English Proverbs
From PROVERBS, MAQOLLAR, POSLOVITSI (ingliz, o'zbek, rus moqollori) «Mehnat» nashriyati - Tashkent – 2000
By KAROMATXON MAHMUDJONOVNA KAROMATOVA, HAMIDULLA SA'DULLAYEVlCH KAROMATOV
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A Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Among the blind the one-eyed is king.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Speak of angels and they flap their wings.
The absent is always in the wrong.
Anger is a short madness.
The abundance of money ruins the youth.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
That which one least anticipates, soonest comes to pass.
There is no accounting for tastes.
Any port in a storm.
Short acquaintance brings repentance.
The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
Actions speak louder than words. Appearances are deceptive. Adversity is a good discipline. Appetite comes with eating. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Many can bear adversity, but few contempt. The rotten apple injures its neighbours. Advise none to marry or go to war. After a storm comes a calm.
A good archer is not known by his arrows, but his aim.
After rain comes sunshine.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
After dinner comes the reckoning.
Art has no enemy except ignorance.
After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
Art is long, life is short.
Agree, for the law is costly.
Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
Agues come on horseback but go away on foot.
Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy.
All are not saint that go to the church.
As you make your bed, so must you lie on it.
All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
As you sow, shall you mow.
All bread is not baked in one oven.
All asses wag their ears.
All covet, all lose.
An ass in a lion's skin.
It is all in the day's work.
Try to sweep back the Atlantic with a broom.
All is fair in love and war.
If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle.
All is fish that comes to his net. Choose an author as you choose a friend. All is not gold that glitters. To have an ax to grind. All is over but the shouting. All is well that ends well.
B Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese and kisses.
Almost never killed a fly.
A bad excuse is better than none.
Always is a long time.
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
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Bad news has wings.
Better buy than borrow.
He that spares the bad injures the good.
Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown.
The bait hides the hook.
Better die a beggar than live a beggar.
Bald heads are soon shaven.
Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery.
A bargain is a bargain. Better late than never. Barking dogs seldom bite. Better never begin than never make an end. Be sure before you marry of a house wherein to tarry.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
Catch the bear before you sell his skin. Better untaught than ill-taught. Beauty is but skin deep. Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip. Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. Between two stools one falls to the ground. Beauty will buy no beef. Fast bind, fast find. Poverty acquaints with strange bedfellows. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The beggar may sing before the thief. Birds of a feather flock together. Beggars cannot be choosers. Every bird likes its own nest. Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Old birds are not to be caught with chaff.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
There are no birds of this year in last year's nest.
In every beginning think of the end.
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Hungry bellies have no ears. Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
The best is (oftentimes) the enemy of the good.
There are black sheep in every flock.
Better an open enemy than a false friend.
Two blacks do not make a white.
If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
Blessings are not valued untill they are gone. None so blind as those who won't see.
Better be alone than in bad company. Men are blind in their own cause. Better be born lucky than rich. A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. Better a lean peace than a fat victory. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Better be envied than pitied. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
If the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Better be sure than sorry.
Blood is thicker than water.
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
Blushing is virtue's colour.
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Who is more busy than he that hath least to do? Great boast and small roast. To buy a pig in a poke. A little body often harbours a great soul. Let bygones be bygones. A fool’s bolt is soon shot. C Calamity is man's true touchstone.
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
If the cap fits, wear it. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. I was not born yesterday.
Cards are the devil's books.
From whose bourn no traveller returns.
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
Have more brains in one's little finger than one has in his whole body.
Care killed a cat.
None but the brave deserve the fair.
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. . To carry coals to Newcastle.
Ask for bread and be given a stone.
To put the cart before the horse.
Cast one’s bread upon the waters.
To build castles in the air.
Eat the bread of affliction.
All cats are grey in the dark.
Don’t cross bridges before you come to them.
All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.
Eat the bread of idleness.
A cat in gloves catches no mice.
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
A cat may look at a king.
His bread is buttered on both sides.
To see which way the cat jumps.. Teach the cat the way to the kirn.
An idle brain in the devil's workshop.
It’s as broad as it's long. What can you have of a cat but her skin. Laugh before breakfast, you'll cry before supper. . A new broom sweeps clean.
When the cat’s away the mice will play. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link,
The first breath is the beginning of death. As like chalk and cheese. A bull in a china shop. Every bullet has it billet.
It chanceth in an hour that happeneth not in seven years.
A bully is always a coward.
Charity begins at home.
He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.
The parson always christens his own child first.
He that feareth every bush must never go abirding.
Who chatters to you will chatter of you. The king’s cheese goes half away in parings.
One beats the bush and another catches the birds. Pull somebody’s chestnuts out of the fire. Business before pleasure. Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. Business is business. The cobler’s children usually go unshod. Everybody’s business is nobody's business. He may well swim that is held up by the head.
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A chip of the old block.
Head cook and bottle-washer.
Nothing to choose between them.
Good counsel does no harm.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Every country has its own customs.
The nearer the church, the farther from God.
Every couple is not a pair.
