Chapter 1.

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Years bring wisdom.
Yesterday is dead, forget it; tomorrow does not exist, don't worry; today is her
e, use it.
Yesterday will not be called again.
You are the greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are yo
ur greatest friend.
You can do more than strike while the iron is hot; you can make the iron hot by
striking.
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the
time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
You cannot clap with one hand.
You cannot have two forenoons in the same day.
You cannot flay the same ox twice.
You cannot judge a tree by its bark.
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
You (or One) cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
You can't eat your cake and have it.
You can't make bricks without straw.
You can't make omelets (or omeletts) without breaking eggs.
You have no goats, and yet you sell kids.
You make the failure complete when you stop strying.
You may force a man to shut his eyes, but you cannot make him sleep.
You may go farther and fare worse.
You may know the horse by his harness.
You must not pledge your own health.
You must reap what you have sown.
You never know what you can do till you try.
Young man may die but old men must die.
You roll my log and I'll roll yours.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Youth is life's seed-time.
Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation as well as an i
ndividual.
Youth looks forward and age backward.
Youth means limitless possibilities.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Chapter 1.23
W
Wade not in unknown water.
Walk groundly; talk profoundly; drink roundly; sleep soundly.
Walls (or Pitchers) have ears.
Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.
War is death's feast.
War is the business of barbarians.
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
Wash a dog, comb a dog, Still a dog, remains a dog.
Waste not, want not.
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
Water afar quenches not fire.
Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
Weak men wait for opportunity, but the strong men make it.
We all do fade as a leaf.
Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.
Wealth makes worship.
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure, and liberty.
We are not born for ourselves.
We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.
We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume
wealth without producing it.
We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and a
fraid to die.
We know not what is good until we have lost it.
We learn not at school, but in life.
Well begun is half done.
Well fed, wed bred.
We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the only road to su
ccess.
We never know the worth (or value) of water till the well is dry.
We only live once,, but if we work it right once is enough.
We shall lie all alike in our graves.
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
We should never remember the benefit we have offered nor forget the favour recei
ved.
We should push our work, the work should not push us.
We should weep for men at their birth and not a t their death.
We soon believe what we desire.
What a sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
What cannot be cured must be endured.
What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her?
What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?
Wahtever a man sow, that shall he also reap.
Whatever I do, I will do in my power.
Whatever man has done man may do.
Whatever you do, do with your might; Things done by halves are never done right.

What good shall I do this day? What good have I done today?
What I have done is due to patient thought.
What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
What is done by night appears by day.
What is done cannot be undone.
What is known to three is known to everybody.
What is learnt in the cradle lasts (or is carried) to the grave.
What is not wisdom is danger.
What is one man's cloud is another man's sunshine.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
What is sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
What is there sadder under the sun than a day that is gone and notyhing done.
What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy?
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
What must be must be.
What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
What's done by night appears by day.
What's done can't be undone.
What's learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb.
What's lost is lost.
What's more miserable than discontent?
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye ever so to them.
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over.
What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.
What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
What we are ignorant of is immense.
What we do willingly is easy.
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.
What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.
What you lose on thengs you gain (or get back) on the roundabouts.
What youth is used to, age remembers.
When a dog is drowning everyone offers him drink.
When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.
When ale (or drink or wine) is in wit is out.
When all men speak no man hears.
When anger blinds the mind, truth disapears.
Whe angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you.
When stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it
is his duty.
When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
When guns speak it is too late to argue.
When in doubt, play trumps.
When in Rome do as the Romans do.
When love puts in, friendship is gone.
When one is about to act, one must reason first.
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
When riches increase, the body decreases.
When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by their own.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
When the belly is full the mind is among the maids.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something,
When the ffish is caught the net is laid aside.
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
When the fruit is scarcest, its taste is sweetest.
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
When the heart is full,, the tongue will speak.
When the sun comes in, the doctor goes out.
When the well is full, it will run over.
When the wound is healed, the pain is forgotten.
When three know it, all know it.
When two friends have a common purse, one sings and the other weeps.
When two ride on one horse, one must sit behind.
When war begins then hell opens.
When we have gold we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger.
When wine is in truth is out.
When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.
Where drums beat, laws are silent.
Where love fails we espy all faults.
Where love is there is faith.
Where might is master, justice is servant.
Where p***ion is high there reason is low.
Where the knot is loose the string slips.
Where there is a will,, there is a way(or skill).
Where (or While) there is life there is hope.
Where there is no good within, no good comes out.
Where there's reek there's heat.
Where the sun enterd, the doctor does not.
Where they saw chance, we see law.
Wherever he is satisfied with what he does, he has reached his culminating point
--he will progress no more.
Where your will is ready, your feet are light.
While the gr*** grows the horse (or steed) starves.
While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.
While (or Where) there is life there is hope.
While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when 'tis once spoken, 'tis ano
ther's.
While we breathe, there is hope.
Who answers suddenly knows little.
Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive.
Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
Who has no haste in his business mountains to him seem valleys.
Who holds the purse rules the house.
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
Who knows most speaks (or says) least.
Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to live.
Who lives by hope will die by hunger.
Who loses liberty loses all.
