A confused being is more dangerous to the society then the criminal. Here are the list of morals I found Interesting....
- A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.A bribe in the hand shows mischief in the heart.
- A false tale often betrays itself.
- A fine appearance is a poor substitute for inward worth.
- A humble life with peace and quiet is better than a splendid one with danger and risk.
- A man is known by the company he keeps.
- A villain may disguise himself, but he will not deceive the wise.
- A willful beast must go his own way
- A willful man will have his way to his own hurt.
- A word in season is most precious.
- Abstain and enjoy.
- Acquaintance softens prejudices.
- An act of kindness is a good investment.
- Attempt not impossibilities.
- Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
- Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance.
- Be reasonable in your criticism.
- Be sure that there are others worse off than yourself.
- Beauty is only skin-deep.
- Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.
- Better a certain enemy than a doubtful friend.
- Better poverty without care, than riches with.
- Beware of flatterers.
- Beware of hypocrites.
- Beware of the counsel of the unfortunate.
- Birds of a feather flock together.
- Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
- Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
- Choose the lesser of two evils.
- Clothes do not make the man.
- Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.
- Counsel without help is useless.
- Count the cost before you commit yourselves.
- Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.
- Do not attempt too much at once.
- Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
- Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
- Do not enter into danger for the profit of others.
- Do not lay claim to a virtue you do not possess if you would keep the respect of your friends.
- Do not try to do that which is not natural to you.
- Do not waste your pity on a scamp.
- Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.
- Don't make much ado about nothing.
- Equals make the best friends.
- Even the wise must recognize their limits.
- Every man for himself.
- Every man should be content to mind his own business.
- Every tale is not to be believed.
- Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.
- Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
- Evil tendencies are shown in early life.
- Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.
- Example is more powerful than precept.
- Faithful service should long be remembered.
- False confidence often leads into danger.
- Figures are not always facts.
- Fine feather friends are not worth much.
- Fine feathers do not make fine birds.
- Force is not a remedy.
- Harm hatch, harm catch.
- Harm seek, harm find.
- He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family.
- He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.
- He who despises a humble friend may be doing an ill turn to himself.
- He who grasps at the shadow may lose the substance.
- He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.
- He who tries to please everybody pleases nobody.
- Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.
- If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.
- If words suffice not, blows must follow.
- In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.
- In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another.
- In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
- In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
- It is a mean nature which affects to dislike that which it is unable to obtain. (Sour grapes)
- It is absurd to ape our betters.
- It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
- It is better to bend than to break.
- It is dangerous to speak the truth to tyrants.
- It is easier to make a suggestion than to carry it out.
- It is easy to kick a man that is down.
- It is not always wise to take people at their word.
- It is too late to prepare for danger when our enemies are upon us.
- It is useless to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
- It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit should be like us in outside appearances.
- It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.
- It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit.
- Kindness is better bestowed on the living than on the dead.
- Lessons are not given, they are taken.
- Let well alone.
- Like will draw like.
- Little liberties are great offenses.
- Live and let live.
- Look before you leap.
- Man is what he believes.
- Men argue. Nature acts.
- Men may be ruined by attempting to appear that which Nature has not intended them to be.
- Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit for it.
- Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
- Might makes right.
- Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
- Misfortune will surely befall him who loves unwisely.
- Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.
- Misfortunes we bring upon ourselves are doubly bitter.
- Nature exceeds nurture.
- Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Necessity knows no law.
- No arguments will give courage to the coward.
- No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
- No one can be a friend if you know not whether to trust or distrust him.
- No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.
- Nothing escapes the master's eye.
- Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
- Of what use is it to pretend there is a choice when there is none?
- Old birds are not to be caught with chaff.
- Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.
- Once bitten, twice shy.
- One cannot be first in everything.
- One good turn deserves another.
- One man's meat is another man's poison.
- One story is good, till another is told.
- One swallow does not make summer.
- Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
- People who wrangle and fight give opportunities to their enemies.
- Persuasion is better than force.
- Physicians should first heal themselves.
- Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.
- Pride goes before destruction.
- Revenge is a two-edged sword.
- Revenge is dearly bought at the price of liberty.
- Self-help is the best help.
- Self-interest alone moves some men.
- Silly people despise what is precious because they cannot understand it.
- Slavery is too high a price to pay for easy living.
- Slow but steady wins the race.
- Some men are of more consequence in their own eyes than in the eyes of their neighbors.
- Some men underrate their best blessings.
- Some will always find fault with the things that benefit them.
- Spare the rod and spoil the child.
- Stoop to conquer.
- Straws show how the wind blows.
- Swan song
- The advise of an enemy is not to be trusted.
- The battle is not always won by the strong.
- The best intentions will not always ensure success.
- The cold-blooded possess a poisonous bite.
- The covetous are poor givers.
- The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.
- The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit.
- The flower in the vase smiles, but it can no longer laugh.
- The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
- The greedy never know when they have had enough.
- The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
- The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
- The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.
- The memory of a good deed lives.
- The more honor the more danger.
- The remedy may be as bad as the disease.
- The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions.
- The simple are easily deceived.
- The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
- The value is in the worth, not in the number.
- The want of a good excuse never kept a villain from crime.
- The wicked often fall into their own snares.
- The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
- There are two sides to every truth.
- There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an open enemy.
- There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
- They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.
- They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.
- They who lay traps for others are often caught by their own bait.
- They who live by robbery cannot call other men thieves.
- Think before you act.
- Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
- Those who betray their friends must not expect others to keep faith with them.
- Those who cause evil are the first to be overwhelmed by its ruin.
- Those who enter by the back stairs may expect to be shown out at the window.
- Those who lead an idle life are apt to scorn the honest and diligent, but their life is often miserable.
- Those who love practical jokes must be prepared to laugh when one is made at their expense.
- Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
- Those who suffer most cry out the least.
- Those who, out of vanity, attempt more than they can perform are certain to bring ridicule upon themselves.
- Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.
- To know the world one must construct it.
- Too much cunning over-reaches itself.
- Try before you trust.
- Union is strength.
- Use is better than ornament.
- Use serves to overcome dread.
- War can protect. It cannot create.
- We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.
- We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity.
- We should never lose a grand opportunity.
- What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
- Whatever you do, do with all your might.
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
- When a girl cries for a guy, it means she really misses him. But when a guy cries for a girl, it means no one can love that girl more than him
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