Proverbs By Language

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

"There is no royal road to learning."

"Riches are for spending. (Francis Bacon)"

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

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

"To forget wrong is the best revenge."

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

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

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

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

"What you sow is what you reap."

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

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

"Like a red rag to a bull."

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

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

"A civil question deserves a civil answer."

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

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

"Proverbs run in pairs."

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

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

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

"Perverts the Prophets, and purloins the Psalms."

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

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

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

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

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

"I know my price. (William Shakespeare)"

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

"Every man has his price."

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

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

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

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

"You can't be a little pregnant."

"Precepts teach, examples move."

"Practice what you preach."

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

"Poverty is the reward of idleness."

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

"A watched pot never boils."

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

"A little pot is easily hot."

"Politics makes strange bedfellows."

"Politeness costs nothing and gains everything."

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

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

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