Who makes everything right must rise early.
Whom God would ruin, he first deprives of reason.
Who minds his own business has no time to mind other folks.
Whom the gods love die young.
Whom we love best to them we can say least.
Who serves everybody gets thanks from nobody.
Whoms in sin shall sink in sorrow.
Who undertakes many things at once, seldom does anything well.
Who will not keep a penny, shall never have many.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited.
Wilful waste makes woeful want.
Wine and judgement mature with age.
Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
Wine is mirror of the mind.
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
Wisdom is only found in truth.
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
Wise care begets care.
Wise men chanbge their mind, fools never.
Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes (or harms); fools by their own.
Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
Wit bought is better than wit taught.
Without a friend the world is a wilderness.
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
Without health, life is not life, life is lifeless.
Without hope, the heart would break.
Without method, little can be done to any good purpose.
Without practice, hopes will be reduced to zero.
Without respect, love cannot go far.
Without wisdom wealth is worthless.
With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.
Wit once bought is worth twice taught.
Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
Woe to him that is alone.
Women in mischief are wiser than men.
Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
Words are but wind.
Words cut (or hurt) more than swords.
Words pay no debts.
Work bears witness who does well.
Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
Working without a plan is sailing without a comp***.
Work makes the workman.
Work today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.
Work will not kill a man but worry will.
Worry kills more men than work.
Would you know your daughter, see her in company.
Write down the advice of him that loves you, though you like it not at present.
Write it on your heart every day is the best day of the year.
Chapter 1.22
V
Vain glory blossoms but never bears.
Velvet paws hide sharp claws.
Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
Victory belongs to the m ost persevering.
Viture flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
Virtue is a jewel of great price.
Virture is fairer far than beauty.
Virtue is her (or its) own reward.
Virtue is the only true nobility.
Virtue never grows old.
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
U
Union is strength.
Unkindness destroys love.
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears n
o fruit.
Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
Use a book as a bee does flowers.
Use is a second nature.
Chapter 1.20
T
Take a hair of the dog that bit you.
Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can.
Take away my good name and take away my life.
Take care of small sums and the large will take care of themselves.
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Take honour from me and my life is undone.
Take one's courage in both hands.
Take one thing with another.
Take something by the best handle.
Take the rough with the smooth.
Take the world as it is.
Take the world as one finds it.
Take things as they come (or are)
Take time by the forelock.
Take time for deliberation; hste spoils everything.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and
go in.
Take time when time comes lest time steal away.
Take time while time is, for time will be away.
Talk of an angel and you'll hear his wings. **
Talk of the devil, and he is sure to appear.
Tall trees catch much wind.
Tastes differ.
Teaching others teaches yourself.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Telling your troubles is swelling your troubles.
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Tell not all you know nor judge of all you see if you would live in peace.
Temperance is the best physic.
Temperance is the greatest of virtues.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
That is not good language which all understand not.
That's good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.
That teacher helps his pupils most who most helps them to help themselves.
That which is evil is soon learnt.
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good
is always beautiful.
That which one least anticipates soonest comes to p***.
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
The abundance of money ruins youth.
The *** wags his ears.
The battle is to the strong.
The (or A) beggar may sing before the thief (or footbad).
The beginnings of all things are small.
The belly has no ears.
The best fish smell when they are three days old.
The best fishm near the bottom.
The best hearts are always the bravest.
The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
The best is yet to be.
The best man stumbles.
The best mirror is an old friend.
The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
The best of friends must part.
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between.
The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.
The best teacher one can have is necessity.
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
The better the day, the better the deed.
The bough that bears most, hangs lowest.
The brave man hazards his life, but not his conscience.
The brightest of all things, the sun, has its spots.
The burden on likes is cheerfully borne.
The busiest men find (or have) the most leisure (or time).
The cask savours of the first fill.
The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better.
The catin glores catch no mice.
The cat shut its eyes while it steals cream.
The chief aim of man is not to get money.
The child is father of (or to) the man.
The cobbler must stick to his last.
The cobbler's wife is the worst shod.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it
The cowl (or hood) does not make the monk.
The creditor has always a better memory than the detor.
The crow thinks her own birds fairest.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The crushed worm will turn.
The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer
, and then goes away.
The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor.
The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
The day has eyes, the night has ears.
The day is long to him who knows not how to use it.
The devil can cite the Scriptures for his purpose.
The devil is good when he is pleased.
The devil is not so black as he is painted.
The devil knows may things because he is old.
The devil lurks behind the cross.
The devil may get in by the keyhole, but the door won't let him out.
The diamonds of other countries are always the most beautiful.
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
The dog that fetches will carry.
The drop hollows the stone, not by force, but by the frequency of its fall.
The early bird catches the worm.
The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.
The end crowns the work.
The end justifies (or sanctifies) the means.
The evils we bring on ourselves are the hardest to bear.
The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
The exception proves the rule.
The eye is blind if the mind is absent.
The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.
The face is the index of the mind (or heart).
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
The farmers are the founders of civilization and prosperity.
The farthest way about is the nearest way home.
The fear of ill exceeds the ills we fear.
The finest diamond must be cut.
The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong man.
