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Bad money drives out good.

A bad wife ruins the house.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved.

Do not put new wine into old bottles.

We never meet without a parting.

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

I don't care what follows.

Love blinds a man to all imperfections.

Pardon all but thyself.

Protect yourself at all points.

To go up like a rocket and come down like a stick..

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb.

Bad news has wings.

Ill got, ill spent.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Go to the sea, if you would fish well.

To dig a well to put out a house on fire.

After a storm comes a calm.

Fear is often greater than the danger.

A disciple sometimes outshines his master.

Easy come, easy go.

Between two stools you fall to the ground.

Tomorrow is another day.

Coming events cast their shadows before them.

A little leak will sink a great ship.

Like a bear to a honey pot.

Something is better than nothing.

Don't whistle till you are out of the wood.

An Englishiman's house is his castle.

What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Look before you leap.

An apple a day keeps a doctor away.

Easier said than done.

There is no place like home.

Perseverance will win in the end.

The more haste, the less speed.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

A word is enough to a wise man.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Making a fortune at a stoke.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Who can read the future ?

One instance shows all the rest.

A fly even has its anger.

One is never too old to learn.

Where there is life, there is hope.

He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill.

Speech is silver, silence is gold.

Anything viewed through the eyes of faith seems perfect.

One will have to reap what one has sown.

Busiest men find the most time.

Every day of thy life is a leaf in thy history.

To sail in the same boat.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

It is a good doctor who follows his own directions.

Well fed, well bred.

Fair words fill not the belly.

The best fish smell when they are three days old.

The dependant is timid.

Never go looking for trouble. Or seek and you shall find.

A waking dog afar off barks at a sleeping lion.

The whole year's plans are made on New Year's Day.

That which comes from the heart will go to the heart.

Scratch my back and I will scratch yours.

As soon as man is born, he begins to die.

Birth is much, but breeding is more.

A child is what his parents make.

You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk.

The fairest rose is at last withered.

Beauty is but skin deep.

Many a true word is is spoken in jest.

Lying and stealing are next-door neighbors.

A small lie is useful in some cases.

Other times, other manners.

Talking to a brick-wall.

Talk of the devil, and he'll appeare.

One ill word asks another.

Like knows like.

Who loves not wine,women and song he is a fool his whole life.

Never confuse art with life.

There is no telling which two will make a couple.

A little bait catches a large fish.

The old generation must make way for the new,

Pride goes before a fall.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Men make houses, women make home.

Boys will be boys.

Better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion.

A woman is a weathercock.

All's well that ends well.

Great talkers are littel doers.

Men are blind in their own cause.

When the cat is away, the mice will play.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Tears from the hardest heart.

Too much spoils, too little is nothing.

A drowning man will catch at a straw.

Make hay while the sun shines.

By the time you wish to be a good son, your parents are long gone.

The son is known by his father.

It is a wise father who knows his own child.

No child knows how dear he is to his parents.

The father's sins are visited on the children.

Love your parents as dearly as your parents love you.

Nature is a good mother,

Those loved by many are liable to untimely death.

He who begins many things, finishes but few.

One tongue is enough for two women.

Returning evil for good.

A cold often leads to all kinds of disease.

A wise person profits by his mistakes.

Excessive tenderness switched to hundredfold hatred.

Experience counts.

If each would sweep before the door, we should have a clean city.

Children have the qualities of the parents.

He has brought up a bird to pick out his own eyes.

There is no royal road to learning.

He whom the gods love dies young.

Having an itch that one cannot scratch.

Preserverance under difficulties.

The eagle does not catch flies.

Not to halloo until one is out of the wood.

Even Homer sometimes nods.

The end of money is the end of love.

Money talks.

Moeny will do anything.

Walls have ears.

Anything is better than nothing.

Losers are always in the wrong.

Money comes and goes.

Sleep and wait for good luck.

You don't give the finishing touch.

There is always a next time.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Patience provoked turns to fury.

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.

Need will have its course.

Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Tomorrow is another day.

We cannot see the wood for the trees

You cannot get blood out of a stone.

Adversity is the best school.

Nothing is lost for asking.

Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

A tree is known by its fruits.

Forbidden fruit is sweetest.

A good appetite is a good sauce.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

A wise man never courts danger.

Out of the mouth comes evil.

He has long arms and a long tongue as well.

Danger past, God forgotten.

If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.

When the word is out, it belongs to another.

No man is without his faults.

A sound mind in a sound body.

Accomplishments are a friend in need.

Art is long, life is short.

Experience is the best teacher.

Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.

Health is not valued until sickness comes.

Health is better than wealth.

Marriage is the tomb of life.

The end justifies the means.

Love is blind.

Time flies like an arrow.

Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

Where there is over mickle courtesy, there is little kindness.

What is done cannot be undone.

Do in Rome as the Romans do.

Even Homer sometimes nods.

The pot calls kettle black.

Nothing venture, nothing gain.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Look before you leap.

There are none so deafs as those who won't hear.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Happy events tend to be accompanied by problems.

Once a beggar, always a beggar.

Shoemakers' children go barefoot.

Opportunity seldom knocks twice.

There is no treasure more precious than a child.

Like father, like son.

There is nothing new under the sun.

There is no garden without weeds.

Take the lead, and you will win.

I know what I do when I drink.

Good wine makes good blood.

The best thing to do now is to run away.

All things thrive at thrice.

The die is cast.

Time and tide wait for no man.

He laughs best who laughs last.

First come, first served.

Even Homer sometimes nods.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Who can hold what will be going ?

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Two heads are better than one.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Life is a shadow.

Life is but an empty dream.

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is ill for thriving.

Boys be ambitious.

Art is long, life short.

Love the babe for her that bore it.

