Introduction Speech: Proverb Topics

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder…

• Actions speak louder than words…

• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…

• All good things must come to an end…

• A picture is worth a thousand words…

• A watched pot never boils…

• Beggars can’t be choosers…

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…

• Better late than never…

• Birds of a feather flock together…

• Cleanliness is next to godliness…

• Don’t bite the hand that feeds you…

• Don’t count your chickens before they hatch…

• Don’t judge a book by its cover…

• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket…

• Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today…

• Don’t put too many irons in the fire…

• Easy come, easy go…

• Fortune favors the bold…

• God helps those who help themselves…

• Good things come to those who wait…

• Honesty is the best policy…

• Hope for the best, prepare for the worst…

• If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…

• If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em…

• You can't always get what you want

• If you play with fire, you’ll get burned…

• If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself…

• Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer…

• Knowledge is power…

• Laughter is the best medicine…

• Like father, like son…

• No man is an island…

• People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones…

• Practice makes perfect…

• The early bird gets the worm…

• The enemy of my enemy is my friend…

• The grass is always greener on the other side…

• The pen is mightier than the sword…

• There is no place like home…

• There is no such thing as a free lunch…

• There is no time like the present…

• The squeaky wheel gets the grease…

• Time is money…

• Two heads are better than one…

• Two wrongs don’t make a right…

• When in Rome, do as the Romans do…

• When the going gets tough, the tough get going…

• Where there’s smoke, there’s fire…

• You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink it…

• Time heals all wounds…

• A penny saved is a penny earned..

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away…

• Where there is a will, there is a way…

• Trust yourself to get success…

• Money is dearer than honey…

• Failures are the pillars of success…

• As you sow, so shall you reap…

• All that glitter is not gold…

• Rome was not built in a day…

• Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet…

• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

• Unity is strength, division is weakness…

• Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be…

• Everything you want is on the other side of fear…

• A clear conscience is more valuable than wealth…

• Prevention is better than cure…

• A friend in need is a friend indeed…

• A stitch in time saves nine…

• Strike when the iron is hot…

• Charity begins at home…

• Blood is thicker than water…

• Too many cooks spoil the broth…

• Look before you leap…

• Always put your best foot forward…

• Still water runs deep…

• Ignorance is bliss…

• He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind...

• Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted...

• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like bananas…

• For small creatures such as we, the vastness is only bearable through love…

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush …

• There is no place like home …

• Discretion is the greatest part of valor…

• There is no time like the present…

• Misfortunes make happiness more sweet when it comes…

• True happiness lies in giving it to others…

• Content is happiness…

• Happiness is not perfected until it is shared…

• A man is known by his friends…

• The best things in life are free…

• Money can’t buy happiness…

• To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often…

• Change your thoughts and you change the world…

• When in doubt, choose change…

• Be the change that you wish to see in the world…

• Home is where the heart is…

• It is the little things that count…

• Every great dream begins with a dreamer…

• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time…