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  1. Time flies. 
    Ƽ
ʱš

  2. Time is money. 
ʱǽǮ
һһ

  3. Time and tide wait for no man. 
    顣
ʱˡ

  4. Time marches on. 
ʱͷ

  5. The morning sun never lasts a day. 
þڡ

  6. Christmas comes but once a year. 
ʥһֻһȡ

  7. Time tries all (the things). 
ʱһС

  8. Time tries truth. 
ʱ

  9. Time will show [tell]. 
վ

 10. Time tames the strongest grief. 
ʱܰȵıʹ

 11. Time is a great healer. 
ʱõҽ
ʱ˵ҩ

 12. Time is the best healer. 
 13. Time is the great physician. 
ʱõҽ

 14. Time cures all things. 
ʱһС

 15. Time heals all wounds. 
ʱһдˡ

 16. Time works wonders. 
ʱԴ漣

 17. Time works great changes. 
ʱʹ﷢ޱ䡣

 18. Times change. 
ʱڱ䡣

 19. Time dissolves all things. 
ʱһС
ʱʹһ档

 20. Tomorrow comes never. 
Ī졣

 21. No time like the present. 

 22. There is no time like the present. 
ʱǰ
ʱ

 23. Now for it!
ھ͸ɡ
ʱɣʱ

 24. Now or never. 
ʧʱ
ʱɣʱ

 25. One today is worth two tomorrows. 
һʤ졣

 26. One hour today is worth two tomorrow. 
һСʱֵСʱ

 27. An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day. 
緹ǰһСʱֵʱСʱ
һ֮ڳ

 28. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
糿һСʱֵСʱ
һ֮ڳ

 29. Lose an hour in the morning, and youll be all day hunting for it. 

 30. Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
糿ʧһСʱһʱֲ
һ֮ڳ

 31. You cannot have two forenoons in the same day. 
˲һ֮糿

 32. Time past cannot be called back again. 
 33. Lost time is never found again. 
 34. All time is no time when it is past. 
 35. Time lost cannot be recalled. 
ʱһȥ
¼ɸ׷

 36. Pleasant hours fly past. 
ʱȥɡ

 37. Happiness takes no account of time. 
鲻ϧʱš

 38. No one can call back yesterday. 
 39. Yesterday will not be called again.
ղ
ȥĹ

 40. No man can call again yesterday. 
ܻ졣
һȥ

 41. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality. 
ʱģô˷ʱ˷ѡ
һһ𣬴

 42. Things past cannot be recalled. 
ȥ޿ء

 43. Money lost, little lost; time lost, everything lost. 
ʧȥǮʧСʧȥʱ䣬ʧȥһС

 44. The day is short but the work is much. 
࣬ʱȡ

 45. To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three. 
¼ʱһʤա

 46. A stitch in time saves nine. 
һ뼰ʱʡ롣
һ벻ʮѷ졣

 47. Who repairs not his gutter repairs his whole house. 
ܹʧޣȫݴޡ
СѶ¡

 48. Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today. 
 49. Dont put off till tomorrow what should be done today. 
 50. Dont put off what you can do today till tomorrow. 
 51. Never put off till tomorrow what can [may] be done today. 
 52. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
½ձϣӵ졣

 53. Work today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. 
½տϰࡣ

 54. One of these days is none of these days. 
һ족ǡûһ족
ٸɡǡԶɡ

 55. Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it now. 
½

 56. Seize the present, trusting the tomorrow as little as may be. 
ץס죬졣

 57. There are no birds of this year in last years nests. 
ȥĳҲ
ʱǨ

 58. Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. 
ʱˣûпС
ϧϾʱ

 59. The sea has fish for every man. 
㣬˿ȡ
˶лĻᡣ

 60. There is a tide in the affairs of men. 
½лˡ
лˡ

 61. Opportunity seldom knocks twice. 
š
ʧʱ

 62. Opportunities do not wait. 
ˡ

 63. There is no time to lose. 
ʧ

 64. When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you. 
ʧʱ

 65. An occasion lost cannot be redeemed. 
ᣬ޷ء
ʧʱ
    
 66. Everything has its time. 
 67. There is a time for all things. 
 68. There is a time for everything. 
ʱ
ﵱʱмڡ

 69. Everything has its time and that time must be watched. 
ʱʱʧ
ʧʱ

 70. He who will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay. 
лʱɣʱꡣ
ʧʱ
壬ꡣ

 71. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 
ȥˮʹĥת
ʧʱ

 72. Take time when time cometh, lest time steal away. 
ʱҪϧʱʱȥϢ

 73. A mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 
ȥˮĥ̡
ˮȥ޻ĥ̲ת
    
 74. He loses all who loses the moment. 
һС
ץסͻʧȥһС

 75. It is too late to grieve when the chance is past. 
ʧȥ֮ӡ

 76. Seize time by the forelock. 
ץסʱ
ʧʱ

 77. Strike while the iron is hot. 
 78. Strike the iron while it is hot. 
ȴ

 79. As the wind blows, you must set your sail. 
÷

 80. Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. 
˳㳶
    
 81. Make hay while the sun shines. 
ɹҪ̫á

 82. Every tide hath its ebb. 
Ǳгʱ

 83. To save time is to lengthen life. 
Լʱӳ

 84. Punctuality is the soul of business. 
ʱΪҵꡣ

 85. Punctuality is the politeness of kings. 
ʱ˹֮
·ǳҪ

 86. Procrastination is the thief of time. 
Ӿ˷ʱ䡣

 87. Delays are dangerous. 
Σյġ
¡

 88. You may delay, but time will not. 
ʱϡ
²ˡ

 89. He who hesitates is lost. 
ԥʧ
ʧ
ϲϣ仼

 90. It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen. 
 91. It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has been stolen.
 92. It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
 93. When the horse is stolen, (you) lock the stable door. 
ʧǣΪʱ
ȥţΪʱѳ١

 94. When the calf is stolen, the farmer mends the stall. 
ţţȦ
Ρ
    
 95. Dont let the grass grow under your feet. 
 96. Let no grass grow under your feet. 
Īýݴ
Īȹ
Ī껪ˮ

 97. Dont trifle away your time. 
Īȹ
Ī껪ˮ

 98. Who waits for time, loses time. 
ʱͻʧȥʱ

 99. He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion. 
Ҫңûᡣ

100. Drunken days have all their tomorrows. 

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101. Love begets love.
102. Love is the mother of love. 

飬

103. Love cannot be compelled. 
104. Love cannot be forced. 
鲻ǿȡ

105. Love and a cough cannot be hid. 
ͿԲ

106. Love needs no teaching. 
鲻̵

107. Love is without reason. 
ǡ

108. Love is blind. 
äĿġ
ʩ

109. Love blinds a man to imperfections. 
ʹ˿ȱ㡣

110. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. 
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111. Hatred is blind as well as love. 
ͳޣ߽äĿ

112. Love is full of trouble. 
˷ա

113. Love is a sweet torment. 
һ۵ʹࡣ

114. Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly. 
ǿɰŰǸԸܴʹĥ

115. Love is the touchstone of virtue. 
µԽʯ

116. Love and lordship like no fellowship. 
117. Love and lordship never like fellowship.
ҪռȨҪ
    
118. Love asks faith, and faith firmness. 
ҪΣҪᶨ

119. Love at first sight. 
һġ

120. Love not at the first look. 
Ҫһ顣

121. A maid that laughs is half taken. 
ŮЦڿ³һ롣

122. A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst. 
Ůѡһˡ

123. Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything. 
δŮֻҪз֮ҪһС

124. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin. 
ҪӮŮģȴĸ֡

125. Haste love, soon cold. 
ôæÿ졣

126. Hot love is soon cold. 
ȣÿ졣

127. The love that is too violent will not last long. 
ȵİ־á

128. Love is not to be found in the market. 
гҲ

129. Love can neither be bought nor sold. 
鲻

130. Love can neither be bought or sold; its only price is love. 
鲻ļֵΨа

131. Love will find a way.  
132. Love will find out the way. 
ԻѰ·
֮ʯΪ

133. Love will creep where it may not go. 
Ǿܡ

134. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. 
鲻ƶ

135. Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. 
ɻé®Ϊ

136. Love rules his kingdom without a sword. 
뵶ͳΡ

137. Love is the reward of love. 
138. Love is the true price of love. 
ǰĻر
ֵڰ

139. Love is never paid but with true love. 
氮

140. Love, and love only, is the loan for love. 
ծΨܻ

141. Labour is light where love doth pay. 
鸶꣬ͿҲɡ

142. Love makes all hard hearts gentle. 
һ֮ġ

143. Love makes a wit of the fool. 
ʹɵϱ
ɵа飬Ҳ

144. Love makes obedience easy. 
ʹ˳ӳΪ¡

145. Love makes one fit for any work. 
ʹӦκι

146. True love is giving, not taking. 
İǸ裬ȡ

147. Whom we love best to them we can say least. 
Ƕ˵Ļ١

148. The heart that once truly loves never forgets. 
İԶġ

149. The course of true love never did run smooth. 
֮·̹;

150. Sound love is not soon forgotten. 
̵İ鲻

151. Old love will not be forgotten. 


152. True love shows itself in time of need. 
ѷڡ

153. True love never grows old. 
ϡ
塣

154. When love puts in, friendship is gone. 
룬ᡣ

155. Love should not be all on one side. 
鲻Ӧǵġ

156. Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. 
׷߷ɣӱܰ档

157. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 
õİȻãδ׷õİá

158. Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end. 
ᡣ

159. Of soup and love, the first is the best. 
ˮ

160. It is love that makes the world go round. 
161. Love makes the world go round. 
ʹת

162. No love is foul, nor prison fair. 
ûаİ飬Ҳûļ

163. Love will not yield to all the might of wealth. 
ڽǮѹ

164. The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. 
ĺİ

165. Love as in time to come you should hate, and hate as you should in time to come, love. 
ޣ޵ᰮ
̫ף޲

166. Where love fails, we espy all faults. 
һʧܣë֡

167. Faults are thick while love is thin. 
һ嵭˳ۡ

168. Without respect, love cannot go far. 
û໥أԳá

169. One love drives out another. 
170. One love expels another. 
˻˰
ɰѵ»

171. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. 
ƶһţߡ

172. Unkindness destroys love. 
Į顣

173. Pity is a level for quickening love. 
ǼֶٰΡ
°

174. Falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. 
ԽԽ

175. Lovers quarrels are soon mended. 
ܿͺá
޸ҹ֮

176. Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks. 
¿ȸ´

177. A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it. 
˿ʼ˭ѡ񣻲˭ʱȴ޿ѡ

178. Beauty is in the beholders eye. 
179. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder [gazer]. 
180. Beauty lies in lovers eyes. 
ʩ

181. Love is never without jealousy. 
ûжʼɡ
ажʼɡ
    
182. All is fair in love and war. 
鳡սһж
鳡ս

183. All shall be well, Jack shall have Gill [Jill].
˽Գɾ

184. Every Jack has his Jill. 
185. Every Jack must [shall] have his Jill [Gill]. 
˸ż 
ƹøǣŮ˰

186. Marriage is a lottery. 
֮Ԥ⡣

187. Every couple is not a pair. 
ɶδس˫
޲䡣

188. It is not every couple that is a pair. 
˫δԡ
·޶࣬赺١

189. Marriage goes by contrasts. 
䡣
޳䡣

190. Marry a wife of thine own degree. 
ȢӦ뼺䡣

191. Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet. 
Ļǿİ᳤á
󲻳ɷޡ

192. Forced love does not last. 
ǿİ鲻᳤á
󲻳ɷޡ

193. Marriages are made in heaven. 
Ե춨

194. Marriage comes by destiny. 
195. Marriage is destiny. 
Եע

196. Marry thy like. 
Ͷϵ˽顣

197. Marriage makes or mars a man. 
ˣҲܻٻˡ

198. Marry in haste, repent at leisure. 
Ҵҽڲ

199. Marry too soon, and youll repent too late. 
֮ӡ

200. They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen. 
ͽ飬Ϊʱñںޡ

201. Marry in lent, and youll live to repent. 
ծ飬ںޡ

202. Who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry days. 
Ϊ˰飬Ǯ飬ҹ飬ںޡ

203. He that marries for wealth, sells his liberty. 
ΪƸ飬ɡ

204. Early wed, early dead. 
ز

205. It is good to marry late or never. 
򲻻飬Ǻ顣

206. Wedlock is a padlock. 
һ

207. A young man married is a man thats marred. 
飬»

208. Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all. 
ʵ飬˲顣

209. The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. 
ų׺ޡ 

210. Better be half hanged than ill wed. 
ӵвҵĻص

211. The good or ill hap of a good or ill wife. 
212. Is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. 
ѡúãһ޷գûѡãӹ㡣

213. An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune. 
ҵĻ˶֮Դ

214. He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself. 
ӵˣҲܵء

215. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. 
216. A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only. 
޿ۡ

217. A wooer should opens his ears more than his eyes. 
ҶҪöۡ

218. A good wife makes a good husband. 
ͷ
кõӣкõɷ

219. A good husband makes a good wife. 
͡

220. A good Jack makes a good Jill [Gill]. 
͡
ҡ

221. A bad husband makes a bad wife. 
жжޡ
޲ơ
һˣһš

222. As is the husband, so is the wife. 
ޡ
һˣһš

223. A nice wife and a back door will soon make a rich man poor. 
Żӻ©ʹ

224. Let beggars match with beggars. 

ȳ¿ĥ

225. There is no pot so ugly that it cant find a lid. 
ٳҲҵӡ
㣬ϺϺڹˡ

226. The wife is the key of the house. 
һˡ
һĹؼ

227. Mills and wives are ever wanting. 
ĥѵãѰ

228. In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another. 
ѡĪѡ

229. A good wife and health is a mans best wealth. 
ͺͽ

230. The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue. 
ڵ²ò

231. A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness. 
ɷϹа֮ҡ

232. Two is company, (but) three is none. 
˳ɰ飬˲

233. It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. 
ĸ˾Ҳˡ

234. He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. 
޽鷳١

235. The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house. 
ŮվԽ࣬չܼԽ١

236. A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.
ƯĹѸҪôټޣҪôҪôؽ޵Ժ
ѸǰǷǶࡣ
3ͥ?Ů
237. East or west, home is best. 
ãԼҺá
ѣԼҵĲѡ

238. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. 
ԼļҲûκεطܱȵϡ
ѣԼҵĲѡ

239. Home is home, be it never so homely.
240. Home is home, though (it be) never so homely. 
ªչǼҡ
ѣԼҵĲѡ

241. Every bird likes its own nest (best). 
԰䳲
˽԰ҡ

242. It is a dirty [foolish] bird that fouls [soils] its own nest. 
243. It is an ill bird that fouls [soils] its own nest.
[ɵ]ҲὫԼŪࡣ
ೲ˲ټҡ

244. There is no place like home. 
ҡ

245. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. 
ĸҲĿá
ڼҴãʱʱѡ

246. Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. 
ʹҹϣ⡣

247. Do not wash your dirty linen in public. 
248. Dirty linen should be washed at home. 
249. Wash your dirty linen at home. 
Ҫڴͥϴ·
·ӦԼϴ
ҳ󲻿

250. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. 
251. There is a skeleton in every house. 
252. There is a skeleton in the cupboard. 
ҼҶ֮

253. A mans house is castle. 
˵ĳǱ

254. An Englishmans home is his castle. 
Ӣ˵ļҾĳǱ

255. As the house to the man, so is the nest to the bird and the cave to the animal. 
֮ˣ糲֮Ѩ֮ޡ

256. Home is where the heart is. 
Ҿ
ﻶǼҡ

257. If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 
ͥͣ㡣
Ҳͣۡ

258. Charity begins at home, but should not end there. 
ʩȼѣӦѡ

259. Like father, like son. 
丸ӡ

260. Like mother, like daughter. 
ĸŮ

261. Children are what the mothers are. 
ʲôĸףʲôĺӡ

262. Children have the qualities of the parents. 
ŮиĸƷʡ
ʲôĸĸʲôĺӡ

263. As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns. 
Ϲ䣬СС
ĸǺӵİ

264. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 
һʤһٸʦ

265. A mothers love never changes. 
ĸبŲ䡣

266. The mothers breath is aye sweet. 
ĸ׵ĵ۵ġ

267. A child may have too much of his mothers blessing. 
̫ĸӱ軵

268. A lighted-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled daughter. 
ĸڿ죬Ůɢ

269. A pet lamb makes a cross ram. 
ܳ鱩Ĺ

270. A miserly father makes a prodigal son. 
ĵĸ׾аܼҵĶӡ

271. Blood is thicker than water. 
ѪŨˮ
ܱס

272. Children are the parents riches. 
ŮǸĸ

273. Every mothers child is handsome. 
274. Every mother thinks her child beautiful. 
ĸ׶
䡣

275. One chick keeps a hen busy. 
һĸ
ġ

276. One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father. 
һ׿ʮӣʮȴܹһס

277. Great mens sons seldom do well. 
ٳϢ

278. Many a good father hath but a bad son. 
͸ӡ

279. Every mother breeds not sons alike. 
һĺӲǶһ

280. The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs. 
ӽϽֵؤ

281. Children learn to creep ere they can go. 
Ҫ·ȵѧС

282. A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world. 
СɰĶ

283. Happy is he that is happy in childhood. 
ֵͯҸġ

284. He that hath no children, knows not what is love. 
285. He knows not what love is that has no children. 
ûŮˣͲʲôǰ

286. The child is father of the man. 
궨ϡ
һСʱͿԿǸʲôӡ

287. The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. 
ͯԿ꣬糿Կȫ졣
С꿴ϡ

288. As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined. 
ֱ
С͵룬͵

289. Silly (=Good) child is soon ylered (=taught). 
úӣѧÿ졣

290. Children and fools cannot lie. 
Ӻ˲˵ѡ

291. It is a wise father that knows his own child. 
κδĸҲö˽Լĺӡ
ٴĸ׶ȫ֪ԼĶӡ

292. Little pitchers have long ears. 
СӶ䳤
ܱС

293. Naughty boys sometimes make good men. 
ƤкʱΪΪˡ

294. Spare the rod and spoil the child. 
295. He that spares the rod, hates his son. 
ʡ˹˺ӡ
С򲻳

296. A tree must be bent while it is young. 
297. The tree must be bent while it is young.
298. Best to bend while its a twig. 
ľ֦֮ʱ
˵Сʱ

299. A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree. 
֦䣬ֱ
ʱ

300. There is always something to be cut off young trees if they are to grow well. 
СҪãҪ֦
޲ɲģӲˡ

301. Mothers darlings are but milksop heroes. 
ĶŮɲ˴

302. One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. 
һкʮŮ鷳ࡣ

303. Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts. 
ӿ϶ʹ˲ģһο

304. My son is my son till he hath got him a wife; but my daughters my daughter all the days of 
        her life. 
ӻǱ˵ģŮԼġ

305. Would you know your daughter, see her in company. 
Ҫ˽Ůֻ佻

306. Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares. 
ǴŮ󲻿

307. It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well. 
Ů׼Ůѡ

308. Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can. 
ȢϱԸŮܡ
ȢϱæŮ١
Ȣϱףѡ
4?ѧϰ
309. A work ill done must be done twice done. 
һ㣬ظ㡣

310. If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself. 
úã͵Զָ㡣

311. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. 
ֵ飬ֵá

312. Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended. 
Ͱ࣬ܿꡣ

313. In for a penny, in for a pound. 
ѿͷҪֵס

314. Never do things by halves. 
мɰ;ϡ

315. Finished labours are pleasant. 
ɹһ֡

316. Work makes the workman. 
ڹɽ

317. The used key is always bright. 
õԿ׳

318. Drawn wells are seldom dry. 
õľɡ

319. Put your shoulder to the wheel. 
Ŭ

320. Work bears witness who does well. 
ֻй֤˭ɵúá

321. It is not work that kills, but worry. 
ǡ

322. They who cannot do as they would, must do as they can. 
ܾ⣬ҲӦΪ

323. Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee. 
մɣǻޡ

324. The shortest answer is doing the thing. 
̵Ļشǡɡ

325. Better late than never. 
ܱȲá

326. Better master one than engage with ten. 
ͨһž

327. He that will not work shall not eat. 
߲ʳ

328. No mill, no meal. 
ĥûԡ

329. No gains without pains. 
330. No pains, no gains. 
޻

331. No song, no supper. 
Ͷ߲ʳ

332. Many hands make quick work. 
˶ɻ졣

333. Many hands make light work. 
˶øɻ

334. Business is business. 
¹졣

335. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. 
ж֪ʶ֮

336. Deliberate slowly, execute promptly. 
ж

337. It is right to put everything in its proper use. 
Ӧǡá

338. It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil. 
ûҲͽ͡

339. What may be done at any time will be done at no time. 
ʱ֮£ǡûʱ֮¡

340. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 
ֻˣҲɵ

341. He that doth most at once doth least. 
̰á

342. A bad workman quarrels with his tools. 
׾Թߡ

343. Diligence is the mother of success. 
ڷǳɹ֮ĸ

344. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 
Ǻ֮ĸ

345. Care and diligence bring luck. 
ڷܴˡ

346. Industry is fortunes right, and frugality her left. 
ڷ˵֣ڼ˵֡

347. Live and learn. 
348. A [One] man is never too old to learn. 
ϣѧϡ

349. It is never too old to learn. 
Ϊѧߡ

350. He that learns a trade [an art] has a purchase made. 
ѧգǮ
һʣԱ졣

351. He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning. 
η֮˳ѧ

352. He that nothing questions nothing learns. 
353. He who questions nothing learns nothing. 
һѧ
Ӳʣѧ

354. To ask well is to know much. 
߲ѧ

355. By learning you will teaching; by teaching you will learn. 
ѧȻԽ̣ѧ
ѧ೤

356. He who teaches, learns. 
357. Teaching others teaches yourself. 
ߣѧ
ѧ೤

358. In doing we learn. 
߸ɱѧ
ʵѧϰ

359. We learn not at school, but in life. 
ѧϰѧУѧϰ

360. There is no royal road to learning. 
Ϊѧ֮·̹;

361. There is no end to learning. 
362. There is no satiety in study. 
ѧֹ
ѧġ

363. What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave [tomb] . 
364. What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave [tomb] .
365. Whoso learns young, forgets not when he is old. 
ʱѧϲ

366. Learn young, learn fair. 
Ϊѧ٣ѧѧá

367. The living man who does not learn is dark, dark like one walking in the night. 
˻ѧϰҹеˡ

368. It is good to learn at another mans cost. 
ǰɼ

369. Learn wisdom by the follies of others. 
б伺

370. Soon learnt, soon forgotten. 
371. What is soon learnt is soon forgotten. 
ѧÿ죬ÿ졣

372. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. 
ѧ˼ʳ

373. He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he is old. 
ٲѧϰڡ
׳Ŭϴͽ˱
ڷ֪ѧ磬׷ڶ١

374. A lazy youth, a lousy age. 
    ʱࡣ
5ҵ?ɹ
375. Business is the salt of life. 
ҵ֮Ρ

376. Business before pleasure. 
ҵȣں

377. Business makes a man as well as tries him. 
ҵԿˣҲˡ

378. Do business, but be not a slave to it. 
Ҫ£ҪΪū

379. Business neglected is business lost. 
Ƿ

380. Never think yourself above your business. 
۸ֵ͡
Ҫӹߡ

381. He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business. 
Сã۸ֵ͡

382. Everybodys business is nobodys business. 
˸𣬽˸

383. Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious. 
ҵҲˣ躦
    
384. A good beginning is half done. 
385. The first blow is half the battle. 
õĿˣǳɹһ롣

386. He who wills success is half way to it. 
Ҫɹɹһ롣

387. Nothing succeeds like success. 
һ³ɹ˳

388. Success belongs to the persevering. 
ɹڼֲиˡ

389. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. 
ɹؾǼֲи

390. Push generally succeeds in business. 
ҵͷͨͻɹ

391. Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success. 
ͨɹ֮·ĵһ

392. Self-trust is the first secret of success. 
ǳɹҪؾ
    
393. Success is never blamed. 
ʤΪ
ֻҪɹͲ𱸡

394. All roads lead to Rome. 
·ͨ

395. Keeping is harder than winning. 
ɹףָѡ

396. Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. 
³ɶӹ°˹ػ

397. Success has many friends. 
ɹѶࡣ

398. Not everyone can succeed. 
ÿ˶Գɹ
    
399. Great hopes make great man. 
Զΰˡ

400. Adversity leads to prosperity. 
    澳ͨɹ·
    
401. Successful crime is called virtue. 
ɹߵҲ¡
6Ҹ?
402. Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 
ÿ˶ҸĽʦ

403. Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept. 
ҸѰά֡

404. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth. 
ǵʱµҸġ

405. Its a poor [sad] heart that never rejoices. 
ʹҲпֵʱ
˶лֵʱ̡

406. Laugh, and the world will laugh with you. 
ֹۣҲ㻶Ц

407. A blithe [happy] heart makes a blooming visage. 
408. A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. 
п֣ݹ
˷ϲ¾ˬ

