S.No. | PROVERBS -- English |
A | |
1. |
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. ஒரு வாய் மொழி ஒப்பந்தம் அது எழுதப்படக்கூடிய காகித மதிப்பை விட குறைவானது. |
2. | A rotten case abides no handling. |
3. | Absence makes the heart grow fonder. |
4. | Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. |
5. | Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. |
6. | Absence is to love what wind is to fire. |
7. | Accidents are outstanding effects. |
8. | Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. |
9. |
Action speaks louder than words. செயல் சொல்லை விட வலிமையானது. |
10. | All actions are judged by the motives prompting them. |
11. | Adversity is the touchstone of virtue. |
12. | Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. |
13. | Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. |
14. | Accept if the counsel be good, no matter who gave it. |
15. | An apple a day, keeps the doctor away. |
16. |
All that glitters is not gold. மின்னுவதெல்லாம் பொன்னல்ல. |
17. | All is well that ends well. |
18. | All good things must come to an end. |
19. | A cat love fish but hate to get their paws wet. |
20. | A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
21. | As the old cock crows, so crows the young. |
22. | Advice when most needed is least heeded. |
23. | Age considers, youth ventures. |
24. | An old man is twice his child. |
25. | Age is a sorry travelling companion. |
26. | An old fox need no craft. |
27. | An old dog will learn no tricks. |
28. | An old poacher makes the best keeper |
29. | An old man's sayings are seldom untrue. |
30. | Age is a symbol of maturity. |
31. | All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. |
32. | All is fair in love and war. |
33. | All his geese are swans. |
34. | Ambition makes people diligent. |
35. | Anger punishes itself. |
36. | As fire is kindled by bellows, so is anger by words. |
37. | A clean glove often hides a dirty hand. |
38. | A fair face may hide a foul heart. |
39. | Appearances are deceitful. |
40. | All are not saints who go to church. |
41. | Art is not the bread but the wine of life. |
42. | Art is not a thing; it is a way. |
43. | A picture is a poem without words. |
44. | Art hath an enemy called ignorance. |
45. | Aspiring people are inspiring people. |
46. | An ass is an ass though laden with gold. |
47. | Authority identifies the man. |
48. | A man may bear till his back breaks. |
49. | A bad dog never sees the wolf. |
50. | A bad penny always comes back. |
51. | A bad tree does not yield good apples. |
52. | An evil deed has a witness in the bosom. |
53. | A barking dog seldom bites. |
51. | A thing of beauty is a joy forever. |
52. | A good face is a letter of recommendation. |
53. | As one makes one's bed, so must one lie on it. |
54. | A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his clien |
55. | A man with a hammer sees every problem as a nail |
56. | A new broom sweeps clean, but an old one knows where the dirt is |
57. | A penny saved is a penny earned |
58. | A person is known by the company he keeps |
59. | A poor workman always blames his tools |
60. | A problem shared is a problem halved |
61. | A prophet is not recognized in his own land |
62. | A rolling stone gathers no moss. |
63. | A soft answer turneth away wrath. |
64. | A stitch in time saves nine, |
65. | Absolute power corrupts absolutely |
66. | Adversity makes strange bedfellows |
67. | All things must pass |
68. | An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure |
69. | As you sow so shall you reap |
70. | Attack is the best form of defense |
71. | A beggar can never be bankrupt. |
72. | A fool believes everything. |
73. | A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
74. | A bird is known by its tunes, a man is known by his words. |
75. | A blind man knows no colours. |
76. | A sound mind in a sound body. |
77. | As soon as a man is born, he begins to die. |
78. | After a storm, there is a calm |
79. | A candle lights others, but consumes itself. |
80. | A ma never discloses his own character so clearly as he describes another's. |
81. | A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. |
82. | A good laugh is sunshine in the house. |
83. | A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. |
84. | As a man is, so his company. |
85. | A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. |
86. | A man must plough with such oxen as he has. |
87. | A bribe will enter without knocking. |
88. | Ask not what the country has done for you; Ask what you have done for the country. |
89. | A man of courage never wants weapon. |
90. | A brave man's wounds are seldom on his back. |
91. | A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield. |
92. | A crafty knave needs no broker. |
93. | Ancient custom has the force of law. |
94. | A danger foreseen is half avoided. |
95. | A man can die but once. |
96. | A man of words without deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. |
97. | A good dog deserves a good bone. |
98. | A sleepy master makes his servant a lout. |
99. | An army marches on its stomach. |
100. | An ass endures his burden, but not more than his burden. |
101. | All cats are grey in the dark. |
102. | A good example is the good sermon. |
103. | A good name is better than riches. |
104. | A happy family is an earlier heaven. |
105. | A fault confessed is half redressed. |
106. | A fool at forty is a fool indeed. |
107. | A gool fights with his own shadow. |
108. | A good anvil does not fear the hammer. |
109. | A good archer is not known by his arrow but by his aim. |
110. | A good name keeps its lustre in the dark. |
111. | A happy heart is better than a full purse. |
112. | A honest look covers many faults. |
113. | An honest man's word is as good as his bond. |
114. | An idle mind is the devil's workshop. |
115. | A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. |
116. | A jack of all trades is master of none. |
117. | A just war is better than an unjust peace. |
118. | A little learning is a dangerous thing. |
119. | A man becomes learned by asking questions. |
120. | A light purse makes a heavy heart. |
121. | An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom. |
122. | A mind quite vacant is a mind quite distressed. |
123. | A well prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. |
124. | A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. |
125. | A good neighbour, a good morrow. |
126. | A smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. |
127. | An old dog does not bark for nothing. |
128. | An old lion is better than a young ass. |
129. | An old man never wants a tale to tell. |
130. | An old ox will find shelter for himself. |
131. | A foul morning may turn to be a fair day. |
132. | After black clouds, there is clear weather. |
133. | A little impatience will spoil great plans. |
134. | A good paymaster needs no surety. |
135. | A pen is mightier than a sword. |
136. | All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain. |
137. | A man without pity is a man without ditty. |
138. | A man without religion is a horse without bridle. |
139. | All the religions reach God as all the rivers reach the sea. |
140. | An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. |
141. | Adapt the remedy to the disease. |
142. | A servant is known by his master's absence. |
143. | Appreciate the servant after his work. |
144. | A still tongue makes a wise head. |
145. | All are not thieves that dogs bark at. |
146. | A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. |
147. | A tree is known by the fruit it bears. |
148. | A good tongue is a good weapon. |
149. | After one a greater follows. |
150. | A word is enough to the wise. |
151. | A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step |
152. | A leopard cannot change its spots. |
B | B |
153. | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
