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A barking dog never bites
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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A cat may look at a king
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
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A change is as good as a rest
A dog is a man's best friend
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw
A fool and his money are soon parted
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A friend in need is a friend indeed
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A golden key can open any door
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A good beginning makes a good ending
A good man is hard to find
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A house divided against itself cannot stand
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A house is not a home
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
A leopard cannot change its spots
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
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A little of what you fancy does you good
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A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
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A miss is as good as a mile
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A new broom sweeps clean
A penny saved is a penny earned
A person is known by the company he keeps
A picture paints a thousand words
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A place for everything and everything in its place
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A poor workman blames his tools
A problem shared is a problem halved
A prophet is not recognized in his own land
A rising tide lifts all boats
A rolling stone gathers no moss
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A soft answer turneth away wrath
A stitch in time saves nine
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A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
A thing of beauty is a joy forever ( from a poem by Keats )
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A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men
A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke
A woman's place is in the home
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A word to the wise
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely ( quotation by Lord Acton )
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Accidents will happen
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Actions speak louder than words
Adversity makes strange bedfellows
All good things must come to an end
All publicity is good publicity
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All roads lead to Rome
All that glisters is not gold
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All the world loves a lover
All things come to he who waits
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All's Well, That Ends Well
All's fair in love and war
All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds ( Voltaire quotation - in Candide )
An Englishman's home is his castle
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away
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An army marches on its stomach
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Another day, another dollar
Any port in a storm
April is the cruellest month
April showers bring May flowers
As the
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As you make your bed so must you lie on it
As you sow so shall you reap
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
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Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
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Ask no questions and hear no lies
Attack is the best form of defence
Bad money drives out good
Bad news travels fast
Barking dogs seldom bite
Be careful what you wish for
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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Beauty is only skin deep
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Beggars can't be choosers
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Behind every great man there's a great woman
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Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
Better late than never
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Better safe than sorry
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
Between two stools
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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
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Beware the Ides of March
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Big fish eat little fish
Birds of a feather flock together
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Blessed are the cheese makers ( line from Monty Python's Life of Brian )
Blessed are the peacemakers
Blood is thicker than water
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Blue are the hills that are far away
Boys will be boys
Brevity is the soul of wit
Brum brum ( child's play
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Business before pleasure
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
Carpe diem ( latin expression meaning seize the day )
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Charity begins at home
Charity covers a multitude of sins
Cheaters never win, and winners never cheat ( proverbial
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Cheats never prosper
Children and fools tell the truth
Children should be seen and not heard
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Cleanliness is next to godliness
Clothes maketh the man
Coin a
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Cold hands warm heart
Comparisons are odorous
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Count your blessings
Cowards may die many times before their death
Crime doesn't pay
Cut your coat to suit your cloth
Dead men tell no tales
Discretion is the better part of valour
Distance lends enchantment to the view
Do as I say not as I do
Do as you would be done by
Do not meet your troubles halfway
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
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Don't believe everything you hear
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't burn your bridges behind you
Don't cast your pearls before swine
Don't change horses in midstream
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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
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Don't cross the bridge till you come to it
Don't cry over spilt milk
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
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Don't get mad get even
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself
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Don't leave your manners on the doorstep
Don't let the bastards grind you down
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Don't let the grass grow under your feet
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
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Don't mix business with pleasure
Don't put all your eggs in one basket
Don't put new wine into old bottles
Don't rock the boat
Don't shoot the messenger
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
Don't sweat the small stuff
Don't trust anyone over thirty
Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
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Don't try to walk before you can crawl
Don't upset the apple-cart
Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
East is east and west is west
East, west, home's best
Easy come easy go
Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
Empty vessels make the most noise
Enough is as good as a feast
Enough is enough
Even a worm will turn
Every Jack has his Jill
Every dark cloud has a silver lining
Every dog has his day
Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost
Every man has his price
Every stick has two ends
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
Failing to plan is planning to fail
Faint heart never won fair lady
Fair exchange is no robbery
Faith will move mountains
Familiarity breeds contempt
Feed a cold and starve a fever
Fight fire with fire
Fight the good fight
Finders keepers, losers weepers
Fine words butter no parsnips
First come first served
First impressions last
First things first
Fish always rot from the head downwards
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Fish and guests smell after three days
Flattery will get you nowhere
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
For everything there is a season
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
Forewarned is forearmed
Forgive and forget
Fortune favours the brave
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains ( Thomas Carlyle quotation )
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison quotation )
Give a dog a bad name and hang him
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
Give credit where credit is due
God helps those who help themselves
Good fences make good neighbours
Good talk saves the food
Good things come to those who wait ( Guinness advertising slogan )
Great minds think alike
Half a loaf is better than no bread
Handsome is as handsome does
Hard cases make bad law
Hard work never did anyone any harm