409. The joy of the heart makes the face merry. 
п֣ϲɫ
˷ϲ¾ˬ

410. A merry heart goes all the way. 
죬˳

411. Joy puts heart into a man. 
˿ʱá
˷ϲ¾ˬ

412. Joys shared with others are more enjoyed. 
֣ͬӿ֡

413. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. 
õԶһֿ֡

414. Children and fools have merry lives. 
Ӻɵϣֹ

415. Content is happiness. 
֪㳣֡

416. Follow pleasure and it will flee thee; flee pleasure and it will follow thee. 
׷֣ӱܣӱ֣ܿ档

417. Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours. 
ֺǳǽڡ

418. Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure. 
֡
ּ

419. Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 
βͳд̡
ּ

420. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. 
ˮ㲻˶ԼմϼΡ

421. No pleasure without pain. 
422. There is no pleasure without pain. 
ûʹĻ֡

423. No joy without alloy [annoy]. 
424. There is no joy without alloy. 
־б

425. Sadness and gladness succeed each other. 
뱯ǽ

426. It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable. 
ȣбϲ

427. He who talks much of his happiness summons grief. 
̸Ҹ˻ʹࡣ

428. Short pleasure, long lament. 
ǰƬ̻պ󳤱ʹ

429. Stolen pleasures are sweet [sweetest]. 
͵֡
֮õĶá

430. Stolen waters are sweet. 
͵֮ˮر
͵֡

431. Please ones eye and plague ones heart. 
ֻͼǰºա
7ʵ?
432. Facts are stubborn (things). 
ʵǲɷϵġ

433. One foot is better than two crutches. 
һֻʤȡ

434. A bald head is soon shaven. 
Դÿ졣

435. A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. 
ϹӲлˡ

436. A blind man cannot judge colours. 
ä˲ɫ

437. He that never rode never fell. 


438. The thread breaks where it is weakest. 
߶ϳϸ

439. It is a long lane that has no turning. 
·䡣
ûһת·

440. Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. 
װʲôܵʲô
вС

441. A cracked bell can never sound well. 
442. A cracked bell is never sound.
޺

443. As we sow, so shall we reap. 
ֹϵùϣֶö
    
444. A tree is known by its fruit. 
445. The tree is known by its [her] fruit. 
֪
֪ˡ

446. Soon ripe, soon rotten. 
á
ز

447. He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut. 
Ҫѹʳԣ͵ǡ

448. He will shoot higher who shoots at the moon [sun] than he who aims at a tree. 
׼ܱ׼ľøߡ
Ŀ߲øߡ

449. Between two stools one goes to the ground. 
ֻ̤Ҫˮ

450. Cut you coat according to your cloth. 
¡

451. No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. 
Ӳװ

452. No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold. 
ĽҲû˰

453. Butter to butter is no relish. 
ͼӻͲζ
ǧƪһɵĶᡣ

454. You cannot eat your cake and have your cake. 
ӳ¶ǣȻС
߲ɼá

455. Half a loaf is better than no bread. 
Ƭܱûкá
ʤޡ

456. There is no wheat without chaff. 
ûвǵ
    
457. Something is better than nothing. 
ܱûǿ

458. Everything is good for something. 
á 

459. Nature abhors a vacuum. 
Ȼա

460. There is nothing permanent except change. 
ûκζһɲġ

461. Two negatives make an affirmative. 
֮񶨼Ϊ϶

462. Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man. 
漣࣬Ψ

463. Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. 
ˡ

464. It takes two to make a quarrel. 
Ҫˡ

465. Every man has his liking. 
˸кá

466. So many men, so many minds. 
ʮʮġ

467. Every shoe fits not every foot. 
һЬѺϰ㡣

468. Everything must have a beginning. 
½ʼ

469. Everything hath an end. 
ʼա

470. The darkest hour is that before the dawn. 
֮ǰڰ

471. Every cloud has a silver lining. 
ڰ֮һ߹
и

472. Every advantage has its disadvantage. 
бס

473. Tread on a worm and it will turn. 
򾱻Ҳᶯ
ƹ˳Ҳᷴ

474. No smoke without some fire. 
475. There is no smoke without fire. 
޻̡
粻ˡ

476. Every why has a wherefore. 
½

477. Most things have two handles. 
ﶼֽ͡

478. There are two sides to every question. 
ÿⶼ档

479. No living man all things can. 
ûߡ

480. Fire and water have no mercy. 
ˮ顣

481. Pouring oil on the fire is no way to quench it. 
Ͳ𷨡

482. Water afar quencheth not fire. 
ԶˮȲ˽

483. Fire and water are [may be] good servants, but bad masters. 
ˮ֮ͣ

484. When the well is full, it will run over. 
ˮ硣

485. The last drop makes the cup run over. 
ıӶһξͻ
޶ȵ΢Сش

486. Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. 
ƿ֮Ʋʡ

487. Shallow streams made most din. 
Ϫǳˮ
ƿ죬ƿ

488. Union is strength. 
Ž

489. Truth will prevail [conquer]. 
ʤ

490. Truth fears no colours. 
κη
ǲġ

491. Truth shines in the dark. 
ںڰ⡣

492. Truth has no answer. 
޿ɿܡ

493. Truth is a lion. 
һͷʨ

494. Nothing endures but truth. 
Ψ档

495. The truth is always green. 
496. Truth never grows old.
֮ࡣ

497. Truth is the daughter of time.
ʱ֮Ů

498. Sooner or later, the truth comes to light. 
499. The truth will out. 
    ס
ᱻ֤

500. Truth lies [is] at the bottom of a well. 
ؾס
̽

501. Truth will out, even if buried in a golden coffin. 
ʹװڽײվҲ¶

502. Wisdom is only found in truth. 
Ψвǻۡ

503. Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes. 
Ŀƣڡ

504. Truth needs no colours. 
Ρ

505. Truths best ornament is nakedness. 
װΡ

506. Truth and roses have thorns about them. 
õ壬Ͻд̡

507. There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. 
ֻһֻ
    
508. Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed. 
Ҳܷѣ衣

509. Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out. 
Ȼ̣޷

510. The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know. 
Ը֮£Ƕ֮¡

511. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. 
棬漴
8鼮?֪ʶ
512. Books and friends should be few but good. 
513. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. 
鼮ѣѡ

514. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. 
鼮ۻǻ֮ơ

515. A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us. 
ѣԶฺ

516. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 
ֿѣ塣

517. There is no friend so faithful as a good book. 
һһλʵѡ

518. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. 
ЯĻ԰

519. A book is the same today as it was always and it will never change. 
ǧس¡
ʱ

520. A book that remains shut is but a block. 
鲻ȥһľש

521. Old wood is best to burn, old book to read. 
ϲգ˶

522. Judge not a book by its cover. 
鲻ƾС

523. A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent. 
䲻ܸ

524. In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages. 
ΰ˼Уʷࡣ

525. A good tale is none the worse for being twice told. 
ù°ᡣ

526. The true university of these days is a collection of books. 
    Ĵѧһ顣

527. Knowledge (itself) is power. 
֪ʶ

528. Knowledge starts with practice. 
֪ʶԴʵ
ʵ֪

529. Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. 
ʵ֪ʶֻʹ˳Ϊҡ

530. Knowledge is a Treasure, but Practice is the key to it. 
֪ʶǱ⣬ʵǿԿס

531. Knowledge is no burden [burthen]. 
֪ʶǸ
ն಻ѹ

532. Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud. 
֪ʶʹǫ飬֪ʹ˰

533. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. 
Ҫ֪ʶڿá

534. Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps. 
֪ʶֻѭ򽥽Ծ

535. It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. 
֪ʶص֪ʶܵõ

536. Knowledge is the antidote to fear. 
֪ʶǿ־Ľⶾ
֪ʶ־塣

537. A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning. 
ĳʶֵϴ֪ʶ

538. Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse. 
ѧʹ˸ã˸

539. Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit. 
ѧǿ

540. The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. 
ѧʵǣ۲죬Կࡢо

541. Without learning, without eyes. 
ѧû۾

542. Doubt is the key of knowledge. 
Ǵ֪ʶԿס

543. Questioning is the door of knowledge. 
֪ͨʶ֮š

544. He that knows nothing, doubts nothing. 
һ֪˶ʲôҲỳɡ
֪ɡ

545. A body without knowledge is like a house without a foundation. 
֪ʶ緿ûеػ

546. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 
547. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
    ǳѧʶǼΣյ顣
ǳѧˡ
    
548. Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand. 
֪ʶʤǮ

549. Wisdom is better than gold or silver. 
֪ʶʤڽǮ

550. Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. 
֪ʶۣʤڲƸ

551. Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it. 
Ϊ֪ʶϧ

552. Too much knowledge makes the head bald. 
ģʹл
֪ʶ̫ϵÿ졣

553. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. 
֪ʶ֮ھ罡֮塣

554. Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. 
û֪ʶ飬֮

555. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. 
û֪ʶģл޹⡣

556. Science is organized knowledge. 
ѧϵͳ֪ʶ

557. Science has no enemy but the ignorant. 
ѧĵ֪

558. Common sense is not common. 
ʶѰ

559. Imagination is more important than knowledge. 
֪ʶҪ

560. Imagination will span the gap in our knowledge. 
ֲ֪ʶ֮㡣

561. A useful trade is a mine of gold. 
õļ޼֮

562. Skill is no burden. 
վǸ
ն಻ѹ

563. An empty barrel makes more noise than a full one. 
ͰͰ
һͰ죬ͱε

564. An empty bag cannot stand upright. 
մֱ
    û֪ʶװʲôһ޳ɡ
9?ϰ
565. Custom is a second nature. 
566. Custom is another nature. 
ϰǵڶԡ

567. Custom makes all the things easy. 
ϰʹװ졣
γϰߣºð졣

568. Custom reconciles us to everything. 
ϰʹ˰һС

569. Custom rules law. 
Լɡ

570. A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. 
ϰӣ˱ȱá

571. Custom without reason is but ancient error. 
ķֻǹϵĴѡ

572. What youth is used to, age remembers. 
Ϊ£ʱ

573. So many countries, so many customs. 
574. Every country has its customs. 
һһķס

575. Do as the Romans do. 
576. Do in Rome as the Romans do. 
577. Do in Rome as Rome does. 
578. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. 
579. When you are at Rome, do as Rome does. 
570. When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. 
    Ҫһ¡
ʽס

571. Other times, other manners. 
ʱͬ졣
ʱ䡣

572. Habit is (a) second nature. 
573. Use is (a) second nature.
ϰ˵ĵڶԡ
ϰ߳Ȼ

574. Once a use, for ever a custom. 
ϰ߳Ȼ

575. Habit cures habit. 
ϰ߸ıϰߡ

576. Every man has his own habit. 
ÿ˶Լϰߡ

577. Habit is a cable: we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. 
ϰΪձһƣղ˶ϡ

578. You cannot make a crab walk straight. 
˭Ҳзֱ·

579. Old habits die hard. 
¹ªϰ

580. Old use and wont legs about the fire. 
ϰΧŻ¯ת
ϰѸġ

581. Once is no custom. 
żһβ

582. Once is no rule. 
һβ
10?ж
583. He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue. 
ܲסͽû
ԽǲὲԽ

584. Wealth of words is not eloquence. 
㲻۱硣

585. He that talks much, errs much. 
    ˵Խ࣬Խࡣ

586. Few words, many deeds. 
˵¡

587. Actions speak louder than words. 
ж
˵һɡ

588. Better to do well than to say well. 
589. It is better to do well than to say well. 
590. Doing is better than saying. 
˵úòúá

591. Not to say well, but to do well. 
    Ҫ˵úãҪúá
˵óɫ

592. Say well is good, but do well is better. 
˵ƯȻúòŸá

593. Deeds, not words. 
ҪжҪ̸

594. Dont make any noise while you work, but use your brain. 
ɻҪҪͷԡ

595. Easier said than done. 
˵ףѡ

596. From words to deeds is a great space. 
֮

597. There is great difference between word and deed. 
жܲͬ
֮

598. First think, and then speak. 
˼ԡ

599. Speak without thinking is shooting without aiming. 
600. Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. 
Զ˼޵ķʸ

601. Least said, soonest mended. 
602. Little said is soon amended. 
603. Little said, soonest mended. 
˵Խ٣ֲԽ졣
˵Ϊ

604. The least said the better. 
˵Ϊ

605. Few words are best. 
Ϊѡ

606. Be swift to hear, slow to speak. 
ԡ

607. Hear much, speak little. 
˵

608. It is better to play with the ears than the tongue. 
öÿڡ
˵

609. Hear twice before you speak once. 
Σ˵һΡ
˵

610. Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. 
ͣ䡣
ٽ
    
611. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. 
ͣ۾
࿴˵

612. Look before you leap. 
˼С

613. Second thoughts are best. 
˼С

614. He is a wise man who speaks little. 
١

615. He knows most who [that] speaks least. 
616. Who knows most, says [speaks] least. 
˵١

617. A wise head makes a close mouth. 
ͷ飬ͽ

618. A man of sense talks little and listens much. 
ǵˣ˵öࡣ

619. From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance. 
ǻۣ˵Ҫڡ

620. Words are the wise mans counters and the fools money. 
˰룬޴˰ﵱǮ
˰ֶΣ޴˰Ŀġ

621. Let not your tongue cut your throat. 
Īͷ˲ӡ
ն
ӿڳ

622. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. 
˵δС

623. Great boast, small roast. 
624. Great boasters [talkers], little doers. 
625. Great braggers, little doers. 
̸ߣʵж١
ľˣжİӡ

626. Every brave man is a man of his word. 
¸֮˲ʳԡ
    һԣ׷

627. A word spoken is past recalling. 
628. A word spoken cannot be recalled. 
629. The words once spoken can never be recalled. 
һԼȳ׷

630. A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. 
˵ڵĻӳʯͷղ
һԼȳ׷

631. A word spoken is an arrow let fly. 
һԣҡ
һԼȳ׷

632. Many a true word is spoken in jest. 
633. There is many a true word spoken in jest. 
Ц֮ԡ

634. In vino veritas. 
635. In wine there is truth. 
ƺԡ

636. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. 
637. As a mans heart is, so does he speak. 
ʲôϾ˵ʲô
Ϊ

638. Ones words reflect ones thinking. 
Ͻķӳġ
Ϊ

639. Speech is the index of the mind. 
Ϊ

640. Speech is the picture of the mind. 
дա
Ϊ

641. Speech shows what a man is. 
˵Ʒ
ԣ֪ˡ

642. The head is recognized by the tongue. 
ԣ֪˼
Ϊ

643. When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth. 
˻𣬿ðǡ
ʲô˵ʲô

644. Words are the voice of the heart. 
Ϊ

645. Your conversation is the mirror of your thoughts. 
ľӡ
ô룬ô˵
Ϊ

646. A man apt to promise is apt to forget. 
ŵ֮ˣҲǡ

647. A man that breaks his words, bids others to be false to him. 
֮ˣڽб˶ʧš

648. Be slow to promise and quick to perform. 
ŵ֡

649. Words are but wind. 
˵ֻǹη硣
ǿյġ

650. Fair words butter no parsnips. 
޲ʵʡ

651. Talking mends no holes. 
̸޲

652. Words pay no debts. 
ջܵծ
̸޼¡

653. Facts speak louder than words. 
ʵʤ۱硣

654. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. 
жǹҶ

655. Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose. 
ﲻпϣһҲԡ

656. It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently. 
˵öһ£˵пһ¡

657. Saying and doing are two things. 
˵¡

658. Saying is one thing and doing another. 
˵һ£һ¡

659. To say is one thing; to do is quite another. 
    ˵һ£ȫһ¡
    
660. A word in season is most precious. 
ʱһɹ

661. A word in time is worth two afterwards. 
ʱһֵº䡣

662. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit. 
۱Ȼɸߴȴ

663. Bare words, no bargain. 
̸Գɽס
    
664. Fair words fill not the belly. 
665. Fair words will not fill the belly. 
666. The belly is not filled with fair words. 
Ƥ
޼¡

667. Fair words will not make the pot play. 
ʹˮ
޼¡

668. Soft words are hard arguments. 
Ը˵

669. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 
̸ʵ
ûһ֪

670. Talk much, and err much. 
Զʧ

671. A close mouth catches no flies. 
672. Into a shut mouth flies fly not. 
촽Ӭѽ
ڷл

673. The greatest talkers are always the least doers. 
674. Great talkers are little doers. 
̸֮ж֮ˡ

675. A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. 
ͷ̵ֶı־
˵Ȼ١

676. All truth is not always to be told. 
677. All truth is not to be told at all times. 
678. All truths are not (always) to be told. 
κ¶˵滰ġ
ֻ˵ֻȫһƬġ

679. Many a one says well that thinks ill. 
ǿķǡ

680. A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds. 
п̸ж֮ˣӲݴĹ԰

681. Our own actions are our security, not others judgement. 
ǵΪԼΪ˵֤ҪС

682. A man is not good or bad for one action. 
һΪжһ˵ĺû

683. A kind word is never lost. 
Գ档
ûһů

684. A soft answer turns [turneth] away wrath. 
º͵ĻشƽϢŭ

685. People are more convinced by words than by blows. 
ȹ˵ˡ

686. A good tongue is a good weapon. 
ڳǼ

687. The tongue is not made of steel, yet it cuts. 
ͷǸ֣һˡ

688. Sometimes words hurt more than swords. 
ˣʱʤ

689. A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart. 
Ǽȴܴġ
Զġ

690. Many words cut [hurt] more than swords. 
ڿˣʤƵ

691. Words cut [hurt] more than swords. 
ʤ

692. The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none. 
޹ǣȴǡ
Կη

693. The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. 
ͷǸ֣ȴܰˡ

694. Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools. 
695. Fair words and foul deeds cheat wise men as well as fools. 
ͬƭ˺ˡ

696. Do as you would be done by. 
ԸԴ㣬ӦԴˡ
ʩˡ

697. Fine words dress ill deeds. 
ԴʻװζӵΪ

698. No word can be the disguise of base intentions. 
Դڸǲ˱ɵͼ

699. Ill deeds cannot honour. 
аܻ
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700. New lords [kings], new laws. 
¾·

701. Many lords, many laws. 
࣬ɶࡣ
ͷͷ࣬ضࡣ

702. Many lords, many laws; much law, little justice. 
࣬ɶࣻɶ࣬١

703. Laws go as kings like. 

޼ɡ

704. What the king wills, that the law wills. 
֮֮Ը


705. The law is not the same at morning and at night.
Ϧġ

706. Justice has a long arm 
707. Justice has long arms. 
708. Gods mill grinds slow but sure. 
709. Heavens vengeance is slow but sure. 
710. The mills of God grind slowly. 
711. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small. 
ֻ֣©

712. The greater the crime, the higher the gallows. 
Խ󣬽̼Խߡ
ԽԽء

713. Law makers should not be law breakers. 
߲ӦΥ

714. Ignorance of the law excuses no man [one]. 
715. Ignorance of the law is no excuse of breaking it. 
ܳΪκ˷Ľڡ

716. Wrong laws make short governance. 
ȫķͳʱ䲻᳤

717. Where drums beat, laws are silent. 
սһ죬

718. Laws catch flies and let hornets go free. 
ӬƷȥ

719. Law are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. 
׽СӬƷ

720. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. 
ȥС

721. One law for the rich, and another for the poor. 
Ըһ׷ɣȴһ׷ɡ

722. Law is a bottomless pit. 
޵׵Ԩ

723. Every law has a loophole. 
ɽ©

724. Hard cases make bad law. 
ֵİʹ

725. An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men. 
Ӧطˡ

726. That trial is not fair where affection is the judge. 
ٶ飬ѹ

727. A good lawyer, an evil neighbour. 
ʦǺھӡ

728. An old physician, and a young lawyer. 
ҽϵĺãʦĺá

729. Force can never destroy right. 
    ܴݻ塣

730. Justice must be done even if the sky falls. 
Ҳ塣
12ǿȨ?ս
731. Might is right. 
ǿȨ

732. Might overcomes right. 
ǿȨҲսʤ

733. The great fish eat up the small. 
734. Big fish eat little fish. 
С㡣
ǿʳ

735. The longest pole knocks the most persimmons. 
ĸӴࡣ
ǿ߳ʤ

736. Providence is always on the side of the big [strongest] battalions. 
ϵվǿһߡ

737. Kings have long arms [hands]. 
ֱۼĺ
ǿټҡ

738. It is hard to sit in Rome and strive against the Pope. 
739. It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope. 
ǣ̻
첲Ťȡ

740. It is the man behind the gun that tells. 
ǹ˵Ȩ

741. War is deaths feast. 
սϯ

742. War is the sport of kings. 
սǵǵϷ

743. War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. 
սɵƽ

744. When war begins, then hell openeth. 
սһʼ򿪡

745. When guns speak it is too late to argue. 
ǹڷʱ̫١

746. Peace with sword in hand, Tis safest making. 
ƽʱִա
б޻

747. If you want peace, prepare for war. 
748. If you wish for peace, be prepared for war. 
ƽȱս

749. In peace prepare for war. 
ƽʱӦս

750. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. 
սάƽЧֶ֮һ

751. Weapons bode [breed] peace. 
װԤ׺ƽ

752. Of all war(s), peace is the end. 
һսսԺƽա

753. Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged. 
նʹ

754. When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war. 
755. When Greeks joined Greeks then was the tug of war. 
䶷ҡ

756. Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 
Ǿ˵ְ
13?
757. To be virtuous is to do good . 
ƾǻ¡

758. Never be weary of well doing. 
Ҫơ

759. One good turn deserves another. 
ӦƱ

760. He that returns good for evil obtains the victory. 
ɹԵ±Թ֮ˡ

761. We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favour received. 
е˲ӦǣеҲ

762. If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be true. 
˳ޣϸ

763. Virtue is the only true nobility. 
²¸ߡ

764. Virtue is her [its] own reward. 
765. Virtue is to herself the best reward. 
±Ƕµñ
ʩͼ

766. Virtue is a jewel of great price. 
767. Virtue is beyond price.
޼֮

768. Virtue is fairer far than beauty. 
Զʤò

769. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. 
籦ʯ

770. Virtue never grows old. 
ʱ

771. Virtue and courtesy go hand in hand. 
òЯֲС
е±ò

772. Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. 
ºҸĸŮϵ
Ҹ֮Դ

773. He that soweth virtue shall reap fame. 
£ջ

774. Glory is the shadow of virtue. 
µӰӡ

775. The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice. 
µĵһǲ

776. There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not. 
ƶٻ¡

777. Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man. 
    Ψͼߣ¡
14¸?
778. Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. 
¸Һͼµꡣ

779. The best hearts are always the bravest. 
Ϊ¸ҵĵġ

780. No way is impossible to courage. 
η;

781. Nothing is difficult to the man who will try. 
ֻҪ˿ԣ¡

782. The path to glory is always rugged. 
֮·࿲

783. A great ship asks deep waters. 
ҪˮС
ӢҪ֮ء

784. The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong man. 
һ澳ʿ

785. As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man. 
Խ֮ʯԽ𣬽Ǯƽˡ

786. The good seaman is known in bad weather. 
ӵʶúúԱ

787. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. 
ƽĴͲˮ֡
    
788. Rewards allure men to brave danger. 
¸Σա
֮±·

789. The valiant never tastes of death but once. 
ʿһֻһ

790. He who lives near the woods is not frightened by owls. 
סֱңèͷӥŲ
    
791. Faint heart never won fair lady. 
ӮŮġ

792. None but the brave deserves the fair. 
Ӣ۷ˡ

793. You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest 
    friend. 
ųԼĵˣߣԼõѡ

794. A valiant mans look is more than a cowards sword. 
ʿɫʤųĵ

795. Scanderbegs sword must have Scanderbegs arm. 
׳ʿ档

796. A brave retreat is a brave exploit. 
˼¼

797. Nothing venture, nothing have [gain, win]. 
798. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. 
799. Nought venture, nought have [gain, win]. 
800. If you venture nothing, you will have nothing. 
801. He who risks nothing, gains nothing. 
ðվá
뻢Ѩɵûӡ

802. If you dont enter a tigers den, you cant get his cubs.
뻢Ѩɵûӡ

803. Little strokes fell great oaks. 
804. Constant dropping wears the stone. 
805. Constant dropping wears away a stone. 
    ˮɴʯ
    ֻҪĥ롣

806. With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin. 
ʱͣɣҶҲܱ֯
    ֻҪĥ롣

807. Perseverance is the only road to success. 
    ȡóɹΨһ·

808. Rome was not built in a day. 
    һսɡ

809. Step by step the ladder is ascended. 
Ҫ𼶵ǡ

810. Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 
ʧʮŴΣڶʮγɹͽм֡

811. He that falls today may be up again tomorrow. 
ˣҲͻվ

812. Patience is a virtue. 
һ¡

813. Patience and application will carry us through. 
Ŭʹ˶ȹѹء

814. Patience is the plaster of all sores. 
һʹֹʹࡣ

815. Bear with evil and expect good. 
ܲңκˡ
Ҫ̣Ҫȡ

816. He bears misery best who hides it most. 
ڸԼʹʹˡ

817. Patient men win the day. 
߱ʤ

818. He that can have patience, can have what he will. 
̷Ը
    
819. He that can stay obtains. 
ܵȴ

820. He that endures is not overcome. 
߲ɿˡ
߳ʤ

821. Let patience grow in your garden always. 
֮Ļ԰Զš

822. Patience is a flower that grows not in every ones garden. 
ʻÿ˵Ļ԰ﲢǶ

823. All things will come round to him who will but wait. 
824. Everything comes to him who waits. 
ֻҪϵȴһж
֮Ժ㣬ؽгɡ

825. Long looked for comes at last. 
þѰңջҵ

826. Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her. 
Ů񳣳νĵȴǡ

827. It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others. 
ܱ˵Ĳס
̲ңⲻʹ
15ʵ?ǫѷ
828. Honesty is the best policy. 
ʵΪϲߡ

829. Knavery may serve, but honesty is best. 
թҲãʵȴϲߡ

830. An honest mans word is as good as his bond. 
ʵ˵Ļı֤顣

831. Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth. 
ʵ۰󣬵Ĳֵ
߼ʵԶҲֵá

832. Poor but honest. 
ƶҪʵ

833. The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar. 
õһǮʤ͵һԪǮ

834. One penny with right is better than a thousand without right. 
ϷõһʿʤڷǷõһǧʿ

835. The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound. 
õıʿʹӢҲۡ

836. An honest look covereth many faults. 
ʵڸȱ㡣
    
837. Humility is the beginning of wisdom. 
ǻԴǫѷ 

838. The more noble the more humble. 
Խ߹ԽӦǫѷ

839. Know thyself [yourself]. 
Ӧ֪
˹֪֮

840. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. 
֪
˹֪֮

841. No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself. 
˲Ϊ֪ܲͺܲ

842. Humility often gains more than pride. 
ǫѷȰࡣ

843. It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride. 
߳ǫѷı־
16Լ?ʡ
844. Saving is getting.
Լ롣

845. From saving comes having. 
ʡŻ۲ơ

846. Better spare at brim than at bottom. 
ԸʱԼԸʱʡ

847. Better spare to have of thine own, than ask of other man. 
˲ڼ

848. The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE. 
ڼ¸ؾ

849. A penny saved is a penny gained. 
ʡǮǮ

850. Thrift is a great revenue. 
851. Thrift is good revenue. 
ʡһʴ롣

852. Thrift is the philosophers stone. 
ڼǿʯ
ڼǸ۱衣

853. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves. 
Ǯٱɶࡣ

854. Penny and penny, laid up, will be many. 
ʿӱʿɴĿ
ٳɶࡣ

855. Put two halfpennies [pennies] in a purse, and they will draw together. 
СǮſڴǮ

856. Of saving, comes having. 
Խڼ

857. Better spared than ill spent. 
һǮٻǮ

858. Frugality is an estate alone. 
ڼһڲƲ

859. Economy is itself a great income. 
860. Sparing is a great revenue. 
Լһʿɹ۵롣

861. Economy is the easy chair of old age. 
ԼİΡ
ڼ󣬰ꡣ

862. Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. 
ڼϡ

863. Spare when youre young, and spend when youre old. 
ʱʡ

864. Many a little makes a mickle. 
865. Many a pickle makes a muckle. 
866. Every little makes (a mickle). 
    ٳɶࡣ
Ҹá

867. Small gains bring great wealth. 
Сɾ޸

868. Economy the poor mans mints; extravagance the rich mans pitfall. 
ʡ˵ҳӻǸ˵˿ӡ

869. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach. 
Ϊ

870. Live within your means and save for a rainy day. 
Ϊδѡ

871. Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend. 
ɽԼʱһûǮʱġ

872. Save money against a rainy day. 
ƽʱǮԷδȻ

873. He that saves his dinner will have the more for his supper. 
вͽʡࡣ

874. Waste not, want not. 
    ˷ѣͲȱ
Էѡ

875. He who will not keep a penny shall never have money. 
Ǯͻ˾л

876. He that regards not a penny, will lavish a pound. 
СǮ֪ʡǮĻ

877. Frugality when all is spent comes too late. 
878. It is too late to husband [spare] when all is spent. 
ŽڼΪʱ̫
    
879. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
ʹǽԼ

880. Always taking out the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom. 
ȡͰҲ⡣
ɽա
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881. No man is born wise. 


