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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"Long absent, soon forgotten."

"The absent are always in the wrong. (1640)"

"Accidents will happen in the best families. (19th century)"

"Admiration: our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"He who does not advance goes backwards."

"Advice most needed is least heeded."

"Advise none to marry or go to war. (1640)"

"Advisers run no risks."

"All is fair in love and war. (17th century)"

"All is well that ends well. (14th century)"

"America is God's melting-pot. (Israel Zangwill)"

"Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if the one fails, the other may hold. (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. (Francis Bacon)"

"Do not let sunset find you still nursing your anger."

"To apologize is to lay the foundation for a further offense. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Applause is the echo of a platitude. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel. or One scabbed sheep mars the whole flock."

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

"A rotten apple injures its companions."

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away--if you have good aim."

"The best art conceals art."

"When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray. (Strauss 1994, p. 1221)"

"Don't make clothes for a not yet born baby. (Strauss 1994, p. 683)"

"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

"Bad is the best choice."

"A bad settlement is better than a good lawsuit."

"A bad workman quarrels with his tools. (1640)"

"Good laws have sprung from bad customs."

"Bait the hook well and the fish will bite."

"Barking dogs seldom bite. (16th century)"

"His bark is worse than his bite. (17th century)"

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty (John Keats)"

"As you make your bed, so you will sleep on it."

"Some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you."

"If you can't beat them, join them."

"The best is cheapest."

"The good is the enemy of the best."

"A beggar can never be bankrupt. (1639)"

"Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride it to death; Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the Devil."

"Two wrongs don't make a right."

"A good beginning makes a good ending. (14th century)"

"Well begun is half done."

"A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow."

"Better a lean peace than a fat victory. (17th century)"

"Better is the enemy of good."

"Better late than never."

"Better underdone than overdone."

"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. (Matthew; bible quote). (Strauss, 1998 p. 170)"

"Deal gently with the bird you mean to catch."

"Fine feathers make fine birds. (Simpson , 2009)"

"It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest."

"It is the early bird that gets the worm."

"Don't bark if you can't bite."

"Don't bite off more than you can chew."

"Don't bite the hand that feeds you."

"Good blood always shows itself."

"A book is a friend."

"A great book is a great evil."

"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. (Francis Bacon)"

"Books think for me. (Charles Lamb)"

"Classic, a book which people praise and don't read. (Mark Twain)"

"Fear the man of one book. (Strauss 1994, p. 851)"

"Like author, like book. (John Ray)"

"No book was so bad, but some good might be got out of it."

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon)"

"A rising tide lifts all boats."

"To be all in the same boat. (16th century)"

"Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his boots."

"Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"The boughs that bear most hang lowest."

"Better bow than break."

"Much bran and little meal."

"None but the brave deserve the fair."

"Fortune favors the brave."

"Half a loaf is better than no bread."

"Don't cross a bridge before you come to it."

"A broken watch is right two times a day."

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

"A new broome sweepeth cleane."

"The younger brother the better gentleman."

"You can't milk a bull."

"A bully is always a coward."

"To burn the candle at both ends. (1678)"

"Business is business."

"Everyone's business is no one's business."

"Mind your own business."

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Buy cheap, sell dearǃ (Thomas Lodge)"

"If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly."

"If you buy quality, you only cry once."

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

"Don't burn the candle at both ends."

"He that is worst may still hold the candle."

"Paddle your own canoe."

"A cat may look at a king."

"All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet."

"There's more than one way to skin a cat."

"The more you stroke the cat's tail, the more he raises his back. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1184)"

"When the cat is away, the mice will play. (16th century) (Citatboken)"

"No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. (Sir Thomas Browne)"

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Or, a chain is no stronger than its weakest link"

"Charity begins at home. (14th century)"

"Cold as charity. (14th century)"

"Cheaters never prosper."

"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."

"The child is father to the man."

"Children are uncertain comforts but certain cares."

"Spare the rod, spoil the child."

""Never count your children twice." An old saying from the Anglo-Welsh border, where it was believed to be unlucky to do so. This saying arises from old superstition, which may have been contributed to in part by the terrain, which is rugged, hilly and sparsely populated; the region is also often subject to dense fog and disappearances under mysterious circumstance were not uncommon. Hence, the unlucky nature as on the second count, it was believed one child would most likely have disappeared; lost forever to the hills."

"Onward, Christian soldiers! (S. Baring-Gould)"

"Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeple."

"Circumstances alter cases."

"The people are the city. (William Shakespeare)"

"Good clothes open all doors."

"Carrying coals to Newcastle."

"The coast is clear. (17th century)"

"Cobblers children are worst shod."

"Shoemaker, stick to your last."

"As the old cock crows, so crows the young."

"All colours will agree in the dark. (Francis Bacon)"

"Counsel is no command. (Strauss, 1994 p. 675)"

"Who has not served cannot command. (Strauss, 1994 p. 758)"

"Common sense is not so common."

"A man is known by the company he keeps."

"Better to be alone than in bad company. (Strauss, 1998 p. 162)"

"Misery loves company."

"Two is a company; three is a crowd."

"Two is company, three is none. (19th century)"

"Comparisons are odious. (15th century)"

"Confidence begets confidence. (Strauss 1994, p. 187)"

"A guilty conscience needs no accuser."

"He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."

"Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and keep. (Strauss 1994, p. 1001)"

"Counsel is no command."

"Give neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it. (Strauss, 1994 p. 661)"

"Keep your own counsel."

"Though thou hast ever so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1044)"

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. (John F. Kennedy)"

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. (Nathan Hale)"

"Our country, right or wrongǃ (Stephen Decatur)"

"Courage lost, all lost. (Strauss 1994, p. 675)"

"Coward: one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Give credit where credit is due."

"To shed crocodile tears."

"Crows will not pick out crows eyes."

"There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip."

"What can't be cured must be endured. (14th century)"

"Other times, other customs."

"The customer is always right."

"Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Praise the day at sunset."

"Enjoy the present day, trusting little to what tomorrow may bring."

"The day is short and the work is long. (15th century)"

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

"In the long run we are all dead."

"It's safer to commend the dead than the living."