154. | Beauty is only skin deep. |
155. | Beggars should not be choosers. |
156. | Behind every great man, there is a great woman |
157. | Better safe than sorry |
158. | Better the Devil you know than the Devil you do not |
159. | Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all |
160. | Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness |
161. | Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt |
162. | Better wear out than rust out |
163. | Big fish eat little fish |
164. | Birds of a feather flock together |
165. | Blood is thicker than water |
166. | Business before pleasure |
167. | Behind an able man there are always other able men |
168. | Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen. |
169. | Be swift to hear, slower to speak, still slower to wrath. |
170. | Better to ask the way than to go astray. |
171. | Better to rule than to be ruled by the mob. |
172. | Bad watch often feeds the wolf. |
173. | Be still and have thy will. |
174. | Be a friend to thy self and others will befriend you. |
175. | Beauty is eloquent even when silent. |
176. | Beauty opens locked doors. |
177. | Beauty and honesty seldom agree. |
178. | Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. |
179. | Beauty without virtue is a curse. |
180. | Beauty is truth, truth is beauty. |
181. | Beauty without modesty is infamous. |
182. | Better die a beggar than live a beggar. |
183. | Begin today, end never. |
184. | Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see. |
185. | Belief is relief. |
186. | Better late than never. |
187. | Better an egg to day than a hen tomorrow. |
188. | Better unthought than ill thought |
189. | Better be sure than sorry. |
190. | Better no law than no law enforced. |
191. | Better bad now than worse later. |
192. | Better to be beaten than to be in bad company. |
193. | Better to live well, than to live long. |
194. | Better a sparrow in the hand than a pigeon on the roof.. |
195. | Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch. |
196. | Better half a loaf, than no bread. |
197. | Brevity is the soul of wit. |
198. | Building and borrowing a sack full of sorrowing. |
199. | Business is like oil, it won't mix with anything but business. |
200. | Better bend than break. |
201. | Bind the sack before it be full. |
202. | Be to her virtues very kind, to her faults a little blind. |
203. | Beware of one who flatters unduly, he will also abuse unjustly. |
204. | Better to weep with a wise man than to laugh with a fool. |
205. | Better an open enemy than a false friend. |
206. | Better to have than to wish.. |
207. | Be just before you are generous. |
208. | Bad news travels fast. |
209. | By wisdom peace, By peace plenty. |
210. | Blessed is he who has found his work. |
211. | Both folly and wisdom come upon us with years. |
C | C |
212. | Caesar's wife must be above suspicion |
213. | Charity begins at home |
214. | Cheats never prosper |
215. | Christmas comes but once a year |
216. | Cleanliness is next to godliness |
217. | Clothes make the man |
218. | Courage is the measure of a Man, Beauty is the measure of a Woman |
219. | Cowards may die many times before their death |
220. | Cut your coat according to your cloth. |
221. | Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy. |
222. | Call no man happy till he dies. |
223. | Care killed the cat. |
224. | Change is the law of nature. |
225. | Constant change is the sign of progress. |
226. | Cut off a dog's tail and he will still be a dog. |
227. | Charity is a double blessing. |
228. | Charity covers a multitude of sins. |
229. | Character is a diamond which scratches every other stone. |
230. | Children are poor man's riches. |
231. | Children and fools cannot lie. |
232. | Come rain, come shine. |
233. | Come what may, what is to come is still unsure. |
234. | Commonsense is an instinct and enough of it is genius. |
235. | Commonsense is very uncommon. |
236. | Complaints are lies in court clothes. |
237. | Compromise anything for a quiet life. |
238. | Confidence carries conviction. |
239. | Confidence is a plant of slow growth. |
240. | Contempt is the sharpest reproof. |
241. | Corruption of worst becomes the worst. |
242. | Conversation reveals one what he is. |
243. | Courage and perseverance conquer all before them. |
244. | Cowards die many times, but the brave die only once. |
245. | Crosses are ladders to heaven. |
246. | Cross the bridge when it comes. |
247. | Cruelty is the strength of the wicked. |
248. | Custom is the second nature. |
249. | Care and diligence bring luck. |
250. | Care brings grey hair. |
D | D |
251. | Discretion is the better part of valour |
252. | Do unto others as you would have them do unto you |
253. | Do not bite the hand that feeds you |
254. | Do not cry over spilt milk |
255. | Do not change horses in midstream |
256. | Do not count your chickens before they are hatched |
257. | Do not cross the bridge till you come to it |
258. | Do not make a mountain of a mole hill |
259. | Do not put all your eggs in one basket |
260. | Do not put the cart before the horse |
261. | Do not put new wine into old bottles. |
262. | Do not teach your Grandmother to suck eggs |
263. | Do not try to walk before you can crawl |
264. | Do not upset the apple-cart |
265. | Do not wash your dirty linen in public |
266. | Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom |
267. | Do what you can with what you have from where you are. |
268. | Desire has no limit. |
269. | Do not triumph before victory. |
270. | Do not bargain for fish which is still in the water. |
271. | Do not bite more than you can chew. |
272. | Dead men do not bite. |
273. | Do in Rome as the Romans do. |
274. | Discontent is the first step in progress. |
275. | Despair gives courage to a coward. |
276. | Danger is next neighbour to security. |
277. | Danger is never overcome with danger. |
278. | Danger makes men devout. |
279. | Do not go near water until you learn how to swim. |
280. | Death keeps no calendar. |
281. | Death surprises us in the midst of our hopes. |
282. | Death defies the doctor. |
283. | Death rather frees us of ill than robs us of our good. |
284. | Death spares neither Pope nor pauper. |
285. | Debt is the worst form of poverty. |
286. | Debt is a great cobweb. |
287. | Deceivers have full mouths and empty hands. |
288. | Deceiving those that trust us, is more than a sin. |
289. | Deeds will show themselves and words will pass away. |
290. | Democracy is a kingless regime infested with many kings. |
291. | Despair ruins some, presumption many. |
292. | Diligence is a great teacher. |
293. | Diligence is the mother of good fortune. |
294. | Dogs that pursue many hares kill none. |
295. | Doubt destroys deed. |
296. | Dig a well before you are thirsty. |
297. | Do not enter a stream on a clay horse. |
298. | Doing nothing is one's curse. |
299. | Doing foolish deeds is committing suicide. |
300. | Do your duty before you demand your right. |
E | |
301. | Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise |
302. | Empty vessels make the most noise | >
303. | Enough is as good as a feast |
304. | Every dog has his day |
305. | Every man has his price |
306. | Every stick has two ends |
307. | Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die |
308. | Everything comes to those who wait |
309. | Every noble activity makes room for itself. |
310. | Every cloud has a silver lining. |
311. | Every bird loves to hear himself sing. |
312. | Evil deeds are like perfume difficult to hide. |
313. | Eat at pleasure, drink by measure. |
314. | Envy never enriched a man. |
315. | Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. |
316. | Equality is the primordial condition of liberty. |
317. | Error is the force that welds men together. |
318. | Evil begets evil. |
319. | Evil be to him who evil thinks. |
320. | Example is better than precept. |