The fire which lights (or warms) us at a distance will burn us when near.
The first blow is half the battle.
The first element of success is the determination to succeed.
The first step is as good as half over.
The first step is the only difficulty.
The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice.
The first wealth is health.
The fool does think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The fool has his heart on his tongue, the wise man keeps his tongue in his heart
.
The fool talks, and the wise man thinks.
The foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
The fox changes his skin but not his habit.
The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.
The fox smells his own stink first.
The friar preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve.
The frog in well knows nothing of the great ocean.
The future belongs to him who knows how to wait.
The future of society is in the hands of mothers; if the world was lost through
woman she alone can save it.
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish
from the earth.
The gr*** is greener on the other side.
The great and the little have need one of another.
The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
The greatest fool is he who worries about what he cannot help. *
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her c
onstant companion is humility.
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
The greatest liars talk most of themselves.
The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
The great fish ear up the small.
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
The heart sees further than the head.
The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
The highest art is to conceal art.
The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar.
The house shows the owner.
The hungry belly has no ears.
The imnportant thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to at
tain it.
The joy of the heart makes the face merry.
The last drop makes the cup run over.
The least said, the soonest mended. (or Least said, soonest mended)
The leopard cannot change its spots.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he c
annot believe anyone else.
The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.
The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf.
The longest day has an end.
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
The milk is spilled.
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
The mills of God grind slowly but sure.
The money the miser hoards will do him no good.
The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
The moon is a moon whether it shines or not.
The moon is not seen where the sun shines.
The more a man knows, the less he knows he knows.
The more a man knows, the more he is inclined to be modest.
The more a man knows, the more he see his ignorance.
The more haste, she less speed.
The more noble, the more humble.
The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.
The more, the merrier.
The more the well is used, the more water it gives.
The more things a man is ashamed of the more respectable he is.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we ha
ve.
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
The more women look in their gl***, the less they look to their house.
The morning sun never lasts a day.
The morning to the mountain the evening to the fountain.
The most busiest men find (or have) the most leisure (or time)
The most useful learning in the world is that which teches us how to die well.
The most utterly lost of all days is that in which you have not once laughed.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
The mountain has brought forth a mouse.
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
The mouth of a wise man is in his heart; the heart of a fool is in his mouth.
The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh.
The nearer to church, the farther from God.
The older the goose the harder to pluck.
The old goose plays not with foxes.
The only cure for grief is action.
The only secret a woman can keep is that of her age.
The outsideer sees the best (or most) of the game.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
The past is for wisdom, the present for action, but for joy the future.
The path down to evil is easy.
The path of duty is the path of safety.
The path to glory is always rugged.
The peacock has fair feathers, but foul feet.
The person who arrives, ect early will (probably) succeed.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The pen is the tougue of the mind.
The poor are rich when they are satisfied.
The poor man wants much, the miser everything.
The pot calls the kettle black.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. ()
The raceis got by running.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
There are but three ways of living: by working, by stealing, or by begging.
There are lees to every wine.
There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.
There are no birds of this year in last year's nests.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and
the other how to live.
There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen; and in the end th
e former is always conquered by the latter.
There are spots in (or on) the sum.
There are three ways of spreading news. -- telegraph, telephone, and tel-a-woman
.
There are two sides to every question.
The receiver is as bad as the thief.
There is a black sheep in every flock.
There is a crook in the lot of everyone.
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a bo
ok, and the tired man who wants a book to read.
There is a skeleton in every house.
There is a small choice in rotten apples.
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
There is honour among thieves.
There is life in the old dog yet.
There is more trouble in having nothing to do than in having much to do.
There is much to be said on both sides.
There is noaccounting for tastes.
There is no fire without smoke.
There is no fool like an old fool.
There is no general rule without some exception.
There is none without a fault.
There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love andd innocence.
There is no place like home.
There is no rose without a thorn.
There is no royal road to learning.
There is no smoke without fire.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe.
There is nothing worse than apathy.
There is no time like the present.
There is no wealth like unto knowledge, for thieves cannot steal it.
Thereis no wool so white but a dyer can make it black.
There is safety in numbers.
The remedy for injuries is not to remember them.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The remembrance of past sorrow is joyful.
There's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
There's more knows Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The rotten apple injuries its neighbours.
The sacrifice of time is the costliest of all sacrifices.
The scalded cat fears cold water.
The sea complains it wants water.
The sea refuses no river.
The secret of a good momory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upo
n our interest in it. -- We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression
on our minds.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportumity when
it comes.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
The smiles of a pretty woman are the tears of the purse.
The soul is not where it lives, but it loves.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
The still sow eats up all the draff.
The style is the man.
The sun shines all alike.
The surest way to be happy is to be busy.
The sweetest grapes hang the highest.
The sweetest thing in life. Is the welocme of a wife.
The tail does often catch the fox.
The tailor makes the man.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a
thought of fame.
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying muc
h.
The three things most difficult are, to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and
to make good use of labour.
The tiger has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it.
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.
The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
The tortosis wins the race while the hare is sleeping.
The truest politeness comes from sincerity.
The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to
know.
The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound.
The used key is always bright.
