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A bad bush is better than an open field.A bad day never hath a good night.A bad excuse is better than none.A bad mother wishes for good children.A bad penny always turns up.A bad worker quarrels with his tools.A bad workman blames his tools.A baker's wife may bite of a bun,
A brewer's wife may drink of a tun,
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger,
But a servingman's wife may starve for hunger.A bald head is soon shaven.A barking dog never bites.A barley corn is better than a diamond to a cock.A beard once washed is half shaven.A beetle is a beauty in the eyes of his mother.A beggar can never be bankrupt.A beggar's purse is bottomless.A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf.A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly.A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.A bird never flew on one wing.A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day.A black man is a jewel in a fair woman's eye.A blate cat make a proud mouse.
[A shy cat make a proud mouse.]A bleating sheep loses a bite.A blind leader of the blind.A blind man's wife needs no paint.A blow from a frying-pan blacks, though it may not hurt.A blow with a reed makes a noise but hurts not.A boaster and a liar are all one.A boaster and a liar are cousins.A bolt does not always fall when it thunders.A bonny bride is soon buskit.
[A bonny bride is soon dressed.]A book that is shut is but a block.A book that remains shut, is but a block.A borrowed loan should come laughing home.A bow long bent at length waxeth weak.A bow long bent grows weak.A bribe will enter without knocking.A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.A broken sleeve holdeth the arm back.A bully is always a coward.A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.A buxom widow must be either married, buried, or shut up in a convent.A cake eaten in peace, is worth two in trouble.A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.A carpenter is known by his chips.A carrion kite will never be a good hawk.A cat has nine lives.A cat is a lion to mouse.A cat's walk: a little way and back.A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.A chair unsound
Soon finds the ground.A change is as good as a rest.A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.A chip of the old block.A chip off the old block.A chip on the shoulder indicates wood higher up.A civil denial is better than a rude grant.A civil question deserves a civil answer.A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt two foxes.A close mouth catcheth no flies.
[A close mouth cathches no flies.]A cock is bold on his own dunghill.A cock is crouse on his ain midden.A cold hand and a warm heart.A cold May and a windy
Makes a full barn and a findy.A collier's cow and an alewife's sow are always well fed.A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.A common blot is held no stain.A constant guest is never welcome.A contented mind is a continual feast.A cough will stick longer by a horse than a peck of oats.A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed.A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself.A coward's fear may make a coward valiant.A crab of the wood is sauce very good
For a crab of the sea.
The wood of a crab is good for a drab
That will not her husband obey.A cracked bell can never sound well.A creaking door hangs longest.A creaking gate hangs long.A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.A crow thinks her own bird fairest.A crowd is not company.A cup in the pate is a mile in the gate.A cup must be bitter that a smile will not sweeten.A cursed cur should be short tied.A customary railer is the devil's bagpipe, which the world danceth after.A danger foreseen is half avoided.A day after the fair.A dead mouse feels no cold.A dear ship stands long in the haven.A depraved mind never comes to good.A disease known is half cured.A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not notice them.A dog that bites silently. [An insidious tradcuer. He would kill you with an air-gun.]A dog that will fetch a bone will carry a bone.A dog which has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.A dog's nose and a maid's knees are always cold.A door must be either shut or open.A drink is shorter than a tale.A drink to cure the effect of a previous debauch.A dripping June sets all in tune.A drowning man will catch at a straw.A drowning man will clutch at a straw.A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.A drunken night makes a cloudy morning.A dry May and a dripping June
Bring all things into tune.A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.A fair bride is soon busked.A fair exchange is no robbery.A fair face may hide a foul heart.A fair face may make a foul bargain.A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.A false report rides post.A famine in England begins at the horsemanger.A famine in England begins when oats are dear.A fault confessed is half redressed.A fault once denied, is twice committed.A favour ill placed is great waste.A fence between makes love more keen.A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love.A fly before his own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.A fool at forty is a fool indeed.A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.A fool carveth a piece of his heart to every one that sits near him.A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom.A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's.A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.A fool may chance to put something into a wise man's head.A fool may give a wise man counsel.A fool may meet with good fortune, but the wise only profits by it.A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.A fool will not give his bauble for the Tower of London.A fool's heart dances on his lips.A fool's speech is a bubble of air.A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.A fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.A forced kindness deserves no thanks.A fortunate man may be anywhere.A foul morn may turn to a fair day.A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.A friend is never known till needed.A friend that you buy with presents, will be bought from you.A friend to all is a friend to none.A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.A fu purse never lacks freends.A fu' sack will tak a clout o' the side.A galled horse will not endure the comb.A ganging fit is aye getting.
