Corruption, Country and Courage : Proverbs





Key-Words Based Proverbs



Corruption :



  • One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.



  • He that has to do with what is foul, never comes away clean.



  • He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice.



  • Power tempts to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts ab¬solutely.



  • A bribe will enter without knocking.



  • Neither bribe nor lose thy right.



  • Corruption of the best becomes the worst.



  • Who greases his way travels easily.



  • Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.



  • The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound.



  • Country :



  • My country, right or wrong.



  • Happy is the country which has no history.



  • Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.



  • What pity it is that we can die but once to serve our country.



  • Courage :



  • None but the brave deserves the fair.



  • Despair gives courage to a coward.



  • A man of courage never wants weapon.



  • A brave man's wounds are seldom on his back.



  • A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield.



  • Fortune favours the bold.



  • Courage and perseverance conquer all before them.



  • To the real hero life is a mere straw.



  • Great things are done more through courage than wis¬dom.



  • Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage can support him in it.



  • Calamity is the touch-stone of a brave mind.











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