The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but
by his everyday conduct.
The voice is the best music.
The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
The weakest goes to the wall.
The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.
The wife is the key of the house.
The wine in the bolttle does not quench thirst.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by
necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
The wise man is always a good listener.
The wise man knows he knows nothing, but the fool thinks he knows it all.
The wise man's tongue is a shield, not a sword.
The wish is father to the thought.
The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.
The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature.
The word "Impossible" is not in my dictionary.
The word once spoken can never be realled.
The work shows the workman.
The world is comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down.
The world is but a little place, after all.
The worst men often give the best advice.
The worst misfortunes are these that never hzppen.
The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it.
They are never alone accompanied by noble thoughts.
They ***ume most who know the least.
They bray most that can do least.
They die well that live well.
The years teach much which the days never know.
They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
They that live longest must die at last.
They that (or who) live longest see most.
They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
They who cannot do as they would, must do as they can.
They who live in a worry. Invite death in a hurry.
Things done cannot be undone.
Things of a kind come together; people of a kind fall into the same group.
Theings past cannot be recalled.
Theings present are judged by things past.
Things rashly taken end as ill.
Things unreasonable are never durable.
Think about the misforture of others that you may be satisfied with your own lot
.
Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.
Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well, wisest and best of all.

Think much, speak little, and write less.
Think of the devil and he's looking over your shoulders. **
Think today and speak tomorrow.
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
This world belongs to the energetic.
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everythi
ng for money.
Those who climb high often have a fall.
Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.
Thos who eat most are not always fattest; those who read most, not always wisest
.
Those who live in gl*** houses should not throw stones.
Those who work deserve to eat; those who do not work deserve to starve.
Though a lie be well dressd, it is ever overcome.
Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings.
Though the wound be healed yet a scar remains.
Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.
Thought is the seed of action.
Though you cast out nature with a fork, it will still return.
Three removes are as bad as a fire.
Three things soon p*** away; the echo of the woods, the rainbow, and woman's bea
uty.
Thrift is good revenue.
Through obedience learn to command.
Throw away the apple because of the core.
Thy friend has a friend and thy friend's friend has a friend so be discreet.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time and words can never be recalled.
Time cures all things.
Time discloses (or reveals) all things.
Time does not bow to you,, you must bow to time.
Time flies.
Time is great healer. ()
Time is money.
Time is money, but money is not time.
Time marches on.
Time past cannot be called back again.
Time past never returns, amoment lost, lost for ever.
Time reveals all things.
Time tames the strongest grief.
Time tries all.
Time tries truth.
Time works great changes.
Time works wonders.
Timid dogs bark most.
To a boiling pot flies come not.
To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it more difficult, but to spend it w
isely most difficult of all.
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
To be angry with a weak man is a proof that you are not very strong yourself.
To be of use in the world is the only way to be happy.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
To be virtuous is to do good.
To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than
to seek money and honour and reputation.
To convert defeat into victoty.
To do whatever should be done is wisdom, to do whatever should not be done is ig
norance. V
Today is the scholar of yesterday.
To err is human.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
To forgive our enemies is a charming way of revenge.
To gain teaches how to spend.
To have a stomach and lack meat; to have meat and lack a stomach; to lie in bed
and cannot rest; are great miseries.
To have money is a fear, not to have it a grief.
To hear a hundred times is not so good as to see once.
To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three.
To know everything is to know nothing.
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
To know one's self is true progress.
To know the disease is half the cure.
To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing.
To live in the hearts of those left behind is not to die.
To live long is almost everyone's wish, but to live well is the ambitiion of a f
ew.
To lose a freind is the greatest of all loses.
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
To make enemies, talk; to make friends, listen.
To marry a woman for her beauty is like buying a house for its paint.
To mention the wolf's name is to see the same. **
Tomorrow comes never.
Tomorrow is another day.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Too much humility is pride.
Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
Too much liberty spoils all.
Too much spoils, too little is nothing.
Too much water drowned the miller.
Tooft arrives as tardy as too slow.
To pay a person in his own way.
To preserve a friend three things are required: to honour him present, praise hi
m absent, and ***ist him in his necessities.
To promise and give nothing is comfort to a fool.
To read without reflection is like eating without digestion.
To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.
To save time is to lengthen life.
To say little and perform much is the characteristic of great minds.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to
labour.
To travel through the world it is necessary to have the mouth of hog, the legs o
f a stag, the eyes of a falcon, the ears of an ***, shoulders of a camel, and th
e face of an ape, and overplus, a satchel full of money and patience.
Touch pitch and you will be defiled.
To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today.
To youth I have but words of counsel -- work, work, work.
Travel east or travel west, a man's own home is still the best.
Tread on a worm and it will turn.
Troubles never come singly.
True blue will never stain.
True coral needs no painter's brush.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it b
e lost.
True love is giving not taking.
True love never grows old.
True love shows itself in time of need.
True praise roots and spreads.
True wisdom is know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doi
ng.
Trust not the praise of a friend, nor the contempt of an enemy.
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they b
oth go together they cannot easily be withstood.
Truth and roses have thorns about them.
Truth fears not the flames of slander and injustice.
Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes.