[A going foot is always getting.]A giant among the pigmies.A gift long waited for is sold, not given.A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.A gold ring does not cure a felon.A golden key can open any door.
A golden key can open any door.A good conscience is a continual feast.A good deed is never lost.A good dog deserves a good bone.A good example is the best sermon.A good face is a letter of recommendation.A good face needs no band, and a pretty wench no land.A good hope is better than a bad possession.A good horse cannot be of a bad color.A good Jack makes a good Jill.A good lather is half the shave.A good listener is a silent flatterer.A good man can no more harm that a sheep.A good name keeps its luster in the dark.A good neighbor, a good morrow.A good paymaster never wants workmen.A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.A good servant makes a good master.A good shift may serve long, but it will not serve ever.A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.A good tale ill told is married in the telling.A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.A good thing can be twice, nay, even thrice spoken.A good thing is soon caught up.A good thing is soon snatched up.A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.A good wife makes a good husband.A good year is determined by its spring.A goose cannot graze after him.A grand eloquence, little conscience.A great city, a great solitude.A great dowry, a bed full of brambles.A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.A great fortune is a great slavery.A great man will not trample on a worm, nor sneak to an emperor.A great position entails great responsibility.A greedy man God hates.A green winter makes a fat churchyard.A green wound is soon healed.A green Yule makes a fat churchyard.A gross belly does not produce a refined mind.A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.A grunting house and a groaning wife seldom fail their master.A guilty conscience needs no accuser.A hair of the dog that bit you.A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.A handful of trade, a handful of gold.A hangman is a good trade, he doth his work by daylight.A hard beginning maketh a good ending.A hasty man never wants woe.A headstrong man and a fool may wear the same cap.A heavy purse makes a light heart.A hedge between keeps friendship green.A high building, a low foundation.A hog in armor is still a hog.A honey tongue, a heart of gall.A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.A house divided cannot stand.A hug a day keeps the demons at bay.A hundred men can make an encampment, but it requires a woman to make a home.A hungry dog will eat dirty pudding.A hungry horse maketh a clean manger.A hungry man is an angry man.A hungry man, an angry man.A joke driven too far brings home hate.A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning.A king without learning is but a crowned ass.A king's castle is his home.A king's chaff is worth more than other men's corn.A king, a master, a parent, a judge, may fail to frighten us; but sickness coming brings with it successful reproof.A lame traveller should get out betimes.A lass that has many wooers often fares the worst.A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.A lazy youth, a lousy age.A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.A leg of a lark is better than the body of a kite.A leopard cannot change his spots.A liar ought to have a good memory.A liar should have a good memory.A lie begets a lie.A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.A light purse makes a heavy heart.A light-heeled mother makes a heavy-healed daughter.A lion may be beholden to a mouse.A lion's skin is never cheap.A lisping lass is good to kiss.A little bird wants but a little nest.A little body doth often harbour a great soul.A little debt makes a debtor, a great one an enemy.A little good is soon spent.A little house well filled,
A little land well tilled,
And a little wife well willed.A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.A little leak will sink a great ship.A little of everything is nothing in the main.A little stream drives a great mill.A live dog is better than a dead lion.A living dog is been than a dead lion.A long pull and a strong pull and a pull altogether.A looker on sees more of the game than a player.A low hedge is easily leaped over.A mackerel sky and mare's tails
Make lofty ships carry low sails.A mackerel sky is never long dry.A mad bull is not to be tied up with a packthread.A maid oft seen and a gown oft worn,
Are disesteemed and held in scorn.A maid that laughs is half taken.A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will be soon a man.A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.A man can do no more than he can.A man can't do more than he can do.
