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| Proverb - L
Lad's love is lassies' delight, and if lads won't love, lassies will flite.Lad's love's a busk of broom, not a while and soon done.Land was never lost for want of an heir.Lang tarrying taks a' the thanks awa'.
[Long tarrying takes all the thanks away.]Lasses are lads' leavings.Last but not least.Last make fast.Late children are early orphans.Laugh and grow fat.Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.Laughter is the hiccup of a fool.Law catches flies, but lets hornets go free.Law makers should not be law breakers.Law, logic, and Switzers may he hired to fight for anybody.Laws are silent in time of war.Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends.Lawyers' gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients.Lawyers' houses are built on the heads of fools.Lay it on thick and some of it will stick.Lay on more wood; ashes give money.Lay on more wood; ashes give money.Layovers for meddlers.Lazy folk take the most pains.Leal heart lied never.Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.Learn to creep before you run.Learn to walk before you run.Learn weeping and thou shalt gain laughing.Learn wisdom by the follies of others.Learning is better than house and land.Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.Least said is soonest mended.Least said, soonest mended.Least talk most work.Leave a jest when it pleases you best.Leave is light.Leave off while the play is good.Leave off with an appetite.Leave well alone.Leaves enough, but few grapes.Lend and lose; so play fools.Lend not horse, nor wife, nor sword.Length begets loathing.Less is more.Less of your courtesy, and more of your purse.Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will.Let alone makes many a loon.Let another man praise thee, not thine own mouth.Let another's shipwreck be your sea-mark.Let bygones be bygones.Let deeds match words.Let every herring hang by its own tail.Let every pedlar carry his own pack.Let every tub stand on its own bottom.Let him fry in his own grease.Let him laugh who wins.Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge.Let him that earns the bread eat it.Let him that is cold blow at the coal.Let his own wand ding.Let ilka herring hing by its ain head.Let it be unsaid. [Let the observation be withdrawn.]Let not a child sleep upon bones.Let not the bottom of your purse or of your mind be seen.Let not your tongue cut your throat.Let patience grow in your garden alway.Let sleeping dogs lie.Let that flee stick to the wall.Let the buyer beware.Let the dead bury the dead.Let them be birds. (Small eggs make little soup.)Let them laugh that win.Let well alone.Let your letter stay for the post, not the post for the letter.Let your purse be your master.Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes.Liars begin by imposing upon others, but end by deceiving themselves.Life begins at forty.Life is made up of little things.Life is sweet.Life isn't all beer and skittles.Life lies not in living but in liking.Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.Life's not all beer and skittles.Light come, light go.Light gains make heavy purse.Lightning never strikes the same place twice.Like a bull in a china shop.Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.Like a hen on a hot griddle.Like a house on fire.Like a red rag to a bull.Like a toad under a harrow.Like as waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end.Like author, like book.Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one hole make three.Like blood, like good, and like age, make the happiest marriage.Like breeds like.Like herrings in a barrel.Like mother, like daughter.Like punishment and equal pain both key and keyhole do sustain.Like the curate's egg, good in parts.Like water off a duck's back.Like will to like, as the devil said to the collier.Likely lies in the mire when Unlikely gets over.Likeness causeth liking.Likeness is the mother of love.Lilies are whitest in a blackmoor's hand.Limping justice ne'er will fail
To hunt out the longest trail.Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.Listeners never hear any good of themselves.Little and often fills the purse.Little birds may pick a dead lion.Little birds that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing.Little by little as the cat ate the flickle.Little goods, little care.Little intermeddling makes good friends.Little kens the wife that sits by the fire
How the wind blows cold in Hurle-burle-swyre.Little knoweth the fat sow what the lean doth mean.Little leaks sink the ship.Little pitchers have large ears.Little sticks kindle a fire, great ones put it out.Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.Little things are pretty.Little things attract light minds.Live for today for tomorrow never comes.London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under.Long a widow weds with shame.Long and lazy, little and loud; fat and fulsome, pretty and proud.Long beards heartless,
Painted hoods witless,
Gay coats graceless
Makes England Thriftless.Long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past.Long-tongued wives go long with bairn.Look at your corn in May,
And you'll come weeping away;
Look at the same in June,
And you'll come home in another tune.Look high and fall low.Look not out for dead men's shoes.Look on the bright side.Look to the main chance.Lookers-on see most of the game.Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be all day hunting for it.Lose nothing for want of asking.Lost time is never found again.Loth to bed and loth out of it.Loth to drink and loth to leave it off.Love and pride stock Bedlam.Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.Love cannot be bought or sold, its only price is love.Love comes in at the window and foes out at the door.Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.Love is blind.Love is full of trouble.Love is incompatible with fear.Love is lawless.Love is never without jealousy.Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.Love is the lodestone of love.Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.Love locks no cupboards.Love makes the world go round.Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out.Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge.Love well whip well.Love will creep where it cannot go.Love will find a way.Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.Love's quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.Lovers live by love as larks live by leeks.Loves makes one fit for any work.Loving comes by looking.Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.Lucky men need no counsel.Lucy light, Lucy light,
The shortest day and the longest night. |
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