The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

He that rises late must trot all day.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

The wheel is come full circle.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Rock stars are good at making noise.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Opportunity makes a thief.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

What we live by we die by.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.