What says Don Ferdinando?A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.A man cannot whistle and drink at the same time.A man gains nothing by vain glory but contempt and hatred.A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him.A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.A man is known by the eye, and the face discovers wisdom.A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.A man is weal or woe as he thinks himself so.A man know's no more to any purpose than he practises.A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.A man may bear till his back break.A man may bear till his back breaks.A man may cause his own dog to bite him.A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them.A man may love his house well, though he ride not on the ridge.A man may woo where he will, but he will wed where his hap is.A man must plough with such oxen as he hath.A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.A man of many trades begs his bread on Sundays.A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds.A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.A man surprised is half beaten.A man that is warned is half armed.A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of his tools.A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife.A man's discontent is his worst evil.A man's house is his castle.A man, a horse, and a dog are never weary of each other's company.A May flood never did good.A merchants happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves.A merry companion on the road is as good as a nag.A mill cannot grind with the water that is past.A moneyless man goes fast through the market.A mouse in time may bite in two a cable.A mouse may help a lion.A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a castle wall.A nice wife and a back door
Do often make a rich man poor.A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool.A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.A penny for your thoughts.A penny is sometimes better spent than spared.A penny saved is a penny earned.A penny saved is a penny got.A pennyweight of love is worth a pound of law.A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.A pig teaching Minerva.
[Lat., Sus Minervam.]A pitiful look asks enough.A place for everything, and everything in its place.A poor man's table is soon spread.A postern door makes a thief.A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character.A pretty kettle of fish.A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are.A princely mind will undo a private family.A prophet is not without honor save in his own country.A proud man hath many crosses.A puff of wind and popular praise weigh alike.A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.A quiet tongue shows a wise head.A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning;
A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight.A rainy morn oft brings a pleasant day.A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.A rich man's foolish sayings pass for wise ones.A rich mouthful, a heavy groan.A right Englishman knows not when a thing is well.A rising tide lifts all boats.A Roland for an Oliver.A rolling eye, a roving heart.A rope of sand.A rose is a rose is a rose.A rotten egg cannot be spoiled.A sailor must have his eye trained to the rocks and sands as well as the north star.A saint abroad and a devil at home.A scald head is soon broken.A scalded cat fears cold water.A Scot, a rat, and a Newcastle grindstone travel all the world over.A Scottish man is wise behind the hand.A Scottish mist will wet an Englishman to the skin.A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.A ship and a woman are ever repairing.A shoemaker's wife and a smith's mare are always the worst shod.A short horse is soon curried.A short life and a merry one.A shut mouth catches no flies.A slice off a cut loaf isn't missed.A slip of the foot may soon be recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never.A small benefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.A small leak will sink a great ship.A small pack becomes a small pedler.A small spark makes a great fire.A small tear relieves a great sorrow.A smiling boy seldom proves a good servant.A snail's gallop.A snow year, a rich year.A soft answer bids a Furioso to put up his sword.A solitary man is either a God or a beast.A sooty chimney costs many a beef-steak.A sow may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it.A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut tree,
The more you beat 'em the better they be.A spark may raise
An awful blaze.A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that flieth by.A sparrow in hand is worth more than a vulture flying.A stern chase is a long chase.A stick is quickly found to beat a dog with.A still tongue makes a wise head.A still tongue maketh a wise head.A stitch in time saves nine.A storm in a teacup.A straight stick is crooked in the water.A stream cannot rise about its source.A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.A swarm of bees is Many is worth a load of hay,
But a swarm in July is not worth a fly.A tale twice told is cabbage twice sold.A tattler is war than a thief.A tear bedews my Delia's eye,
From morn till dewy eve;
But if you ask the reason why,
