However great our grief or disappointment may be, in the course of time it will lessen. In this sense... Read more →
A royal road to anything is a way of attaining it without trouble or effort, since a king’s way... Read more →
You will learn more by listening to other people than by talking yourself. Read more →
This is a play on words. It means quite simply that some people are wise and others are not. The... Read more →
It is very important to be punctual and it is very rude to be unpunctual. Sometimes... Read more →
To procrastinate is to delay, to put off doing something. Procrastinating – deferring things from... Read more →
Here ‘practise’ means ‘carry out in action’. The moral is: Behave in the same... Read more →
This teaches initiative. Success is not achieved without an effort. ‘He that seeketh... Read more →
Bad news is an urgent matter and people usually write off at once to tell their relatives or friends.... Read more →
If a thing has to be done, do it now. Remember that Procrastination is the thief of time. Read more →
Moderation means avoidance of excess. Do not go to extremes. Read more →
The husband may bay, or even build, the house, but it only becomes a real home when it is made warm... Read more →
You will have plenty of time to regret that you were in too much of hurry to get married, for... Read more →
Those in love are blind to each other’s faults. Modern-day research supports the view that the... Read more →
This rather puritanical proverb warns us that eating should not be the main purpose of life. We... Read more →
People with a little knowledge are often unaware of their ignorance and are consequently easily... Read more →
Don’t try to throw more light on a matter that is already quite clear enough. Don’t try... Read more →
If we always tell the truth we are unlikely to contradict ourselves; but if we resort to lies we are... Read more →
The source of this is Acts, xx, 35: ‘I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring we... Read more →
No home is happy in which the husband is such weakling that it is his wife who gives all the orders. Read more →
We should all be optimistic, but ready at the same time to meet trouble and difficulties whenever... Read more →
Here ‘policy’ means ‘course of action’. If we have to decide on a course of... Read more →
To enjoy one thing, you must be prepared to put up with another. Read more →
You may not come off best in the end, so don’t laugh too soon. The following little incident is... Read more →
Everything has to have a small beginning, so don’t be discouraged by your own... Read more →
Sometime “loneliness” is used instead of “solitude”. The saying comes to us from Greek. It... Read more →
If the husband wants his wife to be respectful and loving to him, he should be respectful and loving... Read more →
Beware of a man who is too extravagantly polite, for he is probably trying to cheat you. Read more →
A dark cloud that obscures the sun has brilliant edges – the silver lining – telling us that the... Read more →
Even the best of use are liable to make mistakes. Homer was the greatest of Greek poets. Horace, the... Read more →
The driver of a car must give all his attention to his driving. If you are a passenger don’t... Read more →
The horse pulls the cart, not the cart the horse. The proverb means that we should not get things... Read more →
In countries where water is in short supply it has to be carefully and sparingly used. By extension... Read more →
Here the verb ‘to cry’ means ‘to offer for sale in the street’. Barrow-boys... Read more →
Sometimes ‘dropping’ is used instead of ‘dripping’. The lesson to be learnt... Read more →
This was already a proverb in Shakespeare s time. In his Hamlet we find the first record of it in... Read more →
A person who asks a lot of questions will waste no time in passing your answers on to other people,... Read more →
In the days when horses were much used for carrying burdens no their backs, the animals that gave the... Read more →
A person who is hungry and has no money to buy food should not complain when he is offered bread and... Read more →
This is perhaps one of the most disputed ideas of modern times. The difference between a totalitarian... Read more →
‘Beauty,’ the dictionary tells us, ‘is a combination of qualities, as shape,... Read more →
Here ‘opinion’ is ‘public opinion’. Our actions are influenced by what other... Read more →
Man used his fingers for eating before forks were invented. The proverb is quoted as an excuse for... Read more →
This is good advice for wives. Keep your husband well fed and he will always love you. Read more →
The more hurry we are in, the more likely we are to drop an egg on the floor or spill the milk.... Read more →
You have no right to be generous till you have first met the demands of justness. You should not, for... Read more →
Knowledge cannot be acquired all at once; it must be gained step by step. Don’t try to spell... Read more →
It doesn’t do to be too curious or inquisitive. The projecting edges of the roof of a house are... Read more →
If a lie is not refuted immediately, it will pass from mouth to mouth until it is accepted as truth... Read more →
If you increase a camel’s burden straw by straw, eventually you will load him one straw too... Read more →
If we have had an unpleasant experience, we are very anxious to avoid a repetition. ‘Mr... Read more →
Be careful what you say and where you say it. There my be someone lurking on the other side of the... Read more →
Zeal is defined in The concise Oxford Dictionary as ‘earnestness or fervour in advancing a... Read more →
It is also the art of hoping. We must be patient and not despair. Read more →
Here ‘Jack’ is a name for a general labourer, one who does odd jobs and can turn his hand... Read more →
We feel more affection for our relatives and friends when we are parted from them. A proverb that... Read more →
Used by Sir Walter Scott in 1823 and still in common use in modern times, this proverb has a general... Read more →