882. He is the wisest man who does not think himself so. 
Ĵ

883. Penny wise and pound foolish. 
С´ºͿ

884. He is wise that knows when hes well enough. 
֪֮˷Ϊߡ

885. He is the wise man who is the honest man. 
ʵ֮֮ˡ

886. He is wise that is ware in time. 
СĽ

887. Pen and ink is wits plough. 
īǲ֮硣

888. A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. 
˻Ӧ䡣

889. Every wise man dreadeth his enemy. 
˶ԵԶ֮

890. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. 
֮޴֮֮¡
    
891. A wise man hears one word and understand two. 
һ֪

892. A wise man is never less alone than (he is) alone. 
߹¶

893. He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not. 
޴˲ᷢŭ˲Ըŭ

894. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. 
895. Wise men change their minds; fools never do. 
˸ı⣬޴˹ִ

896. Fools look to tomorrow, and wise men use tonight. 
ָ죬ý

897. Fools learn nothing from wise men; but wise men learn much from fools. 
˴ѧĶ࣬Ӵһ

898. Wise men learn by other mens mistakes; fools by their own. 
˴ӱ˵Ĵȡѵ޴˴ԼĴȡѵ

899. A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks. 
˲˵޴ž˵

900. Wise men love truth, whereas fools shut it. 
Ȱ޴ӱ

901. Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth. 
޴

902. Wise men are silent; fools talk. 
˹ԣ޴˻ࡣ

903. Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant. 
    ԽԽ޴ԽԽ޴
    
904. The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all. 
һ֪޴֪

905. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise. 
ߵͳߣȴߵĹߡ
    
906. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 
ɵӣ޴Ĵˡ

907. He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs. 
㹻ǴԼ߲Ǵ֮ˡ

908. A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. 
˲̰֮
    
909. A word is enough to the wise. 
910. Few words to the wise suffice. 
911. Half a tale [word] is enough for a wise man. 
912. To a wise man one word is enough. 
һ㡣

913. Good wits jump (together). 
914. Great minds think alike. 
ͬ
Ӣͬ

915. Four eyes see more than two. 
ܱһ˿ȫ档

916. Many [Two] heads are better than one. 
Ƥ

917. The wise man is always a good listener. 
֮ԡ

918. It is a good workman that never blunders. 
ǧǣһʧ

919. Great men are not always wise. 
ΰ˲Զ

920. No man is wise at all times. 
921. No one wise at all times. 
Զ
һͿһʱ
ǧǣһʧ

922. It is easy to be wise after the event. 
º׵

923. Much thinking yields wisdom. 
˼ǻۡ

924. Wits are wealth. 
ǻ۾ǲƸ

925. Multitude of years should teach wisdom. 
½ǻۡ

926. Years bring wisdom. 
ʹǻۡ

927. Bought wit is dear. 
۵ǻ

928. Wit bought is better than wit taught. 
۵ǻʤ˴ڵǻۡ

929. A flow of words is no proof of wisdom. 
Ӳ֤вǡ

930. Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit. 
ȱѧʶĻǣûйʵ

931. Thats good wisdom which is wisdom in the end. 

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932. Fame is a magnifying glass. 
ǷŴ󾵡

933. Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off. 
ԴͷխԽԶԽ

934. He that desires honour is not worthy of honour. 
һõ˲ֵø

935. A good fame is better than a good face. 
936. Good fame is better than a good face. 
ʤò

937. A good name is better than a golden girdle. 
938. A good name is better than gold. 
939. Good name is gold worth. 
ʤ

940. A good name is better than (great) riches. 
ʤǮơ

941. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. 
ѡƸ

942. A good name keeps its luster in the dark. 
õںڰҲ˸⡣

943. A good name is easier [soon] lost (than won). 
ʧѵã

944. Take honour from me and my life is done. 
ʧȥҲʧȥ

945. Honour and profit lie not in one sack.  
˽һ

946. Honour to whom honour is due. 
Ӧ֮ˡ

947. It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy. 
ɹԸ

948. Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory. 
ɹذ澳ϵĹ١

949. Your fathers honour is to you but a second-hand honour. 
˵׵Ǽӵ

950. Beware of him who regards not his reputation. 
Ҫ֮ˡ

951. Honours change manners. 
ıˡ

952. Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault. 
޹ǳ£޹ʧټ

953. A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about. 
    ţǧ
    
954. Vanity is the food of fools. 
    ɵϵʳ

955. Confidence is a plant of slow growth. 
һֲ

956. Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him. 
α֮ǰҪ˽⡣

957. If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die. 
δΣĿڡ

958. It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. 
һ˶κͶ˶Σ߶ȡ

959. Be just to all, but trust not all. 
ҪԴһˣҪе˶Ρ

960. Trust not a great weight to a slender thread. 
ϸ߹վס

961. Never trust to fine words. 
ҪŻ

962. Never trust another what you should do yourself. 
Լ£Ҫίб˴

963. Self-trust is the essence of heroism. 
Ӣ۱ɫ

964. Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. 
ΨԼ˲Ų㡣
19Ǯ?Ƹ
965. Money begets money. 
966. Money breeds money.
967. Money draws money.
968. Money gets money.
969. Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with. 
Ǯ׬Ǯ
ǮǮ

970. Money makes the mare (to) go. 
971. Money can buy the devil himself. 
972. Money can move even the gods. 
Ǯʹĥ
Ǯܡ

973. Money is the key that opens all doors. 
ǮǴһŻ֮Կס

974. A golden key can open any door. 
975. A golden key opens every door. 
Կܴκһš
Ǯܡ
Ǯʹĥ

976. All things are obedient to money. 
Ǯ

977. Who holds the purse rules the house. 
Ǯơ

978. Money will do anything. 
Ǯɰһ¡

979. Money talks. 
ǮзȨ
Ǯͨ

980. Money makes a man free everywhere. 
Ǯɡ
Ǯ··ͨ

981. Money makes a man welcome everywhere. 
982. Money recommends a man everywhere. 
    Ǯܻӭ

983. Before gold, even kings take off their hats. 
ڻƽǰҲ

984. A rich mans joke is always funny. 
˵ЦȤ

985. The rich never want for kindred. 
˲ȱݡ

986. Wealth makes worship. 
Ƹʹ˰ݵ

987. A heavy purse makes a light heart. 
Ǯﲻš

988. Wealth is the test of a mans character. 
Ǯġ

989. Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it. 
Ƹӵˣˡ

990. A light purse makes a heavy heart. 
    Ǯᣬء
ΪǮء

991. Wealth is best known by want. 
ȱǮ֪Ǯ

992. Beauty is potent, but money is more potent. 
òǮ

993. Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for 
        money. 
ŽǮܵˣһΪ˽Ǯ

994. Avarice increases with wealth. 
ԽǮԽ̰Ǯ

995. Money has no smell. 
Ǯζ

996. The money the miser boards will do him no good. 
زūƣԼ޺ô

997. The chief aim of man is not to get money. 
˵ҪĿĲΪǮ

998. Gold will not buy anything. 
ǮǿһС

999. Money isnt everything. 
ǮǾһС
Ǯܡ

1000. Money could not buy happiness. 
 Ǯ򲻵Ҹ

1001. Riches do not always bring happiness. 
     ƸǴҸ

1002. A moneyless man goes fast through the market. 
 ޷Ĺп졣

1003. All is not gold that glitters. 
 δؾƽ

1004. Money does not grow on trees. 
 Ǯǳϡ

1005. Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. 
 ã棬Ψʧ

1006. Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. 
 Ƹ֮֮࣬ʧ֮С

1007. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. 
 Ͷʾ׻

1008. The wealth of the mind is the only (true) wealth. 
 ϵĸвĸС

1009. Money is the root of evil. 
1010. Riches are the root of all evil. 
 Ǯ֮Դ

1011. Money is the sinews of war. 
 Ǯս

1012. Money is a good servant, but a bad master. 
 Ǯ֮ͣɶ

1013. Riches either serve or govern the possessor. 
 ƸҪô̷ˣҪô֧ˡ

1014. Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. 
 Ƹ̷ߣȴָɵϡ

1015. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience and truth may be drowned. 
 Ǯ֮޵ףûĺ

1016. Muck and money go together. 
 Ǯۻͬڡ
 ߲߲࣬

1017. Riches and virtue do not often keep each other company. 
 Ƹ£顣
 ޵£е߲
    
1018. A rolling stone gathers no moss. 
 ʯճ̦
 תҵơ

1019. It is easier to get money than to keep it. 
 ǮǮѡ
 زѡ

1020. Wealth is easier gained than guided. 
 ѡ
 ҵҵѡ

1021. Little wealth, little care. 
 Ƹ٣١

1022. Riches bring care and fear. 
 ƸǺͿ־塣

1023. What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy? 
 Ƹкã
    
1024. Riches have wings. 
 Ǯɢ

1025. Easy come, easy go. 
     Ǯÿ죬ȥҲ졣

1026. Money is round, and rolls away. 
 ǮԲһ͹ߡ

1027. Money is wise, it knows its way. 
 Ǯ֪·
 Ǯһ֣Ͼߡ

1028. Your money burns (a hole) in your pocket. 
     Ǯտڴ©һоͲ

1029. Ill gotten [got] ill spent. 
1030. Ill-gotten, ill spent. 
 аõò

1031. Ill-gotten gains [goods] never prosper. 
1032. Ill gotten money is soon spent. 
 ֮ƻӻÿ졣

1033. Ill-gotten wealth never thrive. 
     ֮Զᷢҡ

1034. When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind. 
     ǮѣҪǮɳˡ
20?
1035. Life is sweet. 
 ǿɰġ

1036. There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the worlds trade. 
 Ҫѧͽ

1037. The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down. 
 ǡһݣȥ¡

1038. Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of. 
 ǰ£Щǲ֪

1039. Life is not all beer and skittles. 
 ǾǳԺ֡

1040. He that will thrive must rise at five. 
 𴲣ҵ

1041. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 
 ˯ʹ˽кʹ

1042. Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark. 
 ޣȸͬ

1043. Who makes everything right must rise early. 
 Ҫȫɺã͵峿硣

1044. He who does not rise early never does a good days work. 
 𴲲磬һ칤ɲá

1045. He that goes to bed thirsty rise healthy. 
 ̿ϴ

1046. Cover your head by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can. 
 ñ⣬ϴñǱ롣

1047. After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. 
 ֮ϢƬ̣֮󣬲һ

1048. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest. 
 ˼˯ߡ

1049. Often and little eating makes a man fat. 
 ٳԣʹ׳˶

1050. Enough is as good as a feast. 
 ʳ縰硣

1051. Dont throw away the apple because of the core. 
 ҭʳ

1052. A light heart lives long. 
 ؿʣʹ˳١

1053. He lives long that lives well. 
 úþǻó
 мֵǳ١

1054. A happy heart makes a blooming visage. 
 п֣ݹ

1055. Where there is life, there is hope. 
 Ϣϣڡ

1057. Art is long, life is short. 
 ãݡ

1058. A little labour, much health. 
 ͶԴ

1059. Health is happiness. 
1060. Happiness lies, first of all, in health. 
 Ҹ

1061. The ground-work of all happiness is health. 
     彡һҸĻ

1062. The first wealth is health. 
1063. There is no wealth above the wealth of health. 
1064. There is no greater riches than health. 
 ĲƸ

1065. Health is better than wealth. 
1066. Good health is above wealth. 
1067. Health surprises riches. 
 ʤڲƸ

1068. Health is a jewel [treasure]. 
1069. Health is great riches. 
 鱦

1070. A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold. 
 Ƚмֵ

1071. Health and strength is above all gold. 
 ǿԶȻƽ

1072. Wealth is nothing without health. 
 ûнƸ塣

1073. He who hath good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing. 
 ഺծС

1074. A sound mind in a sound body. 
1075. A healthy mind is in a healthy body. 
 н壬н˼롣

1076. The healthful man can give counsel to the sick. 
 ߿ԶԲҸ档

1077. Study sickness while you are well. 
 ޲Ӧ˼вʱ

1078. Health is not valued till sickness comes. 
 ʱ֪ı

1079. People do not the blessing of health till they lose it. 
 ʧȥ֪Ǹ

1080. In sickness health is known. 
 з֪

1081. Sickness is felt, but health not at all. 
     во֪

1082. By the side of sickness health becomes sweet. 
     뼲ȣԵýĿɰ
    
1083. Life is lifeless without health. 
     ûнû塣

1084. Without health life is no life. 
 ʧȥͲΪ
     ûнû塣

1085. Health does not consist with intemperance. 
 ݡ
21?ҽ
1086. Diseases are the price of ill pleasures.
 Ĵۡ

1087. Sickness shows us what we are. 
 ʹԱࡣ

1088. Desperate diseases must have desperate cures. 
 Ҫҩҽ

1089. A disease known is half cured. 
 Ū岡飬һ롣

1090. Lack of work brings a thousand diseases. 
 ȱͶٲ

1091. Agues come on horseback but go away on foot. 
1092. Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot. 
 ǽȥ˿

1093. Diseases enter by the mouth. 
     ӿ롣

1094. Many dishes, many diseases. 
     ʳö࣬ࡣ

1095. The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman. 
 ʳĺȴ֮

1096. Feed sparingly [by measure] and defy the physician. 
 ʳнڣҽ

1097. Temperance is the best physic. 
 õҩƷ

1098. Fasting is the best medicine. 
 ʳҩ

1099. Diet cures more than doctors [pills]. 
 ʳʤҽơ

1100. Digging your grave with your own teeth. 
 ʳԾĹ

1101. A good surgeon must have an eagles eye, a lions, and a ladys hand. 
 ҽӥۡʨĺŮ֡

1102. He who never was sick dies the first (fit). 
1103. He who was never sick dies the first fit. 
 һҪ
 Сһ

1104. What cant be cured must be endured. 
 ֻ֢֮ܡ

1105. Hide nothing from thy physician. 
 Ҫ伲ҽ

1106. Prevention is better than cure. 
 Ԥʤơ

1107. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 
 һԤʤʮơ

1108. A good medicine tastes bitter. 
 ҩڡ

1109. Bitter pills may have wholesome effort. 
 ҩڲ

1110. Medicines are not meant to live on. 
 ָҩ

1111. Feed a cold and starve a fever.
 ˷˳ԣ˶

1112. Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body. 
 ϵļϵļΣա

1113. No herb will cure love. 
     ˼ҩΡ
22?
1114. Eat to live, but not live to eat. 
 ˳ԷΪ˻ţŲΪ˳Է

1115. Live not to eat, but eat to live. 
 ˻ŲΪ˳ԷԷΪ˻š

1116. Live and let live. 
 ԼҲñ˻

1117. He lives twice who lives well. 
 мֵ͵

1118. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. 
 ڸ֮ҡ

1119. We are not born for ourselves. 
 ؼ䣬ΪԼ

1120. He that hath time hath life. 
 ʱ䳤פϢ

1121. They who live longest will see most. 
 ٳʶ㡣

1122. He that lives long suffers much. 
 ٳǻࡣ
    
1123. Men live like fish, the great ones devour the small. 
 㣬С㡣

1124. As the life is, so is the end. 
 űȥ
 Ʊж񱨡

1125. As a man lives, so shall he die. 
1126. He that is once born, once must die. 
     

1127. Nothing so certain [sure] as death. 
 

1128. Praise no man till he is dead. 
 δĪޡ
 ǹ۶

1129. There is no medicine against death. 
 ˼ûлشҩ

1130. Man is mortal. 
1131. Men are mortal. 
1132. All men are mortal. 
1133. All men must die. 
1134. All that lives must die. 
 ǻġ
 

1135. Death is common [sure] to all. 
 ˽һ

1136. Dying is as natural as living. 
1137. It is as natural to die as to be born. 
 Ȼ
 

1138. A man can die but once. 
1139. A man can only die once. 
1140. We die but once. 
 ֻһ
    
1141. All flesh is grass. 
 ݡ
 һľһ
    
1142. Death pays all debts [scores]. 
1143. Death quits (all) scores. 
1144. Death squares all accounts.
1145. He that dies pays all (debts). 
 һծ塣
 ծˡ

1146. Death frees us from ills. 
 ʹǽѲҡ

1147. Death is the grand [great] leveller. 
1148. Death levels all men. 
 ǰֹ

1149. Death spares neither small nor great. 
 ﲻִСһŲġ
 Ȫ·޹

1150. Six feet of earth makes all men equal. 
 ĹѨƽȡ

1151. In the grave the rich and poor lie equal. 
 ĹѨ֮Уƶƽȡ

1152. The end makes all equal. 
 ǰƽȡ

1153. We shall lie all alike in our graves. 
 һس˶һ

1154. He that liveth in court dieth upon straw. 
 ڰ߳ƶ
    
1155. A ground sweat cures all disorders. 
 ˷ա
һˡ

1156. Death defies the doctor. 
 ҽ

1157. After death, the doctor. 
 ҽ
 ɡ

1158. The dead dont bite. 
1159. Dead men tell no tales. 
 й¶ܡ

1160. Stone dead [Stone-dead] has no fellow. 
 ûͬ
 ڱա

1161. Call no man happy before he is dead. 
1162. Call no man happy before his death.[till he dies]. 
1163. Call no man happy till [until] he is dead. 
 ֮ǰ˵Ҹ

1164. Only the good die young. 
1165. The best go first. 
 ˲١

1166. Those whom the gods love die young. 
 ֮Ӣš
 ˲١

1167. Better a glorious death than a shameful life. 
1168. Better die with honour than live with shame. 
 ͵ٶ
 Ϊ飬Ϊȫ

1169. An honourable death is better than a disgraceful life. 
1170. Better to die in glory than live in dishonour. 
 øʤıӡ

1171. A fair death honours the whole life. 
     øУһٹ⡣

1172. Better die standing than live kneeling. 
1173. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. 
     ԸվԸ
    
1174. He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly. 
 а˲ֱȥ

1175. Death meets us everywhere. 
 Ի
23ƶ?
1176. Poverty is the mother of health. 
 ƶ˽֮ĸ

1177. Poverty is not a crime. 
 ƶΪ

1178. Poverty is no sin. 
 ƶ

1179. Poverty is not a disgrace, but theft is a disgrace. 
 ƶΪܣߡ

1180. Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace. 
 ƶʹ࣬ǳ衣

1181. Poverty is no disgrace. 
 ƶǳ衣

1182. Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself, 
         is a disgrace. 
 ƶΪܣƶΪܡ

1183. Poor and content is rich and rich enough. 
 ܰƶǸ

1184. Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty. 
 ҪΪƶɡ

1185. Better be poor than wicked. 
 ˣˡ

1186. Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. 
 ΨƶԲͶ

1187. Poverty and love are hard to hide. 
     ƶͰ飬

1188. Poverty breeds strife. 
     ƶͻ

1189. Poverty parteth fellowship. 
     ƶ顣

1190. Poverty makes a man mean. 
     ƶʹС

1191. Poverty on an old mans back is a heavy burden. 
     ϶ƶء

1192. Be considerate toward the poor. 
     ӦΪ˶롣

1193. Poor without debt is better than a prince. 
     ծʤӡ

1194. Happy is he who owes nothing. 
     ծһᡣ

1195. The poor man wants much, the miser everything. 
     Ҫö࣬زūҪ

1196. Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all. 
 ȱණҪж

1197. A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. 
     һֻƸһͷţ
    
1198. Poor and liberal, rich and covetous. 
 ˳󷽣˷̰
 󷽣̰

1199. Poor folk [men] are fain of little. 
 
 㡣

1200. The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor. 
     ˿еζ˵ᡣ

1201. Beggars must [should] be no choosers. 
     ʳ
     ؤʼݡ

1202. Hunger is the best sauce. 
     ߿оȡ
     ֮ʱóԡ

1203. Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. 
     为ծոϴ

1204. He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. 
 ˽ծ뱯

1205. Money borrowed is soon sorrowed. 
 Ǯŵ֣ϱǳ

1206. No cross, no crown. 
 ûʮּܣûڡ
 ޿༴֡

1207. Every heart knows its own bitterness. 
 ˵ĿԼ֪

1208. A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt. 
 ǳСծ

1209. Out of debt, out of danger. 
 ծΣա

1210. Company in distress makes trouble [the sorrow] less. 
 ͬʹᡣ
24ʧ?ʧ
1211. Losses make us more cautious. 
 ʧʹ˽

1212. We know not what is good until we have lost it. 
 ʧȥĳֶʱž

1213. A horse stumbles that has four legs. 
ʧգʧʱ
    
1214. Light come, light go. 
 ȥÿ졣

1215. Lightly gain, quickly lost. 
 ֮ʧ֮졣

1216. Hold fast when you have it. 
 ΰ

1217. Grasp all, lose all. 
 Ҫȫʧ

1218. Better lose the saddle than the horse. 
 䶪ʧ

1219. If I have lost the ring, yet the fingers are still here. 
 ˽ָָڡ
 ɽڣûա

1220. Sometimes gain is to lose. 
 ʱüʧ

1221. For a lost thing cares nothing. 
 һʧƽ档

1222. Whats lost is lost. 
 ʧȥĲɸá

1223. You cannot lose what you never had. 
     ӵеģԶʧȥ

1224. He who does not gain loses. 
 ܵþʧ

1225. You must lose a fly to catch a trout. 
 ܵ㡣
 СǮȥǮ

1226. All is not lost that is in danger. 
 Σ֮δػʧ

1227. No great loss but some small profit. 
1228. No great loss without some small profit. 
 ʧȥСá
 ʧ֪Ǹ

1229. One never loses anything by politeness. 
 ಻Կ
 ˲֡

1230. What is lost in the hundred will be found in the shire. 
 ˵ʧ˵صá

1231. What we lose in hake we shall have in herring. 
 ʧ֮磬֮ɣܡ

1232. We lose in hake, but gain in herring. 
 ʧ˵á
 ʧ֮磬֮ɣܡ

1233. Either win the horse or lose the saddle. 
 ȫӮǽ䡣

1234. One careless move loses the whole game. 
 һŲ̽䡣

1235. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. 
 Ķ磬Ҳÿ˶ò
 ûʹ˶ùĻ¡
 ڴڱˡ

1236. There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. 
 кȡ
 һʧֲᡣ

1237. Many a slip [Many things fall] between the cup and the lip. 
 ߣδغȵơ
 ½вơ

1238. Merry is he that hath nought to lose. 
 ޿ʧȥ˿

1239. Who loses liberty loses all. 
 ʧȥɱʧȥһС

1240. Only that which is honestly got is gain. 
 ֻ롣

1241. All is not gain that is put in the purse. 
 װǮ֮δؽ롣

1242. Do not run too fast after gain. 
 ҪͿ׷

1243. Prefer loss to unjust gain. 
 ʧȡơ

1244. Failure is the mother of success. 
1245. Failure teaches success. 
 ʧǳɹ֮ĸ

1246. The weakest goes to the wall. 
 ܱ߰

1247. Failure is the only high-road to success. 
 ΨʧܲͨɹĿׯ

1248. Failure in a great enterprise is at least a noble fault. 
     ΰҵʧǸеĹʧ

1249. Losers are always in the wrong. 
     ʧ̶ܾ֮ࡣ
     ɹΪʧΪܡ
    
1250. Loners are losers. 
߼ʧߡ
˭˭ʧܡ
25ȱ?
1251. Each man has his limitations. 
 ˶ԡ
 ˽ж̡
 ˣ

1252. Every man hath [has] his faults. 
 ˽й

1253. Every man has defects of his own virtues [his qualities]. 
1254. Everybody has his merits and faults. 
 ̡
 ˽ȱ㡣

1255. Everybody has some weak spot. 
1256. Every man has his weak side. 
 ˶ԼĲ㡣
 ˽в֮

1257. There is no man but errs. 
1258. There is no man but has his faults. 
1259. There is no man without faults. 
 û޹ʧˡ
 ˡ

1260. Every bean has its black. 
 ſŶк졣
 ˽ж̡

1261. There are spots (even) in [on] the sun. 
 ̫Ҳкڵ㡣
 ˡ

1262. To err is Humane. 
 ֮顣
 ˷ʥͣ޹

1263. No man is indispensable. 
1264. No man [one] is without his faults. 
1265. Nobody but has his faults. 
1266. Nobody is without faults. 
1267. None of us are infallible. 
 ˡ
 ˷ʥͣ޹