"Deep calls to deep. (Strauss 1994, p. 695)"

"In the deepest water is the best fishing. (1616)"

"The best defence is a good offence. (Strauss, 1994 p. 518)"

"Delays are dangerous. (14th century)"

"There is danger in delay. (Strauss, 1998 p. 695)"

"A parish demagogue. (P. B. Shelley)"

"First deserve, then desire."

"Away goes the devil if he finds the door shut against him."

"Better the devil you know (than the one you don't)."

"Give the devil his due."

"Idle hands are the devil's playthings."

"If you sup with the devil, use a long spoon."

"Talk of the devil and he's sure to appear."

"Where God has a church the devil will have his chapel."

"Who digs a trap for others ends up in it himself."

"An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. (Mieder 2006, p. 906)"

"Discretion is the better part of valor."

"Discussion: a method of confirming others in their errors. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Cure the disease and kill the patient. (Francis Bacon)"

"Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies."

"We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. (Sir Thomas Browne)"

"Better go about than fall into the ditch. (Ward, 1842 p. 11)"

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

"If you want a thing done right, do it yourself."

""Well done" is better than "well said"."

"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. (1640)"

"Hide nothing from thy minister, physician and lawyer."

"Never lie to your doctor."

"A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone. (1659)"

"A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. (Strauss, 1998 p. 103)"

"All are not thieves that dogs bark at."

"Barking dogs seldom bite."

"Brag is a good dog, but holdfast is better."

"̈*̈ "If your gonna impress someone it should be yourself.""

"The dogs bark but the caravan passes on. (Strauss, 1998 p. 340)"

"Dogs wags their tails, not as much to you as to your bread. (Strauss, 1994 p. 710)"

"Every dog has his day. (1546)"

"Give a dog a bad name and he'll live up to it."

"He that would hang his dog gives out first that he is mad."

"If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas."

"Variant: A man is known by the company he keeps."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Let sleeping dogs lie. (14th century)"

"Love me, love my dog."

"The guilty dog barks the loudest."

"Eat your own dog food."

"The door swings both ways."

"When one door closes, another door opens. or God never closes one door without opening another."

"When in doubt, don't. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1223)"

"When in doubt, do nothing."

"When in doubt, leave it out."

"Dreams go by contraries."

"We are such stuff / As dreams are made of."

"What's drinking? / A mere pause from thinking. (Lord Byron)"

"Constant dropping wears away the stone."

"Once a drunkard always a drunkard. (Strauss, 1994 p. 771)"

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

"Dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two."

"In at one ear and out at the other. (14th century)"

"Take heed what you say. Walls have ears. (James Shirley)"

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. (1639)"

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet... (Rudyard Kipling)"

"Easier said than done. (15th century)"

"It's easy to be wise after the event."

"Good eating deserves good drinking."

"You don't shit where you eat."

"Eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves."

"Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow."

"Eggs and oaths are soon broken. (Strauss, 1998 p. 765)"

"He that steals an egg will steal an ox. (Strauss, 1994 p. 962)"

"You can't have an omelette unless you break the egg."

"Egotist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Empty vessels make the greatest sound."

"All's well that ends well."

"Whatever you do, act wisely, and consider the end. (Strauss, 1994 p. 600)"

"Do not think that one enemy is insignificant, or that a thousand friends are too many. (Strauss 1994, p. 71)"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"If you have no enemies it is a sign that fortune has forgotten you."

"There is no little enemy. (Strauss 1994, p. 718)"

"We carry our greatest enemies within us."

"Energy is Eternal Delight. (William Blake)"

"An Englishman's house (home) is his castle. (17th century)"

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time. (William Blake)"

"Every maybe hath a may not be."

"Every rose has its thorn."

"Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

"What everybody says must be true. (Strauss 1994, p. 77)"

"Avoid evil and it will avoid thee. (Strauss, 1994 p. 520)"

"Evil begets evil."

"Of two evils choose the least."

"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

"Example is better than correction."

"The exception proves the rule."

"All experience is an arch, to build upon. (Henry Adams)"

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Experience is the best teacher."

"The eye looks but it is the mind that sees. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1175)"

"Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. (Strauss 1998, p. 713)"

"Fair play's a jewel."

"Common fame is seldom to blame. (Strauss 1998, p. 662)"

"Don't fall before you're pushed."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

"Far from eye, far from heart. (14th century)"

"Fashion: a despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"The fat is in the fire."

"Faults are thick where love is thin. (1659)"

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

"It is better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees."

"Good fences make good neighbors."

"First come, first served."

"The first step to health is to know that we are sick."

"First things first."

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

"The last will be first, and the first last."

"Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without."

"Seek and ye shall find."

"You always find something in the last place you look."

"A burnt child dreads the fire."

"Do not add oil to the fire."

"Fight fire with fire."

"No fire without some smoke. (1546)"

"There is no smoke without fire. (15th century, Citatboken)"

"All is fish that comes to the net."

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

"There are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught."

"If you got it, flaunt it."

"Go with the flow."

"Say it with flowers. (Patrick O'Keefe)"

"You can catch more flies with a drop of honey than with a barrel of vinegar."

"A fool is ever laughing."

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. (William Blake)"

"Better foolish by all than wise by yourself."

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

"Fools live poor to die rich."

"The first chapter of fools is to think themselves wise. (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"

"Every fool is pleased with his own folly."

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"He is a fool that forgets himself. (14th century)"

"He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance, When fools pipe, he may dance."

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. (William Blake)"

"Knaves and fools divide the world."

"Natural folly is bad enough, but learned folly is intolerable. (1732)"

"A tongue of a fool carves a piece of his heart to all sit near him. (Strauss, 1994 p. 136)"

"The last fool never dies. (14th century)"

"There's no fool like an old fool. (1546)"

"A wise man changes his mind, but a fool never does."

"Forewarned, forearmed."

"Forgive and forget."

"To err is human, to forgive divine. (Alexander Pope)"

"If fortune favours, beware of being exalted; if fortune thunders, beware of being overwhelmed."

"Fire, quoth the fox, when he pissed on the ice."

"Set the fox to mind the geese."

"The fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe."

"A friend cannot be known in prosperity nor an enemy be hidden in adversity."

"A friend is best found in adversity."

"A good friend never offends."

"A true friend does sometime venture to be offensive."

"A reconciled friend is a double enemy."

"All are not friends who speak one fair."

