- A bad beginning makes a good ending.
- A beggar can never be bankrupt.
- A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
- A friend is easier lost than found.
- A good name is better than riches.
- A hungry man is an angry man.
- A man in debt is caught in a net.
- A good dog deserves a good bone.
- A bad excuse is better than none.
- A guilty conscience needs no accuser
- A man without reason is a beast in season.
- A man's house is his castle.
- A miss is as good as a mile.
- A penny saved is a penny gained.
- A shortcut is often a wrong cut.
- A wise man changes his mind sometimes a fool never.
- An error is to human being divine.
- A wonder lasts nine days.
- Actions speak louder than words.
- After a storm comes a calm.
- All is not gold that glitters.
- Among the blind the one-eyed man is a king.
- All is well that ends well.
- An empty bag will not stand upright.
- Appetite comes with eating.
- As a man lives so shall he die.
- As you sow,so you shall reap.
- Ask much to get little.
- Avoid evil and it will avoid thee.
- A bad workman always blames his tool.
- A stitch in time saves nine.
- An idle mind is a devil's workshop.
- Be just before you are generous.
- Barking dogs seldom bite.
- Be not the first to quarrel ,nor the last to make it up.
- Beggars must not be choosers.
- Better be happy than wise.
- Birds of the same feathers flock together
- Bullies are generally cowards.
- Better late than never.
- Call a spade a spade.
- Cheapest is dearest.
- Charity begins at home.
- Delays are dangerous.
- Delligence is a great teacher.
- Do as i say not as i do.
- Don't count your chicken before they are hatched.
- Everybody is good in something.
- Every ass love to hear himself bray.
- Every little helps.
- Every man must carry his own cross.
- Every why has a wherefore.
- Everyone can find fault, few can do better.
- Everyone thinks his own burden heaviest.
- Everything comes to those who wait.
- Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Every dog has it's day.
- Exchange is not robbery.
- Empty vessels make the loudest noise.
- Experience teaches.
- Extremes are dangerous.
- Failure teaches success.
- Familiarity breeds contempt.
- First come, first served.
- Fine feathers make fine birds.
- Fingers were made before forks.
- Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
- Follow the river you will find the sea.
- Give and spend God will send.
- God helps those who help themselves.
- Good to begin well, better to end well.
- Great minds think alike.
- Great talkers are great liers.
- He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
- He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
- Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all.
- Honesty is the best policy.
- Hope is the last thing that we lose.
- He who wears the shoe knows where it pinches.
- Half a loaf is better than no bread.
- He who hesitates is lost.
- Home is where the heart is.
- He who laughs last laughs longest.
- If the cap fits, wear it.
- If you can't beat them join them.
- If you can't make a man think as you do, make him do as you think.
- It is easier to get money than to keep it.
- It is easier to pull down than to build.
- Kissing goes by favour.
- Lazy people take the most pains.
- Learning makes the wise wiser but fools more foolish.
- Lend only what you can afford to loose.
- Let the sleeping dogs lie.
- Liars should have good memories.
- Like father like son, like mother like daughter.
- Live not to eat, but eat to live.
- Lightning never strikes on the same place twice.
- Lost time is never found.
- Love is blind.
- Look before you leap.
- Man proposes,God disposes.
- Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
- Many hands make light work.
- Men are as old as they feel, women are as old as they look.
- Men make houses,women make homes.
- Neither wise men nor fools can work without tools.
- Never cross a bridge until you come to it.
- Never do things by halves.
- No gains without pains.
- Nothing succeeds like success.
- No man is without enemies.
- Never judge a book by it's cover.
- Of one ill comes many.
- One can't die twice.
- Out of debt, out of danger.
- Prevention is better than cure.
- Punctuality is the soul of bussiness.
- Rome was not built in a day.
- Second thoughts are best.
- Seeing is believing
- Slow and sure.
- Small begginings make great endings.
- Some men are wise and others are otherwise.
- Speak little but the truth.
- Speaking without thinking is shooting without aim.
- Split salt is never gathered.
- The nearer the church the further from God.
- The apple never falls far from the tree.
- The unexpected always happens.
- There are two sides to every question.
- There is no time like the present.
- There is no venom like that of tongue.
- Time and tide waits for no man.
- Time cares more than the doctor.
- Time is money.
- Time will tell.
- Time is the best counsellor.
- Tit for tat is a fair play.
- To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
- To know the disease is half the cure.
- Too much of anything is harmful.
- Train a tree when it is young.
- True love never grows old.
- Trust but not too much.
- Two heads are better than one.
- Two wrongs don't make a right.
- Walls have ears.
- Waste makes want.
- What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.
- What is one man's meat is another man's poison.
- What man has done man can do.
- When the cat is away the mice will play.
- Where there is life there is hope.
- Where there is smoke there is fire.
- Who judges others condems himself.
- Who knows most says least.
- Whom God loves dies young .
- You can't teach old dogs new tricks.
- You will never know till you have tried.
- You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
16 August, 2013
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