Go round in small circles.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Civility costs nothing. Claw me and I will claw thee.
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long. Cousin seven times removed.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
He that never climbed never fell. Cowards are cruel. Hasty climbers have sudden falls. Cowards die many times before their death. Have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain. A creaking door hangs long. A close mouth cat catcheth no flies. Creditors have better memories than debtors. Clothes make the man. Crime doesn't pay. Every cloud has a silver lining. The greater the crime, the higher the gallows. The coast is clear. He that lives with cripples learns to limp. Cut the coat according to the cloth. It’s not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.
The cobbler must stick to his last.
It is no use crying over split milk.
As the old cock crows so doth the young.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.
A ragged colt may moke a good horse. Easy come, easy go.
D A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Everything comes to him who waits.
Every day is not Sunday.
He who comes uncalled sits unserved.
Dead men tell no tales.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
Day at night, praise fair.
Two is company, but three is none.
Let the dead bury their dead.
Comparisons are odious.
Concerning the dead say nothing but good.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
Confession is good for the soul. Dead men don't bite. A good conscience is a continual feast. There is no disputing about tastes. A constant guest is never welcome. After death the doctor. Every cook praises his own broth.
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Death is the grand leveller.
Discreet woman have neither eyes nor ears.
Death takes no denial.
Company in distress makes trouble less.
Debt is the worst poverty.
Better to do well than to say well.
Out of debt, out of danger.
Do as you would be done by.
He that once deceives is ever suspected.
What’s done can't be undone.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; If he deceives me twice, shame on me.
If you want a thing well done do it yourself. The dogs bark but the caravan goes on.
In the deepest water is the best fishing. Every dog has his day. Delays are dangerous. Give a dog a bad name and hang him. He that will not taste the sour, deserves not the sweet.
A good dog deserves a good bone.
He that desires honour is not worthy of honour.
He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
Despair gives courage to a coward. Let sleeping dogs lie. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
Between the devil and the deep sea.
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An old dog barks not in vain.
The devil finds work for the idle hands to do.
An old dog will learn no new tricks.
The Devil knows many things because he is old.
A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with.
The Devil rebuking sin.
Two dogs strive far a bone, and third runs away with it.
Each for himself and the Devil take the hindmost. Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. Hate somebody as the Devil hates holy water. The scalded dog fears cold water. When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be.
Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
Diamond cut diamond.
It is dogged that does it..
He must have a long spoon that sups with the.devil.
Doing is better than saying. . In doing we learn.
The difference between tweedledum and tweedledee.
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
He must needs go whom the devil drives.
What is done by night appears by day.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.
At open doors dogs come in.
Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime drunk.
Every door may be shut but death's door. If each would sweep before his own door we should have a clean city.
Pull the devil by the tail.
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To lock the stable door after the horse is stolen.
At the ends of the earth.
When one door closes another opens.
Come out at the little end of the horn.
As you brew, so must you drink.
The end crowns all.
Drink wine and have the gout: drink no wine and have the gout too.
In the end things will mend. The longest day must have an end.
The last drop makes the cup run over. An Englishman's house is his castle. One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. Enough is enough. Constant dropping wears away a stone. Enough is as good as a feast. A drowning man will catch at a straw. Enough to make a saint swear As drunk as a fish. Enough to try the patience of a saint. A drunken night makes a cloudy morning. To err is human. E In one ear and out at the other.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin?
If your ears burn, someone is talking about you.
The evening crowns the day.
Early sow, early mow.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Easier said than done.
Every man for himself and God for us all.
East or west home is best.
Every man has his faults.
Easy come, easy go.
Every man is best known to himself.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
Every man to his taste. Everything comes to him who waits.
Eat out of somebody's hand. Everything must have a beginning. Eat the fot of the land. Eat ot pleasure, drink by measure.
Between two evils 'tis not worth choosing.
Eat to live, but do not live to eat.
Evil be to him who evil thinks.
Eating and scratching wants but a beginning.
The evils we bring on ourselves are the hardest to bear.
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Example is better than precept.
Slippery as an eel.
Exchange is no robbery.
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens,
Much is expected where much is given. Experience is the mother of wisdom.
Elbow grease gives the best polish. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money.
Experience is good, if not bought too dear. Empty vessels make the most noise. Experience teaches. The end justifies the means. Extremes meet.
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The fat is in the fire. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Feast today and fast tomorrow. What the eye sees not, the heart rues not. Death's head at a feast. The eyes are the mirror of the soul. Fine fathers make fine birds. Four eyes see more than two. Not to have a feather to fly with. One’s eyes are bigger than one's belly. Not to set at a pin's fee. Sleep with one eye open. Few words are best. What the eye does not see the heart cannot grieve.
To fiddle while Rome is burning.
F The face is the index af the heart.
If you dance you must pay the fiddler.. Finders keepers, losers weepers.
A fair face may hide a foul heart. Better a finger off than aye wagging. A good face is a letter of recommendation.. To have a finger in the pie. Her face is her fortune. Have light fingers, To put a good face on something. One’s finger is thicker than another's loins. Facts are stubborn things. A burnt child dreads the fire It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody.