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will befriend thee."

"Bought friends are not friends indeed."

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead."

"False friends are worse than open enemies."

"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom."

"Friends are thieves of time. (17th century)"

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! (William Shakespeare)"

"He is my friend who grinds at my mill."

"He is my friend that succoreth me, not he that pitieth me."

"If you want enemies excel others, if you want friends let others excel you."

"It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be never so little."

"It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. (1640)"

"No longer foster, no longer friend."

"Our friends are our mirrors and show us ourselves."

"Perfect friendship cannot be without equality."

"When thy friend asks, let there be no to-morrow."

"With friends like that, who needs enemies?"

"Stolen fruit is the sweetest. (Strauss, 1994 p. 835)"

"You know the tree by its fruit."

"Garbage in, garbage out."

"A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."

"It takes three generations to make a gentleman. (Robert Peel)"

"Once a gentleman, always a gentleman. (Charles Dickens)"

"From those to whom much is given, much is expected. (Luke 12:48"

"Give and take is fair play."

"Give, and ye shall receive."

"Give him an inch and he'll take a yard."

"He gives twice who gives in a trice."

"Follow glory and it will flee, flee glory and it will follow thee. (Strauss 1994, p. 832)"

"Don't go between the tree and the bark. (Strauss, 1998 p. 204)"

"What goes up must come down."

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

"God helps the rich, the poor can beg. (1659)"

"God is, and all is well."

"God is on the side of the strongest battalions. (Kin 1955, p. 255)"

"God sends fortune to fools. (1546)"

"God works in mysterious ways."

"God's a good man. (William Shakespeare)"

"Whom God will destroy, he first make mad. (Strauss 1994, p. 841)"

"All that glisters is not gold. or All that glitters is not gold."

"All good things must come to an end."

"Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening."

"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

"If you can't be good, be careful."

"Only the good die young."

"Rich men seem happy, great and wise, all which the good man only is."

"The best goods are cheapest in the end. (Kelly, 1859 p, 95)"

"Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs."

"Every man thinks his own geese swans."

"Goose, gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing. (Strauss, 1994 p. 104)"

"What's good for the goose is good for the gander."

"Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously."

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you."

"That government is best which governs least."

"The grass is always greener on the other side."

"Grasp all, lose all. (Strauss, 1994 p. 884)"

"Great events cast their shadows before them."

"Great minds agree. (Strauss, 1994 p. 882)"

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."

"Habit is a great deadener. (Samuel Beckett)"

"Fretting cares make grey hairs. (Strauss, 1994 p. 631"

"Never do things by halves."

"Never let the right hand know what the left hand is doing."

"One hand washes the other."

"Handsome is that handsome does. (1670) (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"

"Hard words break no bones. (Strauss, 1998 p. 17)"

"Drumming is not the way to catch a hare. (Strauss, 1994 p. 753)"

"You must not run after two hares at the same time."

"Make haste slowly."

"Hawks will not pick out Hawk's eyes."

"He that can have patience can have what he will. (Strauss, 1994 p. 87)"

"He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun. (Ward, 1842 p. 54)"

"Two heads are better than one.'"

"We should not expect to find old heads on young shoulders. (Strauss, 1994 p. 77)"

"When the head is sick, the whole body is sick. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1117)"

"Who falls short in the head must be long in the heels."

"Health is better than wealth. (16th century)"

"Health is wealth."

"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."

"The heart sees farther than the head."

"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land! (Humphrey Gilbert)"

"A hedge between keeps friends green."

"Men leap over where the hedge is lower."

"Take heed you find not what you do not seek."

"And thou unfit for any place but hell. (William Shakespeare)"

"Come hell or high water."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here. (William Shakespeare)"

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

"But what is past my help, is past my care. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"Every little helps."

"He who hesitates is lost."

"If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. (Francis Bacon)"

"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."

"History repeats itself."

"If you're in a hole, stop digging."

"Home is where the heart is."

"Home sweet home. (H. R. Bishop) Laine, Jarkko (toim.): Suuri sitaattisanakirja. Otava, 1989, p. 157. ISBN 9511109618"

"What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? Air. (William Shakespeare)"

"Where honour ceaseth, there knowledge decreasefh."

"He who lives on hope will die fasting ."

"Hope for the best — prepare for the Worst."

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. (Francis Bacon)"

"A horseǃ a horseǃ My kingdom for a horseǃ (William Shakespeare)"

"A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse."

"Don't change horses in midstream."

"Don't put the cart before the horse."

"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

"I'll hear it from the horse's mouth."

"It's a good horse that never stumbles."

"Look not a gift horse in the mouth."

"Never look a gift horse in the mouth."

"A golden bit does not make the horse any better. (Strauss, 1998 p. 52)"

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."

"Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse."

"Hospitality: the virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"All things are soon prepared in a well ordered house."

"My house is my castle. (Edward Coke)"

"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."

"Ignorance is bliss."

"The ignorant always adore what they cannot understand."

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."

"Imitation is the highest form of flattery."

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results."

"Don't have too many irons in the fire. (16th century) (Citatboken)"

"Iron sharpens iron. (Whiting, 1997 p. 235)"

"It is always good when a man has two irons in the fire. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"Strike while the iron is hot. or Make hay while the sun shines."

"No man is an island."

"If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well."

"Joy shared, joy doubled: sorrow shared, sorrow halved. (Strauss, 1994 p. 249)"

"Hasty judgment leads to repentance. (Strauss, 1994 p. 196)"

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Justice pleaseth few in their own house."

"Without justice, courage is weak."

"Kindness, like grain, increases by sowing."

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

"The king can do no wrong. (17th century)"

"Know thyself."

"Learning is the eye of the mind."

"Knowledge is power. (17th Century)"

"A good mind possesses a kingdom. (Strauss, 1998 p. 58)"

"'If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"Faint heart never won fair lady."

"It ain't over till the fat lady sings."

"Joan is as good as my lady in the dark."

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

"The land of the free, and the home of the brave. (Francis Scott Key])"

"It's a long lane that has no turning."

"That's not good language that all understand not."

"He laughs best who laughs last."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone."

"Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free."

"To be on one's last legs. (16th century)"

"Less is more."

"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty. (Francis Bacon)"

"A lie can go halfway around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots."