1268. It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool preserves in the error. 
 ˵صǶ᷸󣬵ֻɵڼִ

1269. It is a fairy wood that has never a withered bough in it. 
 ٺõҲп֦

1270. A spot is most seen on the finest cloth. 
 ϸĲϵĴõۡ

1271. Even Homer sometimes nods. 
 ʱҲ˯
 ǧǣһʧ

1272. He is lifeless that is faultless. 
 ˲޹
 ޹

1273. He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing. 
 ޴֮ˣһ޳ɡ
 ޴

1274. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. 
 ǲµˡ
 ˸ɲʲô

1275. Every dog is allowed his first bite. 
 ҧ˲֡
 ˴״β

1276. A fault confessed is half redressed. 
 ϴڸһ롣

1277. A fault denied is twice committed. 
 ϴٷ

1278. A little neglect may breed great mischief. 
 Сʧɴ󺦡
 С

1279. One false move may lose the game. 
     һߴ̽䡣

1280. One false step will make a great difference. 
 һʧɴ
 ʧ֮壬ǧ
 һʧǧźޡ

1281. A small leak will sink a great ship. 
 С©󴬡

1282. A miss is as good as a mile. 
 ʧ֮壬ǧ

1283. Every ones faults are not written in their foreheads. 
 дز¶

1284. There are faults from which none of us is [are] free.
 Щκ˶ⲻ˵ġ

1285. The pot calls the kettle black. 
 ӹ޺ڡ
 ϶𼺿
 Լйֱˡ

1286. The kettle calls the pot black. 
 ˮӹڡ
 ѻЦ

1287. We see not what is in the wallet behind. 
 ˶ԼĶ
 ˶Լȱ㡣

1288. Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs. 
 ˣ֪
 

1289. They [People] who live in glass houses should not throw stones. 
 Լͱ˵˵Ļ

1290. Men too seldom see their own faults. 
 ˺ٿԼĹʧ

1291. The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. 
 Ĵǲ֪

1292. A good marksman may miss. 
 Ҳʧʱ

1293. The best man stumbles. 
 ٺõҲ
 ٺõҲ

1294. The best of us can make mistakes. 
 ٽܳҲ
 ǧǣһʧ

1295. It is a good horse that never stumbles; and a good wife that never grumbles. 
 ٺõҲʧ㣬ٺõҲ߶

1296. It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none. 
     ٸɾҲ¶ԣҲ뻵¡

1297. It is a skillful technician that never blunders. 
1298. The best workman sometimes blunders. 
 ٸߵĹҲ
 ǧǣһʧ

1299. It is a wise man that makes no mistakes. 
1300. It is a wise man that never makes mistakes. 
     ٴҲ¡

1301. Great men have great faults. 
 ΰҲо޴Ĺʧ

1302. One who never made a mistake, never made anything. 
 ˱Ȼһ޳ɡ

1303. Never too late to mend. 
1304. It is never too late to mend. 
 
 ڹӳ١
 ΣδΪ

1305. Two blacks do not make a white. 
 ڲһס
 һԡ

1306. Two wrongs dont make a right. 
 һԡ

1307. Wrong never comes right. 
     ԶԲˡ
26?ѵ
1308. Experience is the best teacher. 
 õʦ

1309. Experience does it. 
1310. Experience teaches. 
 ˡ
 ǻۡ

1311. Experience is a long way. 
     Ҫڻۡ

1312. Experience is the mother [father] of knowledge. 
 ֪ʶ֮ĸ[]
 ֪ʶʵ

1313. Experience is the mother [father] of wisdom. 
 ǻ֮ĸ[]
 ǻʵ

1314. Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother. 
 ǻ֮ǻ֮ĸ
    
1315. Dexterity comes by experience. 
 Ծ顣

1316. Wit once bought is worth twice taught. 
 һᣬʤα˽̻塣

1317. Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. 
 оѧʣʤѧʶ޾顣

1318. Experience is the mistress of fools. 
 ̵ˡ
 ޴˴ԼĴȡѵ

1319. Experience is the teacher of fools.
1320. Experience teaches fools.
 ˵ʦ
 ޴˴ԼĴȡѵ

1321. Experience teaches fools, and he is a great one that will not learn by it.
 ѵɵϣȡѵǴɵϡ

1322. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other. 
 ѧѧѸߣ˱ѧ

1323. Experience is a school from which you can never graduate. 
 һԶҵ˵ѧУ

1324. Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly. 
 鲻ѧУֻڡ
 һ£һǡ

1325. Every failure one meets with adds to ones experience. 
     һʧܣһݾ顣
 һǵһǡ

1326. The reward of suffering is experience. 
     Ƕʹı

1327. Experience must be bought. 
 ҪǮ
 һǵһǡ

1328. Experience is the fruit of the tree of errors. 
 ֮֮

1329. Experience is sometimes dangerous. 
 ʱк

1330. Once bit [bitten], twice shy. 
 һҧʮ²

1331. A burnt child dreads the fire. 
1332. The burnt child fears the fire. 
1333. Burnt bairns dread the fire. 
 һαգͺ¡
 һҧʮ¾

1334. He who has burnt his mouth blows his soup. 
 ̹Ǵ

1335. A scalded cat dreads [fears] (even) cold water. 
1336. The scalded cat fears cold water. 
 ̵èˮҲ¡
 һҧʮ¾

1337. The scalded dog fears cold water.
 ̵ĹˮҲ¡

1338. A scalded dog thinks cold water hot. 
     ̵ĹΪˮҲȡ
 һҧʮ¾

1339. The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow. 
 Ĺ˰Ӱ¡

1340. He that has [hath] been bitten by a serpent, is afraid of a rope. 
 ҧˣӶ¡
 һҧʮ¾

1341. Whom a serpent has bitten a lizard alarms. 
1342. Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard. 
1343. Whom an adder bites, dreads a lizard. 
 ҧˣ涼¡
 һҧʮ¾

1344. Avoid the ford on which your friend was drowned. 
 ˮǳ̲Ҳȴ
 ǰ²֮ʦ
 ǰ֮ޣ󳵿ɼ

1345. By others faults wise men correct their own. 
 ˴ӱ˵Ĵȡѵ
 ǰ֮ޣ󳵿ɼ

1346. He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others. 
 ߴӱ˵Ĳлȡѵ

1347. It is good to beware by other mens harm. 
 ˵˺ȡѵкôġ

1348. Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own. 
 ֮ʧΪѵ

1349. One mans fault is another mans lesson. 
 һ֮֮

1350. Other peoples defects are good teachers. 
     ֮Ϊʦ
27?
1351. Fortune favours the bold. 
 ֮ߡ

1352. Fortune knocks once at least at every mans door. 
 ˶˵һ졣

1353. The worse luck now, the better another time. 
 ѣʱת

1354. If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will 
         know you. 
 ̫ãԼ̫ǡ

1355. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. 
 ͷ󣬷֪˹

1356. Fortune is variant. 
 ˱Ī⡣

1357. Misfortunes come at night. 
 ڲ⡣

1358. An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup. 
 ҵ˵ڲ豭Ҳ

1359. Misfortunes never [seldom] come alone [single]. 
1360. One misfortune calls up another. 
1361. One misfortune rides upon anothers back. 
1362. One mischief [misfortune] comes on the neck of another. 
1363. One woe doth tread upon anothers heels. 
1364. Bad luck always comes in threes. 
1365. Hardships never come alone. 
1366. Troubles never come singly. 
 С

1367. Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce. 
1368. Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot. 
 ֻɶȥڡ
    
1369. There is no escape [flying] from fate. 
 ڽӡ

1370. No fence against (an) ill fortune. 
1371. No fence against [for] ill fortune. 
 ʵסˡ
 ӡ

1372. Misfortune is a good teacher. 
 λʦ

1373. Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune. 
 ܳܲĲҡ

1374. Calamity is mans true touchstone. 
 Խʯ

1375. The longest day must have an end. 
 ҵܻȥ

1376. Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. 
 ǻ۵ıķ

1377. He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens. 
 ҪԼͲҪĸĿС
 Ҫܾ͵óԵͷ

1378. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. 
 ʹ˴ʹ˸С

1379. Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. 
     澳˽档

1380. Adversity is a good discipline. 
1381. Adversity is a good [great] schoolmaster. 
 õĥ
  
1382. There is a crook [affliction, trial] in the lot of every one. 
 еù¡
 пƽ

1383. He that is down, down with him. 
 һ˲ȡ
 ǽơ

1384. When a man is going down-hill, everyone will give him a push. 
 ·˰ơ
 ǽơ

1385. When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe. 
 һ£ø

1386. Mischief has swift wings. 
 ֻ
    
1387. An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. 
 һʤʮֲ
 в
28Ĭ?¼
1388. Speech is silver [silvern], (but) silence is gold [golden]. 
 Ĭǽ

1389. Silence is golden, but speech is silver [silvern]. 
 Ĭǽ۱
 Ĭʤ۱硣

1390. There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. 
     ˵ʱ˵óĬʱĬ
    
1391. Silence gives [means] consent. 
 Ĭʾͬ⡣
    
1392. Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. 
 Ĭʱ

1393. No wisdom like silence. 
 ĪĬ

1394. Silence does seldom harm. 
 ڲ

1395. The least said, the soonest mended. 
 ԽԽá
 ׸ġ

1396. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. 
 ˵

1397. Still waters run deep. 
 ˮ

1398. Silence is the best ornament of a woman. 
 ĬŮ˵װΡ

1399. The best [greatest] fish keep [swim near] the bottom. 
 ˮΡ
 мֵĶ׵õ

1400. After a storm comes a calm. 
 ƽ
 硣

1401. Quietness is best. 
 á

1402. Woe to him that is alone. 
     ¶ɱ
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1403. Appearance often deceives. 
1404. Appearances are (often) deceive. 
 ƭԡ
 òȡˡ

1405. Dont judge by appearance. 
1406. Never judge from appearances. 
1407. Never judge people by their appearance. 
1408. Judge not according to the appearance. 
 ɸòжϡ
 òȡˡ

1409. Men are not to be measured by (in) inches. 
 ˲ĸߵ
 ˲òࡣ

1410. Mens characters are not always written on their foreheads. 
 Ʒһдڶͷϡ
 ֪֪治֪ġ

1411. Dont judge men or things at first sight. 
1412. Judge not of men and thing at first sight. 
 ƾӡ¡

1413. Dont look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains. 
     ҪֻƿӣҪƿװʲô

1414. The habit [cowl, hood] does not make the monk. 
1415. It is not the hood that makes the monk. 
 ĲһǺС
 òȡˡ
    
1416. Beauty is but skin deep. 
 ֻƤࡣ
 òȡˡ

1417. In appearance place no trust. 
1418. There is no trusting to appearance. 
 š

1419. Fair without but foul within. 
 ڼ顣
 ⣬С

1420. A fair face (but) foul heart. 
 Ưİࡣ

1421. Its not the gay coat that makes the (fine) gentleman. 
 ڵ²¡

1422. Clothes dont make the man. 
 Ʒûڴ
 ڰ

1423. Fine feathers do not make fine birds. 
 ɫ
 ڰ

1424. It is not only the feather that makes the bird. 
 ƾë

1425. The face is no index to the heart. 
 ׷ӳġ
 ֪֪治֪ġ
    
1426. Clothes make the man. 
1427. Fine clothes make the man. 
1428. The coat [garment, tailor] makes the man. 
 ˷ɡ
 ˿·

1429. Fair feathers make fair fowls. 
1430. Fine feathers make fine birds. 
 Ưëʹ

1431. The face is the index of heart [mind]. 
 ׷ӳġ
 ֪ġ

1432. A good face is a letter of recommendation. 
 Ư׾һƼš

1433. A fair face may hide a foul heart. 
 Ư׺һġ

1434. The handsomest flower is not the sweetest. 
 Ļһġ

1435. Things are seldom what they seem. 
 濴
 ʵ

1436. All are not saints that go to church. 
 ݵδضʥͽ

1437. He looks like a saint but the devil he is. 
 ȥʥˣʵħ
 òȻײС

1438. I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts. 
 ϣ˴ûġ

1439. A crown is no cure for the headache. 
 ͷʹ

1440. Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup. 
 Ȼװ𱭣ҩǶҩ

1441. A forced kindness deserves no thanks. 
 ⲻֵøл

1442. Empty vessels make the greatest sound. 
 һƿ죬ƿε

1443. Vain glory blossoms but never bears. 
 ٿԿ

1444. False with one can be false with two. 
 һ٣Ҳ١
30ŭ?ʼ
1445. A little pot [pan] is soon hot. 
 Сȡ
 Сŭ

1446. A penny soul never came to twopence. 
     Сѳɴ¡
 ƽгɹ

1447. Anger and haste hinder good counsel. 
     æ⡣

1448. Anger is a short madness. 
 ŭһʱ֮

1449. Anger punishes itself. 
 

1450. When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears. 
 ŭɥʧǣʧ

1451. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. 
 ֮ǰʮŭ죬ʮ༸ߡ

1452. Anger rusts intellects so that it cannot discern right from wrong. 
 ŭʴǣѱǷǡ

1453. Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. 
     ŭ³ڻںޡ

1454. Anger rests in the bosom of folly. 
 ŭС

1455. Envy ceaseth after death. 
     ʷֹ

1456. Envy never dies. 
     ʻ

1457. Envy never enriched any man. 
     ʼɾʹ˸ԣ

1458. Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. 
     ʼˣ˵Լ

1459. Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak. 
 λ˶ʣзŭ

1460. Two of a trade seldom [never] agree. 
1461. Two of a trade can never agree. 
 ͬԩҡ
 ͬʡ
31?
1462. Idleness is the root of all evil. 
1463. Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice]. 
1464. Idleness is the parent of all vice. 
 ֮Դ

1465. Of idleness comes no goodness. 
 һа

1466. Idleness is the key of beggary. 
 ؤ

1467. Idle people [folks] have the most labour [take the most pains]. 
1468. Idle folks have the least leisure. 
1469. Lazy folks [people] take the most pains. 
1470. Lazy folks [people] have the most labour. 
1471. Lazy folks [people] have the least leisure. 
 ԽԽѾ

1472. He who does not work neither shall he eat. 
 Ͷ߲ʳ
 ޻

1473. An idle youth, a needy age. 
1474. A young man idle, an old man needy. 
1475. Idle young, needy age [old]. 
 ׳Ŭϴͽ˱

1476. An idle brain is the devils workshop. 
1477. An idle person is the devils cusion. 
 ͷħĹ
 ֺ֮Դ

1478. If the devil finds a man idle, hell set him to work. 
 ħͻһɡ
 ħר

1479. Idle folks lack no excuses. 
 ûнڡ

1480. The tongue of idle persons is never idle. 
 첻

1481. Sloth is the key of [to] poverty. 
 ƶ

1482. Poverty is the reward of idleness. 
     ƶǶĳͷ

1483. An idle soul shall suffer hunger. 
     ֮˱ܼ֮ࡣ

1484. Sloth turneth the edge of wit. 
1485. Idleness turns the edge of wit. 
 ɢĥȥǵķâ

1486. Idleness rusts the mind. 
1487. Idleness is the rust of mind. 
1488. Idleness makes the wit rust. 
     ʹͷԳٶۡ

1489. An ill life, an ill end. 
1490. Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited. 
 ж񱨡

1491. A guilt conscience feels continual fear. 
1492. A guilt conscience never feels secure. 
1493. A guilt conscience is a self-accuser [a thousand witnesses]. 
1494. A guilt conscience needs no accuser. 
 ֮ģֻŲ
 顣

1495. Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow. 
 Ӿˣؽڱгû

1496. Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people. 
 ﷸʴȣǶĲ̡

1497. A wicked man is his own hell. 
 

1498. Evil weed is soon grown. 
1499. Ill weeds are sure to thrive. 
1500. Ill weeds grow apace [fast]. 
 ݬ졣
 ϰȾ

1501. An evil lesson is soon learned. 
 ѧ

1502. That which is evil is soon learnt. 
 ϰȾ

1503. Black will take no other hue. 
 ɫȾ
 ľɵ
 ϰѸġ

1504. Evil (be) to him who evil thinks. 
 а
 Ļа

1505. Better be upright and want, than wicked and have abundance. 
 ֱɸʡ
 
1506. No vice goes alone. 
1507. Ill comes often on the back of worse. 
 񲻵С

1508. He who has done ill once will do it again. 
 ¸һΣеڶΡ

1509. One sin opens the door for another. 
 һΪһš
 ¸һΣеڶΡ

1510. Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. 
 ˣ߽ˡ

1511. They that do nothing learn to do ill. 
 ֺУѧ

1512. Those who eat best and drink best often do worst. 
 ֻͼԺôãѧⲻˡ

1513. No good building without a good foundation. 
 ᡣ
 ûкõĻûкõĽ

1514. Young saints, old devils. 
 ʱʥͽʱħ
 ʱʥа

1515. Of evil grain, no good seed can come. 
 ޺֡

1516. Evil communications corrupt good manners. 
 ĽܻõƷС

1517. Vice rules where gold reigns. 
 Ǯͳ֮аһС

1518. The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues. 
 жĴʮơ

1519. A bad thing never dies. 
 ´ǧꡣ
    
1520. Bad news has wings. 
1521. Ill news comes [travels] apace. 
1522. Ill news flies [travels] fast.
 ²ţʱǧ

1523. The evil wound is cured but not the evil name. 
 ˿ҽȥ

1524. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 
 ˡ˾˺ˡ

1525. He that spares the bad injures the good. 
 ݻ˾˺ˡ

1526. He that helpeth the evil hurteth the good. 
     ˺

1527. Do not hold a candle to the devil. 
 Ҫħ
 ҪΪ
 ĪΪŰ

1528. A willful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon. 
 ֮ɿˡ

1529. Evil [Ill]will never said well. 
 ԡ
 ²

1530. He who avoids temptation avoids the sin. 
 ջ

1531. The evil (evils) we bring on ourselves is [are] hardest to bear. 
     ֮ܡ

1532. No wrong without remedy. 
 ֮ҩ
 йԿɲ

1533. Take a hair of the dog that bit you. 
 Զ

1534. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. 
 Ҳ˯

1535. Guilty consciences always make people [men] cowards. 
 Ļ˵С
 顣

1536. He that lives ill, fear follows him. 
 ˿£־档

1537. He who has no shame has no conscience. 
 ֪߳ܵ˲֪ԾΡ

1538. Once a knave, ever a knave. 
 һγԶ

1539. Once a devil, always a devil. 
 һħԶħ

1540. A crafty knave needs no broker. 
 ƻҪмˡ

1541. Never hang a man twice for one offence. 
     һﲻΡ
32?ޱ
1542. Pride goes before a fall. 
1543. Pride goes before destruction. 
1544. Pride will have a fall.
1345. Pride never left his master without a fall. 
 ߱ذܡ

1546. Human pride is human weakness. 
 㡣

1547. Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 
1548. Pride goes before, and shame follows after. 
1549. When pride rides, shame lacqueys. 
 ǰܸ߳ߡ

1550. Every cook praises his own broth. 
 ӶԼ
 ϣԿ䡣

1551. Every man thinks his own things best. 
 ˶ΪԼĶá
 䡣

1552. He is in his better blue clothes. 
     ˶Լȱǿ

1553. He wots not whether he bears the earth, or the earth him. 
 Դ˲֪ǵŵ

1554. When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. 
 Դ֮Լ˺

1555. Pride and grace dwell never in one place. 
 ţסһ

1556. Pride must be pinched. 
 

1557. Pride feels [finds] no colds. 
 ͼΣС
 ˲η

1558. Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 
 Ǳھɶ¡

1559. Pride that apes humility. 
 Ǽװǫ

1560. Pride is the mask of ones faults. 
 δļߡ

1561. He that is full of himself is very [quite] empty. 
 ֮˸ڿա

1562. He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none. 
 ͨгտա

1563. He that boasts of his knowledge proclaims his ignorance. 
 Դѧʣʵ֪

1564. The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame. 
 ţó

1565. The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. 
 СǣԽԸ

1566. Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 
 Ū

1567. He that climbs high falls heavily. 
 øߣء

1568. Fortune favours fools. 
1569. God sends fortune to fools. 
1570. Fools have fortune. 
1571. Fools have the best luck. 
 ɵɵ

1572. Every man has a fool in his sleeve. 
 ˶кͿʱ

1573. Every man is a fool sometime, and none at all times. 
     кͿһʱûкͿһ

1574. A fool may give a wise man counsel. 
1575. A fool may put somewhat in a wise mans head. 
 ɵҲܸ˳ӡ
 ǧǣһá

1576. A fools bolt may sometimes hit the mark. 
1577. A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose. 
 ɵʱҲһеġ
 ǧǣһá

1578. He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist. 
     ޴ҲԼȭͷШá

1579. A fool always comes short of his reckoning. 
 ޴ȱļơ

1580. A wager is a fools argument. 
 ɵһʹġ

1581. A fools heart dances on his lips. 
 ޴Ĺڴߡ

1582. A fool always finds a greater fool than himself. 
 ޴Ϊ˱Լ

1583. The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is. 
 ޴ԽǸУԽ޴

1584. It is better to please a fool than to anger him. 
 ޴˵ϲǣʹ˶Ҫŭ

1585. Fools haste is no speed. 
 ɵϽţæһ

1586. Never challenge a fool to do wrong. 
 Ҫ˸ɻ¡

1587. Answer a fool according to his folly. 
 ˵ĴشˡΪԼ

1588. A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool. 
 е˽ߣΪȴˡ

1589. Fools never know when they are well. 
 ǲ֪㡣

1590. A fool always rushes to the fore. 
 ϲǿͷ

1591. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 
 ɵϸڳʹŵĵط
 СĽ޴˵Ϊ

1592. Fools will be meddling. 
     ˰¡

1593. It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. 
 ϹǴ㡣
 ˲ص

1594. Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly. 
 ѧȴ޴¡

1595. A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no hope for his 
     stupidity. 
 ۿʯĥ˴ҩơ

1596. He who is born a fool is never cured. 
 ɵϣ޿ɾҩ

1597. Folly is an incurable disease. 
 ޴һֲ֮

1598. Give a fool enough rope [rope enough] and he will hang himself. 
 ɵӳȥ
 ƾɵϹ֣ȥϵ

1599. Beauty and folly are often companions. 
 ˳ȱǡ
 С

1600. The follies of youth are food for the repentance in old age. 
 ʱ֣ʱա

1601. There is no fool like an old fool. 
1602. There is no fool to the old fool. 
1603. No fool like an old fool. 
1604. No fool to the old fool. 
 ҩɾȡ
33?ƭ
1605. Lies have short [no] legs. 
 վסŵġ

1606. A lie begets a lie till they come to generations. 
 С

1607. Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome. 
 Ȼɰװͷܻᱻʶơ

1608. Liars begin by imposing upon others but end deceiving themselves. 
 ƭ˿ʼƭա

1609. One lie makes [calls for] many. 
1610. One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it. 
 һװ񣬾͵öμٻ

1611. He never lies when the holly is green. 
 ֻҪ̣ͻѡ
 ѵԶѡ

1612. Liars have need of good memories. 
1613. Liars need long memories. 
1614. Liars should [ought to] have good memories. 
 ѵкüԡ
    
1615. Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it. 
 ݡ飬Ū֡

1616. Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 
 ǻԵĽס

1617. Gossiping and lying go together. 
 ԳС

1618. A vaunter and a liar are near akin. 
 ڼ˵ѣ¡

1619. A boaster and a liar are all one. 
     ţߺһ·

1620. A boaster and a liar are cousins-german. 
 ţߺǱֵܡ

1621. A false tongue will hardly speak truth. 
 ಻ԡ
 ²

1622. Lying is the first step to the gallows. 
 ˵ͷ̨ĵһ

1623. Lying rides upon debts back. 
 ծ֮˻Զࡣ
    
1624. He that will swear, will lie. 
 ÷ĵҲѡ
    
1625. A great talker is a great liar. 
 ̸Ҳ˵ѡ

1626. The greatest liars talk most of themselves. 
 Դ֮˳˵ߡ

1627. He that will lie will steal. 
 ֮˳ԡ

1628. Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief. 
 ˵ǵԵĿʼ

1629. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 
 ѵ˼ʹ˵滰Ҳš

1630. There is many a fair thing full false. 
 ද֮³

1631. Interest will not lie. 
 Ȥǲ˵ѵġ

1632. He that trusts in a lie shall perish in truth. 
     ŻԵ˱ؽʵл
    
1633. He cries wine and sells vinegar. 
 ǾƣȴǴס
 ͷ⡣

1634. Cheats never prosper. 
 ƭԶ

1635. To deceive oneself is very easy. 
 ƭԼǳס

1636. Gain got by a lie will burn ones fingers. 
     ƭ˵պ
    
1637. He that once deceives is ever suspected. 
     ƭһΣһ
    
1638. He who trusteth is not deceived. 
     ѱƭ
34?ľ
1639. One flower makes no garland. 
һ仨һ

1640. No rose without a thorn. 
1641. Every rose has its thorn. 
 õд̡
 ûоƾĶ

1642. Straws show which way the wind blows. 
1643. A straw shows which way the wind blows.
 ݶʾ

1644. Weeds want no sowing. 
 Ӳݲ֡

1645. A drowning man will catch at a straw. 
 ˮ߼ҲҪץ
 

1646. Where there are reeds, there is water. 
 «έˮ

1647. Like tree, like fruit. 
 ʲôʲôĹ

1648. He that would eat [have] the fruit must climb the tree. 
 ҪԹӾ͵

1649. You cannot see the wood for trees. 
 ֡

1650. No root, no fruit. 
 ޸޹
35?
1651. Old bees yield no honey. 
 Ϸ䲻ۡ

1652. Tis the early bird that catches the worm. 
 ȵó档
 ȵǡ

1653. The bird loves her nest. 
 Լѡ

1654. Each bird likes to hear himself sing. 
 񶼰Լ衣

1655. The bird that can sing and wont sing must be made to sing. 
 ֮ܳ񣬲Ҳʹ䳪

1656. A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. 
 ţ֪

1657. Birds of a feather flock together. 
 ۣȺ֡

1658. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 
 һ֣ʤ֡

1659. Kill two birds with one stone. 
 һʯ˫
 һ˫

1660. The fowlers pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught. 
 ˵յͶ

1661. The noisy fowler catches no bird. 
 ţ

1662. He that will take the bird must not scare it. 
 Ҫ벶񣬾ͱ

1663. Old birds are not caught with new nests. 
 ׽

1664. Clumsy birds have to start flying early. 
 ȷɡ

1665. One swallow does not make a summer. 
 һ಻ġ

1666. The snail slides up the tower at last though the swallow mounteth it sooner. 
 һţ

1667. The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at Midsummer, and 
         then goes away. 
 һֱڣĳ֧裬뿪

1668. If the sky falls, we shall catches larks. 
 ׽ȸ
 졣

1669. When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace. 
 һҹݺϢ

1670. An owl is the king of the night. 
 èͷӥ˺ҹ֮

1671. Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. 
 ӥϲȺ

1672. Empty hands no hawk allure. 
 ֲӥ

1673. Hawks will not pick hawks eyes out. 
 ӥӥۡ
 ͬ಻С

1674. A kite will never be a good hawk. 
 

1675. A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often. 
 ѻʹϴ裬ëҲס

1676. The crow thinks his own bird fairest. 
 ѻΪ

1677. Crows do not pick crows eyes. 
 ѻѻ۾
 ͬ಻С

1678. Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the ravens be gathered together. 
 ʬѻȺ

