7. What is lotted cannot be blotted.
8. An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
9. When anyone falls in danger, others come immediately to help him.
10. Industry brings success whereas idleness gives rise to failure.
11. As love is divine, everybody wants love.
12. God will help us so long as we are in the right part.
13. A child which is burnt dreads the fire.
14. When it is the evening the fair becomes crowded.
15. Allah helps those who help themselves.
16. When danger is gone, God is forgotten.
17. Industry is the key to success.
18. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
19. Where there is a will, there is a way.
20. Danger often comes, when it is feared.
21. While there is life, there is hope.
22. Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.
23. Man proposes but god disposes.
24. It is easy to say but difficult to do.
25. What cannot be cured must be endured.
26. Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.
27. The sooner, the better.
28. The more you read, the more you learn.
29. Where there is a will, there is a way.
30. Failures are but pillars of success.
31. Greed leads to sin and sin leads to death.
32. United we all, divided we fall.
33. A stitch in time saves nine.
34. What is done cannot be undone.

Mahmud