Where honour ceaseth, there knowledge decreaseth.

More proverbs about Wisdom

• He giveth one knock on the hoop, and another on the barrel. Inconsistent effort—striking at two separate tasks prevents mastery or completion of eith…
• All are not hunters that blow the horn. Not everyone who announces themselves possesses the skill or worthiness their proclamatio…
• A hot May makes a fat churchyard. Warm spring weather accelerates disease spread, increasing mortality among the vulnerable…
• Better one's house too little one day, than too big all the year round. Living modestly within means costs less in upkeep than maintaining a home beyond one's fi…
• It is all one a hundred years hence. Mortality makes present troubles insignificant; time erases all distinctions between impo…
• Hungry men think the cook lazy. Impatient people blame external circumstances rather than acknowledging their own unreali…