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| Saying - Author |
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| A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - unknown |
| A rolling stone gathers no moss. - John Heywood (c. 1497-1580) |
| A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| A rule isn't unfair if it applies to everyone. - unknown |
| A ruler must sometimes humor as well as command. - unknown |
| A short horse is soon curried. - John Heywood (c. 1497-1580) |
| A single arrow is easily broken; a bundle of ten is not. - Japanese (on strength and weakness) |
| A smile is a window in your face to show your heart is at home. - unknown (submitted by fubar@nque.com) |
| A soft answer turneth away wrath. - Bible (Proverbs 15:1) |
| A stitch in time saves nine. - unknown |
| A stumble is not a fall. - Haitian (on adversity) |
| A stumble may prevent a fall. - English (on experience) |
| A thing is bigger for being shared. - Gaelic (on generosity) |
| A thousand artisans, a thousand plans. - Chinese (on art and creativity) |
| A tree falls the way it leans. - Walloon (on rewards and consequences) |
| A trouble shared is a trouble halved. - unknown |
| A true champion believes in themselves when no one else does. - nosagirl05 |
| A true friend is the best Possession. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| A true soldier does not admit defeat before the battle. - unknown |
| A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.- Korean (on journeys) |
| A watched pot never boils. - unknown |
| A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "And what is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." |
| A weed is but an unloved flower. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919) |
| A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. - James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| A wild goose never laid a tame egg. - Gaelic (on authenticity) |
| A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. - Horace (65-8 BC) |
| A word to the wise may be suffient. - Latin |
| A work ill done must be twice done. - Welsh (on business) |
| A year's care; a minute's ruin. - Tagalog (Filipino) (on perversity) |
| Ability may get you