Proverbs By Language

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

"The customer is always right."

"Other times, other customs."

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

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

"Crows will not pick out crows eyes."

"To shed crocodile tears."

"Give credit where credit is due."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Keep your own counsel."

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

"Counsel is no command."

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

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

"A guilty conscience needs no accuser."

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

"Comparisons are odious. (15th century)"

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

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

"Misery loves company."

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

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

"Common sense is not so common."

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

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

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

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

"Shoemaker, stick to your last."

"Cobblers children are worst shod."

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

"Carrying coals to Newcastle."

"Good clothes open all doors."

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

"Circumstances alter cases."

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

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

""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."

"Spare the rod, spoil the child."

"Children are uncertain comforts but certain cares."

"The child is father to the man."

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

"Cheaters never prosper."

"Cold as charity. (14th century)"

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

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