Deeds and Defame : Proverbs





Key-Words Based Proverbs



Deeds :



  • A good deed is never lost.



  • Evil deeds are like perfume difficult to hide.



  • Every deed is to be judged by the doer's intention.



  • Saying is one thing and doing is another.



  • The greatest talkers are the least doers.



  • Good words without deed are rushes and reeds.



  • A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.



  • Deeds will show themselves and words will pass away.



  • One never loses by doing a good turn.



  • Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.



  • By his deeds we know a man.



  • Defame :



  • Give a dog a bad name and hang him.



  • He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.



  • The slanderer kills a thousand times, the assassin but once.



  • Throw dirt enough and some will stick.











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