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iada hadiah yang lebih berharga daripada nasihat yang baik" Kata-Kata Hikmat "Barang siapa yang tidak menjaga DIRINYA, maka tidak bergunalah ilmunya......" (Imam Ghazali) Kalau manusia ini mengejar kasih Allah, tidak akan timbul perselisihan dan perbalahan. Jika manusia sesama manusia, mengejar kasih manusia, itulah rahsia manusia itu bersaing dan berbalah. \"...Kemudian apabila sampai ajal mereka, tiadalah dapat mereka meminta dikemudiankan sesaat pun dan tidak pula mereka dapat meminta didahulukan.\" (AnNahl:61) bukan senang nak jadi senang bukan susah nak jadi susah Tiada masalah yang tidak boleh diselesaikan secara kebetulan atau suratan tetapi setiap masalah yang dicari mesti ada jalan tertentu bagi seseorang untuk menyelesaikannya melainkan diri sendiri yang menimbulkan masalah sendiri. ....kadang-kadang dalam perjalanan merentasi menujunya yang satu, berbagai dugaan yang menimpa....meratah keimanan kita satu persatu....kekadang rasanya tak mampu.... kadang-kadang mahu beralah.....tapi di sana ada kebahgiaan hakiki.... Redha Allah itu bergantung kepada redha kedua ibu bapa dan marah Allah juga bergantung kepada marah kedua ibu bapa . Hiburan itu tidak mesti membahagiakan tapi kebahagiaan itu sudah pasti menghiburkan. Setiap manusia pernah merasai kejayaan dan juga kegagalan dan setiap kejayaan dan kegagalan yang dirasai oleh manusia mempunyai hikmah dan pengajarannya yang tersembunyi disebaliknya. Ilmu mu yang manfaat,sedekah mu yang ikhlas dan orang yang soleh,itulah syarat yang dituntut di ALAM BAKA.... God be with you, be happy and keep up the rituos live Wanita adalah hiasan dunia,seindah hiasan adalah wanita solehah yang akan membahagiakan syurga didalam rumahtangga. Sebaik-baik manusia adalah orang yang belajar dan mengajar Al-QURAN Kesabaran itu menguji ketabahan seseorang. Setiap kesabaran yang disusuli dengan keikhlasan akan menjanjikan ganjaran yang lumayan di akhirat. Sayangi diri anda terlebih dahulu sebelum menyayangi orang lain. Jadikanlah apa yang dilihat oleh mata itu untuk kita berfikir, dari berfikir itu rasakan dalam hati kebesaran Penciptanya. Allah tidak memandang amalan yang banyak tetapi amalan yang ikhlas, sedangkan ikhlas itu rahsia Allah. Wanita adalah hiasan dunia, sabaik-baik hiasan adalah wanita solehah yang akan membahagiakan syurga di dunia Kejayaan Jin dan Manusia itu terletak pada agama. Sejauh mana dia dapat taat pada perintah Allah dan mengikut sunnah Rasulullah itu yang akan menjamin kebahagiaan hidup di dunia dan akhirat. Sebaik-baik manusia adalah manusia yang menghafal AL- QURAN Janganlah kamu merasa lemah dan berdukacita... Sesungguhnya kau adalah yang kuat seandainya kau beriman kepada Allah Kejayaan, kemenangan hanyalah milik orang yang berusaha. Jaga diri, hiasi peribadi. Cinta pada bunga,bunga akan layu Cinta pada manusia,manusia akan mati TAPI Cinta pada ALLAH adalah

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iada hadiah yang lebih berharga daripada nasihat yang baik"Kata-Kata Hikmat"Barang siapa yang tidak menjaga DIRINYA, maka tidak bergunalah ilmunya......"(Imam Ghazali)

Kalau manusia ini mengejar kasih Allah, tidak akan timbul perselisihan dan perbalahan. Jika manusia sesama manusia, mengejar kasih manusia, itulah rahsia manusia itu bersaing dan berbalah.

\"...Kemudian apabila sampai ajal mereka, tiadalah dapat mereka meminta dikemudiankan sesaat pun dan tidak pula mereka dapat meminta didahulukan.\" (AnNahl:61)

bukan senang nak jadi senang bukan susah nak jadi susah

Tiada masalah yang tidak boleh diselesaikan secara kebetulan atau suratan tetapi setiap masalah yang dicari mesti ada jalan tertentu bagi seseorang untuk menyelesaikannya melainkan diri sendiri yang menimbulkan masalah sendiri.

....kadang-kadang dalam perjalanan merentasi menujunya yang satu, berbagai dugaan yang menimpa....meratah keimanan kita satu persatu....kekadang rasanya tak mampu.... kadang-kadang mahu beralah.....tapi di sana ada kebahgiaan hakiki....

Redha Allah itu bergantung kepada redha kedua ibu bapa dan marah Allah juga bergantung kepada marah kedua ibu bapa .

Hiburan itu tidak mesti membahagiakan tapi kebahagiaan itu sudah pasti menghiburkan.

Setiap manusia pernah merasai kejayaan dan juga kegagalan dan setiap kejayaan dan kegagalan yang dirasai oleh manusia

mempunyai hikmah dan pengajarannya yang tersembunyi disebaliknya.

Ilmu mu yang manfaat,sedekah mu yang ikhlas dan orang yang soleh,itulah syarat yang dituntut di ALAM BAKA....

God be with you, be happy and keep up the rituos live

Wanita adalah hiasan dunia,seindah hiasan adalah wanita solehah yang akan membahagiakan syurga didalam rumahtangga.

Sebaik-baik manusia adalah orang yang belajar dan mengajar Al-QURAN

Kesabaran itu menguji ketabahan seseorang. Setiap kesabaran yang disusuli dengan keikhlasan akan menjanjikan ganjaran yang lumayan di akhirat.

Sayangi diri anda terlebih dahulu sebelum menyayangi orang lain.

Jadikanlah apa yang dilihat oleh mata itu untuk kita berfikir, dari berfikir itu rasakan dalam hati kebesaran Penciptanya.

Allah tidak memandang amalan yang banyak tetapi amalan yang ikhlas, sedangkan ikhlas itu rahsia Allah.

Wanita adalah hiasan dunia, sabaik-baik hiasan adalah wanita solehah yang akan membahagiakan syurga di dunia

Kejayaan Jin dan Manusia itu terletak pada agama. Sejauh mana dia dapat taat pada perintah Allah dan mengikut sunnah Rasulullah itu yang akan menjamin kebahagiaan hidup di dunia dan akhirat.

Sebaik-baik manusia adalah

manusia yang menghafal AL-QURAN

Janganlah kamu merasa lemah dan berdukacita... Sesungguhnya kau adalah yang kuat seandainya kau beriman kepada Allah

Kejayaan, kemenangan hanyalah milik orang yang berusaha.

Jaga diri, hiasi peribadi.

Cinta pada bunga,bunga akan layu Cinta pada manusia,manusia akan mati TAPI Cinta pada ALLAH adalah cinta yang kekal abadi.

Orang yang mendapat pertolongan daripada Allah adalah orang yang bertakwa dan selalu ingat kepadaNya.

Cita-cita tanpa usaha ibaratkan mimpi yang indah dan membawa kegagalan dan kekesalan di dalam diri kelak.

Manusia Hawa diciptakan daripada rusuk Adam, bukan dari kepalanya untuk dijunjungi, dan bukan pula dari kakinya untuk dijadikan pengalas, tetapi dari sisinya, untuk dijadikan teman hidupnya, dekat dengan lengannya untuk dilindungi, dan dekat dengan hatinya untuk dicintai.

Sabar terbahagi kepada dua iaitu sabar dalam mengawal daripada apa yang kamu tidak kehendaki dan sabar dalam mengejar apa yang kamu kehendaki.

Jadikanlah hari ini lebih baik dari semalam

Kebiasaan yang selalu diamalkan akan menjadi tabiat dan sesungguhnya amatlah sukar kepada individu mengikis sesuatu yang dipanggil tabiat.

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31. Don't ask what you demand for life but ask what life demands from you.