Drive out fire with fire.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
No fire without smoke.
Fair and softly goes far.
Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters.
A fair face is half a fortune. Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. Fair play's a jewel. Set the Thames on rfire. The fairer the hostess, the fouler the reckoning. The fire which lights us at a distance will burn us when near. Fire into the wrong flock.
Fall into a snore. . Ride for a fall.
Go through fire and water Though heaven fall let justice be done. Fish in the air. The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. First catch your hare and then cook it. . First come, first served.
Familiarity breeds contempt. Far from eye, far from heart.
First think, and then .speak. A fault once denied is twice committed. First thrive and then wife. A fault confessed is half redressed. The fisrst blow is half the battle. Faults are thick where love is thin. All is fish that comes to his net. The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
The best fish are near the bottom.
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A big fish in a little pond.
As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
Cry stinking fish
Every fool will be meddling.
Fish begins to stink at the head.
A fool always rushes to the fore.
A fish out of water.
The fool does think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The great fish eat up the small. A fool is known by his laughing. If you swear you wiil catch no fish. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
It is a silly/that is caught twice with the some bait fish.
A fool may give a wise man counsel. Neither fish nor fowl. A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose. There's as good fish in the sea. Venture a small.fish to catch a great one.
A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
I have other fish to fry.
No fool like on old fool.
Give one's own fishguts to one's own sea-maws.
None is a fool always, every one sometimes.
It is good fishing in trouble water.
One fool makes many.
As fit as a, flea
A fool when he is silent is counted wise.
He is not fittocommand others that cannot command himself.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. Fools never know when they are well.
When the devil goes to dinner flatterers meet. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Nothing must be done hastily but killing of. fleas Fools should not have chopping sticks. Be one flesh. Fools will be fools. Fling dirt enough, and some will stick. He is a fool that forgets. himself. Float on a claud. He is a fool that is not melancholy once a day. To flog a dead horse. Every flow has its ebb.
The fool wanders, the wise men travels.
A fly in the ointment.
If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.
No Flying from fate. Better the foot slip than the tongue. A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan. Have a foot in both camps. Idle folks have the least leisure. Fortune favors the bold. Idle folks lack no excuses. Fortune is variant. Follow the river and you'll get to the sea. Measure another man's foot by one's own last. Folly is wise in her own eyes. Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door. A fool and his money are soon parted. Forbearance is no acquittance. Answer a fool according to his folly. Forewarned, forearmed.
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When fortune knocks, open the door.
Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
Forgive and forget.
Full of courtesy, full of craft.
He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
Full to the gills.
Foul water will quench fire.
G The game is not worth the candle.
Before you choose a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.
Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
When the fox preaches, then beware your geese.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
A friend in court is better than a penny in purse. .
The cat-and-mouse game. It is a game at which two can play.
The fox knows much, but more he that catcheth him.
The same old game!
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Lie like a gas meter.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing him.
All his geese are swans. The gentleman that pays the rent.
Come off scot free. Look like a ghost. The friar preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve.
A giant among pygmies.
Between friends all is common.
Gifts from enemies are dangerous.
The best of friends must part.
Look not a gift horse in the mouth.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will befriend thee.
Ginger shall be hot in the mouth.
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
Give as good as one gets.
A fair-weather friend.
Give the devil his due.
Friends are thieves of time.
Who gives to all, denies all.
False friends are worse than bitter (open) enemies.
He gives twice who gives quickly. Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.
Friends may meet, but mountains never greet. Old friends and old wine are best.
People who live in glass houses, should never throw stones.
It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
Gluttony kills more than the sword.
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.
Friendship is not to be bought at a fair.
Go farther and fare worse.
A little frog in a big pond.
Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.
Forbidden fruit is sweetest.
He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
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Go out like a candle in a snuff.
Good workmen are seldom rich.
God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.
He knows best what good is that has endured evil. We know not what is good until we have lost it.
God help the rich, the poor can beg. Kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. God comes at last when we think he is furthest off. Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. God helps them, who help themselves. Against the grain. God defend me from my friends.; from my enemies I can defend myself. Grasp the nettle and it won't sting you. God is always on the side of the big battalions. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
The grass is /always/ greener on the other side of the fence.
God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults.
Let the grass grow under one's feet.
God's mill grinds slow but sure.
While the grass grows. the horse starves.
He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.
Silent as the grave. Great minds think alike.
God send you joy, for sorrow will come fast enough.
If there were no little ones, there would be no Great ones.
Whom God would ruin, he first deprives of reason. Great talkers are great liars. God sends fortune to fools. Great talkers are little doers. God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. Great trees are good for nothing but shade. Whom the gods love die young. The greater the truth, the greater the libel. All is not gold that glitters. The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. Set good against evil. It is Greek to me. Good and quickly seldom meet. Grin and bear it. A good anvil does not fear the hammer. Bear a grudge against somebody A good beginning makes a good ending. A constant guest is never welcome. A good example is the best sermon. When guns speak it is too late to argue. A good face needs no paint. H Good health is above wealth. To be a hail fellow well met. A good life is the only religion.
