A- Idioms

Freudian slip


Set the cat amongst the pigeons

Put the cat on hot plate

Learn something new everyday

Appreciate your body as a marble

Do not care so much about people talking about you as we can not control them.

Life it too short to waste time hating people

"To live in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle". - Walker Percy

Don’t take it yourself so seriously, nobody else does

"The test of our progress

is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much;

it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A bad workman always blames his tools

There is always excuse for people not to accomplish the task on time, most of the time, they blame the tool is not sufficient, and this is a not a good way to present yourself as at the end of the day, you still can not finish the job, if the person is smart he should voice out at the very beginning instead of blaming the too after the failure.



A closed mouth catches no flies

Try to be cautious and be protective your self , once say when you throw stone, you can not catch it back, when you say a word, you can not recall it… Try to keep quiet, As Silence Is Gold



A dozen trades, thirteen miseries

There are always the bad side not just about trade but all the things happening on us. This is not a too proactive way to describe things and task, but can be used a comfort to those who failed in meeting certain target.



"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)



A man has many enemy when his back is at the wall



A man in love is borne again



A miss is as good as a mile



A man is as old as he feels, a woman is as old as she looks



A man speaks well when his clock strikes



A near friend is better than a far dwelling kinsman



A new broom sweep clean





“ A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ”

- Herm Albright

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

A Rose by any name would smell as sweet as you



A small leak will sink a great ship



A swine over-fat is the cause of its own bane



A Sunday Saint



A tattler is worse than a thief



A wise man cares not for he can not have



A wise man thinks all that he says; a fool says all that he thinks



Absence makes the heart grow fonder



Actions speak louder than words



Adam ele is the best rule



Add fuel to the fire



A quick decision may 43



All one geese are swans



All laid load on willing horse



All rivers run into the sea



All roads lead to Rome



All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy



Among the blind, the one eyed man is King



An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth



An ill bird laid an ill egg



An ox was taken by the horn, and a man by the tongue



An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory



Any port is a good refuse in a storm



As fire is kindled by bellows, so as anger is by words



As is the workman, as is the work



As the tree, so the fruit



As well be hanged for a sheep or a lamb



As you make the bed, so you must lie on it



As you sow, you shall reed



All that glitters is not gold – Shakespeare



All that go to church are not Saints



Angry is a short madness



Angry punishes itself



Appearances are deceptive



Art is long life is short



As well be hanged for a sheep or a lamp



A Penny saved is a penny gained



A rose b any other name would sweet the same – Romeo a d Juliet 1860



A rugged stone goes smooth from hand to hand



A straw will show which way the wind blows



A tattler is worse than a thief



A Bad tongue; a wicked ear



A dog in the manger



A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse



A Present will enter everywhere without knocking



A swine over-fat is the cause of its own bane



A Rose by any name would smell as sweet as you



A little pitches have long ears



A little pot is soon hot



A miss is as good as a mile



A man’s gift makes room for him



A man without smiling face must not open a shop



A small leak will sink a great ship



A wicked man is his own hell



A near friend is better than a far dwelling kinsman



A avarice blinds our eyes



A still tongue makes a wise head



A Sunday Saint



A thousand probabilities do not make one truth



A wise man cares not for he cannot have



A wise man thinks all that he says; a fool says all that he thinks



A bad workman always blames his tools



A bird is known by its note and a man by his talk



A blind man will not thank you for a looking glass



A clean fast a better than a dirty breakfast



The dog that fetches will carry



A living dog is better than a dead lion



A closed mouth catches no flies



A good beginning makes good ending



A good tongue is a good weapon



Add fuel to the fire



Adversity is the touch stone of virtue



A dozen trades, thirteen miseries



A fair face may hide a foul heart



A fat belly does not bleed a subtle mind



After rain, comes sunshine, after storm, comes calm, after Winter, comes Spring, After Dark, comes dawn



A full of words is no full of wisdom



A little body often harbours a great soul



A man is not good or bad for one action



A man of words and lot of deeds is like a garden full of weeds



A Man’s mind is a mirk mirror



A nod is as good as a wink of a blind horse



A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder



A rolling eye is a rolling heart



A saint abroad and a devil at home



A stitch in time saves nine



A wise head makes a close mouth



An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening



An ounce prevention is worth a pound of cure



All good things come to an end



All one geese are swans



All laid load on willing horse



All roads lead to Rome



All rivers run into the sea



All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill



All work and no play make Jack a dull boy



Always miss, always miss



An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth



An old poacher makes the best keeper



Angry is a short madness



Angry punished itself



Any port is a good refuse in a storm





Actions speak louder than words



Adam ale is the best rule



Among the blind, the one eyed man is King



As fire is kindled by bellows, so as anger is by words



As is the workman, as is the work



As the tree, so the fruit



As the wind blows you must set the sail



As well be hanged for a sheep or a lamb



As you sow, you shall reed



As you make the bed, so you must lie on it





Absence makes the heart grow fonder



All that glitters is not gold – Shakespeare



All that go to church are not Saints



An ill turn will soon done



Angry is a short madness



Angry punishes itself



Appearances are deceptive



Art is long, life is short



As well be hanged for a sheep or a lamp



Bad workman always blame his tools



Beauty is but skin deep



Beauty is not harmed by time



Beggars must not be choosers



Better a glorious death than a shameful life



Better a devil you know than a devil you don’t know



Better be first in a village than second at Rome



Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion



Better master one than engaged with ten



Better break than bend



Better an open enemy than a false friend



Between two stools one falls to the ground



Better one eye than stone blind



Beware the silent dog and still water



Birds in a feather flock together



Birds in their little nest agree



Bless is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed



Brevity is the soul of wit



Bitter pill may have wholesome effect



Blood is thicker than water



Bad news travels fast



Bad workman always blames his tools



Barking dogs seldom bite



Be slow to promise and quick to response



Beauty is but skin deep



Before you marry, be sure a house therein to tarry



Beggars must not be choosers



Believe nothing what you hear and only half what you see



Better a glorious death than a shameful life



Better a devil you know than a devil you don’t know



Better be alone than in bad company



Better be first in a village than second at Rome



Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion



Better late than never



Better master one than engaged with ten



Better break than bend



Better an open enemy than a false friend



Better never to begin than never to make an end



Between two stools one falls to the ground



Better one eye than stone blind



Beware the silent dog and still water



Birds in a feather flock together



Birds in their little nest agree



Bite off no more than one can chew



Back door influence



Beauty fades like a flower



Better late than never



Bless is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed



Brevity is the soul of wit



Burn not the house to rid off the mouse



Business is Business



Bitter pill may have wholesome effect



Blood is thicker than water



By doing nothing, we learn to do it



Catch an ox by his horn as a man by the tongue



Care kills a cat



Cast not the first stone (Bible)