Accident will happen.

A mud-wall deads a cannon-bullet.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Better one die than all.

Custom is second nature.

Politeness is not just for strangers.

Failure teaches success.

It is not necessary to teach a fish to swim.

He who touches pitch shall be defiled.

So many men, so many minds.

Ignorance is bliss.

Money mkes the mare to go.

Nature is the best physician.

Don't forget your first resolution.

Dead men tell no tales.

Let's die together.

The husband is always the last to know.

A fool laughs when others laugh.

The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks.

One must drink as one brews.

Every potter praises his own pot.

He was surrounded by foes.

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.

Use the means and God will give the blessing.

When one god deserts you, another will pick you up.

All good things come to an end.

Less is more.

Nothing is hard to a willing mind.

Hunger is the best sauce.

What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.

All roads lead to Rome.

To every bird his own nest is best.

Close is my shirt, but closer is my skin.

You have to start somewhere.

Many strokes fell great oaks.

Haste make waste.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Save up for a rainy day.

There is a destiny that makes us brothers.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

There is no accounting for taste.

A man away from home need feel no shame.

To see it rains is better than to be in it.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Great cry and little wool.

A book that remains shut is but a block.

Cast no dirt in the well that gives you water.

Every dog has his day.

No road is long with good company.

Live not to eat, but eat to live.

No news is good news.

Haste is waste.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Nothing costs so much as what is given us.

The greater embraces the less.

Union is strength.

Blood is thicker than water.

Might is right.

Knowledge is power.

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

Speech is silver; silence is golden.

Many a little makes a mickle.

A man without a wife is but half a man.

Condemn the offense, but pity the offender.

Constant dripping wears away a stone.

Strike the iron while it is hot.

He that wipes the child's nose kisses the mother's cheek.

A nail that stands up will be pounded down.

Heaven helps those who help themselves.

A book that is shut is but a block.

As old man's saying are seldom untrue.

A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.

Time is money.

Every rose has its thorn.

As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

It is dark at the foot of a candle.

Don't cross the bridge until you come to it.

So many countries ; so many customs

Count not your chickens before they are hatched.

An ass in a lion's skin.

The devil is not so black as he is painted.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Anything is better than nothing.

A naked man cannot be stripped of clothes.

Everything has its time.

It is no meddling with our betters.

Misfortunes never come singly.

Names and natures often agree.

One good turn deserves another.

He that falls today may rise tomorrow.

See Naples and then die.

Practice makes perfect.

No remedy but patience.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

He who runs after two hares will catch neither.

Ill weeds grow apace.

Bad luck often brings good luck.

No fish is caught twice with the same bait.

What happens twice will happen three times.

The one that got away is always the biggest.

He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day.

Everyting new is fine.

A stolen fruit tastes sweet.

All is lost that is given to a fool.

To lock the stable when the horse is stolen.

A cat has nine lives.

Whenthe cat is away, the mice will play.

Give not pearls to the hogs.

Wake not a sleeping lion.

Still waters run deep.

Last but not least.

Give him an inch and he'll tale a mile.

Danger past, God is forgotten.

He catches the wind with a net.

Never do things by halves.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

First come, first served.

One is never too old to learn.

Everybody's friend is nobody's friend.

He that knows little often repeats it.

Pudding rather than praise.

The sooner, the better.

No medicine can cure folly.

Who is born a fool is never cured.

Call a spade a spade.

The early bird catches the worm.

Feed by measure and defy the physician.

Much meat, much disease.

All is not gold that glitters.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Those whom the gods love die young.

One man's fault is another man's lesson.

A wonder lasts but nine days.

Man shall not live by bread alone.

There is no trusting in appearances.

Where there is smoke, there is fire.

To see is to believe.

Step after step goes far.

Never trust a stranger.

People will talk.

The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

The poor have no leisure.

Do not throw pearls to swine.

We have piped to you, and you have not danced.

It never rains but it pours.

A bargain is a bargain.

No man can serve two masters.

One should not interfere in lovers' quarrels

It is no use crying over spilt milk.

A bad workman always blames his tools.

He that shoots oft at last shall hit the mark.

The pen is mighter than the sword.

Even Homer sometimes nods.

A barking dog never bites.

Books and friends should be few but good.

Great pains but all in vain.

Love me, love my dog.

To try the patience of a saint.

Time wears away love.

To lose is to win.

Manners and money make a gentleman.

Practice what you preach.

Everything comes to him who waits.

You must sow before you can reap.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

You have to reap what you have sown.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

The tree is known by the fruit.

Clear water breeds no fish.

The biter is sometimes bitten.

Ignorance is bliss.

You never forget your own trade.

Might makes right.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

The eye is the window of the soul.

The heart's letter is read in the eyes.

A saint's maid quotes Latin.

Every man does his own business best.

You'll never know unless you try.

Everything has its time.

Old love is renewed again.

Don't wake a sleeping dog.

Care killed a cat.

A burnt child fears the fire.

To cast water into the Thames.

Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.

Ill ware is never cheap.

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

Security is the greatest enemy.

Speech is silver, silence is gold.

All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

He cries wine and sells vinegar.

Misfortunes never come alone.

When you take shelter, make sure you go under a big tree.

Old age tires both body and soul.

Next year is the devil's joke.

Pleasure is the source of pain.

A good medicine tastes bitter.

Two kings in one kingdom cannot reign at once.

Birds of a feather flock together.

History repeats itself.

There is no rule without exceptions.

Rome was not built in a day.

Never too late to learn.

To see is to believe.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age.

Good comes out of evil.

There is kindness to be found everywhere.

Fortune comes in by a merry gate.

Bad news travels quickly.

There is no place like home.

Every Jack has his Jill.

Laughter is the best medicine.