321. | Experience is the best teacher. |
322. | Experience is the mother of wisdom. |
323. | East or West, home is best. |
324. | Everyday is holiday with sluggards. |
325. | Every man has his weakness. |
326. | Enquire not what boils in another pot. |
327. | Extreme justice is extreme injustice. |
328. | Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea. |
329. | Every poor man is counted a fool. |
330. | Every task is easy to the resolute man. |
331. | Every man is the architect of his own fortune. |
332. | Every sweet has its sour. | F
333. | Fact is stranger than fiction |
334. | Failing to plan is planning to fail |
335. | Faint heart never won fair lady |
336. | Faith will move mountains |
337. | Familiarity breeds contempt |
338. | Fight fire with fire |
339. | Finders keepers, losers weepers |
340. | First come, first served |
341. | First impressions are the most lasting |
342. | Fish always stinks from the head downwards |
343. | Fish and guests smell after three days |
344. | Flattery will get you nowhere |
345. | Fools rush in where angels fear to tread |
346. | For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost |
347. | Forewarned is forearmed |
348. | Fortune favours the brave (bold) |
349. | Far from eye, far from heart. |
350. | Friends agree best at a distance. |
351. | First desire then acquire. |
352. | For the diligent, the week has seven todays; for the slothful, seven tomorrows. |
353. | Fine feathers make fine birds. |
354. | Face is the index of the mind. |
355. | Faith is the force of life. |
356. | Faith is the continuation of reason. |
357. | Faith without work is dead. |
358. | Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. |
359. | Faith is the pencil of the soul that pictures heavenly things. |
350. | Fame is the thin shadow of eternity. |
351. | Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. |
352. | Fame is a magnifying glass. |
353. | Fame is proof that people are gullible. |
354. | Family is more sacred than the state. |
355. | From the father comes honour, from the mother comfort. |
356. | Fear has a quick ear. |
357. | Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. |
358. | First to the dining table, last to the battle field. |
359. | First try and then trust. |
360. | First think and then speak. |
361. | Fish follows the bait. |
362. | Flattery is the food of fools. |
363. | Flowers are words, which even a baby may understand. |
364. | Friendship is a plant which must be watered often. |
365. | Friendship is a sheltering tree. |
366. | Friendship is not bought at the fair. |
367. | Friendship is not bought at the fair. |
368. | Friendship multiplies joys and divides grief. |
369. | For men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever. |
370. | Fine words dress ill deeds. | 371. | Fanned fire and forced love never did well yet. |
372. | For every evil under the sun, there is a remedy. |
G | |
373. | Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains |
374. | Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime |
375. | Give credit where credit is due |
376. | Give him an inch and he will take a mile |
377. | God helps those who help themselves |
378. | Great minds think alike |
379. | Good counsel has no price. |
380. | Give neither advice nor salt till you are asked for it. |
381. | Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds. |
382. | Give the devil its due. |
383. | Good clothes open all doors. |
384. | Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. |
385. | Good fame is better than good face. |
386. | Goods that are much on show lose their colour. |
387. | Great men have great defects. |
388. | Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. |
389. | God forgives him who forgives others. |
390. | Good to forgive, best to forget. |
391. | Go while the going is good. |
392. | God provides for him that trusts. |
393. | Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. |
394. | Gossip is a vice enjoyed vicariously. |
395. | Greedy folks have long arms. |
396. | Guilt sinks the brave to cowards. |
397. | Great happiness, great danger. |
398. | Great honours are great burdens. |
399. | Goodluck reaches further than long arms. |
400. | Great strokes make not sweet music. |
H | |
401. | Half a loaf is better than no bread |
402. | Hard cases make bad law |
403. | Haste makes waste |
404. | He who hesitates is lost |
405. | He who laughs last laughs best |
406. | He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword |
407. | He who pays the piper calls the tune |
408. | History repeats itself |
409. | Home is where the heart is |
410. | Honesty is the best policy |
411. | Hope springs eternal |
412. | Horses for courses |
413. | Hunger never knows the taste, sleep never knows the comfort |
414. | He that spares the bad injures the good. |
415. | He that climbs the ladder must begin at the first rung. |
416. | He can who believes he can. |
417. | Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. |
418. | He that hath been bitten by a snake is afraid of rope. |
419. | His bark is worse than his bite. |
420. | Hope is the poor man's bread. |
421. | He that is born a fool is never cured. |
422. | Hearty laugh dispels disease. |
423. | He that is afraid to ask the price will never have a good thing cheap. |
424. | He who never climbed never fell. |
425. | He who comes uncalled, sits unserved. |
426. | He who complains wrongfully of the sea, twice suffers ship wreck. |
427. | He that respects not is not respected. |
428. | He is at ease who has enough. |
429. | He has nothing that is not contented. |
430. | Humble hearts have humble desires. |
431. | He that has to do with what is fou, never comes away clean. |
432. | He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice. |
433. | Happy is the country which has no history. |
434. | He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day. |
435. | He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox. |
436. | He that brings up his son to nothing, breeds a thief. |
437. | He threatens many than hurts any. |
438. | He that blows best, bears the horn. |
439. | He that serves well need not ask for his wages. |
440. | He who desires nothing, will be free. |
441. | He that corrects not small faults, will not control great ones. |
442. | Happy is he that chastens himself. |
443. | Hungry bellies have no ears. |
444. | He conquers, who endures. |
445. | He that falls today may rise tomorrow. |
446. | He that falls many times, is the winner, as he is the one who got up everytime he fell. |
447. | He that commits faults thinks everyone speaks of it. |
448. | He that is down needs no fear to fall. |
449. | He that fears death lives not. |
450. | He that forgives gains victory. |
451. | Honours and profit lie not in one sack. |
452. | He that plays his money ought not to value it. |
453. | He who gives discreetly gains directly. |
454. | He who gives to another bestows on himself. |
455. | He who serves God, serves a good master. |
456. | Habits die hard. |
457. | Habits are first cobwebs then cables. |
458 | .Half done is worse than not done. |
459. | He is truly happy who makes others happy. |
460. | Happy is the man who does all the good he talks of. |
461. | Happiness invites envy. |
462. | Happy is he that serves the happy. |
463. | Haste trips up its own heels. |
464. | Haste is the mother of imperfection. |
465. | Haste is a fool's choice. |
466. | Hatred is blind, as well as love. |
467. | Health is wealth. |
468. | Health is not valued till sickness comes. |
469. | He who masticates well lives up to a hundred full. |
470. | Heroes are made, not born. |
471. | Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. |
472. | Honesty is a fine jewel, but much out of fashion. |
473. | Honesty is lost, everything is lost. |
474. | He that desires honour is not worthy of honour. |
475. | Honours changes manners. |