She can't tell, I believe.A thief does not willingly see another carry a basket.A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.A thing done right today means no trouble tomorrow.A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay are all one at domesday.A thousand years hence the river will run as it did.A thread-bare coat is armour proof against highwaymen.A tocherless dame sits long at hame.A traveller may lie by authority.A tree does not move unless there is wind.A tree is best measured when it's down.A tree is known by its fruit.A triton among minnows.A trouble shared is a trouble halved.A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad.A true jest is not jest.A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.A waiting appetite kindles many a spite.A watched clock never tells the time.A watched pot never boils.A well-beaten path does not always make the right road.A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men.A white elephant.A white glove often conceals a dirty hand.A wicked book cannot repent.A wicked companion invites us all to hell.A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his master.A wight man never wanted a weapon.A wild goose never laid a tame egg.A wilful man will have his way.A willful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon.A willful man must have his way.A wise falcon hides his talons.A wise head hath a close mouth to it.A wise head makes a close mouth.A wise lawyer never goes to law himself.A wise man turns chance into good fortune.A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.A wolf in sheep's clothing.A woman and a ship ever want mending.A woman conceals what she knows not.A woman hath nine lives like a cat.A woman is an angel at ten, a saint at fifteen, a devil at forty, and a witch at fourscore.A woman is to be from her house three times: when she is christened, married and buried.A woman's answer is never to seek.A woman's mind and winter wind change oft.A woman's place is in the home.A woman's strength is in her tongue.A woman's tongue is the last thing about her that dies.A woman's work is never done.A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be.A wonder lasts but nine days.A word spoken is past recalling.A work ill done must be done twice.A young courtier, an old beggar.A young man idle, an old man needy.A young man married is a young man marred.A young preacher, a new hell.Abroad to see wonders the traveller goes,
And neglects the fine things which lie under his nose.Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families.Accidents will happen.Actions speak louder than words.Adventures are to the adventurous.Adversity makes strange bedfellows.Affectation is a greater injury to the face than small-pox.Afraid of his own shadow.After a storm comes a calm.After clouds comes clear weather.After death, the doctor.After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.After meat, mustard.After the storm comes a calm.Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.Alike every day makes a clout on Sunday.Alike every day makes a rag on Sunday.All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?All are not friends that speak us fair.All are not saints that go to church.All ask if a man be rich, no one if he be good.All cats are grey in the dark.All doors open to courtesy.All feet tread not in one shoe.All fellows at football.All flowers are not fit for nosegays.All for one and one for all.All goes down gutter lane.All good things must come to an end.All had rather it were well for themselves than for another.All his geese are swans.All is fair in love and war.All is grist that comes to the mill.All is lost that is put in a riven dish.All is over but the shouting.All keys hang not on one girdle.All Lombard Street to a China orange.All men are not cast in the same mold.All men can't be first.All men can't be masters.All my eye and Betty Martin.All promises are either broken or kept.All saint without, all devil within.All Stuarts are not sib to the king.All tarred with the same brush.All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of yesterday.All the keys hang not at one man's girdle.All the months in the year curse fair.All the world and his wife.All the world loves a lover.All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets.All things are difficult before they are easy.All things are easy that are done willingly.All things are possible with God.All things change, and we change with them.
[Lat., Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.]All things come to those who wait.All weapons of war cannot arm fear.All women may be won.All work and no play
Makes Jack a dull boy.All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.All your geese are swans.All's fair in love and war.All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds.All's lost that's put in a riven dish.All's not lost that's in danger.Almost and Very nigh saves many a lie.Almost was never hanged.Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.Always in the saddle, never on his way.Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon to the bottom.Amendment is repentance.An ague in the spring is physic for a king.An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet,
Though they be clad in silk or scarlet.An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk and scarlet.An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet.
Though they be clad in silk or scarlet.An apple a day keeps the doctor away.An apple, an egg, and a nut,
You may eat after a slut.An army marches on its stomach.An artist lives everywhere.An ass in a lion's hide.An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.An atheist is one point beyond the devil.An eagle will not catch flies.An egg will be in three bellies in twenty-four hours.An emmet may work its heart out, but can never make honey.An empty belly hears nobody.An empty purse frights away friends.An empty sack cannot stand upright.An enemy may chance to give good counsel.An English summer, three hot days and a thunderstorm.An Englishman is never happy but when he becomes miserable, a Scotchman never at home but when he is abroad, and an Irishman never at peace but when he is fighting.An Englishman's home is his castle.An Englishman's house is his castle.An Englishman's word is his bond.An envious man waxes lean with the fatness of his neighbour.An evil conscience breaks many a man's neck.An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.An honest man's word is as good as his bond.An hour in the morning is worth two at night.An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.An