Truth is (or lies) at the bottom of the decater.
Truth is honest, truth is sure; Truth is strong and must endure.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Truth is the daughter of time.
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.
Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed.
Truth needs no colour; beauty, no pencil.
Truth, once crushed, will rise again.
Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
Truth will conquer.
Truth will prevail.
Truth will stand without a prop.
Try (your friend) before you trust him.
Turn your tongue seven times before speaking.
Two blacks do not make a white.
Two cats and a mouse, two wives in one house, two dogs and a bone, never agree i
n one.
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.
Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
Two ears to one tongue, therefore hear twice as much as you speak.
Two heads are better than one.
Two in distress makes sorrow less.
Two is company, but three is none.
Two of a trade seldom agree.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little fa
ilings.
Two quarrel and a third profits by it.
Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement.
Two things doth prolong your life: a quiet heart and a loving wife.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Chapter 1.19
S
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Safe bind, safe find.
Sail while the wind blows; wind and tide wait for no man.
Salt water and absence wash away love.
Satan always finds work for idle hands.
Save a thief from gallows and he will help hang you.
Save while you may, no morning sun lasts a whole day.
Saving is getting.
Saying and doing are two things.
Saying is one thing, and doing another.
Say not all that you know, believe not all that you hear.
Say well is good, but do well is better,
Science is organized knowledge.
Score twice before you cut once.
Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
Scratch a Russsian, and you('ll) find a Tartar.
Scratch me and I'll scratch you
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
Second thoughts are best.
Seeing is believing.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning
.
See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in peace.
Seize (or Take) time by the forelock.
Seldom seen, soon forgotten.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to human greatness.
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure.
Self do, self have.
Self-praise is no recommendation.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sov
ereign power.
Selt-trust is the essence of heroism.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Serve somebody with the same sauce.
Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Shallow streams make most din.
Sharp stomachs make short graces.
Short accounts make long friends.
Short acquaintance brings repentance.
Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.
Sickness is everyman's master.
Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
Sickness shows us what we are.
Silence gives consent.
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
Silence is learnt by the may misfortunes of life.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous.
Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen.
Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble ma
nhood.
Six feet of earth makes all men equal.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Sleeping is the best cure for waking troubles.
Sloth turneth the edge of wit.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Slow help is no help.
Small gains bring great wealth.
Smooth water runs deep.
Soft fire makes sweet malt.
Soft (or Fine or Kind) words butter no parsnips.
So many countries, so many customs.
So many men (or heads) so many minds (or wits).
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed a
nd digested.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn from our mistakes and failures. The error
of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Some persons do first, think afterwards, and then repent for ever.
Something attempted, something done.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
So much is mine as I enjoy.
Sooner or later, the truth comes to light.
Soon gotten, soon spent.
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
Soon up, soon down.
Sorrow comes unset for.
Soorow is at parting if at meeting there be laughter.
Sound love is not soon forgotten.
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Speak clearly if you speak at all, Carve every word before you let it fall.
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.
Speak less and listen more.
Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
Speak of angels and you will hear their wings. **
Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.
Speech is silver (or silvern), silence is golden.
Speech is the picture of the mind.
Speech shows what a man is.
Speed is the soldier's ***et.
Spend money like water.
Spoil (or Lose) the ship for half penny worth of tar.
Step after step the ladder is ascended.
Still waters have deep bottoms.
Still waters run deep.
Straight trees have crooked roots.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
Study sickness while you are well.
Success belongs to the persevering.
Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties.
Such beginning, such ending.
Such carpenters, such chips.
Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
Suit the action to the word.
Sure bind, sure find.
Suspicion is the poison of true friendship.
Sweep before your own door.
Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.
Chapter 1.18
R
Rain before seven; fine before eleven.
Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a clear sky.
Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship.
Readiness is all.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Read not books alone, but men.
Ready money is a ready medicine.
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily, it
must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and more than all, must be prayed
for.
Reap as (or what) one has sown.
Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.
Reason binds the man.
Reason deceives us often, conscience never.
Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.
Reason is the guide and light of life.
Reason rules all things.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
Remember thou are but a man.
Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
Responsibility must be shouldered; you cannot carry it under your arms.
Rest breeds rust.
Revolutions are not made with rose water.
Riches do not always bring happiness.
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
Riches have wings.
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
Rivers need a spring.
Roll my log and I'll roll yours.
Rome was not built in a (or one) day.
Run (or Hold) with the hare and hunt (or run) with the hounds.
Chapter 1.17
Q
Quality is better than quantity.
Quality matters more than quanity.
Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.
Quick at meal, quick at work.
Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.
Quietness is best.
Quietude is the crown of life.
Chapter 1.16
P
Paddle your own canoe.
Pain is forgotten where gain follows.
Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
Patience and application will carry us through.
Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden.
Patience is a plaster for all sores.
Patience is a virtue.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Patience is the best remedy (or medicine).
Patience, time, and money overcome everything.
Pay somebody back in his own coin.
Peace on earth and good will towards men.
Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making.
Pen and ink is wit's plough.
Penny and penny laid up will be many.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Perseverance is vital to success.
Pitchers/Walls have ears.
Pity is akin to love.
Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears.