476. | Honour lies in honest toil. |
477. | Hope keeps man alive. |
478. | Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. |
479. | He that is welcome fares well. |
480. | Hospitality consists in a little warmth, a little food and an immense quiet. |
481. | Husbands are in heaven whose wives scold not. |
482. | Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. |
483. | He that cannot obey, cannot command. |
484. | History is past politics, and politics is present history. |
485. | He loses his thanks who promises and delays. |
486. | He that promises too much means nothing. |
487. | He is rich enough who does have no wants. |
488. | He is rich enough who has true friends. |
489. | He is rich enough who owes nothing. |
490. | He that wants to be rich in a year comes to the gallows in half year. |
491. | He that saves his dinner will have more for his supper. |
492. | He that travels far, knows much. |
493. | He who wills the end, wills the means. |
494. | He who works hard, gets reward. |
I | |
495. | If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well |
496. | If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain |
497. | If wealth is lost,nothing is lost.If health is lost, something is lost. If character is lost, everything is lost |
498. | If wishes were horses, beggars would ride |
499. | If you're growing in Age,then you're nearing to the Graveyard |
500. | If you think that you know everything, then you're a Jack ass |
501. | If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas |
502. | If you steal from one author, it is plagiarism; if you steal from many, it is research. |
503. | If you want a thing done well, do it yourself |
504. | Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery |
505. | In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king |
506. | It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all |
507. | It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness |
508. | It is never too late |
509. | It is no use crying over spilt milk |
510. | It is no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted |
511.. | It is the early bird that gets the worm |
512. | It is the empty can that makes the most noise |
513. | It is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease |
514. | It takes a thief to catch a thief |
515. | It needs a Hundred Lies to cover a Single Lie |
516. | It takes two to tango |
517. | In Adam's fall we sinned all. |
518. | It never rains, but pours. |
519. | It is safer to hear and take counsel, than to give it. |
520. | If you wish good advice, consult an old man. |
521. | It is hard to follow good advice than to give it. |
522. | In a great river, great fishes are found, but take heed lest you be drowned. |
523. | It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. |
524. | If you wish to know a man, give him authority. |
525. | In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. |
526. | If wishes were horses, beggars would ride them. |
527. | It is better to merry than to burn. |
528. | If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a ditch. |
529. | In the kingdom of the blind, one eyed man is the king. |
530. | It is easier to pull down than to build. |
531. | It takes all sorts to make a world. |
532. | It is divinity that shapes our ends. |
533. | In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal. |
534. | It is good to learn at other men's cost. |
535. | It is easy to flatter but hard to please. |
536. | It is well to profit by the folly of others. |
537. | In fair weather, prepare for foul. |
538. | It is the pace that kills. |
539. | In haste is error. |
540. | Ignorance is bliss. |
541. | Idleness is the pathway to beggary. |
542. | Idle folks lack no excuses. |
543. | Ill gotten wealth never thrives. |
544. | Ignorance is the night of the mind. |
545 | .Ill laying up makes many thieves. |
546. | Ill weeds grow apace. |
547. | It is never too late to learn. |
548. | It is the mind that makes the body rich. |
549. | If money be not thy servant it will be thy master. |
550. | It is never too late to mend. |
551. | If you want peace, prepare for war. |
552. | If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself. |
553. | If at first you do not succeed, try, try, try again. |
554. | If poor, act with caution. |
555. | It is never too late to give up prejudices. |
556. | It takes two to make a quarrel. |
557. | In too much dispute truth is lost. |
558. | I found Rome brick and left is marble. |
559. | If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. |
560. | It is better to be safe than sorry. |
561. | If you wish another to keep a secret, first keep it yourself. |
562. | In every success lurks a seed of failure. |
563. | It is easier to end life than mend life. |
564. | It is cowardice to commit suicide. |
565. | It is always good when a man has two irons in the fire. |
566. | In false quarrel, there is no true valour. |
567. | Iron in use grows bright. |
568. | It is not work that kills, but worry. |
K | |
573. | Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. |
574. | Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love |
575. | Keep your calm and calm conquers for you. |
576. | Kings have many ears and eyes. |
577. | Knowledge has bitter roots but sweeter fruits. |
578. | Knaves and fools divide the world. |
579. | Kill not the goose that lays golden eggs. |
580. | Kettle bigger, little water. |
581. | Keep some till more comes. |
582. | Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. |
583. | Kindness comes of will. |
584. | Kind hearts are soonest wronged. |
585. | Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with. |
586. | Kindness, like grain, increase by sowing. |
587. | Kindness is never wasted. |
588 | .Knowledge is power |
589. | Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. |
590. | Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. |
591. | Knowledge is the mother of all virtues. |
592. | Knowledge begins a gentleman but it is that completes him. |
593. | Knowledge is no burden. |
594. | Knowledge finds its price. |
595. | Knowledge is silver among the poor, gold among the nobles and a jewel among princes. |
596. | Keep a secret, it is your slave. Tell it, it is your master. |
597. | Keep something for a rainy day. |
598. | Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish. |
L | |
599. | Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone |
600. | Laughter is the best medicine |
601. | Least said, soonest mended |
602. | Let bygones be bygones |
603. | Let not the sun go down on your wrath |
604. | Let the punishment fit the crime |
605. | Life begins at forty |
606. | Life is not all beer and skittles |
607. | Life is what you make it |
608. | Lightning never strikes twice in the same place |
609. | Like father, like son |
610. | Little strokes fell great oaks |
611. | Little things please little minds |
612. | Live and let live |
613. | Live for today, for tomorrow never comes |
614. | Look before you leap |
615. | Love is blind |
616. | Love makes the world go around |
617. | Love will find a way |
618. | Learn to labour and to wait. |
619. | Life is short, art is long. |
620. | Lose nothing for want of asking. |
621. | Life is not a bed of roses. |
622. | Like a bull in a china shop. |
623. | Look before you leap. |
624. | Little things are great to little man. |
625. | Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. |
626. | Like mother like daughter. |
627. | Let us do or die. |
628. | Let us never doubt what nobody is sure about. |
629. | Little drops of water make the mighty ocean. |
630. | Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. |
631. | Loook high, fall low. |
632. | Like a fish out of water. |
633 | Let a thousand flowers bloom. |
634. | Love of wit makes no man rich. |
635. | Life without a friend is, death without a witness. |
636. | Let savings be your first expenditure. |