1679. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. 
     δ
 Ҫֹۡ

1680. Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings. 
 ܣСг

1681. Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly. 
 ʳĸʳ

1682. Fat hens lay few eggs. 
 ĸµϡ

1683. If the hen does not prate, she will not lay. 
 еĸµ

1684. It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in anothers. 
 ҿﵰĸҪá

1685. Young cocks love no coops. 
 С

1686. A cock is bold on his dunghill. 
 ֮Ϲ

1687. A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock. 
 ʤһʯ

1688. He that will have his farm full, must keep an old cock and a young bull. 
 ҪũׯԣϼСţٲˡ

1689. Never cackle till your egg is laid. 
 δɹĪȿҫ

1690. A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter. 
 ѼӲͬһˮ

1691. All your swans are geese. 
 춼ͨĶ졣
 еϣˡ

1692. All his geese are swans. 
     ԼҵĶ춼졣
 䡣

1693. The swans sings when death comes. 
 

1694. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 
 ĳ߱ȻƵ

1695. It is a blind silly goose that comes to the foxs sermon. 
 ֻäĿĴŻȥ꽲

1696. Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. 
 ɱȡ𵰡
 ֻͼǰҪϾԴ

1697. A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.
 ʡ

1698. Never cast your pearls before swine. 
 鰵Ͷ
 Ҫţ١

1699. Pigs may fly, but they are very unlikely birds. 
 ݻɣվ

1700. You cannot makes a silk purse out of a sows ear. 
     ˿
 ɸΪ֮

1701. If the beard were all, the goat might preach. 
 ˵⣬ɽҲɽ

1702. Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful. 
 ÿһٳһڡ

1703. One sheep follows another. 
 ϲäӡ

1704. If one sheep leap over the dyke, all the rest will follow. 
 һ档

1705. One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock. 
 һѢꡣ

1706. The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf. 
 Ļҳסǡ

1707. The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb. 
 лǾ

1708. Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them. 
 ѻҪһ
 èٴȱ

1709. One butcher does not fear many sheep. 
 ࡣ

1710. You have no goats, and yet you sell kids. 
 ֵᡣ

1711. As soon goes the young lambs skin to market as the old ewes. 
 ƤУСƤҲС

1712. A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. 
 ܾëء

1713. It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. 
 ڡ

1714. There is a black sheep in every flock. 
 Ⱥ֮С

1715. It is a small flock that has not a black sheep. 
 ˶аࡣ

1716. The cow thats first up gets the first of the dew. 
 ĸţȵ¶

1717. The ox is never woe, till he to the harrow go. 
 Ұȥأţ֪

1718. Not all butter that the cow yields. 
 ĸţδؾ͡

1719. The ox when weariest treads surest. 
 ţߵȡ

1720. The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it. 
 ʱϧʧͽ̾Ϣ

1721. You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk. 
1722. If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. 
 ܼҪţţ̡
 ȫ

1723. Old oxen have stiff horns. 
 ţϽӲ

1724. An ox is taken by the horns, and the man by the tongue. 
 ţִǣ˱١

1725. Many good cows have evil calves. 
1726. Many a good cow hath a bad calf. 
 ţţ
 Ȯӡ
    
1727. The black ox has trod on his foot. 
 ͷ

1728. If the ox falls, whet your knife. 
ţһĥ
ѣ˲ȡ

1729. You may know the horse by his harness. 
 ֪ԡ

1730. A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings. 
 ƾΡ

1731. A good horse often needs a good spur. 
 ѥ̡

1732. It is a good horse that never stumbles. 
 ʧʱ
 ˣ

1733. He is a gentle horse that never cast his rider. 
 ѵ֮˦֡

1734. A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. 
 ԸӰó

1735. Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride. 
 ϲգ

1736. A ragged colt may make a good horse. 
 Կܳɿ
 η

1737. You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. 
 ԰ǣˮߣǿˮ
 Ҫǿѡ

1738. Dont swap horses when crossing a stream. 
 
 Σ֮ʱ䶯

1739. Every horse thinks his sack heaviest. 
 ÿһƥΪԼԵĴء

1740. The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. 
 ȴ

1741. Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. 
 ϹΣ¡

1742. A galled horse will not endure the comb. 
 ˵ᡣ

1743. The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.
 ҪѵҪ̡

1744. It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse. 
 Ҫѵúãѥٲˡ

1745. A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can. 
 ̿ѵ

1746. A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle. 
 Ҫ״ͷ

1747. An ass endures his burden, but not more than his burden. 
 ¿ܸأҲ˹ء

1748. Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. 
 ΪͷΪţ

1749. Wherever an ass falleth, there will be never fall again. 
 ¿ӲͬһطΡ

1750. The braying of an ass does not reach heaven. 
 ¿ӽ죬Ҳϡ

1751. The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle. 
 ¿Ӳԣݹ԰

1752. If a donkey brays at you, dont bray at him. 
 ʹһʶ

1753. He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.
     ָ΢ϾֻԼͽС
    
1754. A lion at home, a mouse abroad. 
 ڼʨӣ

1755. The mountains have brought forth a mouse. 
 ɽС
 ЧС

1756. A blate cat makes a proud mouse. 
 è󣬺ӷ졣

1757. A cat has nine lives. 
 èо

1758. When the cats away, the mice will play. 
 èڼңӾˣ
 è֡

1759. A gloved cat catches no mice.
 ׵èץ

1760. Cats hide their paws. 
 è¶צ

1761. A cat may look at a king. 
 èҲȨƹ
 λ֮ҲӦЩȨ

1762. Ale will make a cat speak. 
     ˵ơƣèҲῪڡ
 ƺࡣ

1763. All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws. 
 èȴŪʪצ
 õöȴֲԸðա

1764. It is said that a cat hath nine lives, yet care would wear them all out. 
 ˵èоǹҲ

1765. The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better friends. 
 è͹ҲǣԶɲѡ

1766. When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage. 
 èǺͷ

1767. Love me, love my dog. 
 ݼڡ

1768. Dog does not eat dog. 
 Թ
 ͬ಻С

1769. Every dog is a lion at home. 
 ڼУ硣

1770. Every dog is valiant at his own door. 
 վڼſڣҲ

1771. Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. 
 ΪȮףʨβ

1772. Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. 
 ʳ

1773. Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. 
 βҡ

1774. Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail. 
 Īβҡÿθ

1775. Too much pudding will choke a dog. 
 ಼̫Ҳҭ

1776. A good dog deserves a good bone. 
 ùӦкùͷ

1777. While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none. 
 йͷͬ顣

1778. Two dogs strive for a bone, the third runs away with it. 
 һͷֻߡ

1779. One barking dog sets all the streets barking. 
һȮӰȮ

1780. A barking dog is better than a sleeping lion. 
 Ȯʤ˯ʨ

1781. A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone. 
 ͷ򹷹С

1782. Barking dogs seldom bite. 
 Ȯҧˡ

1783. Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand. 
 ԶͽУҧ

1784. Beware of a silent dog and still water. 
 ƹ;ˮ߶÷

1785. In every country dogs bite. 
 ҧˡ

1786. Mad dog bites his master. 
 蹷ҧˡ

1787. Let sleeping dog lie. 
 ˯
 Īǡ

1788. If the old dog barks, he gives counsel. 
 ϹУҸ档

1789. An old dog bites sore. 
 Ϲҧҧúݡ

1790. An old dog cannot alter its way of barking. 
 ϹѸķͽ

1791. All are not thieves that dogs bark at. 
 ŷͽеˣǶС͵

1792. Help the dog over the stile. 
 ߶ȹѹء

1793. Every dog has his day. 
 ˽еʱ
 ƬҲзա

1794. A living dog is better than a dead lion. 
 ʤʨ

1795. Give a dog a bad name and hang him. 
 ֮λ޴ǡ

1796. He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick. 
 Ĵ򹷺ҹ
 ֮λ޴ǡ

1797. When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink. 
 ˮ˸ˮȡ

1798. The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping. 
 ˯ڹӮܡ

1799. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. 
 ͬʱ׷ãһֻҲѲ

1800. One should not run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. 
 Īֺá

1801. He that will have a hare to breakfast must hunt overnight. 
 Ҫ⣬֡

1802. First catch your hare then cook him. 
 ҪȲá

1803. The fox may grow grey, but never good. 
 ϣԶѱá

1804. The sleeping fox catches no poultry. 
 ˯ŵĺ׽

1805. It is an evil sign to see a fox lick a lamb. 
 ᣬǺü

1806. When the fox preacheth, then beware your geese. 
 ÿ꽲Ķꡣ

1807. A fox should not be of the jury at a gooses trial. 
 첻Ӧú

1808. The old goose plays not with foxes. 
 ϶첻ˣ

1809. The foxs wiles will never enter the lions head. 
 ĹԶʨӵͷԡ

1810. Old foxes want no tutors. 
 Ϻʦ̡

1811. An old fox is not easily snared. 
 Ϻ

1812. The fox smells his own stink first. 
 жԼ

1813. You can have no more of the fox than the skin. 
 Ƥȫá

1814. The tail does often catch the fox. 
 걻ץβ͡

1815. The fox is known by his brush. 
 βʹʶ

1816. The fox that had lost its tail would persuade others out of theirs. 
 һֻ궪βͣȰҲ

1817. The wolf and fox are both privateers. 
 ǣٴ

1818. The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature. 
 ǻѸġ

1819. The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf. 
     ǣȻꡣ
    
1820. By little and little the wolf eateth the sheep. 
 ǳһһǳ

1821. Give never the wolf the wether. 
 Ī͸ǡ

1822. The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. 
 Ⱥһ򰲡

1823. While you trust to the dog, the wolf slips into the sheepfold. 
 ΪţȦѱ

1824. It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf. 
 ǰѺƽ

1825. Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods. 
 ǳɭ֡

1826. A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. 
     ڳɳʳǡ
    
1827. A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. 
 С͵ʶС͵ʶǡ

1828. Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl. 
     ύͻѧǺ
    
1829. Man is to man either a god or a wolf. 
 ˽ϵ۾ǡ

1830. When the wolf grows old, the crows ride him. 
 ѻۡ

1831. The leopard can never change its spots. 
 ߱Զı䲻ϵİߵ㡣
 Ѹġ

1832. He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 
 ﻢ¡

1833. The tiger that has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it. 
 һγѪѽҡ

1834. Beard the lion in his den. 
 ϻͷ׽ʭ
 ̫ͷ϶

1835. Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp. 
 ɱʨӦСʱ

1836. The lion is known by his claws [paws]. 
 ʨצ

1837. The lions skin is never cheap. 
 ʨƤӲ

1838. It is not good to wake a sleeping lion. 
 ˯ʨĪ

1839. The lion is not so fierce as he is painted. 
 ʨûлϵ͡

1840. An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag. 
 һֻʨһȺ¹һֻ¹һֻʨӸѶԸ

1841. Where the deer is slain, some of her blood will lie. 
 ¹Ѫ

1842. The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood. 
 Ұһŭ

1843. He who shareth honey with the bear hath the least part of it. 
     ֻܷۣܳһΡ
    
1844. Kings and bears often worry keepers. 
     ܣʹ硣
    
1845. Do not sell the bears skin before you have caught the bear. 
 δƤ
     Ī̫硣
     
1846. An apes an ape, a varlets a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet. 
 ³񴩺죬ԳԳ̴̴ӡ
36?
1847. A friend is a second self. 
     ǵڶҡ

1848. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 
 еѲѡ

1849. Nothing is dearer to a man than a friend in need. 
 ֮ɹ

1850. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. 
 һꡣ
 ֿͬġ

1851. The best mirror is an old friend. 
1852. There is no better looking-glass than an old friend.
 һõľӡ

1853. A friend is best found in adversity. 
 ֮

1854. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. 
 ѿѡ

1855. A friend is never known till a man has need. 
1856. A friend is known in necessity. 
1857. At need one sees who his friend is.
1858. The friend is known in the time of difficulty. 
 ʶѡ

1859. A man must eat a peck of salt with his friends before he knows him. 
 ദվ÷֪ˡ
 վüġ

1860. Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him. 
 ֮ǰ˽⡣

1861. A faithful friend is hard to find. 
 ʵʵѰ

1862. A friend is easier lost than found. 
 ʧ׵á

1863. Short accounts make long friends. 
 Ҫʲϡ

1864. Even reckoning makes long friends. 
     ˴ʣó
    
1865. He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. 
 Һãѡ
 
1866. A good friend is my nearest relation. 
 Ѽס

1867. A near friend is better than a fardwelling kinsman. 
     ʤԶס

1868. A friend in court is better than a penny in purse. 
 ʤڰǮ

1869. It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. 
 ú͵öύѡ

1870. It is good to have friends in trouble. 
 ֮Ǻ¡

1871. Good company on the road is the shortest cut. 
1872. No road is long with good company. 
 ;飬·̲ңԶ

1873. Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. 
     ύ˶࣬١

1874. Many friends in general, one in special. 
     ڶ࣬һ

1875. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. 
1876. A friend to all is a friend to none. 
 κ˶ѣ˭ѡ
 Ѷûкѡ

1877. Poverty tries friends. 
     ƶѡ

1878. Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 
1879. Poverty makes strange bedfellows. 
     ƶʹİ߳Ϊͬѡ
     ƶѡ
     
1880. Try your friend ere you trust him. 
     ǰӦȿ顣

1881. Prove thy friend ere thou have need. 
 ҪѰæǰҪȿ顣
 
1882. In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty. 
     ֮ʱѶࡣ

1883. He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend. 
 ǮװñѲ١

1884. A table friend is a variable friend. 
1885. Table friendship soon changes. 
 ϵѶ仯
 ѿס

1886. No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot. 
 Ѳá
 
1887. Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. 
 ԣѣƶѡ
 
1888. Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight. 
     ң̫

1889. All are not friends that speak us fair. 
 ԼûĲѡ
 
1890. I will be thy friend, but not thy vices friend. 
 Ըѣϰѡ
 
1891. A friend without faults will never be found. 
 ûȱѲڡ
 
1892. We shall never have fiends if we expect to find them without fault. 
 ָȱ㣬Զ뽻ѡ
 
1893. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. 
 ʧѿ죬
 
1894. Between friends all is common. 
     ֮䲻ֱ˴ˡ

1895. Old friends and old wine are best. 
 ¾ζ

1896. Everything is good when new, friends when old. 
 Ī£Īʡ
 
1897. A man without a friend is only half a man. 
 ûֻˡ

1898. Better without gold than without friend. 
 ûнȱѡ

1899. Without a friend, the world is wilderness. 
 ûѣͳһƬҰ

1900. A life without a friend is like a life without a sun. 
 ûѡû⡣

1901. Life without friend is death. 
 ûѾ͵
 
1902. Friendless is the dead. 
 ûѡ
 
1903. Hunger knows no friend. 
 ʶѡ
 
1904. Misery makes strange bedfellows. 
1905. Adversity makes strange bedfellows. 
1906. Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 
     澳ʹİ˳Ϊͬѡ
 вѡ
 ͬ
 ݱɫ£δǹˡ

1907. Better be alone than in bad company. 
1908. It is better to be alone than in ill company. 
 Ѳ粻ѡ
 
1909. God defend [deliver] me from my friends; from my enemies I can [will] defend myself. 
 ׷Ѳ
 
1910. False friends are worse than open enemies. 
 ѱ˸

1911. A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy. 
1912. False friends are worse than bitter enemies. 
 ѱͷ

1913. An open enemy is better than a hollow friend. 
1914. Better an open enemy than a false friend. 
1915. There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an enemy. 
 ĵʤٵѡ
 
1916. He that lies down [sleeps] with dogs must rise up with fleas. 
 ˽ѻ
 ߳࣬īߺڡ

1917. A man is known by his friends. 
1918. A man is known by the company he keeps. 
1919. As a man is, so is his company. 
 ѣ֪ˡ
 ʲô˽ʲôѡ

1920. Old acquaintance will soon be remembered. 
 һס

1921. Friends must part. 
1922. The best of friends must part. 
 зʱ

1923. Short acquaintance brings repentance. 
 ǳºڡ

1924. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. 
 ʹ㵱ʱϲҲӦ°֮˵Ҹ档
 
1925. Merry meet, merry part. 
 þۺɢ
 
1926. Friends agree best at a distance. 
 мܺϡ
 ѼӦһ롣

1927. Friends are thieves of time. 
 ʱĵ
 ѻʱ䡣

1928. True friendship lasts forever. 
     档

1929. Without confidence there is no friendship. 
     ûΣûꡣ

1930. Friendship cannot stand always on one side. 
1931. Friendship should not be all on one side. 
 겻һ

1932. Community of purpose makes friendship. 
     Ŀһ£ꡣ

1933. Fire is the test of gold, adversity of friendship. 
     һ澳顣

1934. Friendship is like wine the older the better. 
     ƣԽԽ

1935. True friendship is like sound health, the value of which is seldom known until it be lost. 
     ƽʧȥ֪
     
1936. Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. 
     Ѳţ޵

1937. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. 
 üʤ΢Ц

1938. A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend. 
     ¸ҵĵʤųӵѡ

1939. An enemys mouth seldom speaks well. 
 ˿޺ԡ

1940. Believe no tales from the enemy. 
 Բš

1941. Gifts from the enemies are dangerous. 
 ˵Ҫá

1942. Do not despise your enemy. 
 С

1943. He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil. 
     ˴򽻵ҪرСġ

1944. If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. 
 ʹǾĿˡˣҲŵˡ

1945. Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. 
 ʹСҲҪʨ

1946. He that dallies with enemy gives him leave to kill him. 
     ѵ˵Ϸ׼ɱԼ

1947. Who shows mercy to an enemy denies it to himself. 
     ϧ˾ǲϧԼ

1948. An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgiveness must not feel thy sword. 
 ԸĵˣĽ

1949. Mickle power makes many enemies. 
 Ȩжࡣ

1950. One enemy is too much. 
     һӶࡣ

1951. One enemy [fee] is too many; and a hundred friends too few. 
     һӶ࣬һҲ١

1952. Nothing worse than a familiar enemy. 
     ֪֮Σա

1953. One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. 
 һΪʤʮкá

1954. Make your enemy your friend. 
 ҪΪѡ

1955. If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again. 
 ˽ԹֻȽǮȻ֡

1956. In an enemy spots are soon seen. 
     ס

1957. All are brave when the enemy flies. 
 ˶ʱ˽ʿ
37
1958. A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. 
 Ĵ멲ů

1959. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 
 ۲ĸ롣

1960. A candle lights others and consumes itself. 
 ˱ˣԼ

1961. A chain is no stronger than its weakest lining. 
     һȫǿ

1962. A clean hand wants no washing. 
 ׵ΪԼϴˢ

1963. A constant guest is never welcome. 
 ֮Ͳܻӭ

1964. A creaking door [gate] hangs long on its hinges. 
     ೤

1965. A danger foreseen is half avoided. 
 Ԥ仼򻼲塣

1966. After meat, mustard. 
 Ͻĩ
 ɡ

1967. A good example is the best sermon. 
 õķõѵ롣

1968. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives? 
     ãøδ

1969. All is fish that comes to his net. 
     ж㡣
     ֻҪȫҪ

1970. All is well that ends well. 
     ãһжá

1971. A man is as old as he feels. 
 ϲϣԼ
 ԼжϾжϡ

1972. A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge. 
 һ˾ԼķӣݶϿҫ
 бαǰ䡣

1973. A new broom sweeps clean. 
     ¹ѻ

1974. Avarice blinds our eyes. 
     ̰Ŀ

1975. A watched kettle [pot] never boils. 
 ŵˮ

1976. A watched pot [pan] is long in boiling. 
     ļˮ
     εԽУԽ

1977. A wonder lasts but nine days. 
     ¶ó

1978. A worm will turn. 
 ̫з

1979. Bad workmen often blame their tools. 
 ׾ֹ߲

1980. Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry. 
 ֮ףΪ֮β

1981. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. 
     ڵū͡

1982. Beware beginnings. 
 ʼΪϡ

1983. Bind the sack before it is full. 
 װסڡ
 ʿɶֹ

1984. By the street of Bye-and-bye one arrives at the house of Never. 
 ѭһ޳ɡ

1985. Caesars wife must be above suspicion. 
 Ϊޣ޿ɡ

1986. Care killed the cat. 
     

1987. Cheek brings success. 
 Ƥ

1988. Companions are odious. 
 ˱ˣˡ

1989. Congenial minds are disposed to associate. 
     ۣȺ֡

1990. Cowards die often [many times] before their deaths. 
 СԼԼ

1991. Creditors have better memories than debtors. 
 ծļԱȽծ˺á

1992. Cry up wine and sell vinegar. 
     ͷ⡣

1993. Danger is next neighbour to security. 
 ΣǰȫĽڡ

1994. Dangers foreseen are the sooner prevented. 
 ΣԤɼ

1995. Despair gives courage to a coward. 
 ˼췴ǽ

1996. Discretion is the better part of valour. 
 Сļ¡

1997. Do not halloo till [until] you are out of the wood(s). 
     δվĪˡ

1998. Dont put the cart before the horse. 
     Ҫĩá

1999. Dont throw out the baby with the bath water. 
     ݬһӡ

2000. Every man has his humour. 
 и˵Ƣ

2001. Every mechanism has its reverse. 
 ÿһöѫ[ÿ]档

2002. Every miller draws water to his own mill. 
 Ϊ

2003. Example is better than precept. 
 ʤڽѵ

2004. Extremes meet. 
 ͨ
 Ｋط

2005. Familiarity breeds contempt. 
 ӡ
 ֮ѷ

2006. Far from eye far from heart. 
     ۲Ĳ롣

2007. First come, first served. 
 ȵд

2008. First impressions are half the battle. 
 ӡҪ

2009. Fish begins to stink at the head. 
 㸯ͷȳ
 ᡣ

2010. Forbidden fruit is sweet. 
 ζ

2011. Give him an inch and hell take a yard. 
     ôߡ

2012. God helps those who help themselves. 
 ߡ

2013. God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. 
     ϵ۴͵ģħɵġ

2014. Golden words offend the ears. 
     

2015. Good counsel never comes amiss. 
 ޺

2016. Good wine needs no bush. 
     ƺÿ

2017. Good words are worth much and cost little. 
 ûҪǮֵܴ

2018. Great designs require great consideration. 
 ƻҪؿǡ

2019. Harm set, harm get. 
     ˷

2020. Haste makes waste. 
 򲻴

2021. Hasty climbers have sudden falls. 
 ÿ죬ÿ졣

2022. Hear all parties. 
 

2023. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 
     ûܹ˵˲ŻᳰЦ˵˰̡

2024. He laughs best who laughs last. 
 ˭Ц˭Цá
     Ҫ˵ù硣

2025. Hell is paved with good intentions. 
 ͨĵ·õԸ̳ɵġ
 õԸһкõĽ

2026. He measures anothers corn by his own bushel. 
 Լı׼ˡ
 Լ֮Ķ֮

2027. He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. 
 ԰ܰˡ

2028. He that mischief hatches, mischief catches. 
 ս

2029. He that sups with the devil must have a long spoon. 
 ͻ˴򽻵߾衣

2030. He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight. 
 ҪЦ˱գԼ͵ͦ·

2031. He who laughs best laughs last. 
 ЦЦá
 ˵̫硣

2032. He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet. 
 ҪץͲҪմˮ

2033. He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. 
 ǧ֮Уʼ¡

2034. History repeats itself. 
 ʷݡ

2035. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. 
 õϣ׼Ӧ

2036. Hunger breaks stone walls. 
 ʹ˳ʯǽ
 ʹ췴

2037. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. 
 ɽºĬºĬֻɽȥ
 Ǩ㣬ֻǨ

2038. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. 
 ԸؤҲɳˡ
 Ըѳʵ

2039. If you command wisely, youll be obeyed cheerfully. 
 ָзִӡ

2040. Ill air slays sooner than the sword. 
     ǵĿɱ˱ȵ졣

2041. Ill news never comes too late. 
     Ϣÿ졣

2042. In the kingdom of blind men, the one-eyed is king. 
     ä˹Ҳ

2043. It is better to be a martyr than a confessor. 
 ߣѳߡ

2044. It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him. 
 ٹѡ

2045. Its easy to swim if another holds up your head. 
 ͷѧӾ
 ˷׳ɹ

2046. Its no good [use] crying over spilt milk. 
 ţأҲá
     ˣҲá

2047. It never rains but it pours. 
     ѣһ衣

2048. Jack is as good as his master. 
 Ʋϰ

2049. Jack of all trades and master of none. 
 ͨ
 ½ͨ²

2050. Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing. 
 ˰ˣɷˡ

2051. Life begins at forty. 
 ʼʮ

2052. Like attracts [draws to] like. 
 ۡ

2053. Like author, like book. 
 ˡ

2054. Like begets like. 
 
 

