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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