"Life begins at forty."

"Life imitates art."

"Life is what you make of it."

"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can."

"Look on the sunny side of life."

"The best things in life are free."

"Lightning never strikes twice in the same place."

"Like cures like. (Strauss, 1994 p. 648)"

"Don't wash your dirty linen in public. (Strauss, 1994 p. 702) (19th century, Citatboken, Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 1967, p. 189, ISBN 91-27-01681-1)"

"A losing trade, I assure you, sir; literature is a drug. (George Borrow)"

"Little by little and bit by bit."

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

"Live and let live."

"Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. (Jane Austen)"

"Loose lips sink ships."

"All is not lost that is in danger."

"Use it or lose it."

"Love and ambition admit no fellowship."

"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. (Aphra Behn)"

"Love is blind."

"Love laughs at locksmiths."

"It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

"Love me little, love me long. (1546)"

"Those have most power to hurt us that we love. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"There's no such thing as a free lunch."

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. (William Shakespeare)"

"Make the best of a bad bargain."

"A man's folly ought to be his greatest secret."

"A man's home is his castle."

"A man's worst enemies are often those of his own house. (Strauss, 1994 p. 52)"

"Do a man a good turn and he'll never forgive you."

"Good men are hard to find."

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. (Thomas Browne)"

"Manners maketh the man."

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

"Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"Wise men learn by other men's harms, fools by their own."

"Ne'er cast a clout till May be out."

"Many a mickle makes a muckle."

"Many things are lost for want of asking."

"A young man married is a young man marred."

"Marry in haste, and repent at leisure."

"Measure twice, cut once."

"It's never too late to mend."

"Might is right. (14th century)"

"Men talk only to conceal the mind. (Strauss 1994, p. 1088)"

"Mind your own business. (Strauss, 1998 p. 719)"

"Mind your P's and Q's. or British: Mind your manners."

"Out of sight, out of mind. (13th century)"

"The longest mile is the last mile home."

"It's no use crying over spilt milk. (Strauss, 1994 p. 631)"

"The best place for criticism is in front of your mirror."

"Misfortunes never come singly. (14th century, Citatboken)"

"A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile."

"Don't make the same mistake twice."

"The mob has many heads, but no brains. (1732)"

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil."

"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time. (Hilaire Belloc)"

"Money is a good servant, but a bad master. (17th century)"

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. (Francis Bacon)"

"Money makes the mare go."

"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. (Aphra Behn)"

"Money talks."

"Put your money where your mouth is."

"Time is money."

"More haste, less speed. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1095)"

"The more the merrier. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1094)"

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

"Don't make a mountain out of a molehill."

"Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse. (Strauss, 1994 p. 568)"

"Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open."

"Much is expected where much is given. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1095)"

"Where there's muck there's brass."

"For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost."

"The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. (Whatling, 2009) From the Japanese, "deru kugi wa utareru.""

"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. (Sir Thomas Browne]]"

"Nature is beyond all teaching. (Strauss, 1994 p. 764)"

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Francis Bacon)"

"Necessity is mother of invention. (Roger Ascham)"

"Never lie to your lawyer."

"Never put off till (until) tomorrow what you can do today."

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

"No man can serve two masters."

"No man is an island."

"No man is indispensable. (Strauss, 1998 p. 319)"

"No means no."

"Lose nothing for want of asking. (Mawr, 1885 p. 116)"

"Nothing for nothing. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1111)"

"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful! (Samuel Beckett)"

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained. (Manser, 2007 p. 207)"

"You don't get nothing for nothing."

"There is luck in odd numbers."

"He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut."

"Little strokes fell great oaks."

"Old habits die hard."

"Take care of number one."

"The only free cheese is in the mouse trap."

"The only stupid question is the one that is not asked."

"Opportunity makes the thief. (13th century)"

"From big oaks little acorns grow."

"It ain't over till it's over."

"The world is your oyster."

"Good things come in small packages."

"You get what you pay for."

"There is no greater torment than to be alone in paradise. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1106)"

"Never ask pardon before you are accused."

"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. (John Arbuthnot)"

"If you want peace, prepare for war."

"Peace: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"There's no peace for the wicked."

"Those who wish to live in peace, must hear, see, and say nothing."

"The pen worse than the sword. (Robert Burton)"

"A penny for your thoughts."

"Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves."

"Penny wise, pound foolish."

"Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves."

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

"The voice of the people is the voice of god. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1164)"

"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. (William Blake)"

"When the pig is proffered, hold up the poke."

"Bitter pills may have blessed effects."

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

"It's a cracked pitcher that goes oftenest to the well."

"Little pitchers have big ears. (Strauss 1994, p. 653)"

"All rising to great place is by a winding stair. (Francis Bacon)"

"Better play a small game than to stand out."

"He had need rise early who would please everybody."

"Poets are born, but orators are trained. (Strauss, 1998 p. 331)"

"Politeness costs nothing and gains everything."

"Politics makes strange bedfellows."

"A little pot is easily hot."

"Shit or get off the pot. ( W., 1975)"

"A watched pot never boils."

"Come away; poverty's catching. (Aphra Behn)"

"Poverty is the reward of idleness."

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Practice what you preach."

"Precepts teach, examples move."

"You can't be a little pregnant."

"A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"All those men have their price. (Robert Walpole)"

"Every man has his price."

"Everything is worth its price. (Strauss, 1994 p. 800)"

"I know my price. (William Shakespeare)"

"Pride comes before the fall. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1148)"

"Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion. (William Blake)"

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. (Adam, 2010 p. 25)"

"A problem shared is a problem halved. (Strauss, 1994 p. 351)"

"An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise."

"Perverts the Prophets, and purloins the Psalms."

"He that swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity."

"As proud as a peacock. (14th century)"

"As proud as Lucifer. (14th century)"

"Proverbs run in pairs."

"Now Barabbas was a publisher. (Lord Byron)"

"Punishment is lame but it comes. (Strauss, 1994 p. 682)"

"A civil question deserves a civil answer."

"Slow and steady wins the race. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1155)"

"A rag and a bone and a hank of hair."

"Like a red rag to a bull."

"Rats desert a sinking ship. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)"

"Reality is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."

"What you sow is what you reap."

