Search results for Mid-20th century

Don't cry over spilled milk.

Popular culture

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Voltaire

Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

Publilius Syrus

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

Know thyself.

Ancient Greek maxim (associated with Socrates and Plato)

Appearances can be deceiving.

Popular Culture (variously attributed, including Aesop's Fables)

Forewarned is forearmed.

Popular culture

All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde