The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

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

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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.

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

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

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

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

Rock stars are good at making noise.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

The wheel is come full circle.

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.

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

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

What we live by we die by.

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

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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.

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.

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

Opportunity makes a thief.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

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

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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

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.

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

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

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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.

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

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

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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