"Reason does not come before years. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)"

"The remedy is worse than the disease. (Francis Bacon) (Citatboken, Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 1967, p. 56, ISBN 91-27-01681-1)"

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

"There is small revenge in words, but words may be greatly revenged."

"To forget wrong is the best revenge."

"Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"

"Riches are for spending. (Francis Bacon)"

"There is no royal road to learning."

"He makes a rod for his own back. (14th century)"

"At Rome one must do the Romans do."

"Name not a rope in his house who hanged himself."

"Rules were meant to be broken."

"Least said, soonest mended."

"He complains wrongfully at the sea that suffer shipwreck twice. (Strauss, 1994 p. 898)"

"There are none so blind as they who do not want to see. (Strauss, 1998 p. 320)"

"What you see is what you get."

"Proffer'd service stinks. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1149)"

"Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance. (Strauss, 1998)"

"Shame take him that shame thinketh. (Strauss, 1994 p. 806)"

"He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolf."

"One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb."

"If the shoe fits, wear it."

"No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it."

"To know where the shoe pinches. (14th century)"

"Eighty percent of life is showing up."

"The show must go on."

"Silence gives consent. (14th century)"

"Silence is the virtue of fools. (Francis Bacon)"

"The rest is silence. (William Shakespeare, Hamlet)"

"Keep it simple, stupid. (KISS)"

"There's a sin of omission as well as commision."

"The sky's the limit."

"As slippery as an eel. (15th century)"

"There's daggers in men's smiles. (William Shakespeare)"

"When you call me that, smileǃ (Owen Wister)"

"By perseverance the snail reached the arc."

"If you snooze you lose."

"A son is a son 'till he gets him a wife; a daughter's a daughter all her life."

"O, God, if there be a God, save my soul if I have a soulǃ (A soldier before the battle of Blenheim in 1704)"

"As you sow, so you reap."

"Sow thin, shear thin. (Strauss, 1998 p. 1158)"

"To sow one's wild oats. (16th century)"

"Call a spade a spade."

"It is not what you say, it is the way you say it."

"Variety is the spice of life."

"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."

"While the grass grows the steed starves. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1228)"

"Leave no stone unturned."

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

"A drowning man will clutch at a straw."

"Cross the stream where it is shallowest."

"Old streets a glamour hold. (K. W. Baker)"

"Strike when the iron is hot. (14th century)"

"A store is no sore."

"Confidence is the companion of success."

"Failure is the stepping stone for success."

"Nothing succeeds like success."

"One secret of success is to know how to deny yourself and other people."

"Success is a journey not a destination."

"There is nothing new under the sun."

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. (Joseph Addison)"

"There is a superstition in avoiding superstition. (Francis Bacon)"

"A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand."

"Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. (Francis Bacon)"

"One swallow does not make a summer."

"Good swimmers are often drowned. (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

"Live by the sword, die by the sword."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Take things as you find them. (Strauss 1994, p. 722)"

"He that talketh what he knoweth, will also talk what he knoweth not. (Francis Bacon)"

"He that talks to himself, speaks to a fool. (1721)"

"It takes two to tango. (Oshry, 1996 p. 59)"

"Without temptation there is no victory."

"Once a thief always a thief. (Strauss, 1994 p. 771)"

"Set a thief to catch a thief."

"If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. (1616)"

"The worth of a thing is what it will bring."

"Things done cannot be undone. (1546)"

"Think before you speak."

"First thoughts are best."

"Second thoughts are the best."

"Thought is freeǃ (William Shakespeare)"

"Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down."

"Nature, time, and patience are three great physicians."

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

"Time and tide wait for no man."

"Time flies."

"Time flies when you're having fun."

"Time himself is bald. (William Shakespeare)"

"Time is precious. (Paczolay, 1997 p. 428)"

"There is no time like the present. (18th century) (Citatboken)"

"There is nothing more precious than time and nothing more prodigally wasted. (Strauss 1994, p. 722)"

"To choose time is to save time. (Francis Bacon)"

"Avoid the pleasure which will bite tomorrow."

"Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today."

"Tomorrow is another day."

"A still tongue makes a wise head."

"A bad workman blames his tools."

"Do not play with edged tools. (Strauss, 1994 p. 716)"

"Jack of all trades and master of none."

"A good name is the best of all treasures. (Strauss, 1998 p. 20)"

"People only throw stones at trees with fruit on them."

"The apple never falls far from the tree."

"There is no tree but bears some fruit. (Mawr, 1885 p. 131)"

"He that waits on another man's trencher, makes many a late dinner."

"Never trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you."

"So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag. And smile, smile, smile. (George Asaf)"

"If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die."

"Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 p.b72"

"A half truth is a whole lie."

"Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. (Strauss, 1994 p. 221)"

"The truth shall set you free, or The truth will set you free."

"Truth is stranger than fiction."

"Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. (Henry St. John)"

"Truth may be blamed, but it shall never be shamed."

"Truth seeks no corners."

"Don't try to be someone you're not."

"You never know what you can do until you try."

"It takes two to make a quarrel."

"Two heads are better than one."

"He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill."

"Variety is the soul of pleasure. (Aphra Behn)"

"Let every vat stand upon its own bottom. (William Bullein)"

"Empty vessels make the most sound."

"The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray. (Manser, 2007 p. 286)"

"Where vice goes before, vengeance follows after."

"It takes a village to raise a child."

"Virtue which parleys is near a surrender."

"Hitch your wagon to a star. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)"

"Wait and see. (Herbert Asquith)"

"Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk."

"Learn to walk before you run."

"Walk softly, carry a big stick."

"Walk the talk. (Manser, 2007)"

"War is too important to be left to the generals."

"Willful waste makes woeful want."

"Still water runs deep."

"Wade not in unknown waters."

"What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

"All the wealth I had ran in my veins; I was a gentleman. (William Shakespeare)"

"Wealth rarely brings happiness. (Strauss, 1994 p. 670)"

"Go West, young man, go West! (John Soule)"

"Set a herring to catch a whale. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1134)"

"Don't try to reinvent the wheel."

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease."

"A cheerful wife is the spice of life. (Strauss, 1998 p. 20)"

"A man's best fortune or his worst is a wife. (Strauss, 1994 p. 65)"

"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. (Strauss, 1994 p. 655)"

"He that will thrive must first ask his wife."