Catch an ox by his horn as a man by the tongue



Catch not the shadow and lost the substance



Charity begins at home



Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts



Choice of the ends covers choice of the means



Claw me and I’ll claw thee



Clean fast is better than dirty breakfast



Cleanliness is next to Godliness

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Clothes don’t make the man



Come with the wind, go with the water



Coming events cast their shadows before



Comparisons are odious



Constant dripping wears away the stone



Conscience does makes coward of us all



Cowards die many times before their deaths - Shakespeare



Crime doesn’t pay



Cry out wine and sell vinegar



Curst cows have curt horn ! – Shakespeare Much to do about nothing



Cut your clothe according to your cloth



Death is the grand leveler

Deliver you words not by number, but by weight

Dumb dogs are dangerous



Deceivers have full mouths and empty hands



Deeds not words



Diligence is the mother of success



Deliver you words not by number, but by weight



Desperate deceases must have desperate cures



Dispression is the better part of Bella



Discontent is the first step in progress



Distance leads enchantment to the view



Diamond cut Diamond ( Cut no s more tone emphasis )

( Tit for Tat )



Do in Rome as the Romans do



Do not triumph before the victory



Don’t cast the pearls before a swine



Do count your chickens before they are hatched



Don’t cry before you are hurt



Don’t cut the bouth you are standing on



Don’t empty the baby out with the bath water



Don’t go too near the water until you know how to swim



Don’t hide your light under a browser



Don’t kick against the pricks



Don’t make yourself a mouse or the cat will eat you



Don’t put all your eggs in one basket



Don’t praise a day before sunset, don’t curse a day before sunset.



Don’t run your head against a stone wall



Don’t swap horses when crossing a stream



Do as you would be done by (live and let live )



Dog does not eat dog



Don’t cross the bridge until you come to it



Doubt is the key of knowledge



Dying is a natural as living



Dumb dogs are dangerous



Early to bed, early to rise makes a man health and wise



Ease dropper never hear any good of themselves



Easier said than done



East or West, home is best



Either win the saddle or lose the horse



Empty vessels make the most sound



Envy eats nothing but its own heart



Envy shoots at others and wounds herself



Even Homer sometimes nods



Every cloud has it silver lining



Every cook praises his own broth



Every dog has its day



Every float has its ebb



Every cook praises his own broth



Easier said than done



Every medal has two sides



Every oak must be an acot



Everyone ‘s business is nobody’s business



Everyday is not Sunday



Every family has a skeleton in a closet



Every man for himself an the devil takes the hindmost



Every shoe fits not every foot



Experience without learning is better than learning without experience



Expectation is better than realization



He that talks much lies much



Hunger is the best sauce



Facts are stubborn things



Fan the flames



Fine word dress ill deeds



Faint heart never won fair lady



Familiarities reach consent?



Fan the flames



Failure is the mother of success



Fast Bind, fast find



Fasting comes after feasting



Fat paunch have lean pates



Faults are thick while love is thin



Find the keepers, lose the seekers



Fine feathers makes fine birds



Fine word dress ill deeds



Fish begins to stink at its head



Favoritism



Fine words dress ill deeds



Foot print on the sense of time are not made by sitting down



Force can never destroy right



Forewarned is forearmed



Forbidden fruit is sweetest



From saving comes having



Full of courtesy, full of craft



Gather yee rose buds while yee made



Give credit where credit is due ( whether he is wicked man or evil )



Give a dog a bad name and hang him



Give a lie 24 hours a start and you can never overtake it



Give him an inch and he will take a mile



Give the devil his due



God helps those who helps themselves



Gold will not buy anything



Good news goes on crunches ill news flies apace



Good wine needs no bush



Gossiping and lying go hand in hand



Grasp all, lose all



Grace will last , beauty will blast



Gratuity is the risk of virtue but in-gratuity is the words of vices



Great winds blows upon high hills



Green eyed monster



Green with envy



Habit cures habit



Half an egg is better than an empty shell



Hard works break no bone, fine works butter no parsnips



Haste makes waste



Hasty love, soon cold



Hasty work, double work



Have a wolf by the ears



Hawk will not pick out hawk’s eyes



Heads I win, tails you lose



Health is better than wealth



Health is not valued till sickness comes



He that lives with the limbo learn to limb



He that marries for wealth sells his liberty



He climbs high falls heavily



He drinks like a fish



He is lifeless, that is faultless



He is wise, that is honesty



He knows much who knows how to hold his tongues



He laughs best who laughs best



He that cannot obey cannot command



He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it



He that flights and runs away may live to flight another day



He that is full of himself is very empty



He that is the master of himself will soon be the master of others



He that spares the bad injuries the good



He that talks much lies much



He that thinks had business below him will always be above his business



He that is ill to himself will not be good to everybody



He that has no children knows not what is love



He that loves the tree, love the branch



He that talks much lies much



He who does not marry will be sorry



He who gets does much, he who keeps does more



"He who rides the tiger is afraid to its smell"



He who would climbs the ladder must begin at the bottom



He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly



He who has wills to beat his dog will easily find the stick



He who has done ill once will do it again



He who hatches mischief catches mischief



He who hesitates is lost



He who holds the purse rules the house



He who makes no mistakes makes nothing



He who marry might be sorry



He who pays the pipers calls the tunes



He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount



He who works begins well he who economizes ends better



Hide not your light under the bauser



Honesty is the best policy



Honey is sweet, but the bee stinks



Hope springs internal in the human breast



Hunger is the best sauce



Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood



Idle folks lack no excuses



Idleness is the root of all evil



I can see a mile off



I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts



I have come to believe that genuine democracy can not exist without the freedom to imagine and right to use imaginations which work with our restrictions



If at first you don’t succeed, try try try again



If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city



There is no grief which time does not listen and suffer.



If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow



If if and ends, were pots and pans



If the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into the ditch



If the cap fits, wear it



If the sky falls, we shall catch larks



If there is no clouds, we shall not enjoy the sun



If things have to be done twice, all would be wise



If two man ride on a horse, one must ride behind



If you are too fortunate you will not know yourself



If you are too unfortunate, no body will know you



If you agree to carry the calf, they will make you carry a cow



If you can not bite, don’t show your teeth!



If you can’t beat them, join them



Idle folks lack no excuses



In for a Penny, in for a Pound





If you marry, there is a house wherein to tarry



If you run after two hares you will get neither



If you want knowledge, you must toil for it



if wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart, the spirit should not grow old!