32. Kejari cita-cita sebelum mengejari cinta.

33. Cinta itu suci, jangan cemari cinta itu dengan jiwa yang lara

34. Keikhlasan cermin kesucian hati sabar itu penahan derita ketenangan hati tanda redhanya jiwa

35. Hidup tak selalunya indah tetapi hidup ini akan menjadi indah seandainya kita bersyukur dan bertaqwa kepada Allah.

36. Rakan yang paling jujur adalah seseorang yang bergelar musuh

37. Menghormati orang lain seperti anda menghormati diri anda sendiri. Menghormati diri lebih memberi kepercayaan pada kita dan hendaklah kita jaga diri kita dengan menghiasi perbadi kita.

38. Kejayaan dicipta oleh insan biasa yang berusaha secara luar biasa.

39. Fikirkan dosa dan pahala ..lalu laksanakan yang berpahala dan tinggalkan yang berdosa.

40. Tiada kejayaan semanis madu tanpa usaha sepahit hempedu.

41. Perjalanan yang jauh itu, dimulai dengan langkah pertama.

42. Jika mengharapkan suami sehebat Saidina Ali Karramallahu Wajhah maka, jadikanlah diri anda semulia Saidatina Fatimah Az-Zahra.

43. Apabila banyak berkata-berkata, maka banyak lahirnya tipu daya.

44. Sesungguhnya sedekah yang paling baik ialah sedekah amalan kita.

45. Matlamat adalah kompas kehidupan. Hidup tanpa matlamat umpama kapal tanpa

nakhoda, hanyut di tengah lautan. Terumbang-ambing dipukul arus dan gelombang kehidupan. Jika bernasib baik, terdamparlah ia di tepian, jika nasibnya malang, maka hanyutlah ia dan terus dipukul ombak dan badai yang akhirnya akan karam.

46. Tuhan menciptakan kita 2 mata untuk melihat, 2 tangan untuk memegang, 2 kaki untuk berjalan tetapi kenapa Tuhan hanya menciptakan sekeping hati??? Kerana Tuhan mengamanahkan pada kita untuk mencarinya.

47. Gadisku. Jadilah seorang yang solehah kepada mujahid yang kau sayangi.....ingatilah akan kejadianmu yang unik dan simbolik itu.....hargailah masa mudamu dan renungilah masa tuamu itu.....Insya-Allah kau akan diberkati Illahi.

48. Kejayaan hari esok bermula dengan usaha hari ini.

49. Cinta yang kekal abadi adalah cinta Illahi.

50. Cinta yang berlandaskan suci tidak pernah memungkiri janji.

51. Membaca membentuk keperibadian,Menulis membentuk kesempurnaan....

52. Solatlah kamu sebelum kamu disolatkan...

53. Solat itu ibarat tiang agama,Jika kukuh tiang itu maka kukuhlah solatnya.....

54. Hidup ini sementara....Jadikanlah ia penuh bermakna.....

55. Tragedi yang paling dahsyat dalam hidup seseorang adalah dia tidak kenal siapa penciptanya, siapa dirinya, apa tujuan hidupnya dan di manakah destinasi terakhir yang akan menjadi persinggahannya.

56. Sabda Rasullulah s.a.w : Lihatlah kepada orang yang berada di bawah kamu dan janganlah kamu melihat kepada orang yang berada di atas kamu. maka ia lebih nyata bahawa

kamu tidak akan menghina nikmat Allah atas kamu.( riwayat al-Bukhari & Muslim )

57. Kecantikan tidak terletak pada wajah seseorang tapi pada mata yang memandang.

58. Ilmu dunia jika digunakan untuk kebaikan maka baiklah jadinya dan jika dihalakan pada kejahatan maka jahatlah jadinya.

59. Orang tidak kisah setakat mana yang anda tahu (berilmu), sehinggalah mereka tahu yang anda kisah terhadap mereka.

60. Carilah ilmu itu sehingga jangan lupa beribadat,dan beribadatlah sehingga jangan lupa mencari ilmu.

61. Kita tidak boleh hanya berjaya dalam akademik,tetapi sahsiah juga haruslah cemerlang.

62. Tuturkata yang lemah lembut itu lebih berkesan dari yang kasar dan tidak sopan.

63. Cakap orang tidak semestinya dipedulikan tetapi nasihat dari seseorang mesti diberi perhatian.

64. Kejayaan sebenar adalah terletak pada tidak pernah jatuhnya seseorang....tetapi manusia mana yang tidak pernah melakukan kesalahan. Oleh itu kejayaan yang sebenar-benarnya adalah kesanggupan tegak kembali pada setiap kali jatuh...

65. Tiada apa yang paling berharga di dunia ini selain dari kebahagiaan..tiada apa yang paling memilukan selain dari kesedihan.

66. \" Barangsiapa yang mendedahkan walau sehelai bulu romanya(auratnya), sesungguhnya dia telah membina sebuah mahligai untuk ibubapanya di NERAKA...\"

67. Kita sering lupa apabila diuji dengan nikmat daripada diuji dengan bala.

68. Tiada pengorbanan tanpa darah dan air mata.pegorbanan menuntut darah dan air mata....

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69. Sesuatu kehidupan itu amat berharga.Janganlah disia-siakan ,melainkan pada apa yang terbaik

70. Kejayaan bermula dengan impian di fikiran .Menulisnya adalah langkah kedua. Melakukan sesuatu untuk merealisasikan merupakan langkah ketiga.

71. Tidak berbuat apa-apa ialah kubur kehidupan. HIdup tanpa bekerja ialah hidup tanpa kebahagiaan.

72. Disiplin adalah ramuan tersembunyi di mana menukar seseorang yang biasa kepada orang yang penting.

73. Setiap kali bangun dari tidur, berfikirlah tentang kehidupan anda yang baru bermula.

74. Orang yang hina adalah sentiasa mencela orang lain, manakala orang yang mulia adalah sentiasa mencela dirinya.

75. Kita boleh mengubah diri kita dengan mengubah pemikiran, sikap dan amalan.

76. Meninggi suara merendahkan kuasa. Orang yang berlagak sahaja yang pandai berkata-kata. Orang yang bijak sentiasa mendengar dahulu.

77. Tingkah laku diri mencerminkan peribadi lebih daripada apa yang kita katakan tentang diri sendiri.

78. Cinta itu unik dan bermakna jika pandai menilainya.

79. Kecantikan itu terletak pada peribadi seseorang dan bukan pada rupa parasnya.

80. Tuhan manciptakan kita 2 mata untuk melihat, 2 tangan untuk memegang, 2 kaki untuk berjalan tetapi Tuhan hanya mencipta sekeping hati??? kerana Tuhan mengamanahkan kepadad kita untuk mencarinya.

81. Basahkan selalu lidahmu dengan zikrullah dan sucikan

hatimu dengan kalamullah.

82. Orang yg berjaya akan membuka peluang kepada orang yg gagal.

83. Hiburan hanya hiburkan anda sekarang...masa depan bukan bergantung kepada hiburan...berusahalah demi masa depan.

84. MINDA KECIL berbicara tentang MANUSIAMINDA SEDERHANA berbicara berkaitan PERISTIWAMINDA BESAR berbicara tentang IDEA

85. Sabar terbahagi kepada dua iaitu sabar dalam mengawal daripada apa yang kamu tidak kehendaki dan sabar dalam mengejar apa yang dikehendaki.

86. Mendiamkan diri lebih baik daripada membuka mulut....

87. Ilmu tanpa amal ibarat pohon tidak berbuah.

88. Jatuh kita pada hari ini bukan untuk mematahkan semangat dan harapan tapi pendorong kita dihari kemudian.

89. Jangan lari dari masalah kalau tidak anda kan menjadi orang bermasalah seboleh-bolehnya cubalah selesaikannya. Disitulah bermulanya kematangan seseorang.

90. Orang yang sering tidak mempercayai orang lain, dia sendiri tidak boleh dipercayai....

91. Kita sering berdoa supaya diberi ketabahan dan kekuatan, bila diuji dengan masalah kenapa kita mengeluh....???

92. Sesungguhnya siang yang menjelma itu lebih baik dari malam yang gelap. Cari seberapa banyak Hikmah yang ada di siang hari . Jika inginkan sesuatu pastikan ianya menjadi kenyatanan yang akan dikenang buat selamanya.

