Famous Proverbs
35 Proverbs about Mere / Page 2
11. A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all mere glass.
12. The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
13. Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold.
14. Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.
15. The bleating of the lamb merely arouses the tiger.
16. The cheese vessel will not sail merely by words.
17. Some work, others merely daydream.
18. A stammerer would eventually say father.
19. A farmer does not conclude by the mere look of it that a corn is unripe; he tears it open for examination.
20. If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.