Ill gotten, ill spent



In a bat, there is a fool and a thief



In a calm sea, every man is a pilot



Industrious is fortune right hand frugality her left



In for a Penny, in for a Pound



In the end, things will mend



In the grave, the rich and poor is lie equal



Inscrutable is the waste of heaven



If you have no hand, you can not make a fist



If you would be well served, serve yourself



If wine, there is truth



It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well



It is always darkest before day dawn



It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor



It is a small world



It is a silly fish that been caught twice in the same bay



It is a sad heart that never rejoice



It is a great victory that comes without blood



It is a wicked world that we make hard of it



It is blessed to give than to take



It is better to lose something than all



It is better to wear out and rust out



It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him



It is good to have company in trouble



It is hard to wife and thrive both in a year



It is more pain to do nothing than something



It is only the tree loaded with fruit that people will throw stone



It is no flying without wings



It is no use to flog a dead horse



It is not every couple that is a pair



It is not fit to command others that cannot command himself



It is not how long but how well we live it



It is not the burden but overburden that kills the beast



It is not work that kill but worry



It is the unexpected that always happens



It is comparison makes man happy or miserable



It is good fishing in troubled water



It is good to follow old fox



It is loss labour to sow where there is no soil



It is never too late to mend



It is never too late to repent



It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman



It is not work that kills but worry



It is no use crying over split milk



It is safer to hear and take council than to give it



It is silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait



It is spurdle (Girdle?)and spur that makes a good horse



It is the comparison that makes a man happy or miserable



It is dogged than does it



It is too late to call back Yesterday



It is too late to shut the stable door when the horse is bolted



It is more bless to give than to receive



It is useless to flog a dead horse



It never rains, but it pours



Jack of all trade, but master of none.



Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbors



Just not that yee be not judged



Keeping is harder than winning



Keep your eye wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards



Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open



Keep your mouth shut and your ear open



Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs



Kings and bears often worry keepers



Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits



Knowledge is power



Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs



Know well before you knit



Late repentance is seldom true



Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep , and you weep alone



Law is the bottom list pit



Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free



Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing



Lend you money and lose your friend



Let not your left hand knows what your right hand does



Let no the sun goes down with your wrath



Let not the wit go wool gathering (do not lose concentration, though you are smart but fail to achieve anything)



Liberty is more worth than gold



Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it



Light come , lightly go



Like begas like



Like father, like son



Little pigeon can carry great messages



Little pitchers have long ears



Little strokes fell great oaks



Little things are great for little man



Little thieves are hanged, but great one escaped



Little wealth little care



Live and let live. ( Do as you would be done by )



Living well is the best revenge



Life is too short to be little



Live not to eat, but eat to live



Lock the stable door when the horse is stolen



Long absent, soon forgotten



Look before you leap



Lookers-on see more than players, lookers-on see most of the game



Lookers-on see most of the game



Love can not be forces



Love comforteth like Summer after rain



Love should not be all on one side



Love is blind



Love see no faults



Love laughs at locksmiths



Love makes all hard hearts gentle



Love me, love my dog



Make a do and Have a do



Make a fire and blow the smoke



Make no door wider than the house



Make the best of the bad job



Make your enemy your friend



Make yourself all honey and all flies deflower you



Malice hurts itself most



Man are blind in their own cause



Man makes house woman makes home



Men make promise more in a day than they will fulfill in a year



Man only dies once



Man talk only to conceal their mind



Man’s Extremity is god of opportunity



Man proposes, God disposes.





Man strand at gnats and swallow camels



Man’s work lasts set of sun, woman’s work never done



Many a good cow half a bad calf



Many a little makes a mickle (Muckle)



