I know myself that I am not good at English nor use of English.
I just feel not right when I read this bottle of Lotion today.
May be this is "new English"?
Am I wrong or tell me or if you can, make a better version.
HK Snob
English Learning
Friday, October 2, 2015
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Another sample to illustrate what is Dickhead, 戇居仔 Asshole屎忽鬼 and Bastard滑頭
A new Managing director of the famous company that could turn around the business from losing money into profit in just two years by lay off some 30% of the staff, cost cut by reducing manufacturing time without considering the consequence of quality deterioration. This immediately improve the profit margin by 50%, this magic man got a big bonus and leave on the next year.
He is a bastard! 滑頭
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A senior manager blames the sales who dare not sell the product, and the company keep losing money as there is no new orders. In fact the product is not competitive at all, without putting effort on the product quality, blaming the sales does not help to improve the situation. He is TIIC (The Idiot in Charge) Or Simply call him dickhead! 戇居仔
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A department manager keeps yelling in meeting that no one could tell why they lose order too much, and everyone should goes into detail. So the sales team works out for a detail analysis on why they lost order.
During the meeting the department manager yells again why there is not enough action to driver for better quality. When the team comes back with a plan to improve quality, however there will incur some additional cost for good quality.
The manager said that is not acceptable as quality should not involve additional cost, nevertheless, instead he advised the team to cut cost in other area such as salary, electricity, traveling claims, reduce customer visit, staying with other colleague in one hotel room, Car pool to work instead of going by separate taxi. Replace with old office equipment instead of new to save cost, and at last he says we can hire lower cost staff with of lower experience and background to makes more sales…
We know that it would work and he seems like making fun out of it.
He is an asshole! 屎忽鬼
******
HK Snob
He is a bastard! 滑頭
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A senior manager blames the sales who dare not sell the product, and the company keep losing money as there is no new orders. In fact the product is not competitive at all, without putting effort on the product quality, blaming the sales does not help to improve the situation. He is TIIC (The Idiot in Charge) Or Simply call him dickhead! 戇居仔
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A department manager keeps yelling in meeting that no one could tell why they lose order too much, and everyone should goes into detail. So the sales team works out for a detail analysis on why they lost order.
During the meeting the department manager yells again why there is not enough action to driver for better quality. When the team comes back with a plan to improve quality, however there will incur some additional cost for good quality.
The manager said that is not acceptable as quality should not involve additional cost, nevertheless, instead he advised the team to cut cost in other area such as salary, electricity, traveling claims, reduce customer visit, staying with other colleague in one hotel room, Car pool to work instead of going by separate taxi. Replace with old office equipment instead of new to save cost, and at last he says we can hire lower cost staff with of lower experience and background to makes more sales…
We know that it would work and he seems like making fun out of it.
He is an asshole! 屎忽鬼
******
HK Snob
Thursday, January 17, 2013
The difference beween Dickhead, Asshole and Bastard
What is the difference between dickhead, asshole and a bastard.
There I search form web, looking at Dictionary and asking friends English man and American, there seems these are the closest reply to the question what are the difference
A dickhead causes you problems because he's simply stupid and he does not want to hurt people.
An asshole causes you problems, and knows it, but doesn't care.
A bastard causes you problems, knows it, and enjoys it.
HK Snob
There I search form web, looking at Dictionary and asking friends English man and American, there seems these are the closest reply to the question what are the difference
A dickhead causes you problems because he's simply stupid and he does not want to hurt people.
An asshole causes you problems, and knows it, but doesn't care.
A bastard causes you problems, knows it, and enjoys it.
HK Snob
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Slogan of Indira Ghandhi
There are two kinds of people,
Those who do the work and those who take the credit,
Try to be in the first group;
There is less competition there.
- Indira Ghandhi
Those who do the work and those who take the credit,
Try to be in the first group;
There is less competition there.
- Indira Ghandhi
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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
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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
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
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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
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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
90% of inspiration is respiration
Feverip
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
90% of inspiration is respiration
Feverip
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