"The cobbler's wife is the worst shod."

"There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured."

"Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife."

"Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. (Francis Bacon)"

"He that will not when he may, when he will he may have nay."

"Take the will for the deed. (Strauss, 1994 p. 881)"

"Where there is a will, there is a way."

"Slow and steady wins the race."

"He that sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind."

"For when the wine is in the wit is out. (Thomas Becon)"

"Life is too short (to drink bad wine)."

"Good wine needs no bush."

"Wine in , truth out. (16th century)"

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. (William Blake)"

"Some are wise and some are otherwise. (1659)"

"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."

"The wish is father to the thought."

"He who is not with me is against me."

"Willful waste makes woeful want. (Wolfgang, 1992 p. 925)"

"The wolf finds a reason for taking the lamb. (Strauss, 1994, p. 68)"

"There is no other purgatory but a woman. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"Well behaved women seldom make history."

"Touch wood. (20th century)"

"You cannot see the wood for trees. (1546)"

"A deluge of words and a drop of sense."

"A word spoken is past recalling."

"Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves."

"Fine words butter no parsnips."

"Many a true word is spoken in jest."

"Many words will not fill a bushel."

"No need of words, trust deeds. (Strauss, 1994 p. 91)"

"A woman's work is never done."

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

"Many hands make light work. (Speak, 2009)"

"No man is born into this world, whose work is not born with him. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1107)"

"Quick at meat, quick at work. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)"

"Tread on a worm and it will turn."

"It takes all sorts of people to make a world."

"Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone."

"Take all things as they come and be content."

"He is worth his weight in gold. (16th century)"

"If anything can go wrong, it will."

"It is not wise to open old wounds."

"Diligent youth makes easy age."

"Reckless youth makes rueful age."

"They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young."

"Young men may die, old men must. (16th century)"

"Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so. (16th century)"

"Young saint, old devil. (15th century)"

"Youth and age will never agree. (16th century)"

"Now the use of English is really a reflection of chicness. Meaning is not always important."

"The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship."

"To boldly go is rhythmically very neat. The Star Trek scriptwriter hasn't been linguistically bold at all."

"Luther is often praised for having given, in the 'September Bible', a language to the emerging German nation. In his Bible translation, Tyndale's conscious use of everyday words, without inversions, in a neutral word-order, and his wonderful ear for rhythmic patterns, gave to English not only a Bible language, but a new prose. England was blessed as a nation in that the language of its principal book, as the Bible in English rapidly became, was the fountain from which flowed the lucidity, suppleness and expressive range of the greatest prose thereafter."

"The English language is the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven."

"Five generations ago, Britain was ashamed to write books in her own tongue. Now her language is spoken in all quarters of the globe."

"English is a very powerful language, a colonizer’s language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures—its cruelty is its vitality."

"The English-speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know and condemn; (4) those who know and approve; and (5) those who know and distinguish...."

"[A speaker who uses a multiple negative] spreads as it were a thin layer of negative colouring over the whole sentence instead of confining it to a single place."

"The name ["split infinitive"] is misleading, for the preposition to no more belongs to the infinitive as a necessary part of it, than the definite article belongs to the substantive, and no one would think of calling "the good man" a split substantive."

"I say looking at the next 100 years that there are two trends in the world today. The first trend is toward what we call a type one civilization, a planetary civilization... What is English? English is the beginning of a type one language. Everywhere I go around the Earth, people speak English because that is the lingua franca of science, technology, business. They all speak English. It is the number one second language on the planet Earth."

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

"Fussing about split infinitives is one of the more tiresome pastimes invented by nineteenth-century grammarians."

"Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923) graduated in 1873 in Leyden with a thesis that would make him famous. It was in Dutch ... The famous ... physicist James Clerk Maxwell, much impressed with this piece of work, remarked that it had prompted quite a few researchers to take up the study of the 'Low Dutch Language'. ... In 1910, Van der Waals received the Nobel Prize, but the 'Low Dutch Language' never made it as an internationally accepted language of science, which in previous centuries had been Latin and Greek, later German, French and English. Today, to the regret of some, all science happens in English."

"I just wanted to say something about (...) my resentment of the identification of this country of Britain with royalty. As if we have nothing else to offer as a culture – the country of my birth. The great contribution, of the English anyway, to the world is literature and language. That language and literature is, in fact, in its tradition quite extensively republican and democratic. I mean our Blake, Milton, our Shelley, many many other great writers, poetry and prose, have been against the idea that Britain is a feudal or monarchic system. One of the great aspects of that tradition is represented by the name Thomas Paine, who is the moral author of your Declaration of Independence. In fact, one of the great accomplishments of the English republican movement, if you like, is the American Declaration of Independence. So it has always struck me as rather bizarre that there is this cult in the United States of English royalism – just the sort of thing I left England to get away from."

"In the English language, if we want to speak of that sugar maple or that salamander, the only grammar that we have to do so is to call those beings an “it.” And if I called my grandmother or the person sitting across the room from me an “it,” that would be so rude, right? And we wouldn’t tolerate that for members of our own species, but we not only tolerate it, but it’s the only way we have in the English language to speak of other beings, is as “it.” In Potawatomi, the cases that we have are animate and inanimate, and it is impossible in our language to speak of other living beings as “its”...the language of “it,” which distances, disrespects, and objectifies, I can’t help but think is at the root of a worldview that allows us to exploit nature."

"[...] you know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids [...], and no more legitimate than any of the other results."

"It is a misfortune for Anglo-American friendship that the two countries are supposed to have a common language. A Frenchman in America is not expected to talk like an American, but an Englishman speaking his mother tongue is thought to be affected and giving himself airs. Or else he is taken for a German or a Dutchman, and is complimented on his grammatical mastery of the language of another nation."

"The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language."

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."

"All are not thieves that the dogs bark at."

"All are not friends that speak us fair."

"All things come to those who wait."

"An army marches on its stomach."

"March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers."

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."

"All for one and one for all."

"A staff is quickly found to beat a dog."

"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies."

"A rotten apple injures its neighbors."

"People are not satisfied with what they have, people are satisfied with what they don't have."

"Bend the willow while it is young"

"The best things come in small packages."

"Big thunder, little rain."

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."

"Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder"

"Before criticizing a man, walk a mile in his shoes."

"The belly has no ears."

"Better to be alone than in bad company."

"Bloom where you are planted."

"Boys will be boys."

"By hook or by crook."

"The calm (comes) before the storm."

"Catch not a shadow and lose the substance."

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."

"The child is father to the man."

"Cometh the hour, cometh the man."

"Common sense is not so common."

"Confidence begets confidence."

"Courage lost, all lost."

"A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once."

"Deep calls to deep."

"Desperate times call for desperate measures."

"Different strokes for different folks."

"Don't cut off your nose to spite your face."

"Don't have too many irons in the fire."

"Don't make clothes for a not yet born baby."

"Don't mend what ain't broken."

"Do not play with edged tools."

"Doctors make the worst patients."

"Don't carry coals to Newcastle."

"Don't go between the tree and the bark."

"Each to his own taste"

"The early bird catches the worm. But the second mouse gets the cheese."

"An empty vessel makes the most noise"

"An Englishman's home is his castle."

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

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"The ends justify the means."

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

"Even a dog can distinguish between being stumbled over and being kicked."

"Everyone talks of changing the world, but no one talks of changing himself."

"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

"Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

"Fifty percent of something is better than one hundred percent of nothing."

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

"A fox smells its own lair first. Or: A fox smells its own stink first."

"Fretting cares make grey hairs."

"From those to whom much is given, much is expected."

"Fortune favours the brave."

"Give a dog a bad name and he'll live up to it. (or ...he'll repay you for it.)"

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

"God cures and the physician takes the fee."

"A golden bit does not make the horse any better."

"Good swimmers are often drowned."

"Good things come to those who wait."

"Grasp all, lose all."

"Great minds agree."

"Hard words break no bones."

"The head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"He who dares wins."

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

"Handsome is what handsome does."

"I complained I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."

"If it can't be cured, it must be endured."

"If it's too good to be true, then it probably is."

"If God had wanted man to fly, He would have given him wings."

"If life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

"If something can go wrong, it will."

"If the truth hurts, you are not living right."

"If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

"If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you."

"If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail."

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."

"Ignorance is bliss."

"In one ear and out the other."

"In order to get where you want to go, you first have to leave where you are."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"It's a cracked pitcher that goes longest to the well."

"It's always darkest before the dawn."

"It's an ill wind that blows no good."

"It's better to be safe than sorry."

"It's better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt."

"It's better to give than to receive."

"It's cheaper to keep her."

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."

"It's no use crying over spilt milk."

"It's the early bird that gets the worm."

"It's the empty can that makes the most noise."

"It takes all sorts to make a world."

"Jack of all trades and master of None. (18th century)"

"Joan is as good as my lady in the dark. (17th century)"

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

"Justice delayed is justice denied. (Legal Proverb, India)"

"Keep your mouth shut and your ears open."

"Kill your darlings."

"Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns."

"Kindness, like grain, increase by sowing."

"A kingdom is lost for want of a shoe."

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

"The law is a jealous mistress."

"Law is the solemn expression of legislative will."

"Lead by example."

"Least said sooner mended."

"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."

"Let the cobbler stick to his last."

"A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on."

"Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas."

"Life imitates chess. - Garry Kasparov"

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

"Life is too short."

"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die."

"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be."

"Like cures like."

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

"Love is like war, Easy to start, Hard to end, Impossible to forget."

"Love is stronger than any addiction, baby. Hell, it is one. - Madea"

"A man's home is his castle."

"A mans worst enemies are often those of his own house."

"Man proposes but God disposes."

"Many rats cannot all at once dig a hole for their home."

"Mind your P's and Q's."

"Misfortunes never come singly."

"Missing the wood for the trees."

"Money cannot buy happiness."

"(Love of) Money is the root of all evil."

"Money makes the world go around."

"More haste, less speed."

"The more you study, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. The less you know, the more you study."

"The nail that sticks up will be hammered down."

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

"Never cast a clout till May be out."

"Never judge a book by its cover."

"Never say never - Justin Bieber"

"Never wear a brown hat in Friesland."

"A new broom sweeps clean."

"A night with Venus and a life with mercury."

"No man is born into this world, whose work is not born with him."

"No man is indispensable."

"No time like the present."

"Noblesse oblige."

"There are none so blind as they who will not see."

"Nothing to be feared in life, but understood."

"An old dog will learn no tricks."

"One grain of sand can tip the scale."

"One man's junk is another man's treasure."

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. - Ronald Reagan"

"One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. - English, 17th century"

"Out of the frying pan into the fire."

"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero."

"One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel."

"One scabbed sheep mars the whole flock."

"One swallow doesn't make a summer."

"Opportunity knocks only once."

"An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit."

"Out of small acorns grow mighty oaks."

"One should fight fire with fire."

"Perfect Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. (a.k.a The six P's)"

"The pitcher which goes too often to the well gets broken."

"Poets are born, but orators are trained."

"Practice before you preach."

"Pride comes before the fall. (Pride comes before a fall.)"

"Proverbs run in pairs."

"Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride it to death."

"Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil."

"Reality is often stranger than fiction."

"Repetition is the mother of memory."

"A rising tide lifts all boats."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

"The rotten apple injures its neighbors."

"Say something nice or say nothing at all."

"Seeing is believing."

"Self trust is the first secret of success."

"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, he eats for the rest of his life."

"Shit or get off the pot."

"Shoemaker, not above the sandal"

"Silence is golden."

"Someone who gossips to you will gossip about you."

"Something is better than nothing."

"Still waters run deep."

"Stolen fruit is the sweetest."

"Success (only) comes after every necessary precaution."

"Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties."

"Take an old dirty, hungry, mangy, sick and wet dog and feed him and wash him and nurse him back to health, and he will never turn on you and bite you. This is how man and dog differ."

"That which does not kill you, makes you stronger."

"The dogs bark but the caravan goes on."

"The man who sleeps with a machete is a fool every night but one."

"The teacher has not taught, until the student has learned."

"There is no smoke without fire."

"There are no small parts, only small actors."

"There is a thin line between love and hate."

"There's always a calm before a storm."

"There's no time like the present."

"There is only eight years between success and failure in politics."

"A thief thinks everyone steals."

"This, too, shall pass."

"Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

"Time and tide wait for none."