Long hair and short wit.
It is not good to want and to have.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
One good turn deserves another.
The half is more than the whole.
A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
A good wife makes a good husband.
One's better half.
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Never do things by halves.
To throw one’s hat in the air.
To bite the hand that feeds one.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
A cold hand and a warm heart.
Hawks will not pick hawk's eyes out.
A bad hand at something.
Make hay while the sun shines.
An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
He that hath no head needs no hat.
Extend a hand of friendship to somebody.
Batter one’s head against a brick wall.
To have somebody.'s fate in one's hand.
To have a head like a sieve.
To keep a firm hand on.
Have an old head on young shoulders.
Many hands make light work.
Go about with one's head in the air.
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
You might have heard a pin drop.
A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
Not to let one's left hand know what one's right does.
A heavy purse makes a light heart.
One hand washes another.
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
Play one’s hand for all it is worth.
Hell has no fury like a woman scorned.
Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Wash one’s hands of somebody.
No herb will cure love.
Handsome is that handsome does.
I He is idle that might be better employed.
He that is not handsome at twenty, not strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
As good be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
Idleness makes the wit rust.
Happiness takes no account of time. If we can't do as we would, we must do as we can. Happy is he that is happy in his children. As hard as a Flint /stone/.
If you can't have the best, make the best of what you have.
A hard nut to crack.
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
First catch your hare, then cook it.
Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise.
Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
Ill doers are ill thinkers. Ill news comes too soon.
Haste makes waste.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
In one ear and out at the other.
I'll eat my hat.
Give somebody an inch and he will take a mile.
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The kettle calls the pot black. Innocent as a babe unborn. Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs. To add insult to injury. To kill two birds with one stone. An iron hand in a velvet glove. Answer in kind. To have many irons in the fire. Kill with kindness. Strike while the iron is hot. King for a day. It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody.
The king can do no wrong.
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
The king's favour is no inheritance.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Kings have long hands.
It is easy to swim if another holds your head.
Kiss and be the friends.
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid.
It is no use pumping a dry well.
Kissing goes by favour.
It is not a gay coat that makes the gentleman.
Tie a knot with one's tongue not to be united with the teeth.
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. To know on which side one's bread is buttered. It's a poor heart that never rejoices. .
Know enough to come in out of the rain.
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To know the ropes.
Every Jack has his Jill. A good Jack makes a good Jill.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. .
Jack of all trades and master of none.
Know somebody as one know his ten fingers.
Better lose a jest than a friend.
Not to know if one is coming or going.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
To know which way the wind blows.
Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.
Knowledge is power.
K Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
Kick down the ladder.
L He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
To keep one's tongue between one's teeth. Keep your eyes wide open before marriange and half shut afterwards.
Quiet as a lamb. Rub Aladdin's lamp.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. A Land flowing with milk and honey. Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. It’s a long lane that has no turning. Am I my brother's keeper? Language is the dress of thought. Sit on a keg of gun-powder. Be in the lap of the gods. He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut. Drop something in somebody’s lap.
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Be up with the lark.
To lead a dog's life.
All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
It’s a great life if you don't weaken. Life is but a span.
Last but not least. Life is sweet. To be on one's last legs. Life is not a bed of roses. He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. While there is life there is hope. He laughs best who laughs last. There is life in the old dog yet. Law is bottomless pit. He is lifeless that is faultless. One law for the rich, and another for the poor. To bring to light. Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free. Light cares speak, great ones are dumb. Law makers should not be law breakers. Hide one’s light under a bushel. Necessity has no law. A light shining in the darkness. The more laws, the more offenders. Lightly come, lightly go. Lawyer's houses built on the heads of fools. Lighting never strikes twice in the same place. To lay it on with a trowel. Like father, like son. A small leak will sink a great ship. Like cures like. Learn something at one's mother's knee. To line one's pockets. Learn to say before you sing. . Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
Wash one’s dirty linen at home. The lion is not so fierce as he is painted.
Least said soonest mended.
Throw somebody to the dogs.
The least foolish is wise.
Little and often fills the purse.
To leave no stone unturned.
Little things please little minds.
Crooked as a dog's hind leg.
Put it on thick, and a little will stick.
Fall on one's legs.
He lives long that lives well.
Stretch your legs according to the coverlet.
Live and learn.
When I lend I am a friend.When I ask I am a foe.
Live and let live.
Lend your money and lose your friend.
Live like a King.
Can the leopard change his spots?
We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours.
Let sleeping dogs lie. To let the cat out of the bag.
All lay load on the willing horse.
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
Roll my log and I'll roll yours.
Liars should have good memories.
Long absent, soon forgotten.
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He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
Love makes the world go round. They love too much that die for love.
The longest day must have an end. Love me little, love me long. Look before you leap. Love will find a way. Look on the bright side. Labour, idle folk have the most. Lookers-on see more than players. A labour of love. Lords, New/new laws. Losers are always in the wrong.