Many can pack the card but can not play well



Many dishes make many diseases



Many hands make light work



Many heads are better than one



Many sands will sink a ship



Marriage is a lottery



Marry above your match, then you get your master



Marriages are made in heaven



Marry in haste and repent in leisure



Master should sometimes blind and sometimes deaf



May god defend me from my friends, I can defend myself to my enemy



May my death comes to me from Spain



Measure yourself use your won foot



Memory is the treasure if your mind



Message should be needed be headed nor hand



Might is right



Mischief comes by the pound and goes sway by the ounce



Misery loves companion



Misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot



Misfortune never comes singly



Misfortune tells us what fortune is



Men is known by the company they keep



Moderation in all things



Money burns a hole in the pocket



Money is a good servant and a bad master



Money is the key that opens all doors



Money is the root of all evil



Money is the sinews of all war



Money makes the mare go



Mother’s darling is milk sop hero



Much would have more



Much Science, much sorrow



Muck and Money goes together



Murder will out





Near is my petticoat, nearer is my smock



Nearest the heart, nearest the mouth



Necessity is the mother of invention



Necessity knows no law



Neither a borrower nor a lender be



Net at Sleep catches the fishes



Never ask a pardon before you are accused



Never Answer a Question till you are asked for



Never catch a falling knife or falling friend



Never Creep for what you can not help



Never cross the bridges till you come to them



Never do things by halves



Never enquire pedigree of a good man



Never make threat you can not carry out



Never offer to teach fish to swim



Never put off till tomorrow if you can do it today



Never spend your money before you have it



Never spur on willing horse



Never tell your enemy that your foot aches



Never too old to learn

Never spur on willing horse



Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you



Never trust another what you should do yourself



New venture out of your death until you can swim



No answer is also an answer



No cross, no crown



No good building without a good foundation



No love is foul nor prison fair



No man is a craft or master in the first day



No man is infallible



No man is indispensable



No Man loves his fetters though they made of gold



No man so wise but he may be deceived



No question is ever settled until it is settled right



None so blind as those who won’t see, none so dead as those who won’t hear



No gain without pain



No pain, no gain



No receiver, no thief



No garden without its weeds



No blame or shame to be a man than to be a Cuckold



No rose without a thorn



No safe way in unknown water



No sweet apple on sour stock



No sweat, no sweet



Non of the brave deserves the fair



None but fools and knaves lay wagers



Nothing comes from nothing



Nothing is as good as it seems before hand



Nothing is certain but the unforeseen



Nothing is certain but uncertainty



Nothing is different to the man who will try



Nothing is impossible to be a willing heart where there is will, there is a way



Nothing seek, nothing find



Nothing venture, nothing gain



Older and wiser



Old birds are not to be caught with chaff



Old habits die hard



Old vessel must leak



One flower makes no garland



One good turn deserves another



One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock



One swallow does not make a Summer



Opportunity never knock twice



Once a devil, always a devil



Once bit, twice shy



One can not put back the clock



One enemy is too many, 10 Friends is too few



One eye witness is better than ten ear witnesses



One Flower makes no garland



One good forewit is worth two afterwits



One law for the rich, and another for the poor



One length is damaged; the whole chain will be broken



One lie makes many times flies



One man makes a chair and another sits in it



One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge



One master in the house is enough



One must draw back in order to leap better



One must draw the line somewhere



One of these days is none of these days



One picture is better than 1,000 words



One swallow does not make a Summer



One Tale is good, telling other is two



One touch of nature makes the world kin



One volunteer is worth than two best men



One own fire is pleasant



Open confession is good for the soul



Opportunity seldom knocks twice



Out of sight, out of mind



Out of the frying pan into the fire



Pardoning the bad is injuring the good



Patience is a virtue



Patient men win the day



Patience, time and money accommodates all things



Penny wise, pound foolish



Pig might fly if they had wings



Pleasure hours fly fast



Plenty bleeds pride



Possession is nine points out of the law



Poor and content is rich and rich enough



Pouring oil on the fire is not the way quenching



Poverty is no sin



Poverty is the pain, but not disgrace

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely



Practice makes perfect



Practice what your preach



Praise makes good man better and had man worse



Praise no man till he is dead, call no man great before he is dead



Pray the god to help you and put yourself to work



Prettiest dies first



Prevention is better than cure



Pride comes before a fall



Pride go with before and shame come after



Promised are like pie crush made to be broken



Power makes enemy



Proverbs are the children of experiences



Prosperity makes friend



Punctuality is the politeness of the kings



Punctuality is the soul of business



Quick believer needs a broad shoulder



Rat deserts a sinking ship



Rather a man than money



Ready money is a ready medicine



Remedy may be worst than diseases



Red sky at night, shepherd delight, Red sky n the morning, shephard’s warning



"Remember me when I gone away, Gone away to a land of silence"



Christina Rossetti

1930-1896



Repentance never comes too late, Respect is greater



Revenge never repairs and injury



Revenge is sweet



Respect yourself or no one else will respect you



Rewards and punishments are the walls of the city



Riches alone make no man happy



Rome was not built in one day



Running water carry no poison



Sadness and Happiness succeed each other



Salt water and absence wash away love



Safe Congress without bloodshed is the greatest



Safety lies in middle course



Say well would be still



Science is nothing worth without conscience



Scrap head will be broken



Score twice before you cut once



Seeing is believing



Self do, self have



Self praise is no recommendation



Self preservation is the first law of nature



Sell one birth right for mess porridge



Sell the skin before you catch the bear



Send the beggar on the horse back and ride to the devil



Servant makes the master worst



Set a beggar on horse back and the ride for devil



Set a Cow to catch the hare



Set a thief to catch a thief



Set hard heart against hard hap



Shallow water makes the greatest sound



Small games bring great wealth



Small is the need of every greatness



Something is better than nothing



Sooner or later the truth comes to light



So near and yet so far



Sow nothing, reed nothing



Speech has been given to man to disguise his thought



Speech is silver, silence is golden



Step by step the ladder is a standard



Still Waters run deep



Strike while the iron is not



Stuff the stomach like an apothecary shop



Stuff today and starve tomorrow



Success has many friends



Such carpenters, such chips



Sweets are the user of adversity



Sow nothing, reed nothing



Tall tree catches the wind



The last straw on camel’s back



The noblest vengeance is to forgive



The Poison is hidden in the gold cup



The road to hell is paved with good intention



The rotten apple injuries the neigbourer



Take away the course and the effect must cease



Take not a musket to kill the butterfly



Take things when they come



Talk of a devil and he is sure to appear



Tall tree catches the wind



Talk of the devils and he will be sure to appear



Take the bad with the good



Take the bull by the horns



Thay the dance pays the fiddler



The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest



The best horse needs breaking and the aptest child needs teaching



The best of friend must part



The biter is sometime bit



The chief aim of man is not to get money



The cowl does not make the monk



The ends justify the means



The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong man



The first breath is the beginning of death



The fool that thinks he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool



The joy of the heart makes the face fair



The King’s words stand



The knife cuts both breads and fingers



The lame tongue gets nothing



The longer we live, the more far we see



The man who knows most forgives most

"The test of our progress

is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much;

it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

Franklin D. Roosevelt



They make a mountain out of molehill



The milk is spilt



The Pen is mightier thane the sword



The pleasure of the rich are brought the tear of the poor



The pot calls the kettle black



The proof of the pudding is I the eating



The purse of the patient protrack the diseases.



The road to hell is paved with good intension

‘

The rotten apple injures its neighbourers



The scalded dog fears cold water



The straws will show the way the wind blows





The truth will come out



The wise man knows he knows nothing the fool thinks he knows all





The youth of America is the oldest tradion



No question is ever settled until it is settled right



The exception proves the rule



The friar peach against stealing and has a goose in the sleeva



The more you have, the more you want



The noblest vengeance is to forgive



The peacock has fair feather but foul feet



The pleasure of rich are brought by the tear of the poor



There is blindness like ignorance



There is life, there is hope



There is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

Dr. Brower ( Twixt = Greek for Between )



There is no rule but has exceptions



There is no smoke without fire



There is no wheat without chaff



Time is money ( - Benjamin Franklin)



Time is short and life is swift



Time passes away, but sayings remain



Time works great changes



Time tries truth



Tit for Tat (Diamond cut Diamond



The best go first



The course of true love never did run smooth



The devil make it in at the key hole but the door won’t let him out



The great fish eat up the small



The heart of a fool is in his tongue



The joy of the heart makes the face fair



The mill can not grind when the water is dead



The mill of God grinds slowly



The moon is not seen where the sun shines



The mop has many heads but no brian



The more noble, the more humble



The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken



The last drop makes the cup run over



The last straw breaks the camel’s back



The leopard can not change its spots



The Tailor makes the man



The youth of America is the old tradition for 300 years- Oscar Wilde



There is a black sheep in a flock



There is a crook in the (log?) of everyone



There is a tide in the affairs of man



There is but one step from sublime to the ridiculous



There is many a good tune play on an old fiddle



There is no counting for taste



There is no disputing about tastes



There is no great loss without some gain



There would be no great ones of there were no little ones



Think of the angle and he will be here with wings



Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform



The love of monkey is the root of all devil



The wolf may lose it teeth but never its nature



Three removals are as bad as fire



Time past can not be called back again



To drink someone under the table





To know everything is to know nothing



"To live in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle". - Walker Percy



To save time is to lengthen life



Too many cooks spoil the broth



Too much curiosity lost paradise



Too much liberty spoils all



Too much spoils, too little is nothing





True Coral needs no painter’s brush



True love is giving not taking



Truth will prevail



Two blacks don’t make a white



Two dogs strive for a bone, the third runs away with it



Two wrong don’t make a right



Power makes enemy



Union is strength



United we stand divided we fall



Variety is the spice of life





Variety is the spice of life



Velvet paws hide shape claws



Virtue is its own rewards



Virtue never grow old



Wall have ears





Want is the mother of industry



War is death’s feast



War is the sport of King



We are not borne for ourselves



We should never remember the benefit that we receive and the offer that we made

We will get worst before getting better…. Obama



Weight justly and sell dearly



Well begun is half done



Well, there is life there is hope



What is a workman without his tools





What’s done can not be undone



Whats’s done is done



What is ill gotten will be ill spent



What is yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

What is sweet in the mouth is often bitter in the stomach

When in double do nowt ( nowt is an Greek means nothing)