93. Kejayaan yg diperoleh dpt

membantu: keluarga seseorang, kawan-kawan karib dan diri seseorang, jadi hendaklah kita berusaha dari sekarang untuk mencapai apa yang diingini......

94. Kebiasaan yang selalu diamalkan akan menjadi tabiat dan sesungguhnya amatlah sukar kepada individu mengikis sesuatu yang dipanggil tabiat.

95.Fikirkanlah! Guru sebagai pintu ilmu, namun demikian pelajarlah yang membukanya.

[edit] A Ability can take you to the

top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

o From Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly

o Interpretation: We miss people when we are separated from them.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder but makes the mind forget.

The acorn (apple) never falls far from the tree.

o Meaning: People are similar to their parents/their roots.

Act today only, tomorrow is too late

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

Actions speak louder than words.

o meaning: What you do is more important than what you say

Advice most needed is least heeded.

After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet.

o sometimes you have to do bad things to get good ones

All flowers are not in one garden.

All for one and one for all.

o Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

All frills and no knickers.

o Possible interpretation: All

style and no substance.

All fur coat and no knickers.

o Meaning: Very concerned with outward appearance and material things, but with no modesty.

All good things must come to an end.

All hat and no cattle.

All's fair in love and war.

o Interpretation: Love and War are arenas of complete passion that often obfuscate reason.

All's well that ends well.

o A play by William Shakespeare

o Variant: All is well that ends well. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [1]

All roads lead to Rome.

o Possible interpretation: However you try to go about things all will lead to the same conclusions

o Possible interpretation: Power draws all things to itself.

o Interpretation: The

heartland/metropolis (for better or worse) yields considerable power.

o Meaning: The first roads were built by the Romans and at the time of the Roman empire, all roads led to Rome.

All sizzle and no steak.

o Possible interpretation: All style and no substance

All that glisters is not gold.

o William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, scene 7.

o Often corrupted to: All that glitters is not gold.

o Possible interpretation: Not everything is what it appears to be.

All the world is your country, to do good is your religion.

o Possible interpretation: All talk and appearance and little or no substance.

All things come to those who wait.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

Always care about your flowers and your friends. Otherwise they'll fade, and soon your house will be empty.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

o Originated in the 1900s as a marketing slogan dreamt up by American growers concerned that the temperance movement would cut into sales of apple cider. (Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire, Random House, 2001, ISBN 0375501290, p. 22, cf. p. 9 & 50)

April showers bring May flowers.

o Meaning: Something seeming bad or boring now brings good things in the future.

As fit as a fiddle.

o Meaning: very fit and well

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

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

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

o Similar to You reap what you sow

Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.

o Interpretation: There are some things I'd rather not say, so don't ask me!

o Cf. Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1773): "Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs"

Aught for naught, and a penny change.

o Interpretation: you can't get something for nothing -- you might as well expect to get paid to take it.

[edit] B Bad news travels fast. A bad penny always turns

up.

o Meaning: Your mistakes will come back to haunt you. Or Bad people will always return.

A bad settlement is better than a good lawsuit.

A bad workman blames his tools.

o George Herbert reports early English variants in Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, Etc. (1640):

Never hand an ill workman good tools.

An ill labourer quarrels with his tools.

The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse; 18

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81, New York: John Wurtele Lovell, Pub.; pp. 440 & 454

o Compare the older French proverb:

Outil: ... Meſchant ouvrier ne trouvera ia bons outils: Prov. A bungler cannot find (or fit himself with) with good tools.

Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611)

o Galen explains clearly, if less succinctly, in De Causis Procatarcticis (2nd c. A.D.), VI. 63–65:

They blame their tools: why did the carpenter make the bed so badly, if he was any good? He will reply: "Because I used a poor axe and a thick gimlet, because I did not have a rule, I lost my hammer, and the hatchet was blunt", and other things of this kind. And the scribe, asked why he wrote so badly, will say that the paper was rough, the ink too fluid, the pen blunt, that he did not have a smoother, so that he could not

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write any better. Once again, this man holds his material responsible, and blames his tools as well, in mentioning the pen and smoother. And who does not know that artisans make themselves responsible for the deficiencies in their work too, when they cannot pin the blame on material and tools?

Galen On Antecedent Ca

uses, Tr. R. J. Hankinson, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0521622506, p. 90–

93

The ball is in your court.

o Meaning: It's up to you to decide.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

o Meaning: People who are busy complaining rarely take more concrete hostile action.

o Alternate meaning: Those who cast threats will seldom follow through with them

Barking up the wrong tree.

Be careful before every step.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.

Before criticizing a man, walk a mile in his shoes.

o Meaning: One should not criticize a person without understanding their situation.

Beggars can't be choosers.

o Meaning: Those who are in need of help can't afford to be too demanding.

Beginning is half done.

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o Quoted by Dr. Robert Schuller, West Coast clergyman.

The belly has no ears.

o This Proverb intimates, that there is no arguing the Matter with Hunger,the Mother of Impatience and Anger. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [2]

o I don't argue with the body Jerry. It's an argument you can't win. - Kramer

A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow.

A bellyful of food is a good one.

The best is yet to come.

The best of friends need not speak face to face.

The best things come in small packages.

The best things in life are free.

Better is the enemy of good.

Better late than never.

o Meaning: It's better to make an effort to keep an appointment than to give up altogether when you discover you will be late.

Better safe than sorry.

o Meaning: It is better to take precautions when it's possible that something can go amiss than to regret doing nothing later if something should indeed go wrong.

Better the devil you know (than the one you don't).

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

o Variant: Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln but taken from Solomon's Proverbs)

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

o A reference to the Trojan Horse

Beware of the Bear when he tucks in his shirt.

Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. (Matthew; bible quote)

A big tree attracts the woodsman's axe.

o Meaning: Great people will attract great criticism.

o Possible interpretation: The rich make good targets for thieves and burglars.

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

o John Bunyan cites this traditional proverb in The Pilgrim's Progress, (1678):

So are the men of this world: They must have all their good things now; they cannot stay till the next year, that is, until the next world, for their portion of good. That proverb, "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," is of more authority with them than are all the divine

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testimonies of the good of the world to come.

Birds of a feather flock together.

o Variant: Birds of the same feather flock together.

Meaning: People who are similar to one another tend to stay together.

Bitter pills may have blessed effects.

o Meaning: Things that seem hard to take or handle at first may have positive and beneficial outcomes.

Blood is thicker than water.

o Meaning: Bonds between family members are stronger than other relationships.

Blood will out.

o Meaning: A person's ancestry or upbringing will eventually show.

Bloom where you are planted.

o Meaning: Excel and flourish where you grow up, or where you fit in; be good at what you do.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

o Robert Burton cites this traditional proverb in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621):

It is an old saying, "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword:" and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.

Part I, Section II, Member IV, Subsection IV

o Compare: "The pen is mightier than the sword."

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

Born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth.

o Meaning: Born in a rich family.

Boys will be boys.

o Meaning: Boys are traditionally expected to misbehave, while girls are not.

Brag is a good Dog, but Holdfast is a better

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o This Proverb is a Taunt upon Braggadoccio's, who talk big, boast, and rattle:It is also a Memento for such who make plentiful promises to do well for thefuture but are suspected to want Constancy and Resolution to makethem good. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [3]

Brain is better than brawn.

Bread is the stuff of life.

Break the Law as the Law should be beaten.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

o Chinese Version: One bitten by a snake for a snap dreads a rope for a decade.一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳

o Indian Version: The one burnt by hot milk drinks even cold buttermilk with precaution. Transliteration: Doodh ka jala chhanchh ko bhi phoonk phoonk ke peeta hai.

o Meaning: Similar to "Once bitten, twice shy"

o This Proverb intimates, That it is natural for all living Creatures, whether rational or irrational,to consult their own Security, and Self-Preservation; and whether they act by Instinct or Reason, it stilltends to some care of avoiding those things that have already done them an Injury. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [4]

Buy the best and you only cry once.

[edit] C The calm (comes) before

the storm. A camel is a horse

designed by committee.

o Meaning: a vision is more perfect from the individual rather than a group of people where it becomes anodyne.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

o Attributed to Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi

A cat may look at a king.

o Meaning: If a cat may look at the king - then I have a right to look where I please.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

o Meaning: The strength of any group depends on the individual strength of each of its members.

