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| Saying - Author |
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| A big tree attracts the gale. - Chinese (on pride) |
| A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - Latin Proverb |
| A beautiful thing is never perfect. - Egyptian (on beauty) |
| A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind. - Iranian (on wisdom) |
| A body makes his own luck, be it good or bad. - unknown |
| A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A burden that one chooses is not felt. - Italian (on self-reliance) |
| A carpenter is known by his chips. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| A cat in gloves catches no mice. - 14th Century French Proverb |
| A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. - Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) |
| A change is as good as a rest. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) |
| A clear conscience is more valuable than wealth. - Tagalog (Filipino) (on conscience) |
| A clever person turns great problems into little ones and little ones into none at all. - Chinese (on attitude) |
| A closed mouth catches no flies. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) |
| A crab walks, so walks his children. - African proverb Kpelle Tribe |
| A crown's no cure for a headache. - English (on basic truths) |
| A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) |
| A day is lost if one has not laughed. - French (on the conduct of life) |
| A day of travelling will bring a basketful of learning.- Vietnamese (on journeys) |
| A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.- Samoan (on permanence and change) |
| A dog that will fetch a bone, will carry a bone. - R. Forby (1830) on gossip |
| A dog's life is a miserable life. - Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536) |
| A dripping June sets all in tune. - unknown |
| A drowning man will clutch at a straw. - Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) |
| A fair exchange is no robbery. - Scottish Proverb |
| A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A fault confessed is half redressed. - English Proverb |
| A few germs never hurt anyone. - unknown |
| A firm tree does not fear the storm. - Dayak (Indonesian) (on strength and weakness) |
| A fool and his money are quickly parted. - J. Bridges (1587) |
| A friend in need is a friend indeed. - James Ray (1678) |
| A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| A friend- one soul, two bodies. - Chinese (on friendship) |
| A friend's eye is a good mirror. - Gaelic (on friendship) |
| A full person does not understand the needs of the hungry. - Irish (on food and hunger) |
| A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair.- Iranian (on leadership) |
| A gentle word opens the iron gate. - Bulgarian (on eloquence) |
| A great one must have a long heart.- Ethiopian (on leadership) |
| A grudge is a heavy thing to carry. - unknown |
| A guilty conscience needs no accuser. - English Proverb
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| A good book praises itself. - German (on books and writers) |
| A good example is the best sermon. - English (on advice) |
| A good lather is half the shave. - William Hone (1780-1842) |
| A good spectator also creates. - Swiss (on art and creativity) |
| A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds. - Burmese (on good and evil) |
| A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw. - English (on books and writers) |
| A hand ready to hit, may cause you great trouble. - Maori (on anger) |
| A hard beginning maketh a good ending. - John Heywood (c. 1497-1580) |
| A horse may run quickly but it cannot escape its tail. - Russian proverb (on conscience) |
| A house divided cannot stand. - Bible (Matthew 12:25) |
| A library is a repository of medicine for the mind. - Greek (on books and writers) |
| A little axe can cut down a big tree. - Jamaican (on permanence and change) |
| A little learning is a dangerous thing. - Alexander Pope (1688-1744) |
| A loan though old is not a gift.- Hungarian (on indebtedness) |
| A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. - Laurence J. Peter |
| A man in a passion, rides a mad horse. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A man is known by the company he keeps. - M. Coverdale (1541) |
| A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life. - Chinese Proverb - (thanks to Alice Fonda-Marsland) |
| A man who desires revenge should dig two graves. - unknown |
| A man who never made a mistake, never made anything. - unknown |
| A man with a cough cannot conceal himself. - African proverb Yoruba Tribe |
| A man's got to do what a man's got to do. - unknown |
| A man's house is his castle. - Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) |
| A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones. - Proverbs 17:22 |
| A miser is like a person with bread who is starving. - Middle Eastern (on greed) |
| A miss is as good as a mile. - unknown |
| A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners. - Virgin Islander (on friendship) |
| A penny for your thoughts. - Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| A penny saved is a penny earned. - Scottish Proverb |
| A person has learned much who has learned how to die. - German (on death and dying) |
| A picture's worth a thousand words. - unknown |
| A picture is a poem without words. - Latin (on art and creativity) |
| A place for everything and everything in its place. - Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
| A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. - American (on proverbs) |
| A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. - Lord John Russell (1792-1878) |
