English Proverbs (1504 Proverbs)
- The bird is known by his note, the man by his words.
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- The fairer the hostess the fouler the reckoning.
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- The last drop makes the cup run over.
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- The nest of the blind bird is made by god.
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- The safest antidote against sorrow is employment.
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- There is a remedy for everything except death.
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- There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil.
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- Think before you speak.
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- To dead men and absent there are no friends left.
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- Truth is a spectre that scares many.
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- We all make mistakes.
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- What canna be cured maun be endured.
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- When drink's in wit's oot.
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- Where coin is not common, provisions can be scant.
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- Why pay for the cow when the milk is free?
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- With Latin, a horse, and money, you may travel the world.
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- Write with the learned, but speak with the vulgar.
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- Ye'll no sell your hen in a rainy day.
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- You can't teach grandpa to suck eggs.
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- Your een's greedier than your guts.
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- Old is gold.
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- One man's trash is another man's treasure.
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- Pluck not a courtesy in the bud.
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- Put new wine into old bottles..
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- Salvage Something From Every Setback.
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- Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency.
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- Tell not all you know, all you have, or all you can do.
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- The brains don't like in the beard.
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- The fed hound never hunts.
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- The little cannot be great unless he devour many.
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- The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air.
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- The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
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- There is a remedy for everything, could men find it.
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- There is safety in numbers.
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- Think globally, act locally.
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- To each his own.
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- Truth needs not the ornament of many words.
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- We are all in this together.
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- What cannot gold do?
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- When everyone takes care of himself, care is taken of all.
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- Where drums beat, laws are dumb.
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- Why worry? If you worry - you die. If you don't worry - you'll still die. So why worry?
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- With one child you may walk; with two you may ride; when you have three, at home you must bide.
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- Ye ca' hardest at the nail that drives fastest.
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- Ye're a foot behint the foremost.
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- You can't win them all.You win a few, you lose a few.
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- Your thrift's as gude as the profit o' a yeld hen.
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- Old love will not be forgotten.
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- 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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