English Proverbs (1504 Proverbs)
- Old sins have long shadows.
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- Only two things in life are certain; death and taxes.
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- Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.
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- Religion, credit, and the eye are not to be touched.
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- Seek that which may be found.
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- Sound advice had better be welcome.
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- That's the last straw.
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- The coat makes the man.
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- The fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait.
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- The man in boots does not know the man in shoes.
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- The owl thinks her own young fairest.
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- The third time someone tries to put a saddle on you, you should admit you're a horse.
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- There is but one road out of the tower and that leads to the scaffold.
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- There's no arguing with the barrel of a gun.
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- Thrift is a great revenue. a little, often, leaves wrinkles in the purse.
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- Too much money makes one mad.
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- Two things a man should never get angry at: what he can help and what he cannot.
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- We never miss the well till it runs dry.
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- What may be done at ony time will be done at nae time.
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- When love cools fauts are seen.
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- Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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- Wink at small faults unless you can cast the first stone.
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- Wives must be had, be they good or bad.
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- Ye look like a rinner, quo' the deil to the lobster.
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- You are responsible for you.
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- You must look where it is not as well as where it is.
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- On painting and fighting look aloof.
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- Our fear commonly meets us at the door by which we think to run from it.
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- Power attracts the corruptible.
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- Remorse is lust's dessert.
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- Self-praise is nno praise at all.
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- Speaking of the devil.
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- The absent party is always to blame.
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- The covetous spends more than the liberal.
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- The game isn't worth the candle.
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- The man who is ready to lend is the beggar's brother.
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- The peacock has fair feathers, but foul feet.
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- The third's the charm.
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- There is honor even among thieves.
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- There's no substitute for experience.
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- Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.
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- Too much of ought is good for nought.
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- Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife.
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- Weel kens the mouse when pussie's in.
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- What the church doesn't take, the exchequer carries away.
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- When money speaks the world is silent.
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- Where your will is ready your feet are light.
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- Winners never cheat and cheaters never win.
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- Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
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- Ye maun spoil or ye spin.
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- You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
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- You need to bait the hook to catch the fish.
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- 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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