M Maidens should be meek until they be married.
Finders keepers, losers seekers.
As also shall he die main chance.
Lost time is never found again.
Make or break.
No great loss without some small gain.
A man can only die once.
All is fair in love and war.
A drowning man will catch at a straw.
One man’s loss is another's gain.
Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Every man has his faults.
Lost that comes at lost, It is not.
Every man has his hobby-horse.
Love and business teach eloquence.
Every man has his price.
To him that has lost his taste, sweet is sour.
Everyland none at all times man is a fool sometimes.
Love cannot be compelled. Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies. Love begets love. Man said, let me see as the blind. Whom we love best, to them we can say least. A man can do no more than he can. Love comes in at the window and goes out at the door.
A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.
Love is blind. Man is a wolf to man. Love is neither bought nor sold. A man is known by the company he keeps. Love is never without jealousy. A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge.
Love is the reward of love. Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
As also shall he die man lives. No / be they made of gold man loveth his fetters.
Love laughs at locksmiths. God disposes man proposes. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. A man of words and not of deeds. is . like a garden full of weeds.
Love me, love my dog. Love makes one fit far any work. The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
A man shall not live by bread alone. No living man all things ean.
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No man can serve two masters.
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.
No man is a hero to his valet. A matter of life and death. No man is born wise or learned. No man is wise at all times.
He that will not when he / when he will he shall have nay may.
Once a man and twice a child.
By fair means or foul.
A Self-made man.
Measure for measure.
An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
Measure thrice before you cut once. There is a measure in all things.
A wise/ a fool never will man changes his mind. After meat mustard. You'll be a man before your mother. One man's meat is another man's poison. So many men, so many minds. Every medal has its reverse. Men are mortal. To give a dose of one's own medicine. Men may meet but mountains never. Don’t meet troubles half-way. If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind. Blind men can judge no colours.
The meekness of Moses is better than the strength of Samson.
It is the men who make a city.
As merry as a cricket.
Many a good father has but a bad son.
Might is right.
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
It is no good crying over spilt milk. Milk the bull.
No living mare is the better horse. God's mill grinds slow but sure. Bring one's eggs to a bad market. Go through the mill Marriage is a lottery. Mill cannot grind with the water that is past. Marriage goes by contrasts. Mind your own business. Marriage makes or mars a man. A sound mind in a sound body. Marriages are mode in heaven. Throw out a minnow to catch a whale. He that/ sells his liberty marries for wealth. The best mirror is an old friend. He that / marries ill marries late. .
He that mischief hatches mischief catches.
Who / hath good nights and sorry days marrieth for love without money.
Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.
Marry first and love will follow.
He bears misery best who hides it most.
It is good to marry late or never.
Misfortunes come on wings and deport on foot.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
Misfortunes never come alone. Misfortune tells us what fortune is.
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Mob has many heads, but no brains, The. A good name is sooner lost than won. Money answers all things. No/ no pock-drill names. Money begets money. Take the Name of God in vain. Money doesn't grow on trees. Habit is second nature Money has no smell. Throw/ it will come bock again through the window nature out of the door
Money is a good servant, but a bad master. Money is the sinews of war.
Natural folly is bod enough, but learned folly is intolerable.
Maney makes the man. Necessity is the mother of invention. Money makes the mare go. Need makes the old wife trot. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. To look for a needle in a haystack. Money talks. Needs must when the devil drives. Your money or your life. Grasp the nettle and it won't sting you. Money makes marriage. It is never too late to mend. The green-eyed monster. It is never a bad day that hath a good night. The moon does not heed the barking of dogs. Never ask pardon before you are accused. The moon is not seen when the sun shines. Never put off till to-morrow what may be done today.
Once in a blue moon. Persuade somebodythat the moon is made of green cheese.
Never refuse a good offer. It never rains but it pours
A moonshine in the water. Never say die. The / the fewer the better cheer more the merrier. You never know what you can do till you try. More haste, less speed. Never try to prove what nobody doubts. Like mother / like daughter. Never write what you dore not sign. No news is good news.
The mother-in-law remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law.
As night follows day. To make a mountain out of a molehill. The night brings counsel. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. Nightingales will not sing in a cage. Muck and money go together. No fire without some smoke. N Drive a nail in somebody's coffin.
No man's religion ever survives his morals. No mischief but a women or a priest is at the bottom of it.
He must have iron nails that scratches a bear. One nail drives out another.
No money, no swiss. No pleasure without pain.
He must have iron name is better than riches
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No smoke without some fire. Omitttance is no quittance. No sunshine but has some shadow. Once bitten, twice shy. No taxation without representation. To have one foot in the grave. No man can make a good coat with a bad cloth. Opportunity makes the thief. He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hear says.
To keep one's nose to the grindstone . One man makes a chair and another man sits in. By doing nothing we learn to do ill. One swallow does not make a summer. Civility costs nothing. Opportunity seldom knocks twice. Nothing comes from nothing. An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. Nothing costs so much as what is given us. You cannot flay the same ox twice. Nothing is certain but uncertainty. Close as an oyster. Nothing is ours, but time. Nothing questioneth, He that / nothing leorneth.