Pleasant hours fly fast.
Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody.
Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
Plenty is no plague.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of say
ing things, and hence its importance.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way.
Poor men's words have little weight.
Poverty breeds strife.
Poverty is apain, but no disgrace.
Poverty is no shame, laziness is.
Poverty is no sin.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to
help oneself is a disgrace.
Poverty is the mother of all arts.
Poverty is the mother of health.
Poverty is the reward of idleness.
Poverty is the root of all evils.
Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.
Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies.
Poverty tries friends.
Practice is better than precept.
Practice makes perfect.
Practice what you preach.
Praise is not pudding.
Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
Praise no man till he is dead.
Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach.
Prepare for a rain day.
Prevention is better than cure.
Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
Pride apes humility.
Pride goes before a fall. (or destruction).
Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after.
Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
Pride must be pinched.
Pride will have a fall.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Progress is the activity of today and the ***urance of tomorrow.
Promise is debt.
Promise little but do much.
Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues.
Prosperity gains (or makes) friends, and adversity tries them.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.
Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.
Prove thy friends ere thou have need.
Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions.
Punctuality is the soul of business.
Purpose supposes foresight.
Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
Put (or Lay or Set) one's shoulder to the wheel.
Put the cart before the horse.
Put the shoe on the right foot.
Chapter 1.15
O
Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
Observation is the best teacher.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk
into the dust the great name still lives.
Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. A bad the bitterest curse of human lif
e.
Offence is the best defence.
Of nothing comes nothing.
Often and little eating makes a man fat.
Of two evils choose the least.
Of young men die many, of old men escape not any.
Old bees yield no honey.
Old birds are not caught with new nests.
Old birds are not to be caught with shaff.
Older and wiser.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Old friends and old wine are best.
Old love will not be forgotten.
Old vessels must leak.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors
to read.
Old wood is best to burn, old book to read.
Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride.
O liberty, how many crimes have been committed in thy name!
Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.
Once a devil, always a devil.
Once a knave, ever a knave.
Once a man and twice a child.
Once bit, twice shy.
Once is no custom.
Once on shore, we pray no more.
On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind.

One barking dog sets all street a-barking.
One beats the bush, and another catches the birds.
One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
One cannot be in two place at once.
One cannot do a foolish thing once in one's life, but one must hear of it a hund
red times.
One cannot eat one's cake and have it.
One cannot get blood from a stone.
One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
One cannot make bricks without straw.
One cannot put back the clock.
One chick keeps a hen busy.
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
One enemy is too much.
One false move may lose the game.
One false step will make a great difference.
One father can support ten children, ten children cannot support one father.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
One flower makes no garland.
One foe is too many; and a hundred friends too few.
One fool makes many.
One foot is better than two crutches.
One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
One good turn deserves another.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls.
One honest word is better than two oaths.
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
One love drives out another.
One man makes a chair and another man sits in it.
One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
One may sooner fall than rise.
One may think that dares not speak.
One misfortune comes on the neck of another.
One must draw the line somewhere.
One must drink as one brews.
One must howl with the wolves.
One never loses anything by politeness.
One never loses by doing a good turn.
One penny witgh right is better than a thousand without right.
One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows.
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
One should be afraid not of committing mistakes, but of not correcting them. It'
s not difficult to correct mistakes. e^^ Ky
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
One sin opens the door for another.
One's mantle falls on somebody.
One sows another reaps.
One swallow does not make a summer.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
One who can do everything can do nothing.
One woe doth tread upon another's heels.
One wrong (or false) move can lose the whole game.
One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret.
Only that which is honestly got is gain.
Only they who fulfill their duty in everday matters will fulfill them on great o
ccasions.
On the choice of friends. Our good or evil name depends.
On the great clock of time there is but one word, "Now."
Open confession is good for the soul.
Open not your door when the devil knocks.
Opportunity makes the thief.
Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.
Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.
Our affections are our life. -- We live by them; they supply our warmth.
Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learnt through success, but through misadve
nture.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fa
ll.
Our happiness consists not in killing others, but in sacrificing ourselves for o
thers.
Our own actions are our security, not others' judgements.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Out of debt, out of danger.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Overdone is worse than undone.
Chapter 1.14
N
Napolean himself was once a crying baby.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we s
hould hear and see more than we speak.
Nature is the gl*** reflecting truth.
Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies.
Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.
Nature will have its course.
Naughty boys sometimmmes make good men.
Necessity and oportunity may make a coward valient.
Necessity (or Need) has (or knows) no law.
Necessity is the mother of invention
Necessity knows no law.
Need makes the old wife trot. ()
Needs must when the devil drives.
Neglect of health is doctor's wealth.
Never be weary of well doing.
Never cackle till your egg is laid.
Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk.
Never do things by halves.
Never embark on what comes after without having mastered what goes before.
Never fry a fish till it's caught.
Never judge by appearances.
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
Never offer to teach fish tom.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
Never put the plow before the oxen.
Never say die! Up man, and try.
Never say of another what you would not have him hear.
Never show the bottom of your purse or your mind.
Never swap (or swop) horses while crossing the stream. (
Never think yourself above your business.
Never too late to mend.
Never too late to repent.