637. | Love and hate are blood relations. |
638. | Leisure with honour. |
639. | Little meddling makes much rest. |
640. | Let justice be done though heavens fall. |
641. | Labour is worship. |
642. | Labour conquers everything. |
643. | Law makers should not be law breakers. |
644. | Law goes the way the king directs. |
645. | Law catches flies and lets hornets to go. |
646. | Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. |
647. | Learn young, learn fair. |
648. | Learn from your mistakes. |
649. | Learn the luxury of doing good. |
650. | Lend your money and lose your friend. |
651. | Lending nurses enemity. |
652. | Liberty is not license. |
653. | Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. |
654. | Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. |
655. | Lies follow by post. |
656. | Life is a pilgrimage. |
657. | Life is not measured by the time we live. |
658. | Life is short, yet sweet. |
659. | Life is half spent before one knows that life is. |
660. | Lead kindly light amid the encircling gloom. |
661. | Live and let live. |
662. | Live not for time, but eternity. |
663. | Love and faith are seen in works. |
664. | Love begets love. |
665. | Love fears no danger. |
666. | Love grows with obstacle. |
667. | Love knows hidden paths. |
668. | Love is never without jealousy. |
669. | Love is divine. |
670. | Lucky man needs no counsel. |
671. | Let pain deserved without complaint be borne. |
672. | Life is full of meetings and partings. |
673. | Leisure is the mother of philosophy. |
674. | Live easily and die quietly. |
675. | Life is a running race |
676. | Lose a leg rather than a life. |
677. | Let slip through one's fingers. |
678. | Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains. |
679. | Love virtue rather than fear sin. |
680. | Let thy words be few. |
M | |
681. | Make hay while the sun shines |
682. | Make love not war |
683 | .Manners maketh man |
684. | Many a true word is spoken in jest |
685. | Many hands make light work |
686. | Marriages are made in heaven |
687. | Marry in haste, repent at leisure |
688. | Men get spoiled by staying, Women get spoiled by wandering |
689. | Money earned by deceit, goes by deceit |
690. | Money is the root of all evil |
691. | Money is not everything |
692. | Money makes many things, but also makes devil dance |
693. | Music has charms to soothe the savage breast |
694. | Many can argue; not many can converse. |
695. | Man without belief will perish. |
696. | Make the best of a bad bargain. |
697. | Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. |
698. | Many are called but few are chosen. |
699. | Men love to hear well of themselves. |
700. | My country, right or wrong. |
701. | Malice hurts itself most. |
702. | Make your enemy your friend. |
703. | Mere wishes are silly fishes. |
704 | .Mercy surpasses justice |
705. | Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people. |
706. | Misfortune tells us what fortune is. |
707. | Misfortune make foes of friends. |
708. | Man proposes, God disposes. |
709. | Men do more things through habit than through reasons. |
710. | Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. |
711. | Man has his will, but woman has her way. |
712. | Man is a social animal. |
713. | Manners maketh a man. |
714. | Men are judged by manners. |
715. | Marriage has its pain, but a bachelor's life has no pleasure. |
716. | Man is the measure of all things. |
717. | Money amassed either serves or rules us. |
718. | Money in whatever hands will confer power. |
719. | Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. |
720. | Music is the universal language of mankind. |
721. | Music is the medicine of a breaking heart. |
722. | Man endures pain a an undeserved punishment. |
723. | Men often seem rich to become rich. |
724. | Moderate riches will carry you. If you have more you must carry them. |
725. | Money saved is money earned. |
726. | Master slack, servant slack. |
727. | More have repented speech than silence. |
728. | Morning dreams come true. |
N | |
729. | Never reveal a man's wage, and woman's age |
730. | Necessity is the mother of invention |
731. | Never give a sucker an even break |
732. | Never judge a book by its cover |
734. | Never look a gift horse in the mouth |
735. | Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today |
736. | Never speak ill of the dead |
737. | No man can serve two masters |
738. | No one can make you feel inferior without your consent |
739. | No pain, no gain |
740. | No rest for the wicked |
741. | Nothing is certain but death and taxes |
742. | Nothing succeeds like success |
743. | Nothing ventured, nothing gained |
744. | Nothing is given so free as advice. |
745. | Never give advice in a crowd. |
746. | Never answer a question until it is asked. |
747. | No doubt everything is for the best. |
748. | Never blow your own trumpet. |
749. | Never blow hot and cold in the same breath. |
750. | None but the brave deserve the fair. |
751. | Never was a scornful man well received. |
752. | No man is content with his lot. |
753. | Neither bribe, nor lose thy right. |
754. | Neither a borrower nor a lender be. |
755. | No man means evil but the devil. |
756. | No sweet without sweat. |
757. | Never too late to learn. |
758. | Nothing sharpens sight like envy. |
759. | None but a mule denies his family. |
760. | No advice like a father's. |
761. | No smoke without fire. |
762. | No foe to a flatterer. |
763. | No great man lives in vain. |
764. | Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea. |
765. | No man learns but by pain or shame. |
766. | No love without bread and wine. |
767. | No man is born wise. |
768. | Nature I the true law. |
769. | Nature does nothing in vain. |
770. | Nature will have her course. |
771. | Nature is content with a little. |
772. | Nature abhors a vacuum. |
773. | Necessity is a powerful weapon. |
774. | Necessity knows no law. |
775. | Necessity is the best advisor. |
776. | Nevery say die. |
777. | Nothing lasts for ever, everything passes away, only eternity counts. |
778. | Nothing is so bad, but it might have been worse. |
779. | No pleasure without pain. |
780. | Never grieve for what you cannot help. |
781. | No duty is so trying as to put the right man in the right place. |
O | |
782. | Oil and water do not mix |
783. | Old soldiers never die; they just fade away |
784. | Once a thief, always a thief |
785. | Once bitten, twice shy |
786. | One hand washes the other |
787. | One swallow does not make a summer |
788. | One who believes in Sword, dies by the Sword |
789. | One year's seeding makes seven years weeding |
790. | Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door |
791. | Out of sight, out of mind |
792. | Over greedy man, over wrathful woman will never flourish |
793. | Of one ill come many. |
794. | Old age is a troublesome guest. |
795. | Of all the foes that man should dread the firt and last is the bed. |
796. | Once a knave, always a knave. |
797. | Of evil grain no good seed can come. |
798. | One scabbed goat will mar a whole flock. |
799. | Of cowards no history is written. |
800. | Once in debt, always in debt. |
801. | One hour today is worth two tomorrow. |
802. | Our doubts are tractors. |
803. | One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do goods. |
804. | One eye witness is better than two hearsays. |
805 | .One complimentary letter askes for another. |
806 | .One flower makes no garland. |
807. | One man's loss is another man's gain. |
808. | Overcome evil with good. |
809. | Old hate never wearies. |
810. | Open confession is good for the soul. |
811. | Obedience is seen much more in little things than in great. |
812. | One potter envies another. |
813. | Old people see best in the distance. |
814. | Old age comes uncalled. |
815. | Out of debt out of danger. |
816. | Of a small spark, a great fire. |