Hard work never killed anyone
Haste makes waste
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches ( George Bernard Shaw quotation )
He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
He who hesitates is lost
He who laughs last laughs longest
He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword
He who pays the piper calls the tune
He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty
History repeats itself
Home is where the heart is
Honesty is the best policy
Hope springs eternal
Hope springs eternal in the human breast ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
Horses for courses
If God had meant us to fly he would have given us wings
If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
If anything can go wrong, it will
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
If it ain't broke don't fix it
If life deals you lemons made lemonade
If the cap fits, wear it
If the mountain won't go to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain
If the shoe fits, wear it
If wishes were horses beggars would ride
If you build it they will come
If you can't be good, be careful
If you can't beat em, join em
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
Ignorance is bliss
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
In for a penny in for a pound
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
In the midst of life we are in death
Into every life a little rain must fall
It goes without
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It is easy to be wise after the event
It never rains but it pours
It takes a thief to catch a thief
It takes all sorts to make a world
It takes one to know one
It takes two to tango
It's all grist to the mill
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
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It's better to be looked over than overlooked
It's better to give than to receive
It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
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It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness
It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive
It's never too late
It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
It's not over until the fat lady sings
It's not worth crying over spilt milk
It's the early bird that gets the worm
It's the empty can that makes the most noise
It's the singer not the song
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease
Jack of all trades but master of none
Judge not, that ye be not judged
Keep your chin up
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer ( proverbial
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Keep your powder dry
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and, you weep alone
Laughter is the best medicine
Least said soonest mended
Less is more
Let bygones be bygones
Let not the sun go down on your wrath
Let sleeping dogs lie
Let the buyer beware
Let the dead bury the dead
Let the punishment fit the crime
Let well alone
Life begins at forty
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Life is what you make it
Life's not all beer and skittles
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
Like father, like son
Little pitchers have big ears
Little strokes fell great oaks
Little things please little minds
Live for today for tomorrow never comes
Look before you leap
Love is blind
Love makes the world go round
Love thy neighbour as thyself
Love will find a way
Make hay while the sun shines
Make love not war
Man does not live by bread alone
Manners maketh man
Many a mickle makes a muckle
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Many are called but few are chosen
Many hands make light work
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
Marriages are made in heaven
Marry in haste, repent at leisure
Might is right
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
Misery loves company
Moderation in all things
Money doesn't grow on trees
Money doesn't talk, it swears
Money is the root of all evil
Money isn't everything
Money makes the world go round
Money talks
More haste, less speed
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
My enemy's enemy is my friend ( proverb suggesting that opposing parties should cooperate )
Nature abhors a vacuum
Ne'er cast a clout till May is out
Necessity is the mother of invention
Needs must when the Devil drives
Never go to bed on an argument
Never judge a book by its cover
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
Never speak ill of the dead
Never tell tales out of school
Nine tailors make a man
No man can serve two masters
No man is an island
No news is good news
No pain, no gain
No rest for the wicked
Nothing is certain but death and taxes
Nothing succeeds like success
Nothing ventured nothing gained
Oil and water don't mix
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
Once a thief, always a thief
Once bitten, twice shy
One good turn deserves another
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives
One hand washes the other
One law for the rich and another for the poor
One man's meat is another man's poison
One swallow doesn't make a summer
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
One year's seeds make seven year weeds
Only fools and horses work
Opportunity never knocks twice
Opportunity only knocks once
Out of sight, out of mind
Parsley seed goes nine times to the devil
Patience is a virtue
Pearls of wisdom
Penny wise, pound foolish
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Physician heal thyself
Possession is nine tenths of the law
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
Practice makes perfect
Prevention is better than cure
Pride comes before a fall
Procrastination is the thief of time
Put your best foot forward
Rain before seven, fine before eleven
Red sky at night shepherds delight
Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
Revenge is a dish best served cold
Revenge is sweet
Rome wasn't built in a day
Saturday's child works hard for a living
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
Seeing is believing
Seek and ye shall find
Set a thief to catch a thief
Share and share alike
Shrouds have no pockets
Silence is golden
Slow but sure
Softly, softly, catchee monkey
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Speak as you find
Speak softly and carry a big stick
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
Still waters run deep
Strike while the iron is hot
Stupid is as stupid does
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
Talk is cheap
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
Tell the truth and shame the Devil
That which does not kill us makes us stronger ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
The Devil take the hindmost
The age of miracles is past
The apple never falls far from the tree
The best defence is a good offence
The best is the enemy of the good
The best laid schemes of mice and men
The best things in life are free
The bigger they are the harder they fall
The bottom line is the bottom line is the bottom line
The boy is father to the man
The bread always falls buttered side down
The child is father of the man ( from a poem by Wordsworth )
The cobbler always wears the worst shoes
The course of true love never did run smooth
The customer is always right
The darkest hour is just before the dawn
The devil looks after his own
The early bird catches the worm
The ends justify the means
The exception which proves the rule
The female of the species is more deadly than the male
The fruit does not fall far from the tree
The good die young
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
The husband is always the last to know
The labourer is worthy of his hire
The law is an ass
The longest journey starts with a single step
The love of money is the root of all evil
The more the merrier
The more things change, the more they stay the same
The pen is mightier than sword
The
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The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
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The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
The truth will out
The wages of sin is death
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts ( proverbial
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There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream
There are no pockets in a shroud
There are none so blind as those that will not see
There are two sides to every question
There but for the grace of God go I
There's a time and a place for everything
There's an exception to every rule
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
There's many a good tune played on an old piano
There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
There's more than one way to skin a cat
There's no accounting for taste
There's no fool like an old fool
There's no place like home
There's no smoke without fire
There's no such thing as a free lunch
There's no such thing as bad publicity
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There's no time like the present
There's none so blind as those who will not see
There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
There's nothing new under the sun
There's nowt so queer as folk
There's one born every minute
There's plenty more fish in the sea
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind
Third time lucky
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
Those whom the Gods love die young
Thursday's child has far to go
Time and tide wait for no man
Time flies when you are having fun