He who builds clears his purse. [ Italian Proverb ]

I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame. [ Gay ]

He that repairs not a part builds all. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The sparrow builds in the martin's nest. [ Proverb ]

Clouds that the sun builds up darken him. [ Proverb ]

He builds cages fit for oxen to keep birds in. [ Proverb ]

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death. [ Young ]

Each man makes his own stature, builds himself:
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. [ Edward Young ]

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away. [ Young ]

He that builds by the wayside has many masters. [ Proverb ]

Hard with hard builds no houses; soft binds hard. [ Proverb ]

Little by little the little bird builds its nest. [ Proverb ]

It is the spirit which builds for itself the body. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next. [ Dr. Young ]

That which builds is better than that which is built. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He that builds castles in the air will soon have no land. [ Proverb ]

He pulls down, he builds up, he changes squares into circles. [ Horace ]

No sooner is a temple built to God but the devil builds a chapel hard by. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest. [ Bailey ]

Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow eyes, and builds himself caves to abide in them. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true. [ Sydney Dobell ]

No great composition was ever produced but with the same heavenly involuntariness in which a bird builds her nest. [ John Ruskin ]

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God: pride takes her glory from man. [ Quarles ]

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with the other; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. [ Bacon ]

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. [ C. C. Colton ]

Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations. [ Thomas à Kempis ]