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all."

"To each, his own."

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

"To know the road ahead ask those coming back."

"Too many arguments destroyed marriage negotiations"

"Too much of one thing, good for nothing."

"Trouble shared is trouble halved."

"Truth will out."

"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value."

"Two wrongs don't make a right."

"Unity is strength."

"Unprepare to prepare, be prepared to be unprepared."

"Use it up, wear it out, make do with, or do without."

"The voice of the people is the voice of god."

"Walk the walk and talk the talk."

"We can't always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that drop."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"When a thing is done advice comes too late."

"When one door closes, another door opens."

"When the cat is away, the mice will play."

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. http://www.bartleby.com/66/73/25873.html"

"The whole dignity of man lies in the power of thought."

"A woman is like a tea bag; you'll never know how strong she is until she's in hot water."

"Women need men like a fish needs a bicycle."

"Worship the Creator not His creation."

"The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them."

"Work is worship."

"You always admire what you really don't understand, et al. (2007). The Book of Positive Quotations, Fairview Press."

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."

"You can't see the forest for the trees' mean"

"A baker's dozen."

"A flea in his ear."

"A thorn in the flesh."

"Bag and baggage."

"Barkis is willin'."

"Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes."

"Better a bad excuse, than none at all."

"Big-endians and small-endians."

"But me no buts."

"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost!"

"Diamonds cut diamonds."

"Every one stretcheth his legs according to his coverlet."

"Every why hath a wherefore."

"Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind."

"Fitted him to a T."

"Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended."

"God save the mark!"

"Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho, And ne'er be seen againe."

"Go West, young man! Go West."

"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country."

"Harp not on that string."

"He can give little to his servant that licks his knife."

"He comes not in my books."

"Here's metal more attractive."

"Hide their diminished heads."

"Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles."

"Honey of Hybla."

"I have you on the hip."

"In the name of the Prophet—figs."

"Leap out of the frying pan into the fire."

"Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none."

"Love, and a Cough, cannot be hid."

"Make three bites of a cherry."

"Many a smale maketh a grate."

"Mariana in the moated grange."

"Moche Crye and no Wull."

"Needle in a bottle of hay."

"Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring."

"No better than you should be."

"Old Lady of Threadneedle Street."

"Originality provokes originality."

"Passing the Rubicon. When he arrived at the banks of the Rubicon, which divides Cisalpine Gaul from the rest of Italy … he stopped to deliberate…. At last he cried out: "The die is cast" and immediately passed the river."

"Performed to a T."

"Pons Asinorum."

"Present company excepted."

"Push on—keep moving."

"Put himself upon his good behaviour."

"Put your toong in your purse."

"Quo vadis?"

"Safe bind, safe find."

"Smell a rat."

"So obliging that he ne'er oblig'd."

"Sop to Cerebus."

"So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette."

"Strike the iron whilst it is hot."

"That was laid on with a trowel."

"The fat's all in the fire."

"The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head."

"The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye."

"The short and the long of it."

"The total depravity of inanimate things."

"Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us."

"Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife."

"Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush."

"Through thick and thin."

"Though last, not least in love."

"Thursday come, and the week is gone."

"'Tis a stinger."

"'Tis in grain, sir, 'twill endure wind and weather."

"'Tis neither here nor there."

"To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb."

"To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot."

"Turn over a new leaf."

"Walls have tongues, and hedges ears."

"Westward-ho!"

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

"What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely."

"What is sauce for the goose is sauce for a gander."

"What is the matter with Kansas?"

"What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others."

"When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink."

"Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table."

"Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher."

"Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad."

"Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools."

"Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another."

"Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?"

"You whirled them to the back of beyond."

"A bad shearer never had a good syckle."

"Hindus who used words such as religion, or secular, or Hinduism were not merely displaying their fluency in English. They were also adopting a new and alien perspective on their country, and turning it to their advantage."

"The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script... for a period of fifteen years from the commencement of this Constitution, the English language shall continue to be used for all the official purposes of the Union..."

"For the generation that had successfully concluded the freedom struggle and that laid down a language policy in the Constituent Assembly, it was obvious that free India’s link language could not be the colonial language. A vote was held to choose between Hindi and Sanskrit, which Hindi won with the narrowest of margins. This meant that Hindi would replace English for all official purposes by 1965. But when 1965 came, the memory of the freedom struggle and its nationalist fervour had dimmed sufficiently, while under Nehru the English-speaking elite had gained enough self-confidence to thwart the explicit choice of the Founding Fathers. Since then, English has completely elbowed out Hindi and the other vernaculars, to the extent that schools with the vernacular as medium of instruction are shunned and have come under pressure to switch over to English. A nation with a glorious literary tradition is now voluntarily turning into an underdeveloped country dependent on the former colonial language for all grown-up purposes, where virtually the whole next generation will be schooled through English as medium. [...] In language, the first choice made by the Constituent Assembly was anti-colonial, viz. for a replacement of the colonizer’s language with a native alternative. Yet, by the due date of 26 January 1965, it was decided to overrule the Constitution and perpetuate English as lingua franca. This was a choice made by Indians, not foisted on them by British colonialism nor by other outside factors like American imperialism. This choice reduced the vast majority of Indians to second-class status."

"According to the Constitution, English should have been phased out by 1965; no outside power was involved when the Indian elite sabotaged this switch. This elite profited too much from the disenfranchisement of the Indian commoners by the dominance of English. Without saying it out loud, they thanked Macaulay for their linguistic privileges... “Decolonization” implies the belated phasing out of English, but this will involve the defeat not of some foreign colonizer but of the indigenous elite."

"A universal language for India should be Hindi, with the option of writing in Persian or Nagari characters. In order that Hindus and Mahomedans may have closer relations, it is necessary to know both the characters. And, if we can do this, we can drive the English language out of the field in a short time. All this is necessary for us, slaves. Through our slavery the nation has been enslaved, and it will be free with our freedom."

"“By annihilating native literature, by sweeping away from all sources of pride and pleasure in their own mental efforts, by rendering a whole people dependent upon a remote and unknown country for all their ideas and the words in which to clothe them, we should degrade their character, depress their energies and render them incapable of aspiring to any intellectual distinction.”"

"Bring on the empty horses!"

"All your base are belong to us."