When poverty comes at the door, loves flies out of the door



When the wine is in, the wit is out



Wine and wealth change wise man’s manner



What may be done at anytime is done at no time



When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray



When greed meet greed , then comes the tug of war



When you lost on the swings, you will get back on the roundabut



What learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb



What must be must be



Where there is muck, there is brass

Muck and money go together





Where the water is shadow, no vessel will ride



What is the good of suntan in the shade



What is sweet in the mouth is often bitter in the stomach





What the eye does not see the heart does not grieve over



What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks



When the tree is fallen, everyone runs to it with his axe



When the wine is in, the wit is out



When the wolf grows old, the crow rides him



Whenever an ass falletch, there will he never fall again



Wine and wealth change wise man’s manner



When the fox preaches then beware the geese



When the prince fiddles, the subject must dance





When wrath speaks, wisdom fails to face



When the fox peaches, take care of your geese



Where ignorance is bliss, a fool is to be wise



Where there is whispering there is lying

Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to how



Who repairs not his gutters repairs his whole house



Who chatters to you will chatter of you



Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow



Whom the god loves die young



Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hands



Wise distrust is the parent of security



Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit



Words pay no debts



Work Today for you know not how much you may be hindered Tomorrow



You don’t get something from nothing



You scratch my back and I will scratch yours



90% of inspiration is respiration

Idioms A-Z

A bad workman always blames his tools

A closed mouth catches no flies

A dozen trades, thirteen miseries

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

A man has many enemy when his back is at the wall

A man in love is borne again

A miss is as good as a mile

A man is as old as he feels, a woman is as old as she looks

A man speaks well when his clock strikes

A near friend is better than a far dwelling kinsman

A new broom sweep clean

A nod is as good as a wink of a blind horse

“ A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ”
- Herm Albright

A Rose by any name would smell as sweet as you

A small leak will sink a great ship

A swine over-fat is the cause of its own bane

A Sunday Saint

A tattler is worse than a thief

A wise man cares not for he can not have

A wise man thinks all that he says; a fool says all that he thinks

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Actions speak louder than words

Adam ele is the best rule

Add fuel to the fire

All one geese are swans

All laid load on willing horse

All rivers run into the sea

All roads lead to Rome

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Among the blind, the one eyed man is King

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

An ill bird laid an ill egg

Any port is a good refuse in a storm

As fire is kindled by bellows, so as anger is by words

As is the workman, as is the work

As the tree, so the fruit

As well be hanged for a sheep or a lamb

As you make the bed, so you must lie on it

As you sow, you shall reed

All that glitters is not gold – Shakespear

All that go to church are not Saints

Angry is a short madness

Angry punishes itself

Appearances are deceptive

Art is long life is short

As well be hanged for a sheep or a lamp

A Penny saved is a penny gained

A straw will show which way the wind blows

A tattler is worse than a thief

A Bad tongue; a wicked ear

A dog in the manger

A swine over-fat is the cause of its own bane

A Rose by any name would smell as sweet as you

A little pitches have long ears

A little pot is soon hot

A miss is as good as a mile

A man’s gift makes room for him

A man without smiling face must not open a shop

A small leak will sink a great ship

A wicked man is his own hell

A near friend is better than a far dwelling kinsman

A avarice blinds our eyes

A still tongue makes a wise head

A Sunday Saint

A thousand probabilities do not make one truth

A wise man cares not for he cannot have

A wise man thinks all that he says; a fool says all that he thinks

A bad workman always blames his tools

A bird is known by its note and a man by his talk

A blind man will not thank you for a looking glass

A clean fast a better than a dirty breakfast

The dog that fetches will carry

He that lives with the limbo learn to limb

He that marries for wealth sells his liberty

When the wolf grows old, the crow rides him

A living dog is better than a dead lion

A closed mouth catches no flies

A good beginning makes good ending

A good tongue is a good weapon

Add fuel to the fire

Adversity is the touch stone of virtue

A dozen trades, thirteen miseries

A fair face may hide a foul heart

A fat belly does not bleed a subtle mind

After rain, comes sunshine, after storm, comes calm, after Winter, comes Spring, After Dark, comes dawn

A full of words is no full of wisdom

A little body often harbours a great soul

A man is not good or bad for one action

A man of words and lot of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

A Man’s mind is a mirk mirror

A stitch in time saves nine

A wise head makes a close mouth

An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

An ounce prevention is worth a pound of cure

All good things come to an end

All one geese are swans

All laid load on willing horse

All roads lead to Rome

All rivers run into the sea

All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill

All work and no play make Jack a dull boy

Always miss, always miss

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

An old poacher makes the best keeper

Angry is a short madness

Angry punished itself

Any port is a good refuse in a storm


Actions speak louder than words

Adam ale is the best rule

Among the blind, the one eyed man is King

As fire is kindled by bellows, so as anger is by words

As is the workman, as is the work

As the tree, so the fruit

As the wind blows you must set the sail

As well be hanged for a sheep or a lamb

As you sow, you shall reed

As you make the bed, so you must lie on it


Absence makes the heart grow fonder

All that glitters is not gold – Shakespeare

All that go to church are not Saints

An ill turn will soon done

Angry is a short madness

Angry punishes itself

Appearances are deceptive

Art is long, life is short

As well be hanged for a sheep or a lamp

Bad workman always blame his tools

Beauty is but skin deep

Beauty is not harmed by time

Beggars must not be choosers

Better a glorious death than a shameful life

Better a devil you know than a devil you don’t know

Better be first in a village than second at Rome

Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

Better master one than engaged with ten

Better break than bend

Better an open enemy than a false friend

Between two stools one falls to the ground

Better one eye than stone blind

Beware the silent dog and still water

Birds in a feather flock together

Birds in their little nest agree

Bless is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed

Brevity is the soul of wit

Bitter pill may have wholesome effect
Blood is thicker than water

Bad news travels fast

Bad workman always blames his tools

Barking dogs seldom bite

Be slow to promise and quick to response

Beauty is but skin deep

Before you marry, be sure a house therein to tarry

Beggars must not be choosers

Believe nothing what you hear and only half what you see

Better a glorious death than a shameful life

Better a devil you know than a devil you don’t know

Better be alone than in bad company

Better be first in a village than second at Rome

Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

Better late than never

Better master one than engaged with ten

Better break than bend

Better an open enemy than a false friend

Better never to begin than never to make an end

Between two stools one falls to the ground

Better one eye than stone blind

Beware the silent dog and still water

Birds in a feather flock together

Birds in their little nest agree

Bite off no more than one can chew

Back door influence

Beauty fades like a flower

Better late than never

Bless is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed

Brevity is the soul of wit

Burn not the house to rid off the mouse

Business is Business

Bitter pill may have wholesome effect

Blood is thicker than water

By doing nothing, we learn to do it
Catch an ox by his horn as a man by the tongue

