Proverbs

clear hand wants no washing.

A fault confessed is half redressed.
A little pot is soon hot.
A watched pot never boils.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Art is long, life is short.
As snug as a bug in a rug.
As the three, so the fruit.
Better die standing, than live kneeling.
Death pays all debts.
Diamond cut diamond.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Easier said than done.
East or West, home is best.
End or mend.
Extremes meets.
First come, first served.
Grasp all, lose all.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. Shakespeare
He who hesitates is lost.
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
Ill news flies fast.
Like cures like.
Little strokes fall great oaks.
Many wish, but few will.
No living man all things can.
No news (is) good news.
No pains, no gains.
No song, no supper.
Nothing venture, nothing have.
One man, no man.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Plenty is no plague.
Promise little, but do much.
Second thoughts are best.
Seeing is believing.
Small rain lays great dust.
So many men, so many minds.
Still water are deep.
Tastes differ.
The more, the merrier.
The more you have, the more you want.
The proof of pudding is in the eating.
The right thing in the right place.
To call a spade a spade.
To give a lark to catch a kite.
To hope against hope.
To keep a dog and bark oneself.
To know everything is to know nothing.
To live from hand to mouth.
To make omelet without breaking eggs.
To pick the plumes out of the pudding.
To put in black and white.
To take counsel of one’s pillow.
To turn the tables.
Too swift arrives as tardily as too slow. Shakespeare
Truth is stranger than fiction.
We shall see what we shall see.
What can’t be cured, must be endured.
What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
You can’t eat your cake and have it.

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