817. | One for all, all for one. |
P | |
818. | Patience is a virtue. |
819. | Penny wise and pound foolish |
820. | People who live in glass houses should not throw stones |
821. | Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely |
822. | Practice makes perfect |
823. | Practice what you preach |
824. | Prevention is better than cure |
825. | Pride goes before a fall |
826. | Procrastination is the thief of time |
827. | Put your best foot forward |
828. | Past care, past cure. |
829. | Preserve the old, but know the new. |
830. | Put the coward to his mettle, and he will fight the devil. |
831. | Precepts may lead but examples draw. |
832. | Private faces in public places are wiser and nicer than public faces in private places. |
833. | Provide for the worst, the best will save itself. |
834. | Pardon makes offenders. |
835. | Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. |
836. | Patched up friendship seldom becomes whole again. |
837. | Penny and penny laid up will be many. |
838. | Pain is forgotten when gain follows. |
839. | Put no faith in tale bearers. |
840. | Possessed of happiness, do not exhaust it. |
841. | Pretended holiness is double iniquity. |
842. | Perhaps being old is having lighted room inside your heart. |
843. | Poverty wants many things, and avarice all. |
844. | Put out your tubs when it is raining. |
845. | Pain is the beginning and end of life. |
846. | Parents are patterns. |
847. | Parting is such a sweet sorrow for lovers. |
848. | Passion conquers reason. |
849. | Passion is madness. |
850. | Passion alone can make us surpass ourselves. |
851. | Past is great compared with future. |
852. | Patience is remedy for every grief. |
853. | Patience is a flows that grows not in every garden. |
854. | Patient man wins the day. |
855. | Patience is plaster for all sour. |
856. | Peace makes plenty. |
857. | Pens are most dangerous tools. |
858. | People's memory is short lived. |
859. | Philosophy is the art of living. |
860. | Pity is the natural religion of humanity. |
861. | Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. |
862. | Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. |
863. | Poetry is intellect coloured by feelings. |
864. | Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. |
865. | Politics is the madness of many for the gain of the few. |
866. | Politics is the last resort for scoundrels. |
867. | Poverty breeds strife |
868. | Poverty is a thing all men hate. |
869. | Poor man's words have little weight. |
870. | Power weakens the wicked. |
871. | Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. |
872. | Power pollutes whatever it touches. |
873. | Praise makes good man better and bad man worse. |
874. | Praise fills not the belly. |
875. | Prejudice is the child of ignorance. |
876. | Plenty breeds pride. |
877. | Pride and grace never dwell in one place. |
878. | Pride with pride will not abide. |
879. | Pride is the sworn enemy to content. |
880. | Proverbs cannot be contradicted. |
881. | Proverbs are the children of experience. |
882. | Punctuality is the soul of business. |
883. | Pursuits become habits. |
884. | Paradise is one but the routes are many. |
885. | Policy goes beyond strength. |
R | |
886. | Revenge is a dish best served cold |
887. | Revenge is sweet |
888. | Rome was not built in a day |
889. | Right or wrong, my country |
890. | Rewards and punishments are the walls of a city. |
891. | Rule youth well and age will rule itself. |
892. | Reach the poor through their belly. |
893. | Riches bring care and fear. |
894. | Reading makes a full man. |
895. | Reading is to mind, what exercise is to body. |
896. | Reap what you sow. |
897. | Repentance is the loveliest virtues. |
898. | Religion is the rule of life. |
899. | Religion is the opium of people. |
900. | Revenge is a kind of wild justice. |
901. | Revenge never repairs an injury. |
902. | Riches abuse them who know not how to use them. |
903. | Riches are often abused but never refused. |
904. | Riches hath their embarrassment. |
905. | Riches will bear out folly. |
906. | Rome was not built in a day. |
907. | Reckless youth makes rueful old age. |
S | |
908. | See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil |
909. | Seeing is believing |
910. | Shiny are the distant hills |
911. | Shrouds have no pockets |
912. | Silence is golden |
913. | Slow and steady wins the race |
914. | Slow but sure |
915. | Spare the rod and spoil the child |
916. | Speak softly and carry a big stick |
917. | Still waters run deep |
918. | Strike while the iron is hot |
919. | Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan |
920. | Some are above because they think they are able. |
921. | Seldom seen soon forgotten. |
922. | Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. |
923. | Sin is the root of sorrow. |
924. | Sword of common sense our surest gift. |
925. | Silence is one great art of conversation. |
926. | Stolen waters are sweet. |
927. | Sooner begun, sooner done. |
928. | So many men, so many opinions. |
929. | So much to do, so little done. |
930. | Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing. |
931. | Send a fool to the market and a fool he will return. |
932. | Suffering for a friend doubles friendship. |
933. | Sudden friendship, sure repentance. |
934. | Study sickness while you are well. |
935. | Science is organized knowledge. |
936. | Soon learnt, soon forgotten. |
937. | Sailors have a port in every storm. |
938. | Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. |
939. | Service without reward is punishment. |
940. | Sweet appears sour when we pay. |
941. | Step after step the ladder is ascended. |
942. | Sow an act and you reap a habit. |
943. | Sow a habit and you reap a character. |
944. | Sow a character and you reap a destiny. |
945. | Science is nothing but perception. |
946. | Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. |
947. | Secret things belong to God. |
948. | Self defence is nature's eldest law. |
949. | Self preservation is the first law of nature. |
950. | Servants will not be diligent, where the master is negligent. |
951. | Small service is true service while it lasts. |
952. | Separate the sheep from the goats. |
953. | Speech is silver, silence is gold. |
954. | Silence means consent. |
955. | Silence does seldom harm. |
956. | Silence is wisdom and gets friends. |
957. | Sleep is the poor man's treasure. |
958. | Sleep is the image of death. |
959. | Small is beautiful. |
960. | Small rain allayes great winds. |
961. | Solitidude is the best company. |
962. | Safety lies in solitude. |
963. | Solitude prompts us to all kinds of evil. |
964. | Sorrow comes unsent for. |
965. | Success means perseverance. |
966. | Suspicions always haunt the guilty mind. |
967. | Second thoughts are best. |
968. | Surplus wealth is a sacred trust. |
T | |
969. | Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves |
970. | Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear |
971. | Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are |
972. | The best defence is a good offence |
973. | The bigger they are, the harder they fall |
974. | The cobbler always wears the worst shoes |
975. | The customer is always right |
976. | The Devil finds work for idle hands to do |
977. | The end justifies the means |
978. | The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence |
979. | The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world |
980. | The leopard does not change his spots |
981. | The longest journey starts with a single step |
982. | The pen is mightier than the sword |
983. | The proof of the pudding is in the eating |
984. | The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot |
985. | The squeaking wheel gets the grease |
986. | The way to a man's heart is through his stomach |
987. | There are two sides to every question |
988. | There is an exception to every rule |