P To mind ane's p's and Q's.
Nothing seek, nothing find.
So poor he's licking paint off the fence.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Have an itching palm.
Nothing thot is violent is permanent.
Paper it is written on, Not warth the.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Paris is worth a mass.
Nothing is stolen without hands.
If you do not master your passion passion will master you.
Nothing new under the sun. Past cure, past care. Nothing so bad but it might have been worse. Every path has a puddle. Nothimg so good but it might have been better. The primrose path. Nothing stings like the truth. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Nowadays truth is the greatest news.
Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden. Patience, money and time bring all things to pass
O Every oak has been an acorn.
Fat paunches have lean pates Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. To pay a person in his own coin. Obedience is much more seen in little things than in great.
Who breaks pays.
An occasion lost cannot be redeemed.
To pay through the nose.
Add oil to the fire.
He who pays the piper may call the tune.
To pour oil upon the waters.
Peace makes plenty.
As old as the hills.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Plenty is no plague. Not the only pebble on the beach. An old poacher makes the best keeper. There has been many a peck of salt eaten since. The poor man pays for all. A round peg in a square hole. Poor as a church mouse. The pen is mighter than the sword. It is a poor heart that never rejoices. With a scratch of the pen. A watched pot never boils. A penny saved is a penny gained. Poverty is no sin. Penny and penny laid up will be many. Poverty breeds strife. Penny wise, pound foolish. Not worth powder and shot. A penny for your thoughts. Practice makes perfect. Pension never enriched a young man. An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory. Hoist by one's own petard Practise what you preach. Rob peter to pay Paul Petticoats, I have known him since he was in.
Praise makes good. men better and bad men worse.
Pigs might fly, but they are very unlikely birds.
Praise is not pudding
Sell a pig in a poke.
He preaches well that lives well.
What do you expect from a pig but a grunt.
Prevention is better than cure.
From pillar to post.
Kick against the pricks.
Not a pin to choose between them.
Pride apes humility.
He thot touches pitch sholl be defiled.
Pride will have a fall.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Pride goes before, and shame follows after.
Pitcher goes often to the well, . :rhe / but is broken ot lost.
Procrastination is the thief of time. He that means nothing promises too much.
The darkest place is under the candlestick. Promise little, but do much. As plain as a pike-staff. Promise is debt. He plays best that wins. Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken. He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Prospect is often better than possession.
As pleased as Punch. Prosperity has damned mare souls than all the devils together.
When we are/ we begin to please others pleased ourselves.
A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together. There is morel in loving than in being loved pleasure.
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.
A beggar's purse is bottomless.
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A light purse is a heavy curse. Rich men have no faults. One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. He is rich t.hot is satisfied. It is easier to pull down than to build. It is riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy.
The purse-strings are the most common ties of friendship.
It is easier to ridicule than commend. To put on one's thinking cap. He that runs fastest gets the ring. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. All roads lead to Rome. Put your shoulder to the wheel. Spare the rod and spoil the child. Q You canot get a quart into a pint pot.
He makes a rod for his own back.
Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
R Slow and steady wins the race.
Rome was not built in a day. Do in Rome as the Romans do.
After rain comes fair weather. Not room 10 swing a cot. Small rain lays great dust. A crumpled rose-leaf. Die like a rat in a hole. Give a thief rope enough and he'll hang himself. Rats desert a sinking ship. Take the rough with the smooth. Like a red rag to a bull. Rule youth well, for age will rule itself. Reap as one has sown. There is no redemption from hell.
S Put the saddle on the right horse.
Reap where one has not sown.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
It matters not what religion an ill man is of.
There is safety in numbers.
The receiver is as bad as the thief.
Hoist sail while the wind is fair.
Religion is the best armour in the world.
All are not saints that go to church.
Eve reckoninq makes long friend.
Young saints, old devils.
The remedy is worse thoo the disease.
There is a salve for every sore.
There is a remedy for all things but death.
To be all in the same boat.
Repentance comes too late. Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
Put sand in the machine. Plough the sand.
Respects not is not respected, He that.
To save one's bacon.
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
He cannot say Bo to a goose.
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.
Say no ill.of the year till it be past. He who / shall hear what he does not like says what he likes.
Revenge never repairs an injury. Without rhyme or reason.
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Say little but think the more. Saying is one thing and doing another.
He goes long barefoot that waits for dead men's shoes.
To go scot-free.
Short and sweet.
Scratch me and I'll scratch you
Short pleasure, long lament.
Have a screw loose.
The shortest answer is doing.
When the sea gives up its dead.
One shoulder of mutton draws down another.
Everything is good in its season.
Sickness is better than sadness
Second thoughts are best.
Come.down on the right side of the fence.
An open secret.
A sight for sore eyes.
You cannot see the wood for the trees.
Silence gives consent.
We shall see what we shall see.
Silence is golden.
Seeing is believing.
To be at sixes and sevens.
