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A
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- A fair face may hide a foul heart.
- A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
- A fool finds a greater fool to admire him.
- A good wife makes a good husband.
- A friend in need is a friend in deed.
- A Little learning is a dangerous thing.
- A nod for a wise man and a rod for a fool.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- A stitch in time saves nine.
- A watched pot never boils.
- A full purse never lacks friends.
- A ting of beauty is a joy for ever.
- A great man is often a bad neighbour.
- A light purse is a heavy curse.
- A Small spark makes a great fire.
- A good reputation is a fait estate.
- A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
- A Candle lights others, but consumes itself.
- A royal heart is often hid under a tattered coat.
- A custom in teenage becomes nature in old age.
- Actions speak louder than words.
- Asses oats and horses eat them.
- Adversity flatters no man.,
- An Idle brain is the devil's workshop.
- All roads lead to Rome.
- All are not saints that go to church
- All that glitters is not gold.
- All is well that ends well.
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boys
- A fool and his money are soon parted.
- A burnt child dreads the fire.
- A book cannot be judged by its cover.
- A man is known by the company he keeps.
- A secret foe gives a sudden blow
- A bully is always a coward.
- A cask of wine works more miracles than a Church.
- A good conscience is a soft pillow.
- A good scholar is always a bad teacher.
- A coward dies many times before his death.
- A constant guest is never welcome.
- A fool and his money are soon parted.
- A servant is known by his master's absence.
- A hedge between Keeps friendship green
- A long tongue is a sign of shorthand.
- A glutton digs his grave with his teeth.
- A light purse makes a heavy heart.
- A good lawyer is a bad neighbour.
- Hungry man is an angry man.
- A just war is better than an unjust peace.
- A dollar saved is a rupee earned.
- A still tongue makes a wise head.
- A small leak will sink a great ship.
- an empty sack cannot stand upright.
- An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom
- An old ox makes a straight furrow.
- An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter's head.
- As old dog barks not in vain.
- An ill marriage is the spring of ill fortune.
- An army marches on its stomach.
- Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Adversity makes a man wise, but not rich.
- Affection blinds reason
- All is fair in love and war.
- Ask no questions and hear no lies.
- As soon as a man is born, he begins to die.
- Attack is the best form of defence.
- Authority shows the man
- Avoid business of any kind with kinsman
B
- Barking dog seldom bite
- Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
- Better be alone than in bad company
- Be a Roman while you are in Rome
- Birds of the same feather flock together
- Blood is thicker than water
- Borrowed garments never fit well.
- Burn not your house to get rid of mice.
- Business neglected is business lost
- Beauty is only skin deep.
- Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent
- Better buy than borrow.
- Better mend the shoe than pinch the foot
- Better die with honour than live with shame
- Better be envied than pitied.
- Better tell a lie that heals than a truth that wounds.
- Better beg than steal.
- Better to wear out than to rust out.
- Better cross an angry man than a hungry man.
- Better untaught than ill taught.
- Beggars can't be choosers.
- Beggars breed and the rich feed.
- Books and friends should be few, but good.
- Brevity is the soul of wit.
C
- Children and fools tell the truth.
- Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
- Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
- Contentment is more than a Kingdom.
- Cross on his breast drives away the devil in his heart.
- Coming events cast their shadows before.
- Count not your chickens before they are hatched.
- Confidence is the companion of success.
- Courtesy costs nothing.
- Cut your coat according to your cloth
- Cats hide their claws.
- Call no man happy till his death.
- Counsel is no command.
- Content lodges in cottages than in castles,
- Cruelty is the strength of the wicked.
- Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Cruelty deserves no mercy.
- Cutoff a dog's tail and he will be a dog still.
D
- Diamond cuts diamond.
- Disgrace is worse than death
- Diet cures more than doctors.
- Distant drums sound well.
- Death keeps no calendar.
- Death is the poor man's best physician.
- Desire knows no rest.
- Desires are nourished by delays.
- Devil finds work for idle hands to do.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Doing is better than saying.
- Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
- Do not wash your dirty linen in public
- Empty vessels make much sound.
- Every dog has his day.
- Everyday is not a Sunday.
- Every rule has an exception
- Every potter praises his own pot.
- Every tide has its ebb.
- Experience is the mother of all knowledge.
- Example is better than precept.
- Eagles do not breed doves.
- Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.
- Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
- Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Expectation is better than realisation.
- Experience is the best teacher.
- Eyes are the windows of the soul.
F
- Fame is a magnifying glass.
- Faults are thick where love is thin.
- Fair without and foul within.
- Failure is the stepping stone to success.
- False friends are worse than open enemies.