989. | There is many a slip between a cup and lip |
990. | There is no smoke without fire |
991. | There is no such thing as bad publicity |
992. | There's none so deaf as those who will not hear |
993. | They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind |
994. | Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it |
995. | Time and tide wait for no man |
996. | Time is a great healer |
997. | Time is money |
998. | Time will tell |
999. | Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all |
1000. | To err is human, to forgive divine |
1001. | Tomorrow is another day |
1002. | Tomorrow never comes |
1003. | Too many cooks spoil the broth |
1004. | Truth is stranger than fiction |
1005. | Two blacks do not make a white |
1006. | Two heads are better than one |
1007. | Two is company, but three is a crowd |
1008. | Two wrongs do not make a right |
1009. | Too much consulting confounds. |
1010. | There is always room at the top. |
1011. | The higher the mountain the greater the descent. |
1012. | The greater the avarice the greater the low. |
1013. | The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can. |
1014. | Things are not always what they seem. |
1015. | The golden covering does not make the ass a horse. |
1016. | The cowl does not make one a monk. |
1017. | There is a black sheep in every flock. |
1018. | The ass that brays most eats less. |
1019. | To fall into sin is human, to remain in sin is devilish. |
1020. | The first blow is half the battle. |
1021. | The best is the enemy of good. |
1022. | To kill two birds with one stone. |
1023. | The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church. |
1024. | The more you say the less the people remember. |
1025. | The cautious seldom err. |
1026. | Times change and we with them. |
1027. | There is nothing permanent except change. |
1028. | The desire for change is a sign of safety. |
1029. | To climb steep hills require slow pace at first. |
1030. | To be under a cloud. |
1031. | They can do least who boast loudest. |
1032. | The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. |
1033. | There was never enough where nothing was left. |
1034. | The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. |
1035. | Talk less, think more. |
1036. | The first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next, wit. |
1037. | The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound. |
1038. | To the real hero, life is a mere straw. |
1039. | The back door robs the house. |
1040. | Too much cunning undoes. |
1041. | The fox preys farthest from his home. |
1042. | The post of honour is the post of danger. |
1043. | It is a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance. |
1044. | The danger past and god forgotten. |
1045. | There is a scorpion under every stone. |
1046. | The darkest day will have passed away. |
1047. | Trust is the mother of deceit. |
1048. | To deceive a deceiver is no deceit. |
1049. | The greatest talkers are the least doers. |
1050. | Time lost cannot be recalled. |
1051. | That delay is good which makes the way safer. |
1052. | The winds are left behind in the speed of desire. |
1053. | Think of the devil, there it is. |
1054. | The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose. |
1055. | There are more ways to the wood than one. |
1056. | There are many ways to kill a dog than hanging it. |
1057. | Tell not all you know nor do all you can. |
1058. | Teaching an old dog new tricks. |
1059. | The last drop makes the pot overflow. |
1060. | The Lord is my light and salvation. |
1061. | Take caution of reconciled enemies. |
1062. | Though thy enemy seems a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. |
1063. | Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. |
1064. | The sun shines upon all alike. |
1065. | The evils that men do lives after them. |
1066. | Though the wound be healed, yet a scar remains. |
1067. | The eyes have one language everywhere. |
1068. | The just should live by faith. |
1069. | There are many ways to fame. |
1070. | The family that prays together, stays together. |
1071. | The father's virtue is the childs' best inheritance. |
1072. | There is no medicine for fear. |
1073. | The fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge. |
1074. | To fish in troubled waters. |
1075. | The malady that is most incurable is folly. |
1076. | To dig a well to put out a house on fire. |
1077. | Thatch your roof before the rain begins. |
1078. | There is no austerity like forgiveness. |
1079. | True friendship is imperishable. |
1080. | There is no great loss without some gain. |
1081. | The best throw of the dice, is to throw them away. |
1082. | The lamp of genius burns more rapidly than the lamp of life. |
1083. | To refuse, and to give tardily is all the same. |
1084. | That never ends ill which begins in God's name. |
1085. | To a grateful man, give money when he needs. |
1086. | Too much hope deceives. |
1087. | The horse shoe that clatters wants a nail. |
1088. | The best of the hospitable learns hospitality. |
1089. | The word impossible is in the dictionary of fools. |
1090. | Temper justice with mercy. |
1091. | The king can do no wrong. |
1092. | The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge. |
1093. | The true success is to labour. |
1094. | The law devised, its evasion contrived. |
1095. | The laws sometime sleep but never die. |
1096. | The more the laws, the less the justice. |
1097. | The more the laws, the more the offenders. |
1098. | Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome. |
1099. | The longest life is but a parcel of moments. |
1100. | The majority has the might. |
1101. | They need much whom nothing will content. |
1102. | There is nothing new under the Sun. |
1103. | The old man's counsel is half deed. |
1104. | Time and tide wait for none. |
1105. | The dark night has a bright morning to follow. |
1106. | The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. |
1107. | There is no use crying over spilt milk. |
1108. | The safety of the people is the highest law. |
1109. | The voice of the people is the voice of God. |
1110. | There are too many people but few human beings. |
1111. | The will of the people is the best law. |
1112. | The people are the masters. |
1113. | The best things are hard to come by. |
1114. | The philosophy of life is generally different from the philosophy of living. |
1115. | To be petty is to be without pity. |
1116. | There is no gambling like politics. |
1117. | The poor man seeks for food, the rich man for appetite. |
1118. | The poor man's budget is full of schemes. |
1119. | The poor lives in peace. |
1120. | Too much praise is a burden. |
1121. | True praise roots and spreads. |
1122. | Too much humility is pride. |
1123. | The last suitor wins the maid. |
1124. | The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of sweetness and light. |
1125. | The resolved mind has no cares. |
1126. | There is salve for every sore. |
1127. | The longer you look at it, less you will like it. |
1128. | There is nothing among mankind swifter than rumour. |
1129. | The trodden path is the safest. |
1130. | There is a skeleton in every house. |
1131. | The black sheep do not weep. |
1132. | Talking comes by nature, silence by understanding. |
1133. | The best carpenter makes the fewest chips. |
1134. | The beginning of health is sleep. |
1135. | Two in distress make sorrow less. |
1136. | The remembrance of past sorrow is joyful. |
1137. | The secret of success is consistency of purpose. |
1138. | The less we know the more we suspect. |
1139 | .The more a man thinks, the better adapted he becomes. |
1140. | They are never along who are accomanied with noble thoughts. |
1141. | Thoughts elevate a man. |
1142. | Time cures all things. |
1143. | Time is money. |
1144. | Time is the great innovator. |
1145. | Time is a great healer. |