ill stake standeth longest.An insolent lord is not a gentleman.An iron hand in a velvet glove.An oak is not felled in one stroke.An old ape hath an old eye.An old cat laps as much as a young kitten.An old dog bites sore.An old dog will learn no tricks.An old fox needs no craft.An old fox understands the trap.An old head on young shoulders.An old knave is no babe.An old man is a bed full of bones.An old man never wants a tale to tell.An old physician and a young lawyer.An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper.An old poacher makes the best keeper.An open countenance often conceals close thoughts.An open door may tempt a saint.An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.An ounce of fortune is worth a pound of forecast.An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of clergy.An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.An ounce of wit that's bought
Is worth a pound that's taught.An ounce of wit that's bought is worth a pound that's taught.An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.An unasked excuse infers transgression.An unbidden guest knows not where to sit.And Nathan said unto David: "Thou art the man."Anger and haste hinder good counsel.Anger is more hurtful than the injury that caused it.Anger is shortlived in a good man.Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.Any port in a storm.Any publicity is good publicity.Anyone who is satisfied to stand still should not complain when others pass him.Apelles was not a master painter the first day.Appearances are deceptive.April showers bring forth May flowers.Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill.Art is long and life is short.As a man is friended, so the law is ended.As a tree falls, so shall it lie.As bald as a coot.As calm as a clock.As clean as a whistle.As close as wax.As cold as charity.As cross as a bear with a sore head.As cross as nine highways.As cross as two sticks.As dead as a door-nail.As dead as mutton.As demure as an old whore at a christening.As drunk as a lord.As drunk as a mouse.As drunk as a wheelbarrow.As dry as a bone.As dull as ditchwater.As fine as fivepence.As fit as a fiddle.As flat as a pancake.As full as an egg is of meat.As good be an addled egg as an idle bird.As good be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.As good eat the devil as the broth he was boiled in.As good lost as found.As good play for nought as work for nought.As is the gardener, so is the garden.As jolly as a sandboy.As large as life.As lazy as Ludlam's dog, that leaned his head against a wall to bark.As lean as a rake.As like as two peas.As mad as a hatter.As mad as a March hare.As melancholy as a sick monkey.As merry as a cricket.As merry as a grig.As merry as mice in malt.As mild as a lamb.As mony heads, as mony wits.As neat as a new pin.As nimble as an eel in a sandbag.As old as Paul's steeple.As old as the hills.As plain as a packstaff.As plain as a pikestaff.As plain as the nose on a man's face.As poor as Job.As proud as a peacock.As quick as thought.As quiet as a mouse.As red as a turkey-cock.As right as a trivet.As right as ninepence.As right as rain.As seasonable as snow in harvest.As seasonable as snow in summer.As sick as a dog.As slender in the middle as a cow in the waist.As slippery as an eel.As soft as butter.As soft as silk.As soon goes the young sheep as the old to market.As soon goes the young sheep as the old to pot.As sore fight wrens as cranes.As sound as a bell.As sound as a trout.As sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.As sure as a gun.As sure as death.As sure as eggs is eggs.As sure as God made little apples.As sure as God's in Gloucestershire.As sweet as a nut.As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred.As the call, so the echo.As the cat loves mustard.As the day lengthens the cold strengthens.As the day lengthens, so the cold strengthens.As the devil loves holy-water.As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.As the goodman saith, so say we;
But as the goodwife saith, so must it be.As the old cock crows so crows the young.As the saying goes.As the touchstone trieth gold, so gold trieth men.As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined.As they brew, so let them bake.As they brew, so let them drink.As to what is future, even a bird with a long neck cannot see it, but God only.As true as God's in heaven.As true as Gospel.As true as steel.As true as the dial to the sun.As true as turtle to her mate.As ugly as sin.As warm as toast.As weak as water.As welcome as flowers in May.As welcome as water in one's shoes.As well as the beggar knows his dish.As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.As wise as a man of Gotham.As you bake so shall you brew.As you brew so shall you bake.As you brew, so you shall bake.As you make your bed so you must lie upon it.As your wedding-ring, wears, your cares will wear away.Ask a kite for a feather, and she'll say, she has but just enough to fly with.Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer.Ask but enough, and you may lower the price as you list.Ask much to have a little.Ask my companion if I be a thief.Ask my fellow if I be a thief.Ask no questions and hear no lies.Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.Ask the mother if the child be like his father.Ask thy purse what thou should'st buy.Asses that bray most eat least.Assurance is two-thirds success.At a great bargain, pause.At a great pennyworth pause awhile.At Easter let your clothes be new,
Or else be sure you will it rue.At every dog's bark seem not to awake.At latter Lammas.At open doors dogs come in.At the end of the game you'll see who's the winner.At the end of the work you may judge of the workmen.Attack is the best form of defence.Attack is the best form of defense.Avarice increases with wealth.Avarice is never satisfied.Avoid strife with those in power. |
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