Care kills a cat

Cast not the first stone (Bible)

Catch an ox by his horn as a man by the tongue

Catch not the shadow and lost the substance

Charity begins at home

Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts

Choice of the ends covers choice of the means

Claw me and I’ll claw thee

Clean fast is better than dirty breakfast

Cleanliness is next to Godliness

Clothes don’t make the man

Come with the wind, go with the water

Coming events cast their shadows before

Comparisons are odious

Constant dripping wears away the stone

Conscience does makes coward of us all

Cowards die many times before their deaths - Shakespeare

Crime doesn’t pay

Cry out wine and sell vinegar

Curst cows have curt horn ! – Shakespeare Much to do about nothing

Cut your clothe according to your cloth

Death is the grand leveler

Deliver you words not by number, but by weight

Dumb dogs are dangerous

Deceivers have full mouths and empty hands

Deeds not words

Diligence is the mother of success

Deliver you words not by number, but by weight

Desperate deceases must have desperate cures

Dispression is the better part of Bella

Discontent is the first step in progress

Distance leads enchantment to the view

Diamond cut Diamond ( Cut no s more tone emphasis )
( Tit for Tat )

Do in Rome as the Romans do

Do not triumph before the victory

Don’t cast the pearls before a swine

Do count your chickens before they are hatched

Don’t cry before you are hurt

Don’t cut the bouth you are standing on

Don’t empty the baby out with the bath water

Don’t go too near the water until you know how to swim

Don’t hide your light under a brouser

Don’t kick against the pricks

Don’t make yourself a mouse or the cat will eat you

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

Don’t praise a day before sunset, don’t curse a day before sunset.

Don’t run your head against a stone wall

Don’t swap horses when crossing a stream

Do as you would be done by ( live and let live )

Dog does not eat dog

Don’t cross the bridge until you come to it

Doubt is the key of knowledge

Dying is a natural as living

Dumb dogs are dangerous

Early to bed, early to rise makes a man health and wise

Ease dropper never hear any good of themselves

Easier said than done

East or West, home is best

Either win the saddle or lose the horse

Empty vessels make the most sound

Envy eats nothing but its own heart

Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

Even Homer sometimes nods

Every cloud has it silver lining

Every cook praises his own broth

Every dog has its day

Every float has its ebb

Every cook praises his own broth

Easier said than done

Every medal has two sides

Every oak must be an acot

Everyone ‘s business is nobody’s business

Everyday is not Sunday

Every family has a skeleton in a closet

Every man for himself an the devil takes the hindmost

Every shoe fits not every foot

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

Expectation is better than realization

He that talks much lies much

Hunger is the best sauce

Facts are stubborn things

Fan the flames

Fine word dress ill deeds

Faint heart never won fair lady

Familiarities reach consent?

Fan the flames

Failure is the mother of success

Fast Bind, fast find

Fasting comes after feasting

Fat paunch have lean pates

Faults are thick while love is thin

Find the keepers, lose the seekers

Fine feathers makes fine birds

Fine word dress ill deeds

Fish begins to stink at its head

Favoritism

Fine words dress ill deeds

Foot print on the sense of time are not made by sitting down

Force can never destroy right

Forewarned is forearmed

Forbidden fruit is sweetest

From saving comes having

Full of courtesy, full of craft

Gather yee rose buds while yee made

Give credit where credit is due ( whether he is wicked man or evil )

Give a dog a bad name and hang him

Give a lie 24 hours a start and you can never overtake it

Give him an inch and he will take a mile

Give the devil his due

God helps those who helps themselves

Gold will not buy anything

Good news goes on crunches ill news flies apace

Good wine needs no bush

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand

Grasp all, lose all

Grace will last , beauty will blast

Gratuity is the risk of virtue but in-gratuity is the words of vices

Great winds blows upon high hills

Green eyed monster

Green with envy

Habit cures habit

Half an egg is better than an empty shell

Happiness is not the thing that you want, is the thing that you have!

Hard works break no bone, fine works butter no parsnips

Haste makes waste

Hasty love, soon cold

Hasty work, double work

Have a wolf by the ears

Hawk will not pick out hawk’s eyes

Heads I win, tails you lose

Health is better than wealth

Health is not valued till sickness comes

He climbs high falls heavily

He drinks like a fish

He is lifeless, that is faultless

He is wise, that is honesty

He knows much who knows how to hold his tongues

He laughs best who laughs best

He that cannot obey cannot command

He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it

He that flights and runs away may live to flight another day

He that is full of himself is very empty

He that is the master of himself will soon be the master of others

He that spares the bad injuries the good

He that talks much lies much

He that thinks had business below him will always be above his business

He that is ill to himself will not be good to everybody

He that has no children knows not what is love

He that loves the tree, love the branch

He that talks much lies much

He who does not marry will be sorry

He who gets does much, he who keeps does more

"He who rides the tiger is afraid to its smell"

He who would climbs the ladder must begin at the bottom

He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

He who has wills to beat his dog will easily find the stick

He who has done ill once will do it again

He who hatches mischief catches mischief

He who hesitates is lost

He who holds the purse rules the house

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

He who marry might be sorry

He who pays the pipers calls the tunes

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount

He who works begins well he who economizes ends better

Hide not your light under the bauser

Honesty is the best policy

Honey is sweet, but the bee stinks

Hope springs internal in the human breast

Hunger is the best sauce

Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

Idle folks lack no excuses

Idleness is the root of all evil

I can see a mile off

I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts

I have come to believe that genuine democracy can not exist without the freedom to imagine and right to use imaginations which work with our restrictions

If at first you don’t succeed, try try try again

If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

There is no grief which time does not listen and suffer.

If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow

If if and ends, were pots and pans

If the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into the ditch

If the cap fits, wear it

If the sky falls, we shall catch larks

If there is no clouds, we shall not enjoy the sun

If things have to be done twice, all would be wise

If two man ride on a horse, one must ride behind

If you are too fortunate you will not know yourself

If you are too unfortunate, no body will know you

If you agree to carry the calf, they will make you carry a cow

If you can not bite, don’t show your teeth!

If you can’t beat them, join them

Idle folks lack no excuses

In for a Penny, in for a Pound

If you marry, there is a house wherein to tarry

If you run after two hares you will get neither

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it

if wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart, the spirit should not grow old!

