【英语拾零】Home Is Where The Heart Is: Heart Proverbs

 

Some Proverbs that have a heart. :-)
 

A heavy purse makes a light heart.
  Prov. If you have plenty of money, you will feel happy and secure.

Everyone in the office is especially cheerful on payday, since a heavy purse makes a light heart.
 

Cold hands, warm heart.
  Prov. People whose hands are usually cold have kind and loving personalities.

Nancy: I don't like holding hands with Joe. His hands are so cold.
Jane: Cold hands, warm heart.
  

Faint heart never won fair lady.
  Prov. A timid suitor never won his lady. (Used to encourage boys or men to be bold in courting women.)

Bill: I'd really like to go out with Alice, but what if she says no?
Alan: You won't know till you ask her. Faint heart never won fair lady. Don't be so shy about talking to Edith. Faint heart never won fair lady.
 

Home is where the heart is.
  Prov. People long to be at home.;
 
Your home is whatever place you long to be. I've had a lovely time visiting you, but home is where the heart is, and I think it's time I went back.

If home is where the heart is, then my home is my parents' old house.  I've never loved my own apartment the way I love their place.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
  Prov. If you have to wait a long time for something you want, you will become despairing. (Biblical.)

Charlie waited so long for the woman he loved that he decided he didn't want to love anybody. Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

It is a poor heart that never rejoices. and It is a sad heart that never rejoices.
  Prov. Even a habitually sad person cannot be sad all the time. (Sometimes used to indicate that a habitually sad person is happy about something.)

Jill: I've never seen Sam smile before, but today, at his retirement party, he smiled.
Jane: It is a poor heart that never rejoices.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
  Prov. You cannot be upset by something you do not know about.

When Robbie cracked his mother's favorite vase, he simply turned the cracked side toward the wall. "What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over," he thought.