Modern
We previously stated that there were no new proverbs being created, but here are some that appear to be modern.
* Absence makes the fond heart wander.
* Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
* Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
* Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.
* If it's not broken, don't fix it.
* If it's not broke, mess with it till it is.
* It is lonesome in the saddle since the horse died.
* The lights on, but nobodies home.
* Winners never quit, quitters never win.
* You snooze, you lose.
Weather
The majority of the proverbs regarding the weather have grown into rhymes. For example "Red sky at night, sailors delight" has a second line although most of us only quote the single line. To accommodated the weather section a separate page has been created titled Folk Lore Weather Forecasting.
Growth
* A little body doth often harbour a great soul.
* A point is the beginning of magnitude.
* A spark can start a great fire.
* A short cut is often a wrong cut.
* Big fish eat little fish.
* Everything has an end.
* Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
* First in best dressed.
* From trivial things, great contests often arise.
* Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
* Grow angry slowly, there's plenty of time.
* He who hesitates is lost.
* It's either all or nothing.
* It is easier to destroy than to build.
* It is the first step that is difficult.
* Little strokes fell great oaks.
* Lost time is never found again.
* Many drops make a shower.
* Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow.
* Necessity is a hard nurse, but she raises strong children.
* Rome wasn't built in a day.
* Small faults indulged let in greater.
* Some of the best gifts come in small packages.
* Step by step one goes far.
* You have to crawl before you walk.
Conversation
* A fool uttereth all his mind.
* A bad excuse is better then none.
* Actions speak louder than words.
* Angry words fan the fire like wind.
* Bad news travels fast.
* Call a spade a spade.
* Do as I say not as I do.
* Don't advertise: Tell it to a gossip.
* Don't go off half-cocked.
* Few words and many deeds.
* For donkeys' ages.
* Gossips are frogs, they drink and talk.
* He who sings drives away sorrow.
* If you don't say it you will not have to unsay it.
* It takes two to have an argument.
* Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
* Listen to the pot calling the kettle black.
* Many a true word spoken in jest.
* No news is good news.
* Nothing is ill said if it is not ill taken.
* One picture is worth a thousand words.
* Say what you mean and mean what you say.
* Silence is an excellent remedy against slander.
* Silence is golden.
* Silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
* Since before cocky was an egg.
* Speak clearly, if you speak at all.
* Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
* Stop beating around the bush.
* Take your wife's first advice.
* Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
Life
* A bully is always a coward.
* A handsome shoe often pinches the foot.
* A good thing is all the sweeter when won with pain.
* A man too careful of danger lives in continual torment.
* A miss is as good as a mile.
* All promises are either broken or kept.
* All things come to those that wait.
* An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
* An open door may tempt a saint.
* As one door closes, another always opens.
* As you go through life, make this your goal, watch the doughnut and not the hole.
* Brevity is the soul of wit.
* Cut your coat according to the cloth.
* Discretion is the better part of valour.
* Do right and fear no man.
* Easy come, easy go.
* Experience is the hardest teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.
* Familiarity breeds contempt.
* Fortune favours the brave.
* Hall binks are oft sliddery. An explanation
* He who laughs last, laughs longest.
* Home is where the heart is.
* Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
* In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
* It never rains but it pours.
* Leave tomorrow till tomorrow.
* Life begins at forty.
* Lifes trials may be hard to bear, but patience can outlive them.
* Live and learn.
* Manners maketh the man.
* No man is worse for knowing the worst of himself.
* Only the good die young.
* The best things in life are free.
* The family that prays together, stays together.
* The longer you live the more you see.
* The meek shall inherit the earth.
* The receiver is as bad as the thief.
* To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.
* Up and down like a fiddler's elbow.
* We cannot erase the sad records from our past.
* What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
* While there's life there's hope.
Love
* A loveless life is a living death.
* Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
* All's fair in love and war.
* Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
* Before you meet the handsome prince you have to kiss a lot of toads.
* Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
* Cold hands, warm heart.
* Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
* Faint heart never won fair lady.
* First impressions are the most lasting.
* Hatred is as blind as love.
* Love and a cough cannot be hid.
* Love does much but money does all.
* Love levels all inequalities.
* Love makes a good eye squint.
* Love sees no faults.
* Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
* Love to live and live to love.
* Love with life is heaven; and life unloving, hell.
* Man is the head but woman turns it.
* Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
* The course of love never did run smooth.
* The Lord loveth a cheerful liar.
* There is a thin line between love and hate.
* To eat one's heart out.
* True beauty lies within.
* You can't live on bread alone.
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