I look forward to the future because that were I am going to spend for the rest of my life.

Ill gotten, ill spent

In a bat, there is a fool and a thief

In a calm sea, every man is a pilot

Industrious is fortune right hand frugality her left

In for a Penny, in for a Pound

In the end, things will mend

In the grave, the rich and poor is lie equal

Inscrutable is the waste of heaven

If you have no hand, you can not make a fist

If you would be well served, serve yourself

If wine, there is truth

It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

It is always darkest before day dawn

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

It is a small world

It is a silly fish that been caught twice in the same bay

It is a sad heart that never rejoice

It is a great victory that comes without blood

It is a wicked world that we make hard of it

It is blessed to give than to take

It is better to lose something than all

It is better to wear out and rust out

It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

It is good to have company in trouble

It is hard to wife and thrive both in a year

It is more pain to do nothing than something

It is only the tree loaded with fruit that people will throw stone

It is no flying without wings

It is no use to flog a dead horse

It is not every couple that is a pair

It is not fit to command others that cannot command himself

It is not how long but how well we live it

It is not the burden but overburden that kills the beast

It is not work that kill but worry

It is the unexpected that always happens

It is comparison makes man happy or miserable

It is good fishing in troubled water

It is good to follow old fox

It is loss labour to sow where there is no soil

It is never too late to mend

It is never too late to repent

It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman

It is not work that kills but worry

It is no use crying over split milk

It is safer to hear and take council than to give it

It is silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait

It is spurdle (Girdle?)and spur that makes a good horse

It is the comparison that makes a man happy or miserable

It is dogged than does it

It is too late to call back Yesterday

It is too late to shut the stable door when the horse is bolted

It is more bless to give than to receive

It is useless to flog a dead horse

It never rains, but it pours

Jack of all trade, but master of none.

Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbors

Just not that yee be not judged

Keeping is harder than winning

Keep your eye wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open

Keep your mouth shut and your ear open

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

Kings and bears often worry keepers

Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

Knowledge is power

Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs

Know well before you knit

Late repentance is seldom true

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep , and you weep alone

Law is the bottom list pit

Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free

Learn to listen, opportunity sometimes knocks softly.

Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

Lend you money and lose your friend

Let not your left hand knows what your right hand does

Let no the sun goes down with your wrath

Let not the wit go wool gathering (do not lose concentration, though you are smart but fail to achieve anything)

Liberty is more worth than gold

Life could be instantly happier if you only would be borne at the age of 80 then gradually approach 18.

Life is too short to waste time hating someone.

Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it

Light come , lightly go

Like begas like

Like father, like son

Little pigeon can carry great messages

Little pitchers have long ears

Little strokes fell great oaks

Little things are great for little man

Little thieves are hanged, but great one escaped

Little wealth little care

Live and let live. ( Do as you would be done by )

Living well is the best revenge

Life is too short to be little

Live not to eat, but eat to live

Lock the stable door when the horse is stolen

Long absent, soon forgotten

Look before you leap

Lookers-on see more than players, lookers-on see most of the game

Lookers-on see most of the game

Love can not be forces

Love comforteth like Summer after rain

Love should not be all on one side

Love is blind

Love see no faults

Love laughs at locksmiths

Love makes all hard hearts gentle

Love me, love my dog

Make a do and Have a do

Make a fire and blow the smoke

Make no door wider than the house

Make the best of the bad job

Make your enemy your friend

Make yourself all honey and all flies deflower you

Malice hurts itself most

Man are blind in their own cause

Man makes house woman makes home

Men make promise more in a day than they will fulfill in a year

Man only dies once

Man talk only to conceal their mind

Man’s Extremity is god of opportunity

Man proposes, God disposes.


Man strand at gnats and swallow camels

Man’s work lasts set of sun, woman’s work never done

Many a good cow half a bad calf

Many a little makes a mickle (Muckle)

Many can pack the card but can not play well

Many dishes make many diseases

Many hands make light work

Many heads are better than one

Many sands will sink a ship

Marriage is a lottery

Marry above your match, then you get your master

Marriages are made in heaven

Marry in haste and repent in leisure

Master should sometimes blind and sometimes deaf

May god defend me from my friends, I can defend myself to my enemy

May my death comes to me from Spain

Measure yourself use your won foot

Memory is the treasure if your mind

Message should be needed be headed nor hand

Might is right

Mischief comes by the pound and goes sway by the ounce

Misery loves companion

Misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot

Misfortune never comes singly

Misfortune tells us what fortune is

Men is known by the company they keep

Moderation in all things

Money burns a hole in the pocket

Money is a good servant and a bad master

Money is the key that opens all doors

Money is the root of all evil

Money is the sinews of all war

Money makes the mare go

Mother’s darling is milk sop hero

Much would have more

Much Science, much sorrow

Muck and Money goes together

Murder will out

Near is my petticoat, nearer is my smock

Nearest the heart, nearest the mouth

Necessity is the mother of invention

Necessity knows no law

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

Net at Sleep catches the fishes

Never ask a pardon before you are accused

Never Answer a Question till you are asked for

Never catch a falling knife or falling friend

Never Creep for what you can not help

Never cross the bridges till you come to them

Never do things by halves

Never enquire pedigree of a good man

Never make threat you can not carry out

Never offer to teach fish to swim

Never put off till tomorrow if you can do it today

Never spend your money before you have it

Never spur on willing horse

Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

Never too old to learn

Never spur on willing horse

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

Never trust another what you should do yourself

New venture out of your death until you can swim

No answer is also an answer

No cross, no crown

No good building without a good foundation

No love is foul nor prison fair

No man is a craft or master in the first day

No man is infallible

No man is indispensable

No Man loves his fetters though they made of gold

No man so wise but he may be deceived

No question is ever settled until it is settled right

None so blind as those who won’t see, none so dead as those who won’t hear

No gain without pain

No pain, no gain

No receiver, no thief

No garden without its weeds

No blame or shame to be a man than to be a Cuckold

No rose without a thorn

No safe way in unknown water

No sweet apple on sour stock

No sweat, no sweet

None but fools and knaves lay wagers

Nothing comes from nothing

Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

Nothing is certain but uncertainty

Nothing is different to the man who will try

Nothing is impossible to be a willing heart where there is will, there is a way

Nothing seek, nothing find

Nothing venture, nothing gain

Older and wiser

Old birds are not to be caught with chaff

Old habits die hard

Old vessel must leak

One flower makes no garland

One good turn deserves another

One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock

One swallow does not make a Summer

Opportunity never knock twice

Once a devil, always a devil

Once bit, twice shy

One can not put back the clock

One law for the rich, and another for the poor

One length is damaged; the whole chain will be broken

One lie makes many times flies

One man makes a chair and another sits in it

One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge

One master in the house is enough

One must draw back in order to leap better


One of these days is none of these days

Open confession is good for the soul

Opportunity seldom knocks twice

Out of sight , out of mind

Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

Patience is a virtue

Patient men win the day

Penny wise, pound foolish

People Lonely because they build wall instead of bridges
Pig might fly if they had wings

