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English proverbs 8


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Strangers are just friends you have not met yet
The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly
The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit
Things that come to those who wait may be things left by those who got there first
True love never grows old
Wedlock is a padlock
When two buffalo fight, it is the grass that gets hurt!
You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk
A barking dog never bites
A faithful friend is a medicine for life
A great dowry is a bed full of brambles
A new broom sweeps clean
A tidy house holds a bored woman
All are not cooks that walk with long knives
Another day, another dollar
Be kind to people on the way up, you may need them when you are on your way down
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
Coin a phrase
Do as you would be done by
Every body wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
Familiarity breeds contempt
Four things drive a man out of his house: too much smoke, a dripping roof, filthy air and a scolding wife
Good people are scarce
He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others

He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon

If you educate a man you educate an individual but if you educate a woman you educate a family
It is in vain to cast your net where there is no fish
Knowing is not enough; We must Apply Willing is not enough; We must Do
Like flogging a dead horse
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear
More haste less speed
No man is a hero to his valet
Once in a blue moon
Patience is a virtue
Second place is first loser
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
The darkest hour is just before dawn
The last drop makes the cup run over
The world is full of willing people: some willing to work and some willing to let them
Think Much, Speak Little and Write Less
Try praying Nothing pleses God more than to hear a strange voice
Well done is better than well said
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion
You cant hurry love

A constant guest is never welcome

A Good Example is the Best Sermon
A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end - and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka
A short absence quickens love, a long absence kills it
After a famine in the stall comes a famine in the hall
An ant may well destroy a whole dam
As you make your bed, so must you lie in it
Better do it than wish it done
Charity begins at home
Desperate Diseases Call for Desperate Remedies
Dump husband in September, you have to get rid of the spiders
Experience is a great servant
Folly grows without watering
God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves
Hate is like cancer slowly eating us away inside
He who is ABSENT is always in the Wrong
If in doubt, mumble
It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice
Judge not that you be not judged

Life is like a drawing pin - sharp at one end, and flat at the other

Lots of people confuse bad management with destiny
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure
Never put your tongue on an iceberg
nothing to worry about
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire
Rain before seven, fine before eleven
Sometimes the majority only means all the fools are on the same side
The best of men are but men at best
The fish will soon be caught, that nibbles at every bait
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
There is no such thing as a free lunch
To whom God gives, to him also the people give
War does not always decide who it right but it always decides who is left!
When I turned myself over to God, i took my life out the hands of an idiot
You can only go as far as you push
A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept
A Deaf Husband and a Blind Wife are Always a Happy Couple
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold
A Man of Words and Not of Deeds is Like a Garden Full of Weeds
A soft answer turneth away wrath
After the storm comes the calm
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Bad news travels fast

Better to be alone than in bad company

 



Christmas comes but once a year
Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow
Enough is as good as a feast
Faint heart never won fair lady
Football is a game of two halves
Golden dishes will never turn black
He is at Ease Who Has Enough
He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars
It is better to wear out than to rust out
Keep your powder dry
Lightning never strikes twice
Love is the strangest thing
Might is right
Never too old to learn
Old habits die hard
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
Revenge is a dish best served cold
Still waters run deep
The bigger they are, the harder they fall
The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail
The stick is the surest peacemaker
They that dance must pay the fiddler
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it
We do not care of what we have, but we cry when it is lost
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window

You cannot lose what you never had

A child is a person who can dismantle in 5 minutes the toy it took you 5 hours to put together
A good conscience is the best divinity
A little of what you fancy does you good
A scalded cat fears cold water
Adversity doesnt build character, it reveals it
Although the Sun May Shine, Leave Not Thy Cloak at Home
As useful as a chocolate fireguard (or teapot)
Better bend than break
Business before pleasur
Death is the great leveller
Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage
Everything must have a beginning
Flies never visit an egg that has no crack
God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself
Haste makes waste
He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup
If anything can go wrong, it will
In the Land of the Blind the One Eyed Man is King
Its too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Look the other way


 

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