The child is father to the man.

o Meaning: What is true of a child will still be true when it grows up; or, early experiences shape future character.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

o Meaning: You cannot say a bad thing if you don't speak at all.

The coat makes the man.

A coin of gold is delighting in a bag of silver coins

o Alternative meaning: One who is unique is often praised or receives more pleasure.

Cometh the hour cometh the man.

o (Some information about the phrase and

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about its use by a 1940's cricketer)

A constant guest is never welcome.

A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once.

o From William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar[1]

o Meaning: The valiant (the brave) take no account of possible danger, whereas cowards are constantly fearing the worst. [2]

The cure is worse than the disease.

The customer is always right.

[edit] D Damned if you do,

damned if you don't. o Lorenzo Dow (d.

1834).[3]

o Meaning: Refers to a situation where both possibilities will lead to harm or blame.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

The difference between a man and a cat or a dog is that only a man can write the names of the cat and the dog.

Different strokes for different folks.

o Meaning: Someone prefers one thing; others, something different.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

o Derived from "The better part of valour is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life." Falstaff in Shakespere's Henry IV Part One.

o Meaning: Caution is preferable to rash bravery.

Does a One Legged Duck swim in circles?

--alternate saying for "Does a bear shit in the woods" and a common response to an obvious answer yes to a silly question.

Do it today, tomorrow it may be against the law.

Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

Don't bark if you can't bite.

o meaning - Don't complain if you can't enforce your point of view.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

o Meaning: Do not take on more

responsibility than you can handle at any one time.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

o Meaning: Behave respectfully or deferentially to those who provide for you.

Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

Don't burn your bridges.

o Meaning: Do not act in such a way as to leave yourself no alternative or no opportunity to "retreat."

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

Don't cross a bridge before you come to it.

o Meaning: Don't fret unnecessarily about future problems.

Don't cry over spilt milk.

o Meaning: Don't worry about things that have already happened.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

o Interpretation: Do not act to spite someone else if it is damaging to yourself.

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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

o Meaning: Don't do something to yourself which causes your own downfall.

Don't enter your nose in the affairs of others.

o Meaning: Do not mix yourself in others problems.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

Don't have too many irons in the fire.

o Possible interpretation: Do not take on more responsibility than you can handle.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

o Meaning: Do not judge by appearances.

Don't judge a man by the size of his hat, but by the angle of his tilt.

Don't let procrastination eat your own clock.

o Meaning: Don't procrastinate most of the time as your chances and opportunities are wasted away.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

o Possible interpretation: Do

not look for faults in a gift.

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.

o Don't exaggerate small things / Don't make a big deal out of something minor.

Don't mend what ain't broken.

o Alternatively, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

o Alternatively, Leave well enough alone.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

o Meaning: Do not rest all your hopes on one eventuality; plan for several cases.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

o Meaning: Do things in the correct order.

o Cf. Dan Michael of Northgate, Ayenbite of Inwyt (1340): "Many religious folk set the plough before the oxen." (Middle English: "Moche uolk of religion зetteþ þe зuolз be-uore þe oksen.")

Don't raise more Demons than you can lay down.

o Meaning: Do not do more wrongs than you can deal with, or put right.

Don't shut the barn door after the horse is gone.

o Possible interpretation: Prepare for things to go wrong rather than worrying about them after the fact.

Don't spit into the wind.

o Or, Don't piss into the wind.

o Meaning, don't take actions which you know will harm yourself or be futile.

Don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar.

o Meaning: Don't jeopardize a project - especially a large one - by being miserly or cutting corners.

A ha'p'orth (pronounced haypeth) is a halfpenny-worth, i.e. a very small amount.

Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.

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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

o Possible interpretation: Do not, in an attempt to remove something undesirable, lose things that are valuable.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and you'll annoy the pig.

o Meaning: Don't go into a relationship expecting to change your partner, it doesn't work.

Don't worry, God has a plan.

- Jiv

o

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

o Based on the Bible (Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:31).[4]; a statement of the ethic of reciprocity

Doctors make the worst patients.

The dog is nude though the clothing cost a penny.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Dreams are not the ones which come when you sleep, but they are the ones which will not let you sleep.

o Meaning: Dreams in your sleep are different from the dreams of your future.

A drop of knowledge is greater than an ocean of strength.

A dull pencil is greater than the sharpest memory.

[edit] E Each to his own taste

o French: Chacun à son goût

o Alternatively: à chacun son goût - "To each his own".

The early bird catches the worm. But the second mouse gets the cheese.

The early bird gets (or catches) the worm.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. (attibuted to Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)

Education is a progressive discovering of our own ignorance. <W. Durrant>

Education makes machines which act like

men and produces men who act like machines

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference!

An empty vessel makes the most noise

o Meaning: Those who lack intelligence speak the most/loudest.

o Those with the least understanding often complain about things the most.

The ends justify the means.

o Ovid, Heroides (c. 10 BC): Exitus acta probat. See also: Means and ends.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The English are a nation of shopkeepers

o (Attributed to Napoleon)

An Englishman's home is his castle.

o Variant of "A man's home is his castle."

Enjoy what you don't know.

Even a broken/stopped clock is right twice a day.

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Even a dog can distinguish between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Even a dog can make it to the top when there's a flood.

Even an old dog likes to be patted on the head and told, "Good boy!" -Justice Holmes

Even angels have teeth.

o Nathaniel Wenger "Poetry to Grow a Tree"

Even the best perfumes of the world lose their fragrance when you are not around me.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

*Meaning: When something bad happens there is always some good that comes of it.

Every dog has its day. o Variation on a

quote from Hamlet: "...whatever Hercules says, the cat will mew and dog will have its day."

Every rose has its thorn.

o Meaning: Every good thing has its downside

Everyday living is life lessons. by Allen Zimama.

o Meaning: Every negative thing has positive aspects.

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die.

Everything can be justified until it happens to you.

Everything changes; everything stays the same.

Everything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Everything in its own time.

Everything with time

The exception proves the rule.

o Often mistakenly referred to as a misquote. In reality, the Latin probate may mean either to probe or to prove. The key is that prove in this case carries the older meaning of to test, as in the phrases proving (testing) ground or the proof (test) of the pudding is in the eating.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

o Translaton: If you kill a neighbor's ox you must buy him a new one. (In biblical times.)

o Possible interpretation: retribution should be equitable,

proportionate and "fit the crime". Biblical reference, modern usage often connotes support for capital punishment.

o A common response, often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, is "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind," is often used as a criticism for this concept, implying that "an eye for an eye" will only perpetuate a potentially endless cycle of violence.

[edit] F Failure is not falling down,

you fail when you don't get back up.

Failure is the first step to success.

Failure is the stepping stone for success.

o Failing will make you more determined to succeed the next time you try, or make you put in more effort to get something right with successive attempts.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

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o Meaning: Not speaking up or taking action to achieve things (in this case, fall in love) will never get you anywhere (or, help you fall in love).

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

o Definition: Fail seven times, and succeed the eighth. (Keep trying and you will succeed.)

o Translation of the Japanese proverb "Nana korobi ya oki", often associated with Daruma figurines.

Falling down does not signify failure but staying there does.

o Letting failing/falling is not failure in itself, but letting it get you down or stop trying is.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

o Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful.

Fifty percent of something is better than one hundred percent of nothing.

Fine feathers make fine birds.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

o Alternative: Actions speak louder than words.

Fingers were invented before knives and forks.

First come, first served.

First deserve, then desire.

The first step to health is to know that we are sick.

First things first.

o Meaning: Do more important things before other things.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

o Meaning: To make the same mistake over again is your own fault.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

o Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

o Proverb reported by George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651), #495

Forewarned is forearmed.

o If one is told about an event beforehand, they can (adequately) prepare.

Forgive, but don't forget.

o Let things/issues go or pass, but don't forget what they were, why they happened, other consequences, etc. Can lead to knowledge about not repeating the same mistake.

Fortune favours the brave.

A fox smells its own lair first. Or: A fox smells its own stink first.

o Meaning: One knows where they belong, and knows when they make a mistake.

