Keats Proverbs

Love is like a war:Easy to begin Hard to end!
ancient Proverbs

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
Indian Proverbs

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
Chinese Proverbs

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
English Proverbs

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Jewish Proverbs

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
German Proverbs

The journey is the reward.
Chinese Proverbs

Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Irish Proverbs

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Chinese Proverbs

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Latin Proverbs

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Hungarian Proverbs

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...
John Keats

Blind belief is dangerous. - Luyia , Western Kenya
African Proverbs

Do not vacillate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing. - Ethiopia
African Proverbs

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
John Keats

A boys best friend is his mother and there's no spancel stronger than her apron string.
Irish Proverbs

A dog knows the places he is thrown food.
African Proverbs

Familiarity breeds contempt.
English Proverbs

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
Chinese Proverbs

Actions speak louder than words.
English Proverbs

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
Irish Proverbs

All's well that ends well.
English Proverbs

That which is escaped now is pain to come.
Proverbs

The good looks of a moron do not stay that way for long. - Ethiopia (Ayele, p. 23, Amharic)
African Proverbs

When the sky falls we'll catch larks.
Irish Proverbs

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
Proverbs

Good fences make good neighbors.
English Proverbs

She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
John Keats

A bad penny always turns up.
English Proverbs

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
English Proverbs

An old broom knows the dirty corners best.
Irish Proverbs

One beetle recognizes another.
Irish Proverbs

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.
John Keats

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
English Proverbs

The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
Irish Proverbs

A Champion bull starts from birth. - Luyia.Western Kenya
African Proverbs

Bad dancing does not brake an engagement. - Luyia , Western Kenya
African Proverbs

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
English Proverbs

Knowledge is better than riches. Cameroon
African Proverbs

A windy day is not the day for thatching.
Irish Proverbs

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
English Proverbs

Humor to a man is like a feather pillow.It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.
Irish Proverbs

Mere words do not feed the friars.
Irish Proverbs

The young can't teach traditions to the old. - Yoruba proverb
African Proverbs

He who marries a real beauty is seeking trouble. - Accra proverb, Ghana
African Proverbs

A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.
Irish Proverbs

One does not love if one does not accept from others. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
African Proverbs

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
John Keats

A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.
Proverbs

If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet.
Irish Proverbs