Possession is nine points out of the law

Poor and content is rich and rich enough

Poverty is no sin

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely

Practice makes perfect

Praise no man till he is dead, call no man great before he is dead

Prevention is better than cure

Pride comes before a fall

Pride go with before and shame come after

Promised are like piecrush made to be broken

Power makes enemy

Proverbs are the children of experiences

Punctuality is the politeness of the kings

Punctuality is the soul of business

"Remember me when I gone away, Gone away to a land of silence"
Christina Rossetti
1930-1896


Revenge never repairs and injury

Revenge is sweet

Respect yourself or no one else will respect you

Rewards and punishments are the walls of the city

Riches alone make no man happy

Rome was not built in one day

Safety lies in middle course

Score twice before you cut once

Seeing is believing

Self do, self have

Self praise is no recommendation

Self preservation is the first law of nature

Sell one birth right for mess porridge

Set a beggar on horse back and the ride for devil

Set a thief to catch a thief

Small games bring great wealth

Small is the need of every greatness

Something is better than nothing

Sooner or later the truth comes to light

So near and yet so far

Sow nothing, reed nothing

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thought

Speech is silver, silence is golden

Step by step the ladder is a standard

Still Waters run deep

Strike while the iron is not

Stuff the stomach like an apothecary shop

Stuff today and starve tomorrow

Success has many friends

Such carpenters, such chips

Sweets are the user of adversity

Self do, self have

Sow nothing, reed nothing

Tall tree catches the wind

The noblest vengeance is to forgive


Take away the course and the effect must cease

Take not a musket to kill the butterfly

Take things when they come

Talk of a devil and he is sure to appear

Tall tree catches the wind

Talk of the devils and he will be sure to appear

Take the bad with the good

Take the bull by the horns

Thay the dance pays the fiddler

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

The best horse needs breaking and the aptest child needs teaching

The best of friend must part

The biter is sometime bit

The cowl does not make the monk

The ends justify the means

The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong man

The first breath is the beginning of death

The fool that thinks he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool

The joy of the heart makes the face fair

The King’s words stand

The lame tongue gets nothing

The longer we live, the more far we see

The man who knows most forgives most

The wise man knows he knows nothing the fool thinks he knows all

They make a mountain out of molehill

The milk is spilt

The Pen is mightier thane the sword

The rotten apple injures its neighbours

The scalded dog fears cold water

The straws will show the way the wind blows

The truth will come out

The chief aim of man is not to get money

The youth of America is the oldest tradion

No question is ever settled until it is settled right

The exception proves the rule

The friar peach against stealing and has a goose in the sleeva

The more you have, the more you want

The noblest vanegence is to forgive

The world is like a mirror , if you face it smiling, it smile right back!

There is blindness like ignorance

There is life, there is hope

There is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
Dr. Brower ( Twixt = Greek for Between )

There is no rule but has exceptions

There is no smoke without fire

There is no wheat without chaff

Time is money ( - Benjamin Franklin)

Time is short and life is swift

Time passes away, but sayings remain

Time works great changes

Time tries truth

Tit for Tat (Diamond cut Diamond

The best go first

The course of true love never did run smooth

The devil make it in at the key hole but the door won’t let him out

The great fish eat up the small

The heart of a fool is in his tongue

The joy of the heart makes the face fair

The mill can not grind when the water is dead

The mill of God grinds slowly

The moon is not seen where the sun shines

The mop has many heads but no brian

The more noble, the more humble

The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

The last drop makes the cup run over

The last straw breaks the camel’s back

The leopard can not change its spots

The Tailor makes the man

The world is like a mirror , if you face it smiling, it smile right back!

The youth of America is the old tradition for 300 years- Oscar Wilde

There is a black sheep in a flock

There is a crook in the (log?) of everyone

There is a tide in the affairs of man

There is but one step from sublime to the ridiculous

There is many a good tune play on an old fiddle

There is no counting for taste

There is no disputing about tastes

There is no great loss without some gain

There would be no great ones of there were no little ones

Think of the angle and he will be here with wings

Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform

The love of monkey is the root of all devil

The wolf may lose it teeth but never its nature

Three removals are as bad as fire

Time past can not be called back again

To drink someone under the table

To know everything is to know nothing

To save time is to lengthen life

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Too much curiosity lost paradise

Too much liberty spoils all

Too much spoils, too little is nothing

True Coral needs no painter’s brush

True love is giving not taking

Truth will prevail

Try to make three persons laughing in three days

Two blacks don’t make a white

Two dogs strive for a bone, the third runs away with it

Two wrong don’t make a right

Power makes enemy

Union is strength

United we stand divided we fall

Variety is the spice of life


Variety is the spice of life

Velvet paws hide shape claws

Virtue is its own rewards

Virtue never grow old

Wall have ears

Want is the mother of industry

War is death’s feast

War is the sport of King

We are not borne for ourselves

We should never remember the benefit that we receive and the offer that we made

We will get worst before getting better…. Obama

Weight justly and sell dearly

Well begun is half done

Well, there is life there is hope

What is a workman without his tools

What’s done can not be undone

Whats’s done is done

What is ill gotten will be ill spent

What is yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

What is sweet in the mouth is often bitter in the stomach

When in double do nowt ( nowt is an Greek means nothing)

When poverty comes at the door, loves flies out of the door

When the wine is in, the wit is out

Wine and wealth change wise man’s manner

What may be done at anytime is done at no time

When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

When greed meet greed , then comes the tug of war

When you lost on the swings, you will get back on the roundabut

What learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

What must be must be

Where there is muck, there is brass
Muck and money go together


Where the water is shadow, no vessel will ride

What is the good of suntan in the shade

What is sweet in the mouth is often bitter in the stomach


What the eye does not see the heart does not grieve over

What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks

When the tree is fallen, everyone runs to it with his axe

When the wine is in, the wit is out

Whenever an ass falletch, there will he never fall again

Wine and wealth change wise man’s manner

When the fox preaches then beware the geese

When the prince fiddles, the subject must dance


When wrath speaks, wisdom fails to face

When the fox peaches, take care of your geese

Where ignorance is bliss, a fool is to be wise

Where there is whispering there is lying

Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to how

Who repairs not his gutters repairs his whole house

Who chatters to you will chatter of you

Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow

Whom the god loves die young

Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hands

Wise distrust is the parent of security

Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit

Words pay no debts

Work Today for you know not how much you may be hindered Tomorrow

You don’t get something from nothing

You scratch my back and I will scratch yours

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