He that seeks finds.
Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
He that seeks trouble, / never misses.
Six hours' sleep far a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
Seldom seen, soon forgotten. If the sky falls we shall catch larks. Self comes first. Out of a blue sky. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Sleep the sleep of the just. Service is no inheritance What drunkenness reveals soberness conceals. Catch a shadow and let go a substance. Be slow to promise and quick to perform. Fight with one's own shadow. Soft fire makes sweet malt. May your shadow never grow less! Small profits and quick returns. Shallow streams make most din. Some are wise and some are otherwise. Share and share alike. There is a snake in the grass. A bad shearer never had a good sickle. So far, so good. As a sheep among the shearers. As soon as a man is born he begins to die If one sheep Ieap over the dyke all the rest will follow.
Soon got, soon spent.
Sheep hang by its own shank, let every.
Soon hot, soon cold.
One scabbed sheep infects the whole flock.
Soon learnt soon forgotten.
A great ship asks deep waters.
No sooner said than done.
Every shoe fits not every foot.
It takes all sorts.
No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
Sorrow comes unsent for.
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A penny soul never come to twopence. The sting is in the tail. Of soup and love, the first is the best. The sting of a reproach is the truth of it. Sour gropes can never make sweet wine. A stitch in time saves nine. One sows and another reaps. Stolen waters are sweet. The still sow eats up all the draff. The stone that lieth not in. your way need not offend you.
A small spark makes a great fire . Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them
Stony limits cannot hold love out. A storm in a tea-cup.
Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.
Straight trees have crooked roots.
Speak when you are spoken to.
To make bricks without Straw.
He that dishonours himself speaks ill of his wife
A straw shows which way the wind blows.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Thrash over old straw.
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Throw straws against the wind.
To split hairs.
By the street of by and by one arrives at the house of never.
To put a spoke in one's wheel. A life-and-death struggle. There are spots in the 'sun. Stuff today and starve tomorrow. To spur a willing horse. A stumble may prevent a fall. On the spur of the moment. The style is the man. There is no standing still. Subtlety is better than force. Early start makes easy stages. Success is never blamed. Steady does it. Certain as the rising sun. It is the first step that costs. Let not the sun go down on your wrath. Be one step ahead of the sheriff. The morning sun never lasts a day. Mind one's step The sun shines upon all alike. There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Below the surface.
To stew in one's own grease.
One swallow does not make a summer.
Any stick to beat a dog.
No sweet without sweat.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Sweet discourse makes short days and nights. To have a sweet tooth. Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
Stiff as a poker. To keep a stiff upper lip.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the round-a bouts.
Still waters run deep
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They that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Tell that to the Marines. Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Be pinned to one's wife's apron strings. Temperance is the best medicine. T The tail wagging the dog.
To be on tenterhooks.
The tailor makes the man.
Thick as blackberries.
Take a farthing away from a thousand pounds, it will be a thousond pounds no longer.
Set a thief to catch a thief. Like a thief in the night.
To take a leaf out of one's book. Little thieves ore hanged, but great ones escape. To take the gilt off the gingerbread. As thick as thieves. Take away my good name and take away my life. To take the law into one's own hand.
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own.
To take the wind out of one's sails.
The thin end of the wedge is to be feared.
To take one down a peg or two.
If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
Take things as you find them.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
To take the bull by the horns.
Little things amuse little minds.
A tale-bearer is worse than a thief.
Never do things by halves.
All talk and no cider.
Take things as they are.
To talk the hind leg off a donkey.
Things past cannot be recalled.
The talk of the town.
First think then speak.
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
They that think they know "everything,know nothing.
The greatest talkers are the least doers. Think well of all men. He that talks to himself speaks to a fool. Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. Sow tares among somebody's wheat. Thinking is very far from knowing. All tarred with the same brush. Though I say it that should not. Every man to his taste. Thought is free The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell. Second thoughts are best. A tattler is worse than a thief. Thousand pounds of law, Ino! there is not an ounce of love.
It is hard to teach an old dog tricks. Like teacher like pupil. Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Threatened men live long. When three know it, all know it. Three women and a goose make a market.
He teacheth ill who teacheth all.
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He that will thrive must rise at five. Tread on a warm and it will turn. Time is never found again, lost. No time like the present.
A tree is known by its fruit. Shake the tree when the fruit is ripe.
Other times, other manners. You cannot judge of a tree by its bark. There is a time for all things. A triton among the minnows. Time and tide wait for no man. Ask for trouble. Time cures all things. True blue will never stain. Time flies. Many a true word is spoken in jest. Time is money. Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. Time works wonders. Truth is stranger than fiction. What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Truth fears no colours.
More know tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.
Truth is the daughter of God.
Tomorrow is a new day.
Truth never grows old.
