Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds
Слова без дел, все равно что тростниковые заросли.
На словах и так и сяк, а на деле - никак. Словами и туда и сюда, а делами никуда. Не спеши языком, торопись делом.
Другие пословицы:
- Good words and no deeds
- Many a true word is spoken in jest
- A word is enough to the wise
- Deeds, not words
- A word spoken is past recalling
- Hard words break no bones
- Many words hurt more than swords
- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
- Fair words break no bones
- Words pay no debts
- Actions speak louder than words
- Fine words butter no parsnips
- Many words will not fill a bushel
- A bad beginning makes a bad ending
- A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit