English Proverbs (1504 Proverbs)
- By continually striving for the best, one may waste good opportunities.
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- Common sense ain't common.
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- Different sores must have different salves.
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- Don't spit into the wind.
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- Education is a subversive activity.
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- A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow.
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- A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels.
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- A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft.
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- A man among children will long be a child; a child among men will soon be a man.
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- A man's studies pass into his character.
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- A rich man's joke is always funny.
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- A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
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- All good things come to an end.
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- An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag.
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- Anger punishes itself.
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- Beauty and folly go often in company.
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- Better hand loose than in an ill tethering.
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- Bitter pills may have blessed effects.
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- Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
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- Comparisons are odious.
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- Diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot.
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- Don't spoil the ship for a halfpenny of tar.
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- Ell and tell is good merchandise.
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- A big tree attracts the woodsman's ax.
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- A fish follows the bait.
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- A handful of good life, is better than a bushel of learning.
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- A man can't be hanged for his thoughts.
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- A merry heart goes all the way.
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- A rich man's joke is not always funny.
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- A wise man is a great wonder.
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- All hat and no cattle.
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- An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter's head.
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- Another man's poison is not necessarily yours.
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- Beauty and honesty seldom agree.
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- Better keep now than seek anon.
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- Blood will out.
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- Cast not your pearls before swine.
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- Counsel must be followed, not praised.
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- Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee.
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- Don't think to hunt two hares with one hound.
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- A broken leg is not healed by a silk stocking.
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- A fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
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- A heavy purse makes a light heart.
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- A man has a choice to begin love, but not to end it.
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- A merry heart makes a long life.
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- A rich man's money often hangs him.
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- A woman and a cherry are painted for their own harm.
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- All of you that intend to ring, you undertake a dangerous thing.
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- An artist lives everywhere.
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- Appear in your own colours, that folk may know you.
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- Beauty draws more than oxen.
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- Better never to begin than never to make an end.
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- Blue are the faraway hills.
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- Chance favors the prepared mind.
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- Cowards die many times, but a brave man only dies once.
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- Do no business with a kinsman.
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- Don't trudge mud into the house of love.
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- A candle lights others and consumes itself.
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- A fool will laugh when he is drowning.
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- A horn spoon holds no poison.
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- A man is as old as he feels, a woman as old as she looks.
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- A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile.
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- A sharp stomach makes short devotion.
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- A woman's advice is no great thing, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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- All temptations are found either in hope or fear.
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- An eel by his tail, an Irishman at his word.
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- April showers bring May flowers.
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- Beauty is eloquent even when silent.
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- Better spare to have of your own, than ask of other men.
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- Bob's your uncle.
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- Charity bread has hard crusts.
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- Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
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- Do not dwell in a city where a horse does not neigh nor a dog bark.
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- Don't trust the Greek bearing gifts.
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- A cast is not a catch.
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- A fox smells its own lair first.
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- A house built by the wayside is either too high or too low.
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- A man is known to be mortal by two things, sleep and lust.
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- A mother never thinks her baby is ugly.
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- A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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