2055. Like cures like. 
 ͬҽ
 Զ

2056. Like knows like. 
 ӢʶӢۡ

2057. Like likes like. 
 ۡ

2058. Like master, like man. 
     ͡

2059. Little chips light great fires. 
 ֮𣬿ԭ

2060. Long absent, soon forgotten. 
 ñ

2061. Long tarrying takes all thanks away. 
     ̫ã˼ҵлȫߡ

2062. Lookers-on see most of the game. 
     Թ塣

2063. Man is a god or a devil to his neighbour. 
 һ˶ھ˵ϵۣħ

2064. Man proposes, God disposes. 
 ıˣ졣

2065. Many men have many minds. 
 ˶ࡣ
 ˶Ĳ롣

2066. Many wells, many buckets. 
 ͰҲࡣ

2067. Measure for measure. 
 ԩԩ
 

2068. Measure thrice before you cut once. 
 ˼С

2069. Misery loves company. 
 ͬ

2070. Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs. 
 ĪЦƤĴָڡ

2071. More haste, less speed. 
 򲻴

2072. Music is the eye of the ear. 
     Ƕ۾

2073. Necessity is the mother of invention. 
     ҪǷ֮ĸ

2074. Neither fish nor flesh. 
2075. Neither fish nor good red herring. 
 ¿
 ײࡣ

2076. Never offer to teach fish to swim. 
 ҪӾ
 Ū

2077. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. 
 鷳û㣬ȥ鷳

2078. No man can do two things at once. 
 һ˲ͬʱ¡
 ޶á

2079. No man ever became thoroughly bad all at once. 
     ûͻȻúܻ

2080. No man is content. 
 ֪㡣

2081. None so deaf as those who wont hear. 
 ˡ

2082. No news is good news. 
     ûϢǺϢ

2083. Nothing is ever done in a hurry. 
 Ҵææ첻κ¡

2084. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. 
 ־ߣ¾ɡ

2085. Nothing is stolen without hands. 
     ʧԡ

2086. Older and wiser. 
 ԽԽ

2087. Old vessels must leak. 
     ɱ©

2088. Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs. 
 ƣɡ

2089. One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. 
 һζҩԶͰơ

2090. One hand washes another [the other]. 
 
 á

2091. One lining broken, the whole chain is broken. 
 һѣȫϡ

2092. One mail drives out another. 
 һ룬һ
 

2093. One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge. 
 ֻݹٷŻ𣬲յơ

2094. Oppression maketh a wise man mad. 
 ˴ѹ£Ҳ衣

2095. Out of sight, out of mind. 
 ۲Ĳ롣

2096. Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 
 һʹǡ

2097. Pitchers have ears. 
     ǽж
2098. Practice makes perfect. 
 ɡ
 
2099. Praise is not pudding. 
     άǲ
     άʵݡ

2100. Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken. 
     ŵԺڱƤΪҧ顣

2101. Promise is debt. 
 ԸǷծǷ˱Ҫ
     ԸҪǷծҪ塣

2102. Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it. 
     ʥˮ˶볢һ졣

2103. Rain before seven; fine before eleven. 
 겻硣

2104. Remember thou are but a man. 
 סֻǸˡѡ

2105. Revolutions are not made with rosewater. 
 õˮɵġ
 ܲȡº͵ķ

2106. Roll my log and Ill roll yours. 
 ໥æ
 ໥ꡣ

2107. Satan reproves sin. 
 ħ֮ 

2108. Seeing is believing. 
 Ųһ
 
2109. Self do, self have. 
 ܡ

2110. Sell the bears skin before one has caught the bear. 
 δƤ
 ֹۡ

2111. Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. 
 ܺ޵еľӡ

2112. Slow and steady wins the race. 
 ȴʤ

2113. Soft fire makes sweet malt. 
 Ļ𰾳ѿǡ
 ϸ

2114. Sorrow comes unsent for. 
 ʱ

2115. Speak [Talk] of the devil and he will appear. 
 ˵˭˭͵
 ˵ܲ٣ܲپ͵

2116. Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators. 
 Թ޹ڣ˶ɡ

2117. Talk of the evil, and he is sure to appear. 
     ˵ĳˣĳ˾͵
 ˵ܲ٣ܲپ͵

2118. The best fish smell when they are three days old. 
 õҲ
 ӡ

2119. The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good. 
 Ҫߣѳɹ

2120. The end crowns all. 
 ֺûһС

2121. The end justifies [sanctifies] the means. 
 ֻҪĿԲֶΡ

2122. The outsider sees the best of the game. 
 Թ塣

2123. There is no accounting for tastes. 
 ˸

2124. There is no rule without an exception. 
 й⡣

2125. There is small choice in rotten apples. 
 һƻûɶü

2126. The rotten apple injures its neighbours. 
 һֻãһ

2127. The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth. 
 ͷ

2128. The wish is father to the thought. 
 ԸΪ˼֮
 ϣʲôͶʲô

2129. They that reckon without their host are to reckon twice. 
 ڱʣýڶʡ

2130. Things done cannot be undone. 
 Ѷ֣ء
 ˮա

2131. Things unreasonable are never durable. 
     ²᳤á

2132. Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform. 
 ŵˣټŵ
 ŵš

2133. To know everything is to know nothing. 
     ͨϡɡ

2134. Too many cooks spoil the broth. 
     ӳȺ

2135. Too much liberty spoils all. 
 ɹͷһס

2136. Too much spoils, too little is nothing. 
 ỵ£ٲ¡

2137. Touch pitch, and you will be defiled. 
2138. You cant touch pitch without being defiled.
 ߳࣬īߺڡ

2139. True praise roots and spreads. 
     ĵԶ

2140. Venture a small fish to catch a great one. 
 㣬С㡣

2141. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. 
 ʱԼƽʱȴ

2142. Walls have ears. 
 ǽж

2143. Well begun is half done. 
 õĿ˾͵ڳɹһ롣

2144. Well fed, well bred. 
 Եúãò
 ʳ֪

2145. We must not lie, and cry, God help us. 
 󼺡

2146. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. 
 ɷ֪ˮɹ

2147. Where there is a will, there is a way. 
     ־ߣ¾ɡ

2148. Where the water is shallow, no vessel will ride. 
 ˮǳ޴С

2149. Whom the gods love die young. 
 ˲١

2150. You may [could] go farther and fare worse. 
 ԽߵԶԽù
 ʿɶֹ
  
עеΪеı룩

A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. 570
A bad husband makes a bad wife. 221
A bad thing never dies. 1519
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. 342
A bald head is soon shaven. 434
A barking dog is better than a sleeping lion. 1780
A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock. 1687
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 1658
A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. 1656
A blate cat makes a proud mouse. 1756
A blind man cannot judge colours. 436
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. 435
A blithe [happy] heart makes a blooming visage. 407
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity. 1595
A boaster and a liar are all one. 1619
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german. 1620
A body without knowledge is like a house without a foundation. 545
A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle. 1746
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. 518
A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change. 519
A book that remains shut is but a block. 520
A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. 1958
A brave retreat is a brave exploit. 796
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 1959
A burnt child dreads the fire. 1331
A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent. 236
A candle lights others and consumes itself. 1960
A cat has nine lives. 1757
A cat may look at a king. 1761
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. 246
A chain is no stronger than its weakest lining. 1961
A child may have too much of his mothers blessing. 267
A clean hand wants no washing. 1962
A close mouth catches no flies. 671
A cock is bold on his dunghill. 1686
A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can. 1745
A constant guest is never welcome. 1963
A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend. 1938
A cracked bell can never sound well. 441
A cracked bell is never sound. 442
A crafty knave needs no broker. 1540
A creaking door [gate] hangs long on its hinges. 1964
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often. 1675
A crown is no cure for the headache. 1439
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. 335
Actions speak louder than words. 587
A disease known is half cured. 1089
A danger foreseen is half avoided. 1965
A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone. 1781
A drowning man will catch at a straw. 1645
A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter. 1690
Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 1906
Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. 1379
Adversity is a good discipline. 1380
Adversity is a good [great] schoolmaster. 1381
Adversity leads to prosperity. 400
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. 1378
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. 1905
Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory. 948
A fair death honours the whole life. 1171
A fair face (but) foul heart. 1420
A fair face may hide a foul heart. 1433
A faithful friend is hard to find. 1861
A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy. 1911
A false tongue will hardly speak truth. 1621
A fault confessed is half redressed. 1276
A fault denied is twice committed. 1277
Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended. 312
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom. 929
A fool always comes short of his reckoning. 1579
A fool always finds a greater fool than himself. 1582
A fool always rushed to the fore. 1590
A fool may give a wise man counsel. 1574
A fool may put somewhat in a wise mans head. 1575
A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose.1577
A fools bolt may sometimes hit the mark. 1576
A fools heart dances on his lips. 1581
A forced kindness deserves no thanks. 1441
A fox should not be of the jury at a gooses trial. 1807
A friend in court is better than a penny in purse. 1868
A friend in need is a friend indeed. 1848
A friend is a second self. 1847
A friend is best found in adversity. 1853
A friend is easier lost than found. 1862
A friend is known in necessity. 1856
A friend is never known till a man has need. 1855
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. 1893
A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. 1937
A friend to all is a friend to none. 1876
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. 1875
A friend without faults will never be found. 1891
After a storm comes a calm. 1400
After death, the doctor. 1157
After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. 1047
After meat, mustard. 1966
A galled horse will not endure the comb. 1742
A gloved cat catches no mice. 1759
A golden key can open any door. 974
A golden key opens every door. 975
A good beginning is half done. 384
A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us. 515
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 516
A good dog deserves a good bone. 1776
A good example is the best sermon. 1967
A good face is a letter of recommendation. 1432
A good fame is better than a good face. 935
A good friend is my nearest relation. 1866
A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold. 1070
A good horse often needs a good spur. 1731
A good husband makes a good wife. 219
A good Jack makes a good Jill [Gill]. 220
A good lawyer, an devil neighbour. 727
A good marksman may miss. 1292
A good medicine tastes bitter. 1108
A good name is better than a golden girdle . 937
A good name is better than gold. 938
A good name is better than (great) riches. 940
A good name is easier [soon] lost (than won). 943
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. 941
A good name keeps its luster in the dark. 942
A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about. 953
A good surgeon must have an eagles eye, a lions heart, and a ladys hand. 1101
A good tale is none the worse for being twice told. 525
A good tongue is a good weapon. 686
A good wife and health is a mans best wealth. 229
A good wife makes a good husband. 218
A great ship asks deep waters. 783
A great talker is a great liar. 1625
A ground sweat cures all disorders. 1155
A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. 1826
Agues come on horseback but go away on foot. 1091
A guilty conscience feels continual fear. 1491
A guilty conscience is a self-accuser [a thousand witness]. 1493
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. 1494
A guilty conscience never feels secure. 1492
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning. 537
A happy heart makes a blooming visage. 1054
A healthy mind is in a healthy body. 1075
A heavy purse makes a light heart. 987
A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings. 1730
A horse stumbles that has four legs. 1213
A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. 1734
A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness. 231
A kind word is never lost. 683
A kite will never be a good hawk. 1674
A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. 1197
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. 1712
A lazy youth, a lousy age. 374
Ale will make a cat speak. 1762
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 1629
A lie begets a lie till they come to generations. 1606
A life without a friend is a life without a sun. 1900
A light heart lives long. 1052
A light-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled daughter. 268
A light purse makes a heavy heart. 990
A lion at home, a mouse abroad. 1754
A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world. 282
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 546
A little labour, much health. 1058
A little learning is a dangerous thing. 547
A little neglect may breed great mischief. 1278
A little pot [pan] is soon hot. 1445
A living dog is better than a dead lion. 1794
All are brave when the enemy flies. 1957
All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives? 1968
All are not friends that speak us fair. 1889
All are not saints that go to church. 1436
All are not thieves that dogs bark at. 1791
All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws. 1763
All his geese are swans. 1692
All flesh is grass. 1141
All is fair in love and war. 182
All is fish that comes to his net. 1969
All is not gain that is put in the purse. 1241
All is not gold that glitters. 1003
All is not lost that is in danger. 1226
    All is well that ends well. 1970
All men are mortal. 1132
All men must die. 1133
All roads lead to Rome. 394
All shall be well, Jack shall have Gill [Jill]. 183
All that lives must die. 1134
All things are obedient to money. 976
All things will come round to him who will but wait.823 
All time is no time when it is past. 34
All truth is not always to be told. 676
All truth is not to be told at all times. 677
All truths are not (always) to be told. 678
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 340
All your swans are geese. 1691
A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. 675
Always taking out the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom. 880
A maid that laughs is half taken. 121
A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst. 122
A man apt to promise is apt to forget. 646
A man can die but once. 1138
A man can only die once. 1139
A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it. 177
A man is as old as he feels. 1971
A man is known by his friends 1917
A man is known by the company he keeps. 1918
A man [one] is never too old to learn. 348
A man is not good or bad for one action. 682
A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge. 1972
A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool. 1588
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. 1859
A man of sense talks little and listens much. 618
A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds. 680
A mans house is his castle. 253
A man that breaks his words, bids others to be false to him. 647
A man without a friend is only half a man. 1897
A merry heart goes all the way. 410
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance. 408
A mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 73
A miserly father makes a prodigal son. 270
A miss is as good as a mile. 1282
A moneyless person goes fast through the market. 1002
A mothers love never changes. 265
An apes an ape, a varlets a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet. 1846
An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag. 1840
    An ass endures his burden, but not more than his burden. 1747
An evil lesson is soon learned. 1501
A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman. 1867
An empty bad cannot stand upright. 564
An empty barrel makes more noise than a full one. 563
An enemys mouth seldom speaks well. 1939
An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgiveness must not feel thy sword. 1948
An Englishmans home is his castle. 254
A new broom sweeps clean. 1973
Anger and haste hinder good counsel.1447
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. 1453
Anger is a short madness. 1448
Anger punishes itself. 1449
Anger rests in the bosom of folly. 1454
Anger rusts intellect so that it cannot discern right from wrong. 1452
An honest look covereth many faults. 836
An honest mans word is as good as his bond. 830
An honourable death is better than a disgraceful life. 1170
An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day. 27
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. 28
A nice wife and a back door will soon make a rich man poor.223
An idle brain is the devils workshop. 1476
An idle person is the devils cusion. 1477
An idle soul shall suffer hunger. 1483
An idle youth, a needy age. 1473
An ill life, an ill end. 1489
An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune. 213
An occasion lost cannot be redeemed. 65
An old dog bites sore. 1789
An old dog cannot alter its way of barking. 1790
An old fox is not easily snared. 1811
An old physician, and a young lawyer. 728
An open enemy is better than a hollow friend. 1913
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. 1387
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 1107
An owl is the king of the night. 1670
An ox is taken by the horns, and the man by the tongue. 1724
Answer a fool according to his folly. 1587
An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup. 1358
An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men. 725
A penny soul never came to twopence. 1446
A penny saved is a penny gained. 849
A pet lamb makes a cross ram. 269
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt. 1208
Appearance often deceives. 1403
Appearances are (often) deceptive. 1404
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. 1534
A ragged colt may make a good horse. 1736
A rich mans joke is always funny. 984
A rolling stone gathers no moss. 1018
Art is long, life is short. 1057
As a man is, so is his company. 1919
As a man lives, so shall he die. 1125
As a mans heart is, so does he speak. 637
A scalded cat dreads [fears] (even) cold water. 1335
A scalded dog thinks cold water hot. 1338
As is the husband, so is the wife. 222
A small leak will sink a great ship. 1281
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. 787
A soft answer turns [turneth] away wrath. 684
A sound mind in a sound body. 1074
A spot is most seen on the finest cloth. 1270
As soon goes the young lambs skin to the market as the old ewes. 1711
As the house is to the man, so is the nest to the bird and the cave to the animal. 255
As the life is, so is the end. 1124
As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns. 263
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man. 785
As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined. 288
As the wind blows, you must set your sail. 79
A stitch in time saves nine. 46
A straw shows which way the wind blows. 1643
A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane. 1697
As we sow, so shall we reap. 443
A table friend is a variable friend. 1884
A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. 1827
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. 413
At need one sees who his friend is. 1857
A tree is known by its fruit. 444
A tree must be bent while it is young. 296
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. 1850
A useful trade is a mine of gold. 561
A valiant mans look is more than a cowards sword. 794
    Avarice blinds our eyes. 1974
Avarice increases with wealth. 994
A vaunter and a liar are near akin. 1618
Avoid the ford on which your friend was drowned. 1344
A wager is a fools argument. 1580
A watched kettle [pot] never boils. 1975
    A watched pot [pan] is long in boiling. 1976
A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent. 523
A wicked man is his own hell. 1497
A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only. 216
A willful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon. 1528
A wise head makes a close mouth. 617
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. 908
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. 894
A wise man hears one word and understand two. 891
A wise man is never less alone than when (he is) alone. 892
A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks. 899
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. 888
    A wonder lasts but nine days. 1977
A wooer should open his ears more than his eyes. 217
A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. 630
A word in season is most precious. 660
A word in time is worth two afterwards. 661
A word is enough to the wise. 909
A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart. 689
A word spoken cannot be recalled. 628
A word spoken is an arrow let fly. 631
A word spoken is past recalling. 627
A work ill done must be twice done. 309
A worm will turn. 1978
A young man idle, an old man needy. 1474
A young man married is a man thats marred. 207
A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree. 299
Bad luck always comes in threes. 1364
Bad news has wings. 1520
Bad workmen often blame their tools. 1979
Bare words, no bargain. 663
Barking dogs seldom bite. 1782
Beard the lion in his den. 1834
Bear with evil and expect good. 815
Beauty and folly are often companions. 1599
Beauty is but skin deep. 1416
Beauty is in the beholders eye. 178
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder [gazer]. 179
Beauty is potent, but money is more potent. 992
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. 511
Beauty lies in lovers eyes.180
Be considerate toward the poor. 1192
Before gold, even kings takes off their hats. 983
Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him. 1860
Beggars must [should] be no choosers. 1121
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. 238
Be just to all, but trust not all. 959
Believe no tales from the enemy. 1940
Be slow to promise and quick to perform. 648
Best to bend while tis a twig. 298
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. 606
Better a glorious death than a shameful life. 1167
Better an open enemy than a false friend. 1914
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 906
Better be alone than in bad company. 1907
Better be half hanged than ill wed. 210
Better be poor than wicked. 1185
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. 1771
Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. 1748
Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry. 1980
Better be upright and want, than wicked and have abundance. 1505
Better die standing than live kneeling. 1172
Better die with honour than live with shame. 1168
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. 1203
Better late than never. 325
Better lose the saddle than the horse. 1218
Better master one than engage with ten. 326
Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose. 655
Better spare at brim than at bottom. 846
Better spared than ill spent. 857
Better spare to have of thine own, than ask of other man. 847
Better to die in glory than live in dishonour. 1171
Better to do well than to say well. 588
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. 1981
Better without gold than without friend. 1898
Between friends all is common. 1894
Between two stools one goes to the ground. 449
Beware beginnings. 1982
Beware of a silent dog and still water. 1784
Beware of him who regards not his reputation. 950
Big fish eat little fish. 734
Bind the sack before it is full. 1983
Birds of a feather flock together. 1657
Bitter pills may have wholesome effort. 1109
Black will take no other hue. 1503
Blood is thicker than water. 271
Books and friends should be few but good. 512
Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. 514
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. 513
Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 879
Bought wit is dear. 927
Burnt bairns dread the fire. 1333
Business before pleasure. 376
Business is business. 334
Business is the salt of life. 375
Business makes a man as well as tries him. 377
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious. 383
Business neglected is business lost. 379
Butter to butter is no relish. 453
By learning you will teaching; by teaching you will learn. 355
By little and little the wolf eateth the sheep. 1820
By others faults wise men correct their own. 1345
By the side of sickness health becomes sweet. 1082
By the street of Bye-and-bye one arrives at the house of Never. 1984
Caesars wife must be above suspicion. 1985
Calamity is mans true touchstone.1374
Call no man happy before he is dead. 1161
Call no man happy before his death [till he dies]. 1162
Call no man happy till [until] he is dead. 1163
Care and diligence bring luck. 345
Care killed the cat.1986
Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them. 1708
Cats hide their paws. 1760
Charity begins at home, but should not end there. 258
Cheats never prosper. 1634
Cheek brings success. 1987
Children and fools cannot lie. 290
Children and fools have merry lives. 414
Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts. 303
Children are the parents riches. 272
Children are what the mothers are. 261
Children have the qualities of the parents. 262
Children learn to creep ere they can go. 281
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. 215
Christmas comes but once a year. 6
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise. 905
Clothes dont make the man. 1422
Clothes make the man. 1426
Clumsy birds have to start flying early. 1664
Common sense is not common. 558
Community of purpose makes friendship. 1932
Companions are odious. 1988
Company in distress makes trouble [the sorrow] less. 1210
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success. 391
Confidence is a plant of slow growth. 955
Congenial minds are disposed to associate. 1989
Constant dropping wears away a stone. 805
Constant dropping wears the stone. 804
Content is happiness. 415
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. 778
Cover your head by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can. 1046
Cowards die often [many times] before their deaths. 1990
Creditors have better memories than debtors. 1991
Crows do not pick crows eyes. 1677
Cry up wine and sell vinegar. 1992
Custom is another nature. 566
Custom is a second nature. 565
Custom makes all the things easy. 567
Custom reconciles us to everything. 568
Custom rules the law. 569
Custom without reason is but ancient error. 571
Cut your coat according to your cloth. 450
Danger is next neighbour to security. 1993
Dangers foreseen are the sooner prevented. 1994
Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares. 306
Dead men tell no tales. 1159
Death defies the doctor. 1156
Death frees us from ills. 1146
Death is common [sure] to all. 1135
Death is the grand [great] leveller. 1147
Death levels all men. 1148
Death meets us everywhere. 1175
Death pays all debts [scores]. 1142
Death quits (all) scores. 1143
Death spares neither small nor great. 1149
Death squares all accounts. 1144
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. 654
Deeds, not words. 593
Delays are dangerous.87 
Deliberate slowly, execute promptly. 336
Despair gives courage to a coward. 1995
Desperate diseases must have desperate cures. 1088
Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp. 1835
Dexterity comes by experience. 1315
Diet cures more than doctors [pills]. 1099
Digging your grave with your own teeth. 1100
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 344
Diligence is the mother of success. 343
Dirty linen should be washed at home. 248
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. 1376
Discretion is the better part of valour. 1996
Diseases are the price of ill pleasures. 1086
Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot. 1092
Diseases enter by the mouth. 1093
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body. 1112
Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee. 323
    Do as the Romans do. 575
    Do as you would be done by. 696
    Do business, but be not a slave to it. 378
    Doing is better than saying. 590
    Do in Rome as Rome does. 577
    Do in Rome as the Romans do. 576
    Dog does not eat dog. 1768
    Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand. 1783
    Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread. 1773
    Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. 1679
    Do not despise your enemy. 1942
    Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail. 1774
    Do not halloo till [until] you are out of the wood(s). 1997
    Do not hold a candle to the devil. 1527
    Dont judge by appearance. 1405
    Dont judge men or things at first sight. 1411
    Dont let the grass grow under your feet. 95
    Dont look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains. 1413
Dont make any noise while you work, but use your brain. 594
Dont put off till tomorrow what should be done today. 49
Dont put off what you can do today till tomorrow. 50
Dont put the cart before the horse. 1998
Do not run too fast after gain. 1242
Do not sell the bears skin before you have caught the bear. 1845
Dont swap horses when crossing a stream. 1738
Dont trifle away your time. 97
Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty. 1184
Dont throw away the apple because of the core. 1051
    Dont throw out the baby with the bath water. 1999
Do not wash your dirty linen in public. 247
Doubt is the key of knowledge. 542
Drawn wells are seldom dry. 318
Drunken days have all their tomorrows. 100
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. 245
    Dying is as natural as living. 1136
Each bird likes to hear himself sing. 1654
Each man has his limitations. 1251
Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. 1671
Early wed, early dead. 204
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 1041
Easier said than done. 595
Easy come, easy go. 1025
East or west, home is best. 237
Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him. 956
Eat to live, but not live to eat. 1114
Economy is itself a great income. 859
Economy is the easy chair of old age. 861
Economy the poor mans mints; extravagance the rich mans pitfall. 868
Either win the horse or lose the saddle. 1233
Empty hands no hawk allure. 1672
Empty vessels make the greatest sound. 1442
Enough is as good as a feast. 1050
Even Homer sometimes nods. 1271
Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak. 1459
Envy ceaseth after death. 1455
Envy never dies. 1456
Envy never enriched any man. 1457
Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. 1458
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 1616
Even Homer sometimes nods. 1271
Even reckoning makes long friends. 1864
Every advantage has its disadvantage. 472
Every bean has its black. 1260
Every bird likes its own nest (best). 241
Everybody has his merits and faults. 1254
Everybody has some weak spot. 1255
Everybodys business is nobodys business. 382
Every brave man is a man of his word. 626
Every cloud has a silver lining. 471
Every cook praises his own broth. 1550
Every country has its customs. 574
Every couple is not a pair. 187
Every dog has his day. 1793
Every dog is a lion at home. 1769
Every dog is allowed his first bite. 1275
Every dog is valiant at his own door. 1770
Every failure one meets with adds to ones experience. 1325
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. 250
Every heart knows its own bitterness. 1207
Every horse thinks his sack heaviest. 1739
Every Jack has his Jill. 184
Every Jack must [shall] have his Jill [Gill]. 185
Every law has a loophole. 723
Every little makes (a mickle). 866
Every man has a fool in his sleeve. 1572
Every man has his humour. 2000
Every man has his own habit. 576
Every man has his liking. 465
Every man has his weak side. 1256
Every man has the defects of his own virtues [his qualities]. 1253
Every man hath [has] his faults. 1252
Every man is a fool sometimes, and none at all times. 1573
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 402
Every man thinks his own things best. 1551
Every mechanism has its reverse. 2001
Every miller draws water to his own mill. 2002
Every mother breeds not sons alike. 279
Every mother thinks her child beautiful. 274
Every mothers child is handsome. 273
Every ones faults are not written in their foreheads. 1283
Every rose has its thorn. 1641
Every shoe fits not every foot. 467
Everything comes to him who waits. 824
Everything has its time. 66
Everything has its time and that time must be watched. 67
Everything hath an end. 469
Everything is good for something. 458
Everything is good when new, but friends when old. 1896
Everything must have a beginning. 468
Every tide hath ebb.82
Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful. 1702
Every why has a wherefore. 476
Every wise man dreadeth his enemy. 889
Evil (be) to him who evil thinks. 1504
Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. 1510
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1516
Evil weed is soon grown. 1498
Evil [Ill] will never said well. 1529
Example is better than precept. 2003
Experience does it. 1309
Experience is a long way. 1311
Experience is a school from which you can never graduate. 1323
Experience is sometimes dangerous. 1329
Experience is the best teacher. 1308
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother. 1314
Experience is the fruit of the tree of errors. 1328
Experience is the mistress of fools. 1318
Experience is the mother [father] of knowledge. 1312
Experience is the mother [father] of wisdom. 1313
Experience is the teacher of fools. 1319
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other. 1322
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly. 1324
Experience must be bought. 1327
Experience teaches. 1310
Experience teaches fools. 1320
Experience teaches fools, and he is a great one that will not learn by it. 1321
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. 1317
Extremes meet. 2004
Facts are stubborn (things). 432
Facts speak louder than words.653 
Failure in a great enterprise is at least a noble fault. 1248
Failure is the mother of success. 1244
Failure is the only high-road to success. 1247
Failure teaches success. 1245
Faint heart never won fair lady. 791
Fair without but foul within. 1419
Fair words and foul deeds cheat wise men as well as fools. 695
Fair words butter no parsnips. 650
Fair words fill not the belly. 664
Fair words will not fill the belly. 665
Fair words will not make the pot play. 667
Falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. 174
