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PROVERBS
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Opposite proverb:
Out of site, out of mind.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Related proverb:
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Don’t burn your bridges behind you.
Civility costs nothing.
Related concept:
A smile costs nothing extra.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
Fish and guests stink after three days.
There are plenty of other fish in the sea.
Good fences make good neighbors.
If you want to keep a friend, never borrow, never lend.
You learn who your friends are in bad times. (lifewisdom.com)
It is better to give than receive.
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Good will, like a good name, is won by many acts and lost by one.
Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
One hand washes the other.
Related proverb:
You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.
When you are in a hole, stop digging.
Honesty is the best policy.
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Exception:
Violating the copyright of lifewisdom.com.
First impressions are the most lasting.
Related concept:
You have only one chance to make a first impression.
Know thyself.
Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
Don’t marry for money, but don’t marry without money.
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
Related proverb:
What goes around comes around.
Nobody is perfect.
You can’t please everyone.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Related proverb:
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window.
People will often say the good reason, not the real reason. (lifewisdom.com)
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
There is safety in numbers.
Related proverb:
United we stand, divided we fall.
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
--Benjamin Franklin, At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.
Related proverb
One hand washes the other.
Something is better than nothing.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
Variant:
You reap what you sow.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
Variety is the spice of life.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
This above all: to your own self be true.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Related proverb:
There is safety in numbers.
Related quotation:
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
--Benjamin Franklin, At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

CONCEPTS:
It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
You have only one chance to make a first impression.
Cut your losses.
Perception is more important than reality.
A smile costs nothing extra.
Timing is everything.
Related quote:
Right timing is in all things the most important factor. -- Hesiod 700 B.C.
Travel charisma

QUOTATIONS
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

--Benjamin Franklin, At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
Right timing is in all things the most important factor.
-- Hesiod 700 B.C.