Proverbs By Language

"Success is a journey not a destination."

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

"Nothing succeeds like success."

"Failure is the stepping stone for success."

"Confidence is the companion of success."

"A store is no sore."

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

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

"Cross the stream where it is shallowest."

"A drowning man will clutch at a straw."

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

"Leave no stone unturned."

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

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

"Variety is the spice of life."

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

"Call a spade a spade."

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

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

"As you sow, so you reap."

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

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

"If you snooze you lose."

"By perseverance the snail reached the arc."

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

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

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

"The sky's the limit."

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

"Keep it simple, stupid. (KISS)"

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

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

"Silence gives consent. (14th century)"

"The show must go on."

"Eighty percent of life is showing up."

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

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

"If the shoe fits, wear it."

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

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

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

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

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

"What you see is what you get."

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

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

"Least said, soonest mended."

"Rules were meant to be broken."

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

"At Rome one must do the Romans do."