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Proverbs

 

More haste more waste

Haste makes waste

More haste less speed

The worthless ned no protection

Manners betray feelings.

Retaliation is a cure.

Retaliation puts an end to bitter pills.

A hopeful wish comes through in a dream.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

Compliments do not succeed in all cases.

Care killed a cat.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Decline begins by internal strife.

You can't teach an old dog a new trick.

A quiet baby gets no suck.

It's the creaking wheel that gets the grease.

Your mother alone will be wail you.

A wager is a fool's argument.

Keep something for a rainy day.

He who hesitates is lost.

It never rains but pours.

A bad workman always blames his tools

Don't make a martyr sigh, you will pay for it by and by.

A rose by another name would smell as sweet.

A word to the wise in enough.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

He that seeks find.

What is bred in the bone will never came out of the flesh.

If the wishes were horses, the gypsies would ride them.

A living dog is better than a dead lion.

There's no smoke without fire.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.

Actions speak louder than voice.

He who will steal the eggs, will steal the hen.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him

An army of sheep led by lion would defeat an army of lion led by sheep

Forewarned is forearmed.

Your haunts decide your acquaintances.

Your achievements elsewhere can be proved here.

Even the best steed sometimes stumbles.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Its bark is worse than his bite.

Easy come, easy go.

Don't look a gift horse in the mounth.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

One man's meat is another one's poison.

All that glitters is not gold.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Enough is enough.

Many cocks spail the broth.

I heard it through the grapevine.

Every declivity has an acclivity and every acclivity has a declivity.

Cast ne'er a clout fill may is out.

Where there's life, there is hope.

Man proposes, God disposes.

Everything comes to him two waits.

What one fears always happen.

He has nothing but what you see of him.

God helps him who helps himself.

Those that live in glass houses should not throw stones.

He who laughs last laughs best

Early bird gets the worm.

First come, first served.

All is well that ends well.

Speech is silver, but silence is gold.

Make hay while the sun shines.

The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last.

Silence gives consent.

Once burnt twice shy.

A burnt (bunt) child dreads the fire.

Death is a debt to pay, the cause is meaningless.

Better bend than break.

A fault confessed is "half-redressed".

Give in rather than suffer.

One that toils feels the burnt.

A broken heart will never be mended.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Other times, other ways.

Let bygones be bygones.

Blood is thicker than water.

A cheerful wife is the joy of life.

Charity begins at home.

The best advertising is mouth to mouth.

The people who live in glass houses should not throw stone.

Mountains may be removed with eathquakes.

Two households (families) cannot get on in one house.

Friends may always meet but mountains never.

The choice and the loveable lack no suitors.

Many a mickle makes a muckle.

Strike while the iron is hot.

It is unwise to negotiate what is not in hand.

A drowning man will catch a strow.

Don't cross the bridge before you get there.

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

A thing you don't want is dear at any price.

Beggar's bags are bottomless.

Beggars cannot (must not) be choosers.

Diamond cut diamond.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Nothing is permanent but change.

 

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