False friends are worse than bitter enemies. 1912
False friends are worse than open enemies. 1910
Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it. 1615
False with one can be false with two. 1444
Fame is a magnifying glass. 932
Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off. 933
Familiarity breeds contempt. 2005
Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet. 191
Far from eye far from heart. 2006
Fasting is the best medicine. 1098
Fat hens lay few eggs. 1682
Faults are thick while love is thin. 167
Feed a cold and starve a fever. 1111
Feed sparingly [by measure] and defy the physician. 1096
Few words to the wise suffice. 910
Few words are best. 605
Few words, many deeds. 586
Fine clothes make the man. 1427
Fine feathers do not make fine birds. 1423
Fine feathers make fair fowls. 1429
    Fine feathers make fine birds. 1430
    Fine words dress ill deeds. 697
Finished labours are pleasant. 315
Fire and water are [may be] good servants, but bad masters. 483
Fire and water have no mercy. 480
Fire is the test of gold, adversity of friendship. 1933
First catch your hare then cook him. 1802
    First come, first served. 2007
First impressions are half the battle. 2008
First think, and then speak. 598
Fish begins to stink at the head. 2009
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. 156
Follow pleasure and it will flee thee; flee pleasure and it will follow thee. 416
Folly is an incurable disease. 1597
Fools haste is no speed. 1585
Fools have the best luck. 1571
Fools have fortune. 1570
Fools learn nothing from wise men; but wise men learn much from fools. 897
Fools look to tomorrow, and wise men use tonight. 896
Fools never know when they are well. 1589
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 1591
Fools will be meddling. 1592
For a lost thing care nothing. 1221
Forbidden fruit is sweet. 2010
Force can never destroy right. 729
Forced love does not last. 192
Fortune favours fools. 1568
Fortune favours the bold. 1351
Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept. 403
Fortune is variant. 1356
Fortune knocks once at least at every mans door. 1352
Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her. 826
Four eyes see more than two. 915
Friends agree best at a distance. 1926
Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight. 1888
Friends are thieves of time. 1927
Friends [The best of friends] must part. 1921
Friendless is the dead. 1902
Friendship cannot stand always on one side. 1930
Friendship should not be all on one side. 1931
Friendship is like winethe older the better. 1934
From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance. 619
    From saving comes having. 845
From words to deeds is a great space. 596
Frugality is an estate alone. 858
Frugality when all is spent comes too late. 877
Gain got by a lie will burn ones fingers. 1636
Gifts from the enemies are dangerous. 1941
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. 1795
Give a fool enough rope [rope enough] and he will hang himself. 1598
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. 1396
Give him an inch and hell take a yard. 2011
Give never the wolf the wether. 1821
Glory is the shadow of virtue. 774
God defend [deliver] me from my friends; from my enemies I can [will] defend myself. 1909
God helps those who help themselves. 2012
God sends fortune to fools. 1569
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. 2013
Gods mill grinds slow but sure. 708
Golden words offend the ears. 2014
Gold will not buy anything. 998
    Good company on the road is the shortest cut. 1871
Good counsel never comes amiss.2015
Good fame is better than a good face. 936
Good health is above wealth. 1066
Good name is gold worth. 939
Good wine needs no bush. 2016
Good wits jump (together). 913
Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools. 694
Good words are worth much and cost little. 2017
Gossiping and lying go together. 1617
Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark. 1042
Grain by grain, and the hen fills her belly. 1681
Grasp all, lose all. 1217
Great boasters, little doers. 624
Great boast, small roast. 623
Great braggers, little doers. 625
Great designs require great consideration. 2018
Great hopes make great men. 399
Great men are not always wise. 919
Great men have great faults. 1301
Great mens sons seldom do well.277
    Great minds think alike. 914
Great talkers are little doers. 674
Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure. 418
Guilty consciences always make people [men] cowards. 1535
Habits cures habit. 575
Habit is a cable: we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. 577
Habit is (a) second nature. 572
Half a loaf is better than no bread. 455
Half a tale [word] is enough for a wise man. 911
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. 420
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. 1060
Happiness takes no account of time. 37
Happy is he that is happy in childhood. 283
Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth. 404
Happy is he who owes nothing. 1194
Hard cases make bad law. 724
Hardships never come alone. 1365
Harm set, harm get. 2019
Haste makes waste. 2020
Haste love, soon cold. 125
Hasty climbers have sudden falls. 2021
Hatred is blind as well as love. 111
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. 1873
Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today. 55
Hawks will not pick hawks eyes out. 1674
Health and strength is above all gold. 1071
Health does not consist with intemperance. 1085
Health is a jewel [treasure]. 1068
Health is better than wealth. 1065
Health is great riches. 1069
Health is happiness. 1059
Health is not valued till sickness comes. 1078
Health surpasses riches. 1067
Hear all parties. 2022
Hear much, speak little. 607
Hear twice before you speak once. 609
Heavens vengeance is slow but sure. 709
He bears misery best who hides it most. 816
He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue. 583
He cries wine and sells vinegar. 1633
He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist. 1578
He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not. 893
He is a gentle horse that never cast his rider. 1733
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. 1865
He is a wise man who speaks little. 614
He is in his better blue clothes. 1552
He is lifeless that is faultless. 1272
He is the wise man who is the honest man. 885
He is the wisest man who does not think himself so. 882
He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs. 907
He is wise that is ware in time. 886
He is wise that knows when hes well enough. 884
He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others. 1346
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 2023
He knows most who [that] speaks least. 615
He knows not what love is that has no children. 285
He laughs best who laughs last. 2024
He lives long that lives well. 1053
He lives twice who lives well. 1117
Hell is paved with good intentions.2025 
He looks like a saint but the devil he is. 1437
He loses all who loses the moment. 74
Help the dog over the stile.1792
He measures anothers corn by his own bushel. 2026
He never lies but when the holly is green. 1611
He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil. 1943
He that boasts of his knowledge proclaims his ignorance. 1563
He that can have patience, can have what he will. 818
He that can stay obtains. 819
He that climbs high falls heavily. 1567
He that dallies with enemy gives him leave to kill him. 1946
He that desires honour is not worthy of honour. 934
He that dies pays all (debts). 1145
He that doth most at once doth least. 341
He that endures is not overcome. 820
He that falls today may be up again tomorrow. 811
He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. 1204
He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy. 1045
He that has [hath] been bitten by a serpent, is afraid of a rope. 1340
He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend. 1883
He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. 234
He that hath no children, knows not what is love. 284
He that hath time hath life. 1120
He that helpeth the evil hurteth the good. 1526
He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion. 99
He that is down, down with him. 1383
He that is full of himself is very [quite] empty. 1561
He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody. 2027
He that is one born, once must die. 1126
He that knows nothing, doubts nothing. 544
He that learns a trade [an art] has a purchase made. 350
He that lies down [sleeps] with dogs must rise up with fleas. 1916
He that lives ill, fear follows him. 1536
He that lives long suffers much.1122
He that liveth in court dieth upon straw. 1154
He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly. 1174
He that marries for wealth, sells his liberty. 203
He that mischief hatches, mischief catches. 2028
He that never rode never fell. 437
He that nothing questions nothing learns. 352
He that once deceives is ever suspected. 1637
He that regards not a penny, will lavish a pound. 876
He that returns good for evil obtains the victory. 760
He that saves his dinner will have the more for his supper. 873
He that soweth virtue shall reap fame. 773
He that spares the bad injures the good. 1525
He that spares the rod, hates his son. 295
He that sups with the devil must have a long spoon. 2029
He that talks much, errs much. 585
He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business. 381
He that trusts in a lie shall perish in truth. 1632
He that will have a hare to breakfast must hunt overnight. 1801
He that will have his farm full, must keep an old cock and a young bull. 1688
He that will lie will steal. 1627
    He that will not work shall not eat. 327
He that will swear, will lie. 1624
He that will take the bird must not scare it. 1662
He that will thrive must rise at five. 1040
He that would eat [have] the fruit must climb the tree. 1648
He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut. 447
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens. 1377
He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin. 124
He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. 1118
He who avoids temptation avoids the sin. 1530
He who does not gain loses. 1224
He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself. 214
He who does not rise early never does a good days work. 1044
He who does not work neither shall he eat. 1472
He who has burnt his mouth blows his soup. 1334
He who has done ill once will do it again. 1508
He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick. 1796
He who has no shame has no conscience. 1537
He who hath good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing. 1073
He who hesitates is lost. 89
He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none. 1562
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning. 351
He who is born a fool is never cured. 1596
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight. 2030
He who laughs best laughs last. 2031
He who lives near the woods is not frightened by owls. 790
He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing. 1273
He who never was sick dies the first (fit). 1102
He who questions nothing learns nothing. 353
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 1832
He who risks nothing, gains nothing. 801
He who shareth honey with the bear hath the least part of it. 1843
He who talks much of his happiness summons grief. 427
He who teaches, learn. 356
He who trusteth not is not deceived. 1638
He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot. 1753
He who was never sick dies the first fit. 1103
He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he is old. 373
He who will not keep a penny shall never have money. 875
He who will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay. 70
He who wills success is half way to it.386
He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet. 2032
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. 2033
He will shoot higher who shoots at the moon [sun] than he who aims at a tree. 448
He wots not whether he bears the earth, or the earth him. 1553
Hide nothing from thy physician. 1105
History repeats itself. 2034
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. 80
Hold fast when you have it. 1216
Home is home, be it never so homely. 239
Home is home, though (it be) never so homely. 241
Home is where the heart is. 256
Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all. 208
Honesty is the best policy. 828
Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth. 831
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. 463
Honour and profit lie not in one sack. 945
Honours change manners. 951
Honour to whom honour is due. 946
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. 2035
Hot love is soon cold. 126
Human pride is human weakness. 1546
Humility is the beginning of wisdom. 837
Humility often gains more than pride. 842
Hunger breaks stone walls. 2036
Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods. 1825
Hunger is the best sauce. 1202
Hunger knows no friend. 1903
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. 1772
Idle folks have the least leisure. 1468
Idle folks lack no excuses. 1479
Idle young, needy age [old]. 1475
Idleness is the key of beggary. 1466
Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice]. 1463
Idleness is the parent of all vice. 1464
Idleness is the root of all evil. 1462
Idleness is the rust of mind. 1487
Idleness makes the wit rust. 1488
Idleness rusts the mind. 1486
Idleness turns the edge of wit. 1485
Idle people [folks] have the most labour [take the most pains]. 1467
If a donkey brays at you, dont bray at him. 1752
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 257
I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts. 1438
If I have lost the ring, yet the fingers are still here. 1219
If one sheep leap over the dyke, all the rest will follow. 1704
If the beard were all, the goat might preach. 1701
If the devil finds a man idle, hell set him to work. 1478
If the hen does not prate, she will not lay. 1683
If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. 2037
If the old dog barks, he gives counsel. 1788
If the ox falls, whet your knife. 1728
If the sky falls, we shall catch larks. 1668
If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be true. 762
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality. 41
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. 1944
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. 2038
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you. 1354
If you command wisely, youll be obeyed cheerfully. 2039
If you dont enter a tigers den, you cant get his cubs. 802
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. 1799
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. 1722
If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die. 957
If you venture nothing, you will have thing. 800
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. 533
If you want peace, prepare for war. 747
If you wish for peace, be prepared for war. 748
If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself. 310
If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again. 1955
    Ignorance of the law excuses no man [one]. 714
Ignorance of the law is no excuse of breaking it. 715
Ill air slays sooner than the sword. 2040
Ill comes often on the back of worse. 1507
Ill deeds cannot honour. 699
Ill-gotten gain [goods] never prosper. 1031
Ill gotten [got] ill spent. 1029
Ill-gotten, ill spent. 1030
Ill gotten money is soon spent. 1032
Ill-gotten wealth never thrives. 1033
Ill news comes [travels] apace. 1521
Ill news flies [travels] fast. 1522
Ill news never comes too late. 2041
Ill weeds are sure to thrive. 1499
Ill weeds grow apace [fast]. 1500
Imagination is more important than knowledge. 559
Imagination will span the gap in our knowledge. 560
In an enemy spots are soon seen. 1956
In appearance place no trust. 1417
In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages. 524
In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another. 228
In doing we learn. 358
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality her left. 346
In every country dogs bite. 1785
In for a penny, in for a pound. 313
In peace prepare for war. 749
In sickness health is known. 1080
In the grave the rich and poor lie equal. 1151
In the kingdom of blind men, the one-eyed is king. 2042
In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty. 1882
In vino veritas. 634
In wine there is truth. 635
Interest will not lie. 1631
Into a shut mouth flies fly not. 672
Is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. 212
It is a blind silly goose that comes to the foxs sermon. 1695
It is a dirty [foolish] bird that fouls [soils] its own nest. 242
It is a fairy wood that has never a withered bough in it. 1269
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. 1713
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.622
It is a good horse that never stumbles. 1732
It is a good horse that never stumbles; and a good wife that never grumbles. 1295
It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none. 1296
It is a good workman that never blunders.  (918)
It is a long lane that has no turning. 439
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. 958
It is an evil sign to see a fox lick a lamb. 1805
    It is an ill bird that fouls [soils] its own nest. 243
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. 1235
    Its a poor [sad] heart that never rejoices. 405
It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. 233
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. 1593
It is a skillful technician that never blunders. 1297
It is a small flock that has not a black sheep. 1715
It is as natural to die as to be born. 1137
It is a wise father that knows his own child. 291
It is a wise man that makes no mistakes. 1299
It is a wise man that never makes mistakes. 1230
It is better to be alone than in ill company. 1908
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor. 2043
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. 1173
    It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy. 948
It is better to do well than to say well. 589
It is better to play with the ears than the tongue. 608
It is better to please a fool than to anger him. 1584
It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable. 426
It is easier to get money than to keep it. 1019
It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him. 2044
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others. 827
It is easy to be wise after the event. 922
Its easy to swim if another holds up your head. 2045
It is good to beware by other mens harm. 1347
It is good to have friends in trouble. 1870
It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. 1869
It is good to learn at another mans cost. 368
It is good to marry late or never. 205
It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well. 307
It is hard to sit in Rome and strive against the Pope. 738
It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope. 739
It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil. 338
It is love that makes the world go round. 160
It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf. 1824
It is never too late to mend. 1304
It is never too old to learn. 349
It is no good [use] crying over spilt milk. 2046
It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in anothers. 1684
It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride. 843
It is not every couple that is a pair. 188
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion. 1838
It is not only the feather that makes the bird. 1424
It is not the gay coat that makes the (fine) gentleman. 1421
It is not the hood that makes the monk. 1415
It is not work that kills, but worry. 321
It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently. 656
It is right to put everything in its proper use. 337
It is said that a cat hath nine lives, yet care would wear them all out. 1764
It is the bridle and spur that make a good horse. 1744
It is the man behind the gun that tells. 740
It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool preserves in the error. 1268
It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. 535
It is to easy bear the misfortunes of others. 827
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past. 75
It is too late to husband [spare] when all is spent. 878
It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen. 90
It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has been stolen. 91
It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen. 92
It never rains but it pours. 2047
It takes two to make a quarrel. 464
I will be thy friend, but not thy vices friend. 1890
Jack is as good as his master. 2048
Jack of all trades and master of none. 2049
Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours. 417
Joy puts heart into a man. 411
Joys shared with others are more enjoyed. 412
Judge not a book by its cover. 522
Judge not according to the appearance. 1408
Judge not of men and thing at first sight. 1412
Justice has a long arm. 706
Justice has long arms. 707
Justice must be done even if the sky falls. 730
Keeping is harder than winning. 395
Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. 610
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. 611
Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. 1696
Kill two birds with one stone. 1659
Kings and bears often worry keepers. 1844
Kings have long arms [hands]. 737
Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing. 2050
Knavery may serve, but honesty is best. 829
Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps. 534
Knowledge is a Treasure, but Practice is the key to it. 530
Knowledge is no burden [burthen]. 531
Knowledge (itself) is power. 527
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. 536
Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud. 532
Knowledge starts with practice. 528
Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. 529
Know thyself [yourself]. 839
Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs. 1288
Labour is light where love doth pay. 141
Lack of work brings a thousand diseases. 1090
Laugh, and the world will laugh with you. 406
Law is a bottomless pit. 722
Law makers should not be law breakers. 713
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catches small flies, but let wasps and horns break through. 719
Laws catch flies and let hornets go free. 718
Laws go as kings like. 703
Lazy folks [people] have the least leisure. 1471
Lazy folks [people] have the most labour. 1470
Lazy folks [people] take the most pains. 1469
Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own. 1348
Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit. 539
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse. 538
Learn wisdom by the follies of others. 369
Learn young, learn fair. 366
Least said, soonest mended. 601
Let beggars match with beggars. 224
Let no grass grow under your feet. 96
Let not your tongue cut your throat. 621
Let patience grow in your garden always. 821
Let sleeping dog lie. 1787
Liars begin by imposing upon others but end by deceiving themselves. 1608
Liars have need of good memories. 1612
Liars need long memories. 1613
Liars should [ought to] have good memories. 1614
Lies have short [no] legs. 1605
Life begins at forty. 2051
Life is lifeless without health. 1083
Life is not all beer and skittles. 1039
Life is sweet. 1035
Life without friend is death. 1901
Light come, light go. 1214
Lightly gain, quickly lost. 1215
Like attracts [draws to] like. 2052
Like author, like book. 2053
Like begets like. 2054
Like cures like. 2055
Like father, like son. 259
Like knows like. 2056
Like likes like. 2057
Like master, like man. 2058
Like mother, like daughter. 260
Like tree, like fruit. 1647
Little chips light great fires. 2059
Little pitchers have long ears. 292
Little said is soon amended. 602
Little said, soonest mended. 603
Little strokes fell great oaks. 803
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. 720
Little wealth, little care. 1021
Live and learn. 347
Live and let live. 1116
Live not to eat, but eat to live. 1115
Live within your means and save for a rainy day. 870
Loners are losers. 1250
Long absent, soon forgotten. 2060
Long looked for comes at last. 825
Long tarrying takes all thanks away. 2061
Look before you leap. 612
Lookers-on see most of the game. 2062
Lose an hour in the morning, and youll be all day hunting for it. 29
Lose an hour in the morning, and youll spend all day looking for it. 30
    Losers are always in the wrong. 1249
Losses make us more cautious. 1211
Lost time is never found again. 33
Love and a cough cannot be hid. 105
Love and lordship like no fellowship. 116
Love and lordship never like fellowship. 117
Love, and love only, is the loan for love. 140
Love as in time to come you should hate, and hate as you should in time to come, love. 165
Love asks faith, and faith firmness. 118
Love at first sight. 119
Love begets love. 101
Love blinds a man to imperfections. 109
Love can neither be bought nor sold. 129
Love can neither be bought or sold; its only price is love. 130
Love cannot be compelled.103
Love cannot be forced. 104
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. 135
Love is a sweet torment. 113
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly. 114
Love is blind. 108
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. 110
Love is full of trouble. 112
Love is never paid but with true love. 139
Love is never without jealousy. 181
Love is not to be found in the market. 128
Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end. 158
Love is the mother of love. 102
Love is the reward of love. 137
Love is the touchstone of virtue. 115
Love is the true price of love. 138
Love is without reason. 107
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. 134
Love makes all hard hearts gentle. 142
Love makes a wit of the fool. 143
Love makes obedience easy. 144
Love makes one fit for any work. 145
Love makes the world go round. 161
Love me, love my dog. 1767
Love needs no teaching. 106
Love not at the first look. 120
Love should not be all on one side. 155
Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks.176
Lovers quarrels are soon mended. 175
Love rules his kingdom without a sword. 136
Love sought is good, but give unsought is better. 157
Love will creep where it may not go. 133
Love will find a way. 131
Love will find out the way. 132
Love will not yield to all the might of wealth. 163
Lying is the first step to the gallows. 1622
Lying rides upon debts back. 1623
Mad dog bites his master. 1786
Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything. 123
Make hay while the sun shines. 81
Make your enemy your friend. 1954
Man is a god or a devil to his neighbour. 2063
Man is mortal. 1130
Man is to man either a god or a wolf. 1829
Man proposes, God disposes. 2064
Many a good cow hath a bad calf. 1726
Many a good father hath but a bad son. 278
Many a little makes a mickle. 864
Many a one says well that thinks ill. 679
Many a pickle makes a muckle. 865
Many a slip [Many things fall] between the cup and the lip. 1237
Many a true word is spoken in jest. 632
Many dishes, many diseases. 1094
Many good cows have evil calves. 1725
Many friends in general, one in special. 1874
Many hands make light work. 333
Many hands make quick work. 332
Many [Two] heads are better than one.  916
Many lords, many laws. 701
Many lords, many laws; much law, little justice. 702
Many men have many minds. 2065
Many wells, many buckets. 2066
Many words cut [hurt] more than swords. 690
Marriage comes by destiny. 194
Marriage goes by contrasts. 189
Marriage is destiny. 195
Marriage is a lottery. 186
Marriage makes or mars a man. 197
Marriages are made in heaven. 193
Marry a wife of thine own degree. 190
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. 198
Marry in lent, and youll live to repent. 201
Marry thy like. 196
Marry too soon, and youll repent too late. 199
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can. 308
Measure for measure. 2067
Measure thrice before you cut once. 2068
Medicines are not meant to live on. 1110
Men are mortal. 1131
Men are not to be measured by [in] inches. 1409
Men live like fish, the great ones devour the small. 1123
Men too seldom see their own faults. 1290
Mens characters are not always written on their foreheads. 1410
Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people. 1496
Merry is he that hath nought to lose. 1238
Merry meet, merry part. 1925
Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged. 753
Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. 1741
Mickle power makes many enemies. 1949
Might is right. 731
Might overcomes right. 732
Mills and wives are ever wanting. 227
    Mischief has swift wings. 1386
    Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce. 1367
Misery loves company. 2069
Misery makes strange bedfellows. 1904
Misfortune is a good teacher.  1372
Misfortunes come at night. 1357
Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot. 1368
Misfortunes never [seldom] come alone [single]. 1359
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. 1355
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. 1854
Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs. 2070
Money begets money. 965
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed. 1205
Money breeds money. 966
Money can buy the devil himself. 971
Money can move even the gods. 972
Money could not buy happiness. 1000
Money does not grow on tree. 1004
Money draws money. 967
Money gets money.968
Money has no smell. 995
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience and truth may be drowned. 1015
Money is a good servant, but a bad master. 1012
Money isnt everything. 999
Money is round, and rolls away. 1026
Money is the key that opens all doors. 973
Money is the root of evil. 1009
Money is the sinews of war. 1011
Money is wise, it knows its way. 1027
Money lost, little lost; time lost, everything lost. 43
Money makes a man free everywhere. 980
Money makes a man welcome everywhere. 981
Money makes the mare [to] go.970 
Money recommends a man everywhere. 982
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. 1007
Money talks. 979
Money will do anything. 978
Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with. 969
More haste, less speed. 2071
Most things have two handles. 477
Mothers darlings are but milksop heroes. 301
Much thinking yields wisdom. 923
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of. 1038
Muck and money go together. 1016
Multitude of years should teach wisdom. 925
Music is the eye of the ear. 2027
My son is my son till he hath got him a wife; but my daughters my daughter all the days of her life. 304
Nature abhors a vacuum. 459
Naughty boys sometimes make good men. 293
Necessity is the mother of invention. 2073
Neither fish nor flesh. 2074
Neither fish nor good red herring. 2075
Never be weary of well doing. 758
Never cackle till your egg is laid. 1689
Never cast your pearls before swine. 1698
Never challenge a fool to do wrong. 1586
Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today. 48
Never do things by halves. 314
Never hang a man twice for one offenece. 1541
Never judge from appearances. 1406
Never judge people by their appearance. 1407
Never offer to teach fish to swim. 2076
Never put off till tomorrow what can [may] be done today. 51
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 52
Never think yourself above your business. 380
    Never too late to mend. 1303
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. 2077
Never trust another what you should do yourself. 962
Never trust to fine words. 961
New lords [kings], new laws. 700
Nobody but has his faults. 1265
Nobody is without faults. 1266
No cross, no crown. 1206
No fence against (an) ill fortune. 1370
No fence against (for) ill fortune. 1371
No fool like an old fool. 1603
No fool to the old fool. 1604
No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot. 1886
No gains without pains. 329
No good building without a good foundation. 1513
No great loss but some small profit. 1227
No great loss without some small gain. 1228
No herb will cure love. 1113
No joy without alloy [annoy]. 423
No living man all things can. 479
No love is foul, no prison fair. 162
No man can call again yesterday. 40
No man can do two things at once. 2078
No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. 451
    No man ever became thoroughly bad all at once. 2079
No man is born wise. 881
No man is content. 2080
No man is indispensable. 1263
No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself. 841
    No man is wise at all times. 920
No man [one] is without his faults. 1264
No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold. 452
No mill, no meal. 328
None but the brave deserves the fair. 792
None of us are infallible. 1267
None so deaf as those who wont hear. 2081
No news is good news. 2082
    No one can call back yesterday. 38
No one wise at all times. 921
No pains, no gains.330
No pleasure without pain. 421
No road is long with good company. 1872
No root, no fruit. 1650
No rose without a thorn. 1640
No smoke without some fire. 474
No song, no supper. 331
Not all butter that the cow yields. 1718
Not everyone can succeed. 398
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. 440
Nothing endures but truth. 494
Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune. 1373
Nothing is dearer to a man than a friend in need. 1849
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try. 781
Nothing is ever done in a hurry. 2083
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. 2084
Nothing is stolen without hands. 2085
Nothing so certain [sure] as death. 1127
Nothing succeeds like success. 387
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. 1186
Nothing venture, nothing have [gain, win]. 797
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. 798
Nothing worse than a familiar enemy. 1952
No time like the present. 21
Not to say well, but to do well. 591
Nought venture, nought have [gain, win]. 799
No vice goes alone. 1506
    No way is impossible to courage. 780
Now for it! 23
No wisdom like silence. 1393
No words can be the disguise of base intentions. 698
Now or never! 24
No wrong without remedy.1532

Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 756
Of all war(s), peace is the end. 752
Of evil grain, no good seed can come. 1515
Of idleness comes no goodness. 1465
Of saving, comes having. 856
Of soup and love, the first is the best. 159
Often and little eating makes a man fat. 1049
Old acquaintances will soon be remembered. 1920
Old bees yield no honey. 1651
Old birds are not caught with new nets. 1663
Older and wiser. 2086
Old foxes want no tutors. 1810
Old friends and old wine are best. 1895
Old habits die hard. 579
Old love will not be forgotten. 151
Old oxen have stiff horns. 1723
Old use and wont legs about the fire. 580
Old vessels must leak. 2087
Old wood is best to burn, old book to read. 521
Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride. 1735
Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs. 2088
Once a devil, always a devil. 1539
Once a knave, ever a knave. 1538
Once a use, for ever a custom. 574
Once bit [bitten] twice shy. 1330
Once is no custom. 581
Once is no rule. 582
One barking dog sets all the streets barking. 1779
One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. 302
One butcher does not fear many sheep. 1709
One careless move loses the whole game. 1234
One chick keeps a hen busy. 275
One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. 2089
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. 1953
One enemy [foe] is too many; and a hundred friends too few. 1951
One enemy is too much. 1950
One false move may lose the game. 1279
One false step will make a great difference. 1280
One father can support ten children, ten children cannot support one father. 276
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 264
One flower makes no garland. 1639
One foot is better than two crutches. 433
One good turn deserves another. 759
One hand washes another [the other]. 2090
One hour today is worth two tomorrow. 26
One law for the rich, and another for the poor. 721
One lie makes [calls for] many. 1609
One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it. 1610
One lining broken, the whole chain is broken. 2091
One love drives out another. 169
One love expels another. 170
One mail drives out another. 2092
One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge. 2093
One mans fault is another mans lesson. 1349
One mischief [misfortune] comes on the neck of another. 1362
One misfortune calls up another. 1360
One misfortune rides upon anothers back. 1361
One never loses anything by politeness. 1229
One of these days is none of these days. 54
One penny with right is better than a thousand without right. 834
One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock. 1705
One sheep follows another. 1703
One should not run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. 1800
One sin opens the door for another. 1509
One swallow does not make a summer. 1665
Ones words reflect ones thinking. 638
One today is worth two tomorrows. 25
One who never made a mistake, never made anything. 1302
One woe doth tread upon anothers heels. 1363
Only that which is honestly got is gain. 1240
Only the good die young. 1164
Opportunities do not wait. 62
Opportunity seldom knocks twice. 61
Oppression maketh a wise man mad. 2094
Other peoples defects are good teachers. 1350
Other times, other manners. 571
Our own actions are our security, not others judgements. 681
Out of debt, out of danger. 1209
Out of sight, out of mind. 2095
Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 2096
Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. 1005
Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 1524
Patience and application will carry us through. 813
Patience is a flower that grows not in every ones garden. 822
Patience is a virtue. 812
Patience is the plaster of all sores. 814
Patient men win the day. 817
Peace with sword in hand, Tis safest making. 746
Pen and ink is wits plough. 887
Penny and penny, laid up, will be many. 854
Penny wise and pound foolish. 883
People are more convinced by words than by blows. 685
People do not know the blessing of health till they lose it. 1079
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 810
Perseverance is the only road to success. 807
Pigs may fly, but they are very unlikely birds. 1699
Pitchers have ears. 2097
Pity is a level for quickening love. 173
Pleasant hours fly past. 36
Please ones eye and plague ones heart. 431
Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 419
Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup. 1440
Poor and content is rich and rich enough. 1183
Poor and liberal, rich and covetous. 1198
Poor but honest. 832
Poor folk [men] are fain of little. 1199
Poor without debt is better than a prince. 1193
Pouring oil on the fire is no way to quench it. 481
Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 1878
Poverty and love are hard to hide. 1187
Poverty breeds strife. 1188
Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace. 1180
Poverty is no disgrace. 1181
Poverty is no sin. 1178
Poverty is not a crime. 1177
Poverty is not a disgrace, but theft is a disgrace. 1179
Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself, is a disgrace. 1182
Poverty is the mother of health. 1176
Poverty is the reward of idleness. 1482
Poverty makes a man mean. 1190
Poverty makes strange bedfellows. 1879
Poverty on an old mans back is a heavy burden. 1191
Poverty parteth fellowship. 1189
Poverty tries friends. 1877
Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all. 1196
Practice makes perfect. 2098
Praise is not pudding. 2099
Praise no man till he is dead. 1128
Prefer loss to unjust gain. 1243
Prevention is better than cure. 1106
Pride and grace dwell never in one place. 1555
Pride feels [finds] no cold. 1557
Pride goes before a fall. 1542
Pride goes before, and shame follows after. 1548
Pride goes before destruction. 1543
Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 1547
Pride is the mask of ones own faults. 1560
Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 1558
Pride must be pinched. 1556
Pride never left his master without a fall. 1545
Pride that apes humility. 1559
Pride will have a fall. 1544
Procrastination is the thief of time. 86
Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken. 2100
Promise is debt. 2101
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. 1887
Prove thy friend ere thou have need. 1881
Providence is always on the side of the big [strongest] battalions. 736
Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it. 2102
Punctuality is the politeness of kings. 85
Punctuality is the soul of business. 84
Push generally succeeds in business. 390
Put two halfpennies [pennies] in a purse, and they will draw together. 855
Put your shoulder to the wheel. 319
Questioning is the door of knowledge. 543
Quietness is best. 1401
    Rain before seven; fine before eleven. 2103
Remember thou are but a man. 2104
Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault. 952
Revolutions are not made with rosewater. 2105
Rewards allure men to brave danger. 788
Riches and virtue do not often keep each other company. 1017
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. 1006
Riches are the root of all evil. 1010
Riches bring care and fear. 1022
Riches do not always bring happiness. 1001
Riches either serve or govern the possessor. 1013
Riches have wings. 1024
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. 1014
Roll my log and Ill roll yours. 2106
Rome was not built in a day. 808
Sadness and gladness succeed each other. 425
Satan reproves sin. 2107
Save money against a rainy day. 872
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. 862
Saving is getting. 844
Say well is good, but do well is better. 592
Saying and doing are two things. 657
Saying is one thing and doing another. 658
Scanderbegs sword must have Scanderbegs arm. 795
Science has no enemy but the ignorant. 557
Science is organized knowledge. 556
Second thoughts are best. 613
Seeing is believing. 2108
Seize the present day, trusting the morrow as little as may be. 56
Seize time by the forelock. 76
Self do, self have. 2109
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. 963
Self trust is the first secret of success. 392
Sell the bears skin before one has caught the bear. 2110
Shallow streams make most din. 487
Short accounts make long friends. 1863
Short acquaintance brings repentance. 1923
Short pleasure, long lament. 428
Show me a liar, and I will show you a thief. 1628
Sickness is felt, but health not at all. 1081
Sickness shows us what we are. 1087
Silence does seldom harm. 1394
Silence gives [means] consent. 1391
Silence is golden, but speech is silver [silvern]. 1389
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. 1392
Silence is the best ornament of a woman. 1398
Silly [=Good] child is soon ylered [=taught]. 289
Six feet of earth makes all men equal. 1150
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. 2111
Skill is no burden. 562
Sloth is the key of [to] poverty. 1481
Sloth turneth the edge of wit. 1484
Slow and steady wins the race. 2112
Small gains bring great wealth. 867
Soft fire makes sweet malt. 2113
Soft words are hard arguments. 668
So many countries, so many customs. 573
So many men, so many minds.466
Something is better than nothing. 457
Sometimes gain is to lose. 1220
Sometimes words hurt more than swords. 688
Soon learnt, soon forgotten. 370
Sooner or later, the truth comes to light. 498
Soon ripe, soon rotten. 446
Sorrow comes unsent for. 2114
Sound love is not soon forgotten. 150
Spare the rod and spoil the child. 294
Spare when youre young, and spend when youre old. 863
Sparing is a great revenue. 860
Speak [Talk] of the devil and he will appear. 2115
Speak without thinking is shooting without aiming. 599
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. 600
Speech is silver [silvern], (but) silence is gold [golden]. 1388
Speech is the index of the mind. 639
Speech is the picture of the mind. 640
Speech shows what a man is. 641
Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend. 871
Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators. 2116
Step by step the ladder is ascended. 809
Still waters run deep. 1397
Stolen pleasures are sweet [sweetest]. 429
Stolen waters are sweet. 430
Stone dead [Stone-dead] has no fellow. 1160
Straws show which way the wind blows. 1642
Stretch your arm no farther than your sleeve will reach. 869
Strike the iron while it is hot. 78
Strike while the iron is hot. 77
Study sickness while you are well. 1077
    Success belongs to the persevering. 388
Successful crime is called virtue. 401
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. 396
Success has many friends. 397
Success is never blamed. 393
Table friendship soon changes. 1885
Take a hair of the dog that bit you. 1533
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. 853
Take honour from me and my life is done. 944
Take time when time cometh, lest time steal away. 72
Talking mends no holes. 651
Talk much, and err much. 670
Talk of the evil, and he is sure to appear. 2117
Teaching others teaches yourself. 357
Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 1566
Temperance is the best physic. 1097
Thats good wisdom which is wisdom in the end. 931
That trial is not fair where affection is the judge. 726
That which is evil is soon learnt. 1502
The belly is not filled with fair words. 666
The best [greatest] fish keep [swim near] the bottom. 1399
The best fish smell when they are three days old. 2118
The best go first. 1165
The best hearts are always the bravest. 779
The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching. 1743
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good. 2119
The best man stumbles. 1293
The best mirror is an old friend. 1851
The best of friends must part. 1922
The best of us can make mistakes. 1294
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman. 1095
The best workman sometimes blunders. 1298
The bird loves her nest. 1653
The bird that can sing and wont sing must be made to sing. 1655
The black ox has trod on his foot. 1727
The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame. 1564
The braying of an ass does not reach heaven. 1750
The burnt child fears the fire. 1332
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. 209
The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better friends. 1765
The chief aim of man is not to get money. 997
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. 287
The child is father of the man. 286
The coat [garment, tailor] makes the man. 1428
The course of true love never did run smooth. 149
The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it. 1720
The cow thats first up gets the first of the dew. 1716
The crow thinks his own bird fairest. 1676
The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at Midsummer, and then goes away. 1667
The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor. 1200
The darkest hour is that before the dawn. 470
The day is short but the work is much. 44
The dead dont bite.1158
The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. 1822
The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow. 1339
The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf. 1706
The end crowns all. 2120
The end justifies [sanctifies] the means. 2121
The end makes all equal. 1152
The evil [evils] we bring on ourselves are the hardest to bear. 1531
The evil wound is cured but not the evil name. 1523
The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue. 230
The face is no index to the heart. 1425
The face is no index of heart [mind]. 1431
The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs. 280
The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle. 1751
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. 1740
The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong man. 784
The first blow is half the battle. 385
The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice. 775
The first wealth is health. 1062
The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age. 1600
The fowlers pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught. 1660
The fox is known by his brush. 1815
The fox may grow grey, but never good. 1803
The fox smells his own stink first. 1812
The foxs wiles will never enter the lions head. 1809
The fox that had lost its tail would persuade others out of theirs. 1816
The friend is known in the time of difficulty. 1858
The good or ill hap of a good or ill wife. 211
The good seaman is known in bad weather. 786
The greater the crime, the higher the gallows. 712
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. 164
The greatest liars talk most of themselves. 1626
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. 1291
The greatest talkers are always the least doers. 673
The great fish eat up the small. 733
The ground-work of all happiness is health. 1061
The habit [cowl, hood] does not make the monk. 1414
The handsomest flower is not the sweetest. 1434
The head is recognized by the tongue. 642
The healthful man can give counsel to the sick. 1076
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. 148
The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar. 833
The joy of the heart makes the face merry. 409
The kettle calls the pot black. 1286
The last drop makes the cup run over. 485
The law is not the same at morning and at night. 705
The least said the better. 604
The least said, the soonest mended. 1395
The leopard can never change its spots. 1831
The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb. 1707
The lion is known by his claws [paws]. 1836
The lion is not so fierce as he is painted. 1839
The lions skin is never cheap. 1837
The living man who does not learn is dark, dark like one walking in the night. 367
The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf. 1819
The longest day must have an end. 1375
The longest pole knocks the most persimmons. 735
The love that is too violent will not last long. 127
The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues. 1518
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. 1274
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 71
The mills of God grind slowly. 710
The money the miser hoards will do him no good. 996
The more noble the more humble. 838
The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is. 1583
The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house. 235
The morning sun never lasts a day. 5
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. 840
The mothers breath is aye sweet. 266
The mountains have brought forth a mouse. 1755
The noisy fowler catches no bird. 1661
The old goose plays not with foxes. 1808
The outsider sees the best of the game. 2122
The ox is never woe, till he to the harrow go. 1717
The ox when weariest treads surest. 1719
The path to glory is always rugged. 782
The poor man wants much, the miser everything. 1195
The pot calls the kettle black. 1285
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 669
The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood. 1842
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. 1236
There are faults from which none of us is [are] free. 1284
There are no birds of this year in last years nests. 57
There are spots (even) in [on] the sun. 1261
There are two sides to every question. 478
There is a black sheep in every flock. 1714
There is a crook [an affliction, a trial] in the lot of every one. 1382
There is always something to be cut off young trees if they are to grow well. 300
There is a skeleton in every house. 251
There is a skeleton in the cupboard. 252
There is a tide in the affairs of men. 60
There is a time for all things. 67
There is a time for everything. 68
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. 1390
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. 507
There is great difference between word and deed. 597
There is many a fair thing full false. 1630
There is many a true word spoken in jest. 633
There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an enemy. 1915
There is no accounting for tastes. 2123
There is no better looking-glass than an old friend. 1852
There is no end to learning. 361
There is no escape [flying] from fate. 1369
There is no fool like an old fool. 1601
There is no fool to the old fool. 1602
There is no friend so faithful as a good book. 517
There is no greater riches than health. 1064
There is no joy without alloy. 424
There is no man but errs. 1257
There is no man but has his faults. 1258
There is no man without faults. 1259
There is no medicine against death. 1129
There is no place like home. 244
There is no pleasure without pain. 422
There is no pot so ugly that it cant find a lid. 225
There is no royal road to learning. 360
There is no rule without an exception. 2124
There is no satiety in study. 362
There is no smoke without fire. 475
There is nothing permanent except change. 460
There is no time like the present. 22
There is no time to lose. 63
There is no trusting to appearance. 1418
There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not. 776
There is no wealth above the wealth of health. 1063
There is no wheat without chaff. 456
There is small choice in rotten apples. 2125
There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the worlds trade.1036
The reward of suffering is experience. 1326
The rich never want for kindred. 985
The rotten apple injures its neighbours. 2126
The scalded cat fears cold water. 1336
The scalded dog fears cold water. 1337
The sea has fish for every man. 59
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. 389
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE. 848
The shortest answer is doing the thing. 324
The sleeping fox catches no poultry. 1804
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. 1565
The snail slides up the tower at last though the swallow mounteth it sooner. 1666
The swan sings when death comes. 1693
The tail does often catch the fox. 1814
The thread breaks where it is weakest. 438
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. 540
The tiger that has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it. 1833
The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none. 692
The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth. 2127
The tongue is not made of steel, yet it cuts. 687
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. 693
The tongue of idle persons is never idle. 1480
The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping. 1798
The tree is known by its [his] fruit. 445
The tree must be bent while it is young. 297
The true university of these days is a collection of books. 526
The truth is always green. 495
The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know. 510
The truth will out. 499
The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound. 835
The used key is always bright. 317
The valiant never tastes of death but once. 789
The weakest goes to the wall. 1246
The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. 1008
The wife is the key of the house. 226
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. 890
The wise man is always a good listener. 917
The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all. 904
The wish is father to the thought. 2128
The wolf and fox are both privateers. 1817
The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature. 1818
The words once spoken can never be recalled. 629
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down. 1037
The worse luck now, the better another time. 1353
They that do nothing learn to do ill. 1511
They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen. 200
They that reckon without their host are to reckon twice. 2129
They who cannot do as they would, must do as they can. 322
They [People] who live in glass houses should not throw stones. 1289
They who live longest will see most. 1121
Things are seldom what they seem. 1435
Things done cannot be undone. 2130
Things past cannot be recalled. 42
Things unreasonable are never durable. 2131
Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. 58
Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform. 2132
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. 993
Those who eat best and drink best often do worst. 1512
Those whom the gods love die young. 1166
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. 1607
Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out. 509
Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings. 1680
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small. 711
Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. 1945
Thrift is a great revenue. 850
Thrift is good revenue. 851
Thrift is the philosophers stone. 852
Time and tide wait for no man. 3
Time cures all things. 14
Time dissolves all things. 19
Time flies. 1
Time heals all wounds. 15
Time is a great healer. 11
Time is money. 2
Time is the best healer. 12
Time is the great physician. 13
Time lost cannot be recalled. 35
Time marches on. 4
Time past cannot be called back again. 32
Times change. 18
Time tames the strongest grief. 10
Time tries all (the things). 7
Time tries truth. 8
Time will show [tell]. 9
Time works great changes. 17
Time works wonders. 16
Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly. 1594
Tis the early bird that catches the worm. 1652
To ask well is to know much. 354
To a wise man one word is enough. 912
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. 750
To be virtuous is to do good. 757
To deceive oneself is very easy. 1635
To Err is Humane. 1262
To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three. 45
To know everything is to know nothing. 2133
Tomorrow comes never. 20
Too many cooks spoil the broth. 2134
Too much knowledge makes the head bald. 552
Too much liberty spoils all. 2135
Too much pudding will choke a dog. 1775
Too much spoils, too little is nothing. 2136
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. 372
To save time is to lengthen life. 83
To say is one thing; to do is quite another. 659
Touch pitch, and you will be defiled. 2137
Tread on a worm and it will turn. 473
Troubles never comes singly. 1366
True friendship is like sound health, the value of which is seldom known until it be lost. 1935
True friendship lasts forever. 1928
True love is giving, not taking.146
True love never grows old. 153
True love shows itself in time of need. 152
True praise roots and spreads. 2139
Trust not a great weight to a slender thread. 960
Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. 1936
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. 964
Truth and roses have thorns about them. 506
Truth fears no colours. 490
Truth has no answer. 492
Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes. 503
Truth is a lion. 493
Truth is the daughter of time. 497
Truth lies [is] at the bottom of a well. 500
Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed. 508
Truth needs no colours. 504
Truth never grows old. 496
Truths best ornament is nakedness. 505
Truth shines in the dark. 491
Truth will out, even if buried in a golden coffin. 501
Truth will prevail [conquer]. 489
Try your friend ere you trust him. 1880
Two blacks do not make a white. 1305
Two dogs strive for a bone, the third runs away with it. 1778
Two of a trade seldom [never] agree. 1460
Two is company, (but) three is none. 232
Two negatives make an affirmative. 461
Two of a trade can never agree. 1461
Two wrongs dont make a right. 1306
Union is strength. 488
Unkindness destroys love. 172
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit. 662
Use is (a) second nature. 573
Vain glory blossoms but never bears. 1443
Vanity is the food of fools. 954
Venture a small fish to catch a great one. 2140
Vice rules where gold reigns. 1517
Virtue and courtesy go hand in hand. 771
Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. 772
    Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man. 777
Virtue is a jewel of great price. 766
Virtue is beyond price. 767
Virtue is fairer far than beauty. 768
Virtue is her [its] own reward. 764
Virtue is the only true nobility. 763
Virtue is to herself the best reward. 765
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. 769
Virtue never grows old. 770
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. 2141
Walls have ears. 2142
War is deaths feast. 741
War is the sport of kings. 742
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. 743
Wash your dirty linen at home. 249
Waste not, want not. 874
Water afar quencheth not fire. 482
Wealth is best known by want. 991
Wealth is easier gained than guided. 1020
Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it. 989
Wealth is nothing without health. 1072
Wealth is the test of a mans character. 988
Wealth makes worship. 986
Wealth of words is not eloquence. 584
Weapon bode [breed] peace. 751
We are not born for ourselves. 1119
We die but once. 1140
Wedlock is a padlock. 206
Weeds want no sowing. 1644
We knows not what is good until we have lost it. 1212
We learn not at school, but in life. 359
We lose in hake, but gain in herring. 1232
Well begun is half done. 2143
Well fed, well bred. 2144
We must not lie, and cry, God help us. 2145
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. 2146
We see not what is in the wallet behind. 1287
We shall lie all alike in our graves. 1153
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault. 1892
We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favour received. 761
What cant be cured must be endured. 1104
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. 311
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave [tomb]. 364
What is learned in the cradle lasts [is carried] till [to] the grave [tomb]. 363
What is lost in the hundred will found in the shire. 1230
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 1694
What is soon learnt is soon forgotten. 371
What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy? 1023
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. 339
Whats lost is lost. 1222
What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. 636
What the king wills, that the law wills. 704
What we lose in hake we shall have in herring. 1231
What youth is used to, age remembers. 572
When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink. 1797
When a man is going down-hill, everyone will give him a push. 1384
When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears. 1450
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. 1451
When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you. 64
When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. 1554
When Greek meet Greek, then comes the tug of war. 754
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. 755
When guns speak it is too late to argue. 745
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. 578
When I lent I had a friend; when I asked he was unkind. 1034
When love puts in, friendship is gone. 154
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. 171
When pride rides, shame lacqueys. 1549
When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest. 1048
When the calf is stolen, the farmer mends the stall. 94
When the cats away, the mice will play. 1758
When the fox preacheth, then beware your geese. 1806
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth. 643
When the horse is stolen, (you) lock the stable door. 93
When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace. 1669
When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe. 1385
When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage. 1766
When the well is full, it will run over. 484
When the wolf grows old, the crows ride him. 1830
When war begins, then hell openeth. 744
When you are at Rome, do as Rome does. 579
When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. 580
Where drums beat, laws are silent. 717
Wherever an ass falleth, there will he never fall again. 1749
Where love fails, we espy all faults. 166
Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the ravens be gathered together. 1678
Where the deer is slain, some of her blood will lie. 1841
Where there are reeds, there is water. 1646
Where there is a will, there is a way. 2147
Where there is life, there is hope. 1055
Where the water is shallow, no vessel will ride. 2148
While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none. 1777
While you trust to the dog, the wolf slips into the sheepfold. 1823
Who holds the purse rules the house. 977
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl. 1828
Who knows most, says [speaks] least. 616
Who loses liberty loses all. 1239
Who makes everything right must rise early. 1043
Who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry days. 202 
Whom a serpent has bitten a lizard alarms. 1341
Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard. 1342
Whom an adder bites, dreads a lizard. 1343
Whom the gods love die young. 2149
Whom we love best to them we can say least. 147
Who repairs not his gutter repairs his whole house. 47
Who shows mercy to an enemy denies it to himself. 1947
Whoso learns young, forgets not when he is old. 365
Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow. 1495
Who waits for time, loses time. 98
Wickedness does no go altogether unrequited. 1490
Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. 486
    Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand. 548
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it. 551
    Wisdom is better than gold or silver. 549
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. 550
Wisdom is only found in truth. 502
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. 553
Wise men are silent; fools talk. 902
Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant. 903
Wise men change their minds; fools never do. 895
Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth. 901
Wise men learn by other mens mistakes, fools by their own. 898
Wise men love truth, whereas fools shut it. 900
Wit bought is better than wit taught. 928
Without a friend, the world is wilderness. 1899
Without confidence there is no friendship. 1929
Without health life is no life. 1084
Without learning, without eyes. 541
Without respect, love cannot go far. 168
    With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin. 806
Wit once bought is worth twice taught. 1316
Wits are wealth. 924
Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit. 930
Woe to him that is alone. 1402
Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man. 462
Words are but wind. 649
Words are the voice of the heart. 644
Words are the wise mans counters and the fools money. 620
Words cut [hurt] more than swords. 691
Words pay no debts. 652
Work bears witness who does well. 320
Work makes the workman. 316
Work today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. 53
Would you know your daughter, see her in company. 305
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. 1924
Wrong laws make short governance. 716
Wrong never comes right. 1307
Years bring wisdom. 926
Yesterday will not be called again. 39
You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend. 793
You can have no more of the fox than the skin. 1813
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake. 454
You cannot have two forenoons in the same day. 31
You cannot lose what you never had. 1223
You cannot make a crab walk straight. 578
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear. 1700
You cannot see the wood for trees. 1649
You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk. 1721
You cant touch pitch without being defiled. 2138
You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. 1737
You have no goats, and yet you sell kids. 1710
You may delay, but time will not. 88
You may [could] go farther and fare worse. 2150
You may know the horse by his harness. 1729
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. 1225
Young cocks love no coops. 1685
Young saints, old devils. 1514
Your conversation is the mirror of your thoughts. 645
Your fathers honour is to you but a second-hand honour. 949
Your money burns (a hole) in your pocket. 1028
    Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. 554
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. 555

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