- First deserve, then desire.
- Fame is the perfume of good deeds.
- Familiarity breeds contempt.
- Faults are thick where love is thin.
- Feed a cold and starve a fever.
- Few lawyers die well, few physicians live well.
- Fear of death is greater than death itself.
- Fine feathers make fine birds.
- Forty is the old age of youth ; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Fortune favours the bold.
- Forgive and forget.
- Fortune favours fools.
- Fools set stools for wise men to stumble at.
- Fools live poor to die rich.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance
G
- Gather pebbles, and expect Roubles.
- Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
- God helps those who help themselves.
- God cures and the doctor takes the fee.
- Great engines turn on small pivots.
- Grief is the canker of heart.
- Gems cannot be polished without friction.
- Give the devil his due.
- Give a thief long rope and he will hang himself.
- Go east or west ; your house is the best.
- Good lenders are bad neighbours.
- Go by measure ; enjoy your treasure.
- God forgives him who forgives others.
- God gives rain, but not the reservoir.
- Goods that are much on show lose their colour.
- Grave is the remedy for old age.
- Great spenders are bad creditors.
- Grey hair is a sign of old age, not of wisdom.
- Great honours are great burdens.
H
- Habit is the second nature.
- Haste makes waste, and waste makes want.
- He makes no friend, who never made a foe.
- He is a wolf in lamb's skin.
- He who loves not his country, can love nothing.
- Health is better than wealth.
- Hedges have eyes and walls have ears.
- Honesty is the best policy.
- Hope is the anchor of life.
- He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
- Hunger is sharper than sword.
- He that has a wife, has a master.
- He gives twice who gives quickly.
- He who rides the tiger is afraid to dismount. Help you to salt, help you to sorrow.
- He laughs best who laughs last.
- He preaches well that lives well.
- He teaches ill, who teaches all.
- He conquers who endures.
- He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.
- He that eats least, eats most. .
- He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.
- He helps little that helps not himself.
- He that handles thorns shall prick his fingers.
- He that hurts another hurts himself.
- He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
- He that forecasts perils, will never sail across the sea.
- He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others.
- He that plants trees, plants for posterity.
- He that seeks trouble, always fmds it.
- He thinks not well, that thinks not again.
- He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.
- He that loves the tree, loves the branches.
- He travels fastest who travels alone.
- He who seeks revenge, digs two graves.
- Hear much, speak little.
- Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
- Honours change manners.
- Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
- Hope for the best ; prepare for the worst.
- Hunger is the hand maid of genius.
- Humble hearts have humble desires.
I
- Idleness is the root of all evil.
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
- Ignorance of law is no excuse.
- Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
- It is never too late to mend.
- Industry is fortune’s right hand.
- If you are planning for a century, plant men of great wisdom.
- If you tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are.
- In a calm sea, every man is a good sailor.
- It is more blessed to give than to receive.
- It is not the pigtail that makes the priest.
- It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. .
- It is too late to call back yesterday.
- It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.
J
- Jack of all trades and master of none,
- Joy and sorrow are today and tomorrow.
- Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.
- Judge not, that ye be not judged.
K
- Knowledge is more powerful than more strength.
- Knowledge is light, ignorance is darkness.
- Keep your mouth shut and ears open.
- Keep quiet ; people will think that you are a philosopher.
L
- Little strokes fell great oaks.
- Look before you leap.
- Love is blind.
- Life is a journey from cradle to grave.
- Laugh and grow fat.
- Laughter is the best medicine.
- Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
- Lend your money and lose your friend.
- Lend only that which you can afford to lose.
- Liberty is not licence.
- Life is short and time is swift.
- Lie with the lamb and rise with the lark.
- Lightning never strikes twice at the same place.
- Life without a friend is death without a witness.
- Living well is the best revenge.
- Live and let live
- Long in court, deep in hell.
M
- Make hay when the sun shines.
- Man proposes, God disposes.
- Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
- Misfortunes seldom come alone.
- Man is the key, but the woman turns it
- Man earns money and the woman keeps it.‘
- Mathematics is the mother of all sciences.
- Marriages are made in heaven.
- Measure of things is treasure of things.
- Misfortunes tell us, what fortune is.
- Misfortune makes foes of friends.
- Millers are the last to die of famine.
N
- Never make a mountain of a mole hill.
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Necessity knows no law.
- Never be weary of doing good.
- No gains without pains.
- No man can serve two masters.
- Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
- Nature is your best teacher.
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Need makes the man run naked.
- Never too late to learn.
- Never answer a letter when you are angry.
- No man is indispensable.
- Nothing is given so freely as advice.
- Nothing is so definite as death.