Never too old (or late) to learn.
Never (or Don't) trouble trouble till trouble troulbes you.
Never trust another what you should do yourself.
Never trust of fine words.
New brooms sweep clean.
New lords, new laws.
News is like fish.
Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
No answer is also answer.
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
No cross, no crown.
No gains without pains.
No garden without its weeds.
No good building without a good foundation.
No great loss without some small gain.
No herb will cure love.
No joy without annoy.
No living man all things can.
No longer pipe, no longer dance.
No love is foul, nor prison fair.
No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled.
No man can do two things at once.
No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
No man ever became thoroughly bad at once.
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
No man is a hero to his valet.
No man (or one) is born wise or learned.
No man is content.
No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.
No man (or one) is wise at all times.
No man knows when he shall die, although he knows he must die.
No man learns but by pain or shame.
No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
No money, no honey.
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
None but a wise man can employ leisure well.
None but the brave deserve the fair.
None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
None knows the weight of another's burden.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
None so blind as those who won't see.
None so deaf as those that won't hear.
No news is good news.
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectlymoral til
l all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
No one can call back yesterday.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
No one can have all he desires.
No one is a fool always, every one sometimes.
No one (or man) is born wise or learned.
No one is wise at all times.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
No pains, no gains.
No piper can please all ears.
No pleasure without alloy (or pain or repentance).
No possession, but use, is the only riches.
No practice, no gain in one's wit.
Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes
at all.
No road is long with good company.
No root, no fruit.
No rose without a thorn.
No rule without an exception.
No safe wading in an unknown water.
No smoke without some fire.
No song, no supper.
No sooner said than done.
No sunshine but bath some shadow.
No sweat, no sweet.
No sweet without some sweat.
Nothing brave, nothing have.
Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.
Nothing comes from (or of) nothing.
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
Nothing comes wrong to a hungry man.
Nothing crave, nothing have.
Nothing for nothing and very little for a half penny.
Nothing is difficult to a man who wills.
Nothing is impossible to willing mind (or heart).
Nothing is impossible (or difficult) to the man who will try.
Nothing is really beautiful but truth.
Nothing is stolen without hands.
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
Nothing seek, nothing find.
Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
Nothing so necessary for travellers as languages.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
Nothing venture, nothing win (or have or gain).
Nothing will come of nothing.
No time like the present.
Not let the gr*** grow under one's feet.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
No vice goes alone.
No way is impossible to courage
No wisdom like silence.
Now or never.
No wrong without remedy.
Chapter 1.13
M
Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek,ft to hear and slow to speak.
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
Make haste slowly.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Make the best of a bad business (or job or bargain)
Make the night night, and the day day, and you will have a pleasant time of it.
Make your enemy your friend.
Make yourself necessary to someone.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
Man is a tool-using animal.
Man is mortal.
Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creature of man.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Manners make the man.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Man's best plans often miscrarry.
Man's best possession is a loving wife.
Man will conquer nature.
Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
Many a flower is born to blush unseen.
Many a good cow hath a bad calf.
Many a good father hath but a bad son.
Many a little (or pickle) makes a mickle.
Many ants kill the horse.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Many dishes, many diseases.
Many drops makes a shower.
Many great men have arisen from humble beginnings.
Many hands are better than one.
Many hands make a burden lighter.
Many hands make light (or quick) work.
Many have suffered for talking, none ever suffered for keeping silence.
Many heads are better than one.
Many kiss the baby for the nurse's sake.
Many men, many minds.
Many one says well that thinks ill.
Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.
Many sands will sink a ship.
Many straws may bind an elephant.
Many wells, many buckets.
Many words cut (or hurt) more than swords.
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
Marriage comes by destiny.
Marriage goes by contrasts.
Marriage is a lottery.
Marriage is a lottery with more blanks than prizes.
Marriaage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness.
Marriage makes or mars a man.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much from a man!
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent.
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you .
Master should be soetimes blind and sometimes deaf.
Measure another's corn by one's own bushel.
Measure for measure.
Measure is treasure.
Measure thrice before you cut once.
Medicines are not meant to live on.
Men are mortal.
Men, at soome time, are masters of their fates.
Men know where they were born, not where they shall die.
Men love to hear well of themselves.
Men may meet but mountains never.
Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentlem
an is what one seldom seen.
Men too seldom see their own faults.
Mere words will not fill a bushel.
Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
Merry meet, merry part.
Method will teach you to win time
Mickle power makes many enemies.
Might is (or makes or overcomes) right.
Mills of God grind slowly but sure.
Miracels are to those who believe in them.
Mischief hasft wings.
Misers put their back and their belly into their pockets.
Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
Misery loves company.
Misery makes strange bedfellows.
Misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot.
Misfortune is a good teacher.
Misfortunes come at night.
Misforunes come on horseback and go away on foot.
Misfortunes (or Hardships) never (or seldom) come alone (or singly).
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Misfortunes test the sincerity of friends.
Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs.
Moderation in all things is the best of rules.
Modesty is not only and ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Modesty is the ornament of woman.
Money answers all things.
Money begets (or breeds or gets) money.
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed
Money burns a hole in his pocket.
