Twelve Proverbs from Spurgeon, Part 2

"Make yourself an ass, and everyone will lay his sack on you."

"Man proposes, but God disposes."

"Never cackle till your egg is laid."

"One may say too much even upon the best subject."

"Paddle your own canoe."

"Praise invigorates the wise, but intoxicates the foolish."

"Pray to God, but keep the hammer going."

"Read men as well as books."

"Relatives are best with a wall between them."

"Ugly women, finely dressed, are the uglier for it."

"Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is mostly found in fools. The more's the pity if so it be."

And finally for the sake of Mother's Day:

"Never trust a man who will speak ill of his mother."

Salt Cellars, Volume 2, from the Charles H. Spurgeon Library, AGES Software

*These proverbs were compiled by Charles Spurgeon and not necessarily original to him.