Tomorrow never comes.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
A good tongue is a good weapon. Every tub most stand on its awn bottom. One tongue is enough for a woman. There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. One good turn deserves another. The tongue of idle people is never idle. To turn an honest penny. A honey tongue, a heart of gall. To make a person turn in his grave. One's tongue runs before one's wit. To turn over a new leaf. A still tongue makes a wise head. To turn the tables. To be too big for one's boots. To turn up one's nose. Too clever by half. To turn up trumps. Too many cooks spoil the broth. As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined Draw its teeth. To twist round one's little finger. If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. To make two bites of a cherry. As sharp as a serpant tooth. Two blacks do not make a white. I would not touch him with a pair of tongs. Touch wood.
Two dogs strive for a bone, and third runs away with it.
Two of a trade never agree,
Two heads are better than one.
He that knows much travels far.
Two negatives make an affirmative
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There are two sides to every question.
War is the sport of kings.
To have two strings to one's bow.
When war begins, hell opens.
It takes two to make a quarrel,
Wars bring scars.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
To warm the cockles ohhe heart.
Certain as two and two make four.
Wash a blackamoor white.
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Waste not, want net.
As ugly as sin. To carry water in a sieve. The glorious uncertainty of the law. Carry water on both shoulders. Under the blanket the black one is as good as the white.
Fish in troubled waters.
It is the unforeseen that always happens.
Water off a duck's back, like.
United we stand, divided we fall.
He knows water the best, who has waded through it.
V A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since. Variety is pleasing. The noblest vengeance, is to forgive.
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.
There is no venom to that of the tongue.
No safe wading in an unknown water.
Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
Spent money like water.
Virtue is its own reward.
Still waters have deep bottoms.
Virtue dwells not in the tongue but in the heart.
Too much water drowned the miller.
Virtue never grows old.
Written in water.
The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
To get water out of a stone.
The voice of the people is the voice of God
Folly grows without watering.
Dance on a volcano.
Can't fight his way out of a paper bag.
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
The longest way about is the nearest way home.
W The wages of sin is death.
The way to an Englishman's heart is through his stomach.
A wager is a fool's argument.
The weakest goes to the wall.
Fix somebody's wagon.
Roll in wealth.
To hitch one's wagon, to a star.
To wear the breeches.
Wait and see.
Wedlock. is a padlock.
Walls have ears.
Weeds grow apace,
Want of wit is worse than want of wealth.
A great weight off one's mind.
Want is the mother of industry.
Welcome is the best cheer.
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Don't try to fly without wings. Welcome as a storm. Learn wisdom by the follies of others. AlI is well that ends well. Wisdom is the wealth of the wise. Leave well enough alone. No wisdom like silence. Poison the wells. Wise after the event. It is a wise child that knows its own father.
To wet one's whistle. To know what is what.
He is not a Wise man, who cannot play the fool on occasion.
What is worth doing is warth doing well. Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my own. If wishes were horses beggars might ride. Break a butterfly on the wheel. Good wits jump. A fifth wheel. Wit once bought is worth twice taught There are wheels within wheels. It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year . Grease the wheels. Wives must be had, be they good or bad. When the cat is away the mice will play. Greedy as a wolf. When in doubt, leave out. To keep the wolf from the door. Catch the Whigs bathing and walk away with their –clothes.
One must howl with the wolves.
The whirligig of time.
Set the wolf to keep the sheep.
Where there is whispering, there is lying.
Throw somebody to the wolves.
Every why has a wherefore.
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
A wolf in sheep's clothing.
He that has a wife, has a master.
A woman conceals what she knows not.
There is one good wife in the country, and every man thinks he has her.
A woman's work is never done.
To sow one's wild oats.
Where there are women and geese, there wants no noise.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Women are always in extremes.
Where there's a will, there's trouble.
Women are necessary evils.
It's on ill wind that blows nobody goad.
The mare women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.
To catch the wind in a net. Saw the wind and reap the whirlwind.
Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.
Wine is in, truth is out.
Women must have the last word.
Wine and wenches empty men's purses.
A wonder lasts but nine days.
The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
Wonders will never cease.
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Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.
Young saint, old devil.
Happy the wooing that's not long doing.
Y You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk.
To pull the wool over a person's eyes. Youth and age will never agree. Go for wool and come home shorn. Young men may die, old men must. Fine words butter no parsnips. Youth will serve. Fine words dress ill deeds. Youth will have its course. Hard words break no bones. Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.
One’s word is one's bond. Words cut more than swords. Waste words.
Z Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools.
A word in season.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Words are but wind. KAROMATXON MAHMUDJONOVNA KAROMATOVA, HAMIDULLA SA'DULLAYEVlCH KAROMATOV
Words are the wise man's counters and the fool's money. Mere words will not fill a bushel. Words pay no debts.
PROVERBS, MAQOLLAR, POSLOVITSI (ingliz, o'zbek, rus moqollori)
A word to the wise.
«Mehnat» nashriyati - Tashkent – 2000
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. He that will not work shall not eat. What is a workman without his tools? The workman is known by his work. So goes the world. The world is a small place. Even a worm will turn. Worse things happen at sea. He that is afraid of wounds must not come near a battle. Make the worst of both worlds. Wrong never comes right. Not worth powder "and shot. The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it. The labourer is of his hire worthy.
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