Money calls, but does not stay: It is round and rolls sway.
Money can buy the devil himself.
Money can move even the gods.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Money has no smell.
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned
.
Money is a good servant, but a bad master.
Money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on what use is made of it.
Money is often lost for want of money.
Money is something, but no everything.
Money is the key that opens all doors.
Money is the root of all evil.
Money is the sinews of war.
Money makes the mare to go.
Money often unmakes the men who make it.
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
Money talks.
More die by food than by famine.
More haste, less speed.
More of our worries come from within than from without.
More worship the rising than the setting sun.
Most things have two handles.
Mother's darlings are but milksop heroes.
Mountains look beautiful from a distance.
Much cry and little wool.
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.
Much will have more.
Murder will out.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.
Music is the eye of the ear.
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
My son is my son, till he hath got him a wife; but my daughter's my daughter all
the days of her life.
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Labour is light where love doth pay.
Labour is often the father of pleasure.
Labour is the capital of our working men.
Lack of knowledge is darker than night.
Late repentance is seldom true.
Laugh and grow fat.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.
Laugh at your ills, And save doctors' bills.
Laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.
Law makers should not be law breakers.
Laws catch flies but let hornets go free.
Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends.
Lazy folks take the most pains.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in
old age.
Learning is wealth to the poor, an honour to the rich, an aid to the young, and
a support and comfort to the aged.
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Learn to creep before you leap.
Learn to say before you sing.
Learn to suffer without complaining; that is the best thing I can teach you.
Learn to walk before you run.
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
Learn young, learn fair.
Least said, soonest mended.
Lend your money and lose your friend.
Let beggars match with beggars.
Let bygones be bygones.
Let difficulties occur but not the loss of courage.
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
Let every man speak well of the bridge theat carries him over.
Let every tub stand on its own bottom.
Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.
Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath.
Let our object be our courtry, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Let's cross the bridge when we come to it.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Let the hands get busy, not the mouth.
Let things take their course.
Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay.
Liars have need of good memories.
Liars should have good memories.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by law.
Liberty is not licence.
Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness.
Lie in (oron) the bed one has made.
Lies have short legs.
Life is a battle from cradle to grave.
Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels.
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
Life is a shuttle
Life is but a span.
Life is compared to voyage.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Life is long if you know how to use it.
Life if made up of little things.
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
Life is not all beer and skittles.
Life is not so short but there is time enougn for courtesy.
Life is short and time is fleeting
Life is sweet.
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Lightly come, lightly go.
Light troubles speak; great troubles are silent.
Like attracts like.
Like author, like book.
Like begets like.
Like cow, like calf.
Like cures like.
Like draws to like.
Like draws to like the whole world over.
Like father, like son.
Like knows like.
Like mother, like daughter.
Like teacher, like pupil.
Like tree, like fruit.
Little boats must keep the shores.
Little bodies may have great souls.
Littel chips light great fires.
Little pigeons can carry great messages.
Little pitchers have great (or large) ears.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Little thieves are hanged, but great one's escape.
Little things amuse little minds.
Little wealth, little care.
Live and learn.
Live and let live.
Live to learn and learn to live.
Living without an aim is like sailing without a comp***.
Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.
Loftiest trees most dread the thunder.
Long absent, soon forgotten.
Long tarrying takes all the thanks away.
Look at the world through rose-coloured gl***es.
Look before you leap; see before you go.
Lookers-on see more than players.
Lookers-on see most of the games.
Look for a needle in a bundle (or bottle) of hay.
Look not for musk in dog's kennel.
Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary a
ctions.
Losers are always in the wrong.
Losses make us more cautious
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves littl
e enough.
Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by
temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
Love all, trust a few, be false to none.
Love and business teach eloquence.
Love and cough cannot be hid.
Love and poverty are hard to hide.
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
Love begets love.
Love cannot be forced
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
Love comes by looking.
Love does much, money does everything (ormore).
Love fears no danger.
Love grows with obstacles.
Love is a sweet torment.
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
Love is blind.
Love is full of trouble.
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.
Love is neither bought nor sold.
Love is never without jealousy.
Love is not to be found in the market.
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
Love is the mother oflove.
Love is the reward of love.
Love is the touchstone of virtue.
Love is the true price of love.
Love is without reason.
Love laughs at locksmith
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope.
Love makes all equal.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
Love makes obedience easy.
Love makes one fit for any work.
Love makes the world go round.
Love me little and love me long.
Love me, love my dog.
Love needs no teaching.
Love not at the first look.
Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks.
Love rules his kingdom without a word.
Love rules without a sword and bind without a cord.
Love should not be all on one side.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Love thy neighbours as thyself.
Love understands love; it needs no talk.
Love will find out the way.
Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge.
Lying is the first step to the gallows.
Lying rides upon debt's back.
Be willing to do, be happy to bear. g
If you broaden your mind, you will naturally stop worrying._
In the face of criticism, , ask if your conscience is clear. , With a clear cons
cience, , you will have peace of mind. eu r o o t
Getting angry is actually punishing ourselves for the mistakes of others. e
Our greatest enemy is probably not others, but ourselves. e
Helping brings happiness, begging brings pain.