| S.No. | PROVERBS -- English |
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| 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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