English Proverbs (1504 Proverbs)
- Once a use and ever a custom.
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- Paddle your own ...
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- Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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- Repeating a lie, doesn't make that lie true.
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- Send your charity abroad wrapped in blankets.
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- Starve a fever, feed a cold.
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- The air of a window is as the stroke of a cross-bow.
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- The crutch of time does more than the club of Hercules.
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- The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him.
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- The married man has many cares, the unmarried one many more.
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- The Peerage is the Englishman's Bible.
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- The value of ANYTHING is determined by the agreement of only two people.
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- There is never a debt is paid so high as that which the wet owes to the dry.
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- They brag most that can do the least.
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- Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
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- Touch pot, touch penny.
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- Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
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- Weigh justly and sell dearly.
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- What we first learn we best ken.
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- When people have but little property, they take good care of it.
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- Where's there's muck, there's money.
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- Winter's thunder is summer's wonder.
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- Women in mischief are wiser than men.
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- Ye may be heard where ye're no seen.
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- You can have no more of a cat than her skin.
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- You never know what you've got till it's gone.
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- Once bitten, forever smitten.
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- Past shame, past grace.
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- Practice does not make perfect but a perfect practice makes perfect.
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- Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
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- Sex is like war, both are exciting but neither informative.
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- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will break my spirit.
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- The anger is not warrantable that has seen two suns.
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- The cure is worse than the disease.
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- The going gets tough, the tough get going.
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- The measure of our sacrifice is the measure of our love.
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- The person who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
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- The village slatternly wench has the form of a dove, the heart of a fox, and the mind of an toad.
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- There is no benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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- They that are bound must obey.
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- Time flies when you're having fun.
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- Train up a child in the way he should go.
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- Understand is better than stare.
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- Weil worth aw, that gars the plough draw.
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- What's in your wame's not in your testament.
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- When the cow has been sold with firmness you may relax for a while and go for a better one.
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- While the cat is away, the mice will play.
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- Wipe wi' the water and wash wi' the towel.
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- Women's counsel is cold.
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- Ye may drive the deil into a wife, but ye'll ne'er ding him oot o' her.
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- You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.
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- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
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- Once smitten, twice shy.
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- Pay what you owe and you'll know what you're worth.
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- Practice makes permanent.
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- Reputation is commonly measured by the acre.
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- Sin is the root of much sorrow.
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- Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
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- The ant had wings to her hurt.
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- The darkest hour comes just before the dawn.
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- The greatest step is that out of doors.
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- The money you refuse will never do you good.
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- The pitcher goes so often to the well that it comes home broken at last.
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- The wind in one's face makes one wise.
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- There is no better looking-glass than an old friend.
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- They that think no ill are soonest beguiled.
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- Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
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- Tread on the ball, live to spend all.
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- United we stand, divided we fall.
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- Welcome is the best dish.
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- When a ewie's drowned she's dead.
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- When troubles are few, dreams are few.
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- Whiskey on beer, never fear. Beer on whiskey, mighty risky.
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- Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them.
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- Wonder at your auld shoon when ye hae gotten your new.
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- Ye needna mak a causey tale o't.
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- You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.
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- You should lie down with the lamb and rise with the lark.
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- One acre of performance, is worth twenty of the land of promise.
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- People with wax heads shouldn't walk in the sun.
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