Fretting cares make grey hairs.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

o Meaning: A genuine friend is with you even in times of trouble.

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From those to whom much is given, much is expected.

o Biblical quote Luke 12:48

[edit] G Garbage in, Garbage out.

o Sometimes abbreviated GIGO.

Get four Episcopalians together and a fifth will always appear. (Humor intended!)

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

Give a dog a bad name and he'll live up to it. (or repay you for it)

o Implying that people live up to stereotypes given to them or that individuals are corrupted by the illtreatment that goes with being given a bad name

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

o Knowledge is the best charity.

o To learn a lesson is a far better reward than to receive a gift.

o It is better to know how to help yourself than to beg from others.

Give a man a match, he shall be warm for a moment. Light a man on fire and he shall be warm for the rest of his life.

Give and take is fair play.

Give, and ye shall receive.

Give credit where credit is due.

o Variant: Give the Devil his due.

Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.

o meaning: Once concessions have been made to someone they will demand a great deal more

o Variant: Give the Camel and inch and it will take an ell.

o Variant: Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.

Give people a common enemy and hopefully they will work together

Give respect, take respect.

Go with the flow

God cures and the physician takes the fee.

God don't like ugly and he ain't stuck on pretty.

God takes care of drunks.

A good beginning makes (for) a good ending.

o Chinese Version: A good beginning is half a succession-好的开始是成功的一半

o Meaning: Planning is the key to success.

Good eating deserves good drinking.

A good enemy is a better person than a false friend.

Good fences make good neighbors.

o Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"

A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

Good men are hard to find.

A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.

Good wine needs no bush.

o Meaning: Something desirable of quality and substance need not be embellished. It was customary since early times to hang a grapevine, ivy or other greenery over the door of a tavern or way stop to advertise the availability of drink within, once

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something establishes a good reputation for quality the advertisement is rendered superfluous.

The grass is always greener on the other side...

o Meaning: You will always want what you don't (or can't) have.

Great cry little wool.

Great events cast their shadows before them.

Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

o Great minds think alike, as do lesser ones.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

o meaning: Wonderful things come from tiny things.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

o Albert Einstein

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do..

The greatest thing that could happen in my lifetime is for all my ideas to be stolen.

Green leaves and brown leaves fall from the same tree.

o Many possible interpretations- Things change over time- If you are good at one aspect of a skill, you should be skilled at the other aspects, such as a painter who says he can't draw, yet both painting and drawing are aspects of art.- No matter of the outside, we are all the same inside.

Grow where you are planted.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

Guns for show, knives for a pro.

[edit] H A half truth is a whole lie. (You can't) Have your

cake and eat it too

o Interpretation: Said to someone that needs to compromise between two ends.

o Cf. George Herbert The Sizz "Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it"

The head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm.

He doesn't boast who does the most

He laughs best who laughs last

Health is wealth

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Heritage is invaluable

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty

o Interpretation: 20-20 refers to perfect vision. The best choice is obvious when you can see how events played out.

Home is where the heart is

[edit] I I came, I saw, I conquered

o Said by Julius Caesar, spoken as Veni, Vidi, Vici during a message to the Roman senate

I complained I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

I have the whole world against me, I show my back and the whole world is following me.

I know I know nothing

o From Socrates defence speech

I think, therefore I am

o Descartes' most famous statement

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(Cogito Ergo Sum in Latin)

I wants, don't gets.

o An alternative used in the black British community is: "Ask it, Ask it don't get... Get it, get it don't want."

I was born on a Friday, but not last Friday.

o Alternative: I wasn't born yesterday.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings. 'Alt.' The devil makes work for idle hands.

If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

If all else fails, try the obvious.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

o Cf. William Edward Hickson's Try and Try again"Tis a lesson you should heed:Try, try, try again.If at first you don't succeed,Try, try, try again"

If God had wanted man to fly, he would have given him wings.

If in doubt go left.

If in doubt, pick "C"

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

o Variation: If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

If it can't be cured, it must be endured.

o From Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

If it's too good to be true, then it probably is.

If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

If something can go wrong, it will.

o Murphy's Law

If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.

o "If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain", Answers.com

If the shoe fits, wear it.

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

If you believe that dreams can come true be prepared for the occasional nightmare.

If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.

o Alternatively: You get what you pay for

If you buy quality, you only cry once.

If you can't be good, be careful.

If you can't be good, be good at it.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

If you can't beat them, join them.

If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

If you cross your bridges before you come to them, you will have to pay the toll twice.

If you don't buy a ticket, you can't win the raffle.

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all

If you don't know where you're going, any train will get you there.

If you fake it, you can't make it.

If you fall off a cliff, you might as well try to fly. After all, you got nothing to lose.

If you keep your mouth shut, you won't put your foot in it.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they

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return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

If you snooze you lose

If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [5]

If you want a thing done right, do it yourself.

If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.

If you want to judge a man's character, give him power.

If you were born to be shot, you'll never be hanged.

If you're in a hole, stop digging.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

If you're prepared to be confused, be prepared for a sore bum

Ignorance is bliss.

o Common mal-shortening of "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.

o Thomas Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" [[6]]

o The more you know, you more you want to know / The more you learn about things, the more

you learn about your ignorance of things

Impossible itself says I'm Possible

In for a penny, in for a pound.

o Alternate version: In for a dime, in for a dollar.

In one ear and out the other.

o Cf. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: "One eare it heard, at the other out it went"

In order to get where you want to go, you first have to leave where you are.

o From Sandy Elsberg's Bread Winner, Bread Baker; Upline Press, Charlottesville, VA; 1977, p. 80

In the end, a man's motives are second to his accomplishments.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

In the law there are no small cases, only small lawyers.

o Ben Harlow

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

o Emerson

In the mind of thieves the moon is always shining.

o Marathi proverb, meaning: dishonest persons have to be always on the alert to avoid getting caught.

Infatuations are a plenty. Love is rare. - Pashi

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

o Alternatively "Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results"

Is the Pope a Catholic?

o Do bears shit in the woods?

o Used in response to what is considered to be a question with an extremely obvious answer.

It ain't over till the fat lady sings.

o Variation: Church ain't over until the fat lady sings.

o Attributed as an old Southern saying in Smith & Smith, Southern Words and Sayings (1976), according to Quinion, Michael (21 August 1999).

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"It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings". World Wide Words. Retrieved on 2007-01-23.

It's a blessing in disguise.

It's a cracked pitcher that goes longest to the well.

It's a good horse that never stumbles.

It's a long lane that has no turning.

It's a poor job that can't stand at least one supervisor.

It's always darkest before the dawn

It's always the baker's children who have no bread.

It's an ill wind that blows no good.

It's better to be safe than sorry.

It's better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt.

It is better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees.

It's better to give than to receive.

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

It's better to have something you don't need than to need something you don't have.

It's better to want something you can't have than have something you don't want.

It's cheaper to keep her.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

o Attributed to Grace Hopper

It's easy to be wise after the event.

It's never too late to mend.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

It's not over till it's over.

o Yogi Berra

o Often attributed to sportscaster Dan Cook (1978)

It is not so much the gift that is given but the way in which the gift is driven.

It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion of the ocean.

It's often a person's mouth broke their nose.

o Meaning: People talk themselves into trouble.

It's the early bird that gets the worm.

It's the empty can that makes the most noise.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

It is through the small things we do that we learn, not the big things

It never rains, but it pours.

o Alternatively: When it rains, it pours.

It pays to pay attention.

o Rewards come to those who are attentive, or wary of events in the past/present/future.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

o Alternatively: It takes all sorts to make the world go round.

o Alternatively: It takes all kinds to make the world go round.

It takes both rain and sunshine to make rainbows

o It takes good and bad to make good things in the future, or make them stand out.

It takes two to lie — one to lie and one to listen.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

It takes two to tango.

[edit] J

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Jack of all trades and master of none. (18th Century)

o Literal meaning: Anyone who's good at everything is not a master of anything.

Joan is as good as my lady in the dark. (17th Century)

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

o Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Ch. 64, line 12. 千里之行,始于足下

Justice delayed is justice denied.(Legal Proverb, India)

Justice pleaseth few in their own house.

o Meaning: No one ever blames themselves for anything.

