English Proverbs (1504 Proverbs)
- One picture is worth ten thousand words.
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- Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.
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- Put not fire to flax.
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- Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar.
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- Sometimes people who live in glass houses throw stones because their windows are painted.
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- That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait.
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- The brains of a fox will be of little service if you play with the paw of a lion.
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- The fingers have got pretty close to the thumb.
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- The longer we live, the more wonders we see.
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- The old should not be overfed.
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- The skilfullest wanting money is scorned.
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- There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
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- There is small choice in rotten apples.
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- Thinking is very far from knowing.
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- To kill two birds with one stone.
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- Truth often hides in an ugly pool.
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- We are often shot with our own feathers.
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- What can't speak can't lie.
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- When friends fall out the truth doth appear.
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- Where every man is master the world goes to wreck.
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- Wide ears and short tongue are the best.
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- With patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
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- Ye canna mak a silk purse out o' a sow's lug.
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- Ye're black aboot the mou' for want o' kissing.
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- You lose some... and you win some... and some you don't even bother to play.
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- Yourself first, others afterward.
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- Old men, when they marry young women, make much of death.
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- One thief will not rob another.
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- Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich.
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- Put not thy hand between the bark and the tree.
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- Scratch my back and i will scratch yours.
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- Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
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- That sick man is not to be pitied who has his cure in his sleeve.
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- The camel asking for horns lost also his ears.
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- The first step is usually the hardest.
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- The longest at the fire soonest finds cold.
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- The only stupid question is the one that is not asked.
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- The Spaniard is a bad servant but a worse master.
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- There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
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- There was never a conflict without a woman.
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- Those far, far away are seldom seen for what they really are.
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- Today is the scholar of yesterday.
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- Truth will come to light.
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- We have all forgot more than we remember.
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- What is a man but his mind?
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- When in doubt, do nought.
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- Where god builds a church, the devil will build a chapel.
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- Wide lugs an a short tongue is best.
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- Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
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- Ye hae been smelling the bung.
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- Ye're like a bad liver--the last day there's aye maist to do wi' ye.
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- You may break a horse's back, be he never so strong.
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- Youth never casts for peril.
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- Old saws speak truth.
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- One year of joy, another of comfort, and all rest of content.
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- Poverty is an enemy to good manners.
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- Quarrelsome dogs get dirty coats.
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- See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck.
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- Sorrow is always dry.
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- That which does not kill you, makes you stronger.
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- The charitable give out the door and god puts in at the window.
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- The first step to health is to know that we are sick.
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- The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
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- The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings.
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- The start of a journey should never be mistaken for success.
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- There is better fish in the sea than have ever been caught.
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- There's always a calm before a storm.
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- Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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- Tomorrow is a new day.
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- Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
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- We must take the bad with the good.
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- What is extraordinary, try to look at with your own eyes.
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- When in motion, to push on is easy.
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- Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
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- Wife and children are bills of charges.
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- Without sleep, no health.
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- Ye hae the best end a' the string.
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- Ye're like the miller's dog--ye lick your lips ere the pock be opened.
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- You may find your best friend or your worst enemy in yourself.
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- Youth will be served.
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