1146. | The tongue talks at the head's cost. |
1147. | The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. |
1148. | Travels broaden the mind, teaches tolerance. |
1149. | Trouble never comes in single files but in battalions. |
1150. | Trusting others too much is the ruin of many. |
1151. | Try your friend before you trust. |
1152. | Trust begets trust. |
1153. | Truth always/alone triupmphs. |
1154. | Truth and oil always come to the surface. |
1155. | Truth is mighty and will prevail. |
1156. | Truth may be suppressed but never strangled. |
1157. | Truth stretches, but never breaks. |
1158. | Truth breeds hatred. |
1159. | Truth may be blamed but cannot be shamed. |
1160. | Two of a trade seldom agree. |
1161. | Two negatives make an affirmative. |
1162. | There is no virtue that poverty destroys not. |
1163. | The road to vices is not only smooth but steep. |
1164. | There is no vice without virtue. |
1165. | The world is a stage and every man plays his part. |
1166. | The world is a drama. |
1167. | Take thins as it comes. |
1168. | The world is not for worry but for merry. |
U | |
1169. | United we stand, divided we fall. |
1170. | Under the thorn grow the roses. |
1171. | Under a shabby cloak may be a smart thinker. |
1172. | Unity is strength. |
V | |
1173. | Variety is the spice of life. |
1174. | Vain glory blossoms but never bears. |
1175. | Variety turns existence into life. |
1176. | Virtue is its own reward. |
1177. | Virtue is the one and only nobility. |
W | |
1174. | Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs |
1175. | Waste not, want not |
1176. | What cannot be cured must be endured |
1177. | What goes up must come down |
1178. | What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander |
1179. | When in Rome, do as the Romans do |
1180. | When the cat is away, the mice will play |
1181. | When the going gets tough, the tough get going |
1181. | When three women gather, it becomes noisy |
1182. | What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over |
1183. | Where there is a will there is a way |
1184. | Where there is muck there is brass |
1185. | Whom the Gods love die young |
1186. | While there is life there is hope |
1187. | Why keep a dog and bark yourself? |
1188. | With a responsibility comes great power |
1189. | Worrying never did anyone any good |
1190. | Without luck ability is nothing. |
1191. | What is done cannot be undone. |
1192. | Woes unite foes. |
1193. | What you see is what you get. |
1194. | Wise men argue causes and fools decide them. |
1195. | Weeds need no seeding. |
1196. | Well begun is half done. |
1197. | We soon believe what we desire. |
1198. | Who borrows to builds, builds to sell. |
1199. | When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, everything is lost. |
1200. | Who greases his way travels easily. |
1201. | What a pity, it is that we cn die but once to sve our country. |
1202. | With custom we live well, but law undo us. |
1203. | Who thinks to deceive god has already deceived himself. |
1204. | When wine sinks, words swim. |
1205. | What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals. |
1206. | When meat is in, anger is out. |
1207. | Whoever wills the end, wills also the means. |
1208. | When the well is full, it will run over. |
1209. | When fortune smiles, embrace her. |
1210. | When all is lost, future still remains. |
1211. | When you drink from the stream, remember the spring. |
1212. | Who gives not thanks to man, gives not thanks to God. |
1213. | Without health life is not life, it is useless. |
1214. | Without hearts there is no home. |
1215. | Welcome is the best dish. |
1216. | When the fox preaches, then beware of your geese. |
1217. | Wild animals never kill for sport. |
1218. | Walk while you have light lest darkness comes upon you. |
1219. | Wedlock is a padlock. |
1220. | What is in a name? |
1221. | What the old man does is always correct. |
1222. | Women endure pain as a natural heritage. |
1223. | What is past is gone. |
1224. | What you have, hold. |
1225. | When power puts in its plea, the laws are silent. |
1226. | Win or lose, never regret. |
1227. | While truth walks a mile, rumours travels round the globe. |
1228. | What some invent, others enlarge. |
1229. | Who knows himself, knows others. |
1230. | Who wishes to be ill served, let him have plenty of servants. |
1231. | Will is no skill. |
1232. | Who suffers much is silent. |
1233. | Who knows much will suffer much. |
1234. | We are here and gone tomorrow. |
1235. | Wake not a sleeping lion. |
1236. | What is vice today may be virtue tomorrow. |
1237. | When war begins, then hell opens. |
1238. | War brings scars. |
1239. | War is death's feast. |
1240. | Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy. |
1241. | Wealth without wisdom is worthless. |
1242. | Wisdom and virtue are two wheels of a cart. |
1243. | Wisdom goes not always by years. |
1244. | Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. |
1245. | Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. |
1246. | Work while you work; play while you play; that is the way to be happy and gay. |
1247. | Work is man's birth right. |
1248. | Work is worship/exercise/experience. |
1249. | Work till you perspire, east as you aspire. |
1250. | Worrying for others is not good as help. |
1251. | Worry buries you. |
1252. | World is God's toy. |
1253. | Worth has been under rated ever since wealth has been over rated. |
1254. | Worth is measured by utility. |
1255. | Work more talk less. |
1256. | Walls have ears. |
1257. | What is done by night appears by day. |
1258. | What a day may bring, another day may take away. |
1259. | Whom we love best, to them we can say least. |
1260. | Where we do not respect we cease to love. |
1261. | Whispered words are heard afar. |
1262. | We are never like angels till our passions die. |
1263. | Where vice is, revenge will follow. |
1264. | Without music life would be a mistake. |
1265. | Wine and wealth change wise men's manners. |
1266. | Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold. |
1267. | When all men speak, no man hears. |
Y | |
1268. | You are never too old to learn |
1269. | You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink |
1270. | You cannot have your cake and eat it too. |
1271. | You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs |
1272. | You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds |
1273. | You cannot judge a book by its cover |
1274. | You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar |
1275. | You scratch my back and I will scratch yours. |
1276. | Youth is full of pleasure; age is full of care. |
1277. | You can not put new wine into old bottles. |
1278. | You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. |
1279. | You cannot make a crab walk straight. |
1280. | You never know your luck. |
1281. | You can fool all the people some of the time and some the people all the time; but you cannot fool all the people all the time. |
1282. | You may know by a handful the whole sack. |
1283. | You must lost a fly to catch a trout. |
1284. | You will not suffer from which you withdraw. |
1285. | You never miss the water till the well runs dry. |
1286. | Youth and age will never agree. |
1289. | Youth and white paper take any impression. |
1290. | Youth comes but once in a life time. |
1291. | Youth is a garland of roses, age a crown of thorn. |
1292. | Youth looks forward and age backward. |
1293. | Youth may stray but return at last. |
1294. | Youth will have its swing. |
1295. | Youth is drunkenness without wine. |
Z | |
1296. | Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. |
1297. | Zeal fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools. |
1298. | Zeal without prudence is frenzy. |
1299. | Zest and zeal be your pulse and feel. |
1300. | Zest without knowledge is fire without light. |
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