[edit] K Keep some till more

come. o Interpretation:

Save something until the next stock comes.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. (18th Century)

The key to all action lies in belief.

Kindness, like grain, increase by sowing.

A kingdom is lost for want of a shoe.

o See: "For want of a nail the shoe is lost, ..."

Knaves and fools divide the world.

Knowledge creates mysteries.

Knowledge is power. (17th Century)

[edit] L Laugh and the world

laughs with you .. Cry and you will find no one with tears.

Laugh when you're happy, cry when you're sad, and do both when you're the happiest you've ever been.

Laughter is the best medicine for them who do not know how to laugh.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

The law is a jealous mistress.

o - Professor Ferdinand Fairfax Stone, Tulane Law School, early and mid 1960s.

Law is the solemn expression of legislative will.

Lead to Success, Follow to Failure

Learn to walk before you run.

o Possible interpretation: Do not rush into what you do not know.

o Alt. interpretation: Learn the basics before you start using more complex tools or methods

Least said sooner mended.

o meaning: those who speak less get more done

o Alt. Interpretation: dwelling on the problem/blame makes it worse and delays the ability to get on and fix things

Leave it alone and it will grow on its own.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

o Jesus Christ

Let sleeping dogs lie.

o Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder[citation needed]

Let the cobbler stick to his last.

Let us go hand in hand,not one before another.

A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.

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o Charles Spurgeon. A great lie may be widely accepted before the truth comes to light.

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

o meaning: When you get revenge, you will be punished in some way or other

Life begins at forty.

Life does not come with any guarantees

Life imitates art

Life imitates chess -Kasparov

Life is a perception of your own reality.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

o Attributed to John Lennon

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.

o Quote from song sung by Zorba from the musical 'Zorba' by Kander and Ebb

Life is what you make of it.

o meaning: Nothing's going to change unless you do something about it

Life's battle don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Like cures like.

o Meaning: A person can better help another if they have something in common.

Like father, like son.

Like water off a duck's back.

o interpretation: Do not let this impact you, but let it pass off you like water rolls off of a ducks back.

Little bean comes around his little salary

Little by little and bit by bit.

o Meaning: Do things slowly and carefully

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

o A little Learning is a dangerous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking largely sobers us again. ~ Alexander Pope

A little pot is easily hot.

Live and let live.

o Alternative: Live simply to let others simply live.

A loaded wagon makes no noise.

o People with real wealth don't talk about it.

Long absent, soon forgotten.

The longest mile is the last mile home.

Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.

o Possible interpretation: Take care of the details. (12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound.)

o Alt. interpretation: Save every penny

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you can and it will build up into a significant amount of money.

Look before you leap.

Look on the sunny side of life.

Loose lips sink ships.

o World Wartime mantra encouraging people to avoid talking about things which could have been overheard by spies

Love is a bridge between two hearts.

Love is anger disappointed.

Love is blind.

Love is like war, Easy to start, Hard to end, Impossible to forget.

Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without.

Love laughs at locksmiths.

Luck favors the prepared - Louis Pasteur

Luck is a mirror of hard work - Beslin

[edit] M Make a Friend when you

don't need One (from Urim)

o Possible interpretations:

Do the task while it is possible. Don't wait until you need help to ask for it.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Making a rod for your own back.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Man is truly himself when he's alone.

Man wasn't born to suffer but to carry on.

A man's home is his castle.

o William Blackstone refers to this traditional proverb in Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), Book 4, Chapter 16:

And the law of England has so particular and tender a regard to the immunity of a man's house, that it stiles it his castle, and will never suffer it to be violated

with immunity: agreeing herein with the sentiments of ancient Rome, as expressed in the works of Tully; quid enim sanctius, quid omni religione munitius, quam domus unusquisque civium?

Translation: What more sacred, what more strongly

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guarded by every holy feeling, than a man's own home?

Manners maketh the man.

o From 'Manners makyth man' - the motto of William of Wykeham(1320 - 1404)

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Many hands make light work

Many things are lost for want of asking.

Many words will not fill a bushel.

o This Proverb is a severe Taunt upon much Talking. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [7]

Marriage equals hell and bankruptcy.

Meaner than a junk-yard dog.

Meaning of life is not meaningful -- Allen Zimama

Measure twice, cut once.

o Perform verifying operations that have no cost (measure) before performing an operation that is irreversible and has significant consequences (cut).

Mind your P's and Q's.

o British: Mind your manners (origin theories)

Mirrors do everything we do, but they cannot think for themselves.

Misery loves company.

o interpretation: When one person is miserable they tend to act to make others as miserable as themselves.

A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile.

o Meaning: A miss is a miss regardless the distance

Missing the wood for the trees.

o Overlooking the more important issue.

Money can't buy everything, but everything needs money

Money cannot buy happiness.

Money for old rope.

o In the days of wooden-hulled sailing ships, ropes that were worn could be sold for use as caulking (pressed between the planks and often covered with tar to prevent seepage), or as filling for fenders, and so the ship's owner was paid even for old rope.

The money is burning a hole in my pocket.

(love of)Money is the root of all evil.

Money makes the mare go.

Money makes the world go around.

Money talks; mine always says, "Good-bye!"

Money talks.

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o Variant: Money talks, bullshit walks.

o Related: Talk is cheap.

o Related: Actions speak louder than words.

o meaning: It's easy to say you believe something, but people are more likely to risk cash or possessions on something they truly believe.

o meaning: its time to stop living in the fantasy world, and live in the real world.

Monkey see, monkey do.

Morals are for others to follow.

More haste, less speed.

o More haste at a task will lead to the task being completed less speedily. As with many English proverbs, it describes consequences rather than giving an order.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

o From the French: Plus ça change, c'est la même chose.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

The more you study, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. The less you know the more you study.

[edit] N The nail that sticks up will

be hammered down. Nature never did betray

the heart. that loved her.

Nature, time, and patience are three great physicians.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Necessity is the mother of all invention, but Laziness is the father. -[Benjamin Franklin]

Ne'er cast a clout till May be out. (Not known if 'May' relates to the month of May or may blossom).

o Don't remove winter vests (undergarments) until summer arrives.

Never change, for the sake of others. There will be no one like you if you change. (GPL)

Never judge the book by its cover.

o meaning: Do not let a quick/superficial

evaluation pass for a deep/quality one. Be willing to recheck. Measure twice, cut once.

Never leave a woman to do a man's work.

o alternate version, Never let a monkey to do a man's job, Never send a woman to do a man's job

o Meaning: Leaving\employing someone less qualified to do your work will produce undesired results.

Never let a man do a woman's job.

o Feminist phrase; Men are poorer than women, skill-wise.

Never let the right hand know what the left hand is doing.

o Possible interpretation: Do not boast in giving to the poor- anonymous is best.

o Possible interpretation: Secrecy insures security

Never lie to your doctor.

Never lie to your lawyer.

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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Never put off till (until) tomorrow what you can do today.

Never say die.

o interpretation: Never give up.

Never say never.

Never smash a glass over a brick donkey.

Never trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you.

A new broom sweeps clean.

A night with Venus and a life with mercury.

o Anti-promiscuity adage, alluding to a 18th-century mercury-based folk treatment for syphilis

o Cited in Bartz, Diane, "Har, me hearties! Excavating Blackbeard's ship", Reuters (via Yahoo! News), 30 October 2006. URL accessed on 2006-11-01.

No man can serve two masters.

o Christian New Testament

No man is an island

o interpretation: Everybody needs other people.

No man is content with his lot.

No money, no justice.

No need to cry over spilled milk.

No news is good news.

No pain, no gain.

No time like the present.

Noblesse oblige.

o French expression: To be a member of the nobility carries obligations to care for the lower classes.

Nobody leaves us, we only leave others.

Not enough room to swing a cat

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Nothing to be feared in life, but understood.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

o Variant: Nothing ventured, nothing have. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [8]

Now the shit has really hit the fan.

Now we have doors so we can hide.

[edit] O An old dog will learn no

tricks. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [9]

Old is Gold

On your feet lose your seat.

One good turn deserves another. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [10]

o Meaning: You should return a favour done to you.