- Nothing sharpens your sight like envy.
- Nothing permanent except change and change.
O
- Obedience is the mother of all virtues
- One man’s food is another man’s poison.
- Old habits die hard.
- Old sins cast long shadows.
- One lie makes many.
- One of these days is none of these days.
- bne thief will not rob the other.
- Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
- One who lives in a glass house, must not tharow stones at others.
P
- Penny Wise, pound foolish.
- Poets are born, but orators are made.
- Practice makes perfect.
- Poverty breeds contempt.
- Prevention is better than cure.
- Pride goes before a fall.
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Punctuality isthe soul of business.
- Public voice is God’s voice.
- Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.
- Patience provoked turns to fury.
- Peacock has fair feathers, but foul feet.
- Pen is mightier than the sword.
- Play with fire and get burnt.
- Poverty is the mother of good health.
- Poverty is the birth-right of all poets.
- Practise What you preach.
- Preserve the old, but know the new.
- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Pursuits become habits.
- Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry.
- Put the saddle on the right horse.
R
- Riches have wings.
- Rip not the old sore.
- Rob Peter, and pay Paul.
- Rome was not built in a day.
- Rare visits bring long compliments,
- Reward and punishment are the tools of social order.
- Rupee is round and it rolls away easily.
S
- Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
- Set a thief to catch a thief.
- Shallow brooks are noisy.
- Slow and steady wins the race.
- Some do the sowing, others the reaping.
- Something is better than nothing.
- Spare the rod and spoil the child.
- Speech is silvem, but silence is golden.
- Strike While the iron is hot.
- Success comes to those who dare and act.
- Sweet are the uses of adversity.
- Safety lies in solitude.
- Silence is golden.
- Sit a While after dinner, walk a while after supper.
- Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies.
T
- The foolish seek wealth, the wise perfection.
- The child is the father of the man.
- The face is the index of mind.
- The old order changeth yielding place to new.
- The path of duty is the way to glory.
- The wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
- They that know nothing, fear nothing.
- There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
- Time devours everything.
- Think before you ink.
- The tree is known by the fruit it bears.
- The error is human, to forgive is divine.
- Tomorrow comes never.
- Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
- Tongue is not steel, but cuts deeper.
- Trade knows neither friend nor kindred.
- Two of a trade seldom agree.
- Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear.
- Tell a woman she is fair, and she will soon turn fool.
- The very best things in life are free.
- Time is a great healer.
- Time and tide wait for no man.
- Tell a lie that heals than a truth that wounds.
- Think deeply, talk sparingly.
- Think more, talk less.
- The wages of sin is death.
- The weeds over grow the corn.
- The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.
- The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
- The end justifies the means.
- The eyes are the windows of the soul.
- The more one knows, the less one believes.
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
- The forbidden fruit is always sweet.
- The better the day, the better the deed.
- The early bird catches the prey.
- The longer you look at a thing, the less you like it.
- The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
- The family that prays together, stays together.
- The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
- The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
- The disease known is half cured.
- The pot calls the kettle black.
- They die Well that live well.
- There will be a black sheep in every flock.
- Thieves and whores meet at the gallows.
- To lengthen thy life hen thy life, lessen thy meal.
- To fall into sin is human and to remain in sin is devilish.
- Trust not a woman who weeps repeatedly.
- Truth sits on the lips of a dying man.
- Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.
- True love never grows old.
- Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.
U
- Union is strength.
- Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
- United we stand divided we fall.
V
- Variety is the spice of life.
- Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
W
- Wisdom is the daughter of old age.
- Where there is will, there is a way.
- Where there is smoke, there is Ere.
- What cannot be cured must be endured. Walls have cars.
- We live by laws, not by examples.
- Weeds want no sowing.
- Wedlock is a padlock.
- Weigh justly and sell dearly.
- When the cat is away, the mice will play.
- When the wine is in, the wit is out.
- When love is greatest, words are fewest.
- When wealth is lost ,nothing is lost; when health is lost, everything is lost.
- When heart is full of lust, the mouth is full of leasing's
- Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
- when there is no trust, there is no love.
- Why buy a cow, when the milk is cheap?
- Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
- Who borrows to build, builds to sell.
- Who knows much will suffer much.
- Wicked need beating, rugged need teaching.
- Win a good reputation and sleep at ease.
- Wise spenders are good schemers.
- Wisdom and virtue are like the two Wheels of a cart
- Wounds may be healed, yet the scars remain.
Y
- You-shall reap as you sow.
- You can lead a horse to water, but can’t make him drink.
- You cannot eat your cake and have it too.
- You always appears smaller than I.
- Youth and the aged will never agree.
Z
- Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
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