One grain of sand can tip the scale.

o Meaning: Any advantage, no matter how slight, can turn a hopeless situation into a fighting chance if used properly.

One hand washes the other. From the Latin MANUS MANAM LAVAT, meaning "Hand washes hand," or "One hand washes the other"; or impliedly, "You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours."

One man's junk is another man's treasure.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

o Meaning: What is liked by one person is disliked by another.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. - Ronald Reagan

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a

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lamb. - English, 17th century

o meaning: If you are going to incur a cost/risk, make sure to maximize the benefit for the cost/risk incurred.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel.

o Meaning: Corruption must be rooted out or else it will spread.

o Cf. Dan Michael of Northgate, Ayenbite of Inwyt (1340): "A rotten apple will spoil a great many sound ones." (Middle English: "A roted eppel amang þe holen: makeþ rotie þe yzounde.")

One scabbed sheep mars the whole flock.

o This Proverb is apply'd to such Persons who being vicious themselves,labour to debauch those with whom they converse. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [11]

One should not think, when one is not equipped for the job.

One swallow doesn't make a summer.

Once bitten, twice shy

o William Caxton, the first English printer, gave the earliest version of this saying in 'Aesope' (1484), his translation of Aesop's fables: 'He that hath ben ones begyled by somme other ought to kepe hym wel fro(m) the same.' Centuries later, the English novelist Robert Surtees referred to the saying in 'Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) with '(He) had been bit once, and he was not going to give Mr. Sponge a second chance.' The exact wording of the saying was recorded later that century in 'Folk Phrases of Four Counties' (1894) by G.G. Northall and was repeated by, among others, the English novelist Joseph Conrad (1920, 'The Rescue'), the novelist Aldous Huxley (1928, 'Point Counter Point'), and the novelist Wyndham Lewis

(1930, 'The Apes of God'). 'Once bitten, twice shy' has been a familiar saying in the twentieth century. From Wise Words and Wives' Tales by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993).

o A variation, once burned, twice shy, is also traced back to Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. Once burned was First attested in the United States in 'Dead Sure' (1949) by S. Sterling. The meaning of the saying is One who had an unpleasant experience is especially cautious. From the Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).

Once in a lifetime comes often, so be prepared.

Only a coward will write an anonymous letter. -President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Only bad drivers cut corners.

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The only free cheese is in the mouse trap.

o Russian saying.

Only losers say "Winning isn't everything."

The only stupid question is the one that is not asked.

Only the good die young

The only thing you get from picking bottoms (ie. of the stock market) is a smelly finger.

Opinions are like assholes: everyone has them and they usually stink.

Opportunity knocks only once.

o Meaning: Do not waste time while grabbing opportunities.

Opportunity is waiting, you need but to open the door.

An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.

o Meaning: it is better to be careful and discreet than to be clever.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

o Possible interpretation: Similar to that of A stitch in time saves nine. Preventing something in advance is better

than fixing it later on.

Our costliest expenditure is time. <Theophrastus>

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

o Confucius

Out of sight... Out of mind

o Cf. Fulke Greville's sonnet "And out of minds as soons as out of sight"

Out of small acorns grow mighty oaks.

Owt for Nowt

o Northern English, Anything for nothing...

[edit] P Paddle your own canoe. Pain is only weakness

leaving the body.

o U.S. Marines proverb

The pain o the little finger is felt by the entire body.

A paragraph should be like a lady's skirt: long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep it interesting.

A Pasoly in the eye is worth several in the shins.

o A good shot is worth many bad ones

Patience is a virtue.

Peace Sells, but who's Buying? <Megadeth>

The pen is mightier than the sword.

A penny earned is a penny lost; a penny shared is a penny well-spent.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

o Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, but actually 17th c. English

A penny spent is a penny earned.

o In contrast to spending on the poor people.

o Interpretation: capitalist alteration of Ben Franklin's original saying ["A penny saved is a penny earned"]. The concentration on spending rather than saving promotes the contemporary capitalist economic theory of putting money back into the economy (rather than hoarding it) to create more wealth.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

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People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

o Variation: Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.

George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640; cited in "Proverbs 120". The Yale Book of Quotations. 2006. pp. p. 613. ISBN 0-300-10798-6.*** George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651, number 196

o Meaning: Don't criticize other people when you yourself have faults and weaknesses.

Perfect Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. (a.k.a The six P's)

Persistence becomes Reality.

"A person who laughs may not be happy, but he's hide the sadness in

his heart". (Al Sagheer, Suhail)

A picture is worth a thousand words.

o An instant sight may save a thousand words.

o A snap of sight may describe much more than a thousand words.

A pint of plain is yer only man.

The pitcher which goes too often to the well gets broken.

Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

POETIS MENTIRI LICET. - Latin for "Poets are allowed to lie." Has to do with rhetoric (hyperbole) and poetic and/or litarary license.

o Meaning: You need to make the initial step if you are ever to complete a task.

Politeness cost nothing and gains everything. <M.W. Montagu>

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

o Attributed to Lord Acton

Practice before you preach.

o Meaning: Before asking others to do something, make sure you are following it yourself.

Practice doesn’t make a man perfect, but a perfect practice makes a man perfect

Practice make man perfect.

Practice may make perfect, but nobody's perfect so why practice

Prevention is better than cure.

o Variation: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Pride comes before a fall

Prior preparation prevents poor performance.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Proverbs are long life experiences, told in one short sentence.

Proverbs run in pairs.

o Meaning: Every proverb seems to be contradicted by another proverb with an opposed message, such as "too many cooks spoil the broth"

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and "many hands make light work."

Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride it to death.

Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.

Put a cat amongst the pigeons.

Put it in song, put it in drink; but never, ever put it in ink!

o Reportedly said by Earl K. Long, Governor of Louisiana

[edit] R Rather be a dog in peace,

than to be a man in chaos.-Chinese Origin-宁为太平犬,莫为乱世人

o Rather be a dog in a peaceful land, instead of being a man in a land of war.

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

Reality is often stranger than fiction

Repetition is the mother of memory.

o Latin: REPETITIO MATER MEMORIAE

o equivalent to: Eternal repetition is the price of knowledge.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

A rising tide lifts all boats

o This traditional proverb is sometimes attributed to John F. Kennedy because he repeated it several times, but he disclaimed originality in his address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, West Germany, 25 June 1963:

As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

o Earlier variants of this proverb are recorded as Hell is paved with good intentions. recorded as early as 1670, and an even earlier variant by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Hell is full of good intentions or desires.

o Similar from Latin: "The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and

easy is the way" — Virgil, the Aeneid Book VI line 126

Robbing Peter to pay Paul

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

o Interpretation: A person who is active will not grow stale.

o Alternative interpretation: A person who does not stay in one place very long will not develop roots or meaningful connections with others.

o Philip K. Dick in We Can Build You (1972) conceives a world where the latter interpretation has become the norm and the former indicative of a mental disorder.

Rolling stones gather no moss

Rome wasn't built in a day

o meaning: great things take time to build/accomplish

The rotten apple injures its neighbors.

Rules were meant to be broken.

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Same meat, different gravy.

Same shit, with different flies on it.

Same trouble, different day.

Say something nice or say nothing at all.

Seek and ye shall find.

o Christian New Testament

Seek water in the sea.

Self trust is the first secret of success.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

o Karl Marx

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Shallow graves for shallow people.

Ships happen. -Navy saying.

Shit or get off the pot

silence is golden

o Meaning: sometimes it is better not to say anything.

Simple minds think alike. (William Truong)

o Simple things please/amuse simple minds.

o Alternative: Simple minds, simple pleasures.

Six of one, and half a dozen the other.

o Meaning: Describes two actions with the same result, or two things that are essentially the same.

Slow and steady wins the race.

o Variant: Slow but sure.

Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone.

So close, yet so far.

Some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you.

Someone who gossips to you will gossip about you.

Something is better than nothing.

Something worth doing is worth doing well.

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

o Interpretation: the relationship between a daughter and her parents is enduring; the relationship with a son is attenuated after he marries.

Spare the rod, spoil the child.

o Meaning: Lack of deserved discipline develops undesired behavior in a child.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

o Gospel of Matthew 26:41

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

o or The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

o If you speak up, you will go farther in life.

o Those who complain, will attract more attention (for good or ill) than those who are content.

The start of a journey should never be mistaken for success.

S tart small; T hink tall; R each over the wall; I nvest your all; V isualize the mall; E xpect you may fall; but, if you fall, that's not all; get up and STRIVE again.

o Dr. Robert Schuller

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

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o Contrast: "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

A still tongue makes a wise head.

o From Lewis the (Black) Barber; Lake Charles, LA; who always told people, "Never let the right hand know what the left hand is doing; a still tongue makes a wise head; still water runs deep."

Still waters run deep.

o Possible interpretation: Looks can be deceiving, quiet people are often the most deep.

A stitch in time saves nine.

o Fix the small problem now before it becomes larger and harder to fix.

Stolen fruit is the sweetest.

o Possible interpretation: forbidden things are the most tempting

Straightn not the dog's tail even in the bamboo hollow.

The straw that broke the camel's back.

o The last of a number of little things which led to something major.

Strike while the iron is hot.

o Possible interpretation: Seize the moment. Take the opportunity now; don't waste it.

Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties.

Success is a journey not a destination.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

[edit] T Take an old dirty, hungry,

mangy, sick and wet dog and feed him and wash him and nurse him back to health, and he will never turn on you and bite you. This is how man and dog differ.

o (Possibly Lord Byron)

Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Take it with a grain of salt.

o Meaning: Regard it with a copious measure scepticism.

o (See Wikipedia article.)

Taking care of business.

Talk of the devil and he's sure to appear.

Talk the hind legs off a donkey.

o Possible interpretation: Someone who never shuts up - often used in reference to London cab drivers

Talking a mile a minute.

Talking nineteen to the dozen.

The teacher has not taught, until the student has learned.

That which does not kill you, makes you stronger.

o Friedrich Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols (1888)

There are no endings: only new beginnings.

There are no facts; only interpretations of facts.

There are no small parts, only small actors.

There are so many things to say that are better left unsaid.

There are three types of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics.

There's a method in his madness.

There is a thin line between love and hate

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There's always a calm before a storm.

o or The calm before the storm.

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

o This comes from a Greek legend, as follows: One of the Argonauts returned from his voyage, and went home to his winery. He called for the local soothsayer, who had predicted before his voyage that he would die before he tasted another drop of his wine, from his vinery. As he finished saying this, he raised a cup filled with wine to his lips, in toast to the soothsayer, who said something in reply. Just then, he was called away to hunt a wild boar that was approaching, and died in his attempt to kill it. The phrase that the soothsayer said is translated best as, There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

There's money in muck.

o or Where there's muck there's brass.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

There's no accounting for taste.

o From the Latin: De gustibus non est disputandum.

There's no arguing with the barrel of a gun.

There is no god except God.

There's no peace for the wicked

There's no place like home.

There is no point of knowledge or wisdom if not dotted.

There's no point in washing clean things.

o Meaning: Don't fix things that are fine, just the bad things!

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

There's no time like the present.

There is only eight years between success and failure in politics.

o Jim Brown, Louisiana statesman

There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.

o or There's something rotten in Denmark.

o Expresses strong suspicion.

o Shakespeare's Hamlet (Marcellus in act 1, scene 4).

A thief thinks everyone steals.

Think before you speak.

Thinking the worst always prepares you for the worst.

This, too, shall pass.

Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Those who run with pigs, smell like pigs.

Time and tide wait for none.

Time flies.

o Latin: Tempus fugit!

Time is gold.

Tit for Tat.

To burn the candle at both ends.

To each, his own.

To err is human; to forgive, divine. (Pope, Essay on Criticism)

To have the fulfilled life, you must question the unanswerable and learn nothing.

o Meaning: you must build your own opinions, but life is too short to

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waste trying to understand life

To know the road ahead ask those coming back.

To put something in a new jacket.

Tomorrow is another day.

Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.

o Implies that an organization is top-heavy, too many different directions to go and not enough ability to go along them.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Too much of one thing, good for nothing.

o Meaning: Don't overspecialize

Trapped between a rock and a hard place.

Tread on a worm and it will turn.

o This Proverb is generally used by Persons who have received gross insults andInjuries from others (which they have for some time bore with Patience) to excuse theirbeing at last transported to some Warmth of Resentment and Passion. - Divers

Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [12]

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

The truth is in the wine.

o Possible interpretation: A person will more freely divulge a secret when plied with alcohol.

o A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The truth shall set you free, or The truth will set you free.

o In the Bible, John 8:32.

Truth will out.

o Meaning: The truth will eventually come out, no matter how well it is hidden.

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Try try but don't cry.

o Meaning: Never give up in life.

o Try and try until you suceed

Two heads are better than one.

o In a multitude of counselors there

is more wisdom (than in few)

Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

o Also jocularly formed from above: Two wrongs don't make a right - but three lefts make a right.

Two's company; three's a crowd.

[edit] U Unprepare to prepare, be

prepared to be unprepared

o supposedly said by W.B.Govo in 1916

Use it or lose it

Use it up, wear it out, make do with, or do without

o Great depression era proverb.

[edit] V The value is determined

by the agreement of two people.

Variety is the spice of life.

o An early version is found in William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book II, "The Timepiece", lines 606–7:

Variety's the very

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spice of life,That gives it all its flavour.

Vengeance is mine, thus saith the Lord.

Virtue which parleys is near a surrender. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [13]

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. (Japanese proverb)

[edit] W Walk softly, carry a big

stick. o Variant of an

African proverb that was made famous in the U.S. by Teddy Roosevelt, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".

Walk the walk and talk the talk.

Waste not, want not.

A watched pot never boils.

o Main interpretation: Time seems to pass quicker when you aren't consciously waiting for something

o Possible interpretation: Worrying over something can

make the task seem to take longer than it should.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

We are all on this earth, we can't get off so get on.

We can't always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

o By: Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

o By: Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must take the bad with the good.

o Variant: We must take the bitter with the sweet.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean,but the ocean would be less without that drop.

We tend to be perfect. That’s why when we make mistakes we are hard on ourselves.

We've qualified for the World Cup, Go and compete.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

o Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi

Well begun is half done.

o Variant: Well begun is half ended. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [14]

"Well done" is better than "well said".

What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. (A lie will always spawn a bigger lie.)

What goes around comes around.

o You will eventually have to face the consequences of your actions towards others as people tend to behave towards you as you have behaved towards others.

What goes up must come down.

What you see is what you get.

What you sow is what you reap.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

o In marriage: the standard that applies to the husband applies also for the wife.

o In general: Double standards are not allowed - the same standard governs all.

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When a thing is done advice comes too late.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

When one door closes, another door opens.

When the cat is away, the mice will play.

o Without enforcement lawlessness always results

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

When you lie on roses while young, you'll lie on thorns while you're old.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. [[15]]

o Thomas Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"

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

Where vice goes before, vengeance follows after. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [16]

The whole dignity of man lies in the power of thought.

o - B. Pascal

The whole is greater than its parts.

Whom thy care to tamper pots in an abandoned house

Willful waste makes woeful want.

Winners don't quit, thats why they win.

Winning is earning. Losing is learning.

Winning isn't everything... It's the only thing.

The wish is father to the thought.

A woman is like a cup of tea; you'll never know how strong she is until she boils

o Meaning: Never underestimate people; they could be stronger than you think

o Possible interpretation: Don't pester your wife too often, unless you want her to never cook for you again.

A woman's work is never done.

o From a folk rhyme - "A man may work from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done", meaning that a man's traditional role as breadwinner may keep him occupied from sun-up to sundown, but the traditional roles of a woman demand even

longer hours of work.

Women need men like a fish needs a bicycle.

A word spoken is past recalling.

o Alternative: What's done is done (so think before doing).

o Interpretation: Once you say something hurtful, provocative, etc., you can't take it back.

Words uttered only causes confusion. Words written only causes history.

Working hard or hardly working?

The world is your oyster.

Worship the Creator not His creation.

The worst good day is always better than the best bad day.

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.

[edit] Y You can lead a horse to

water but you can't make it drink.

You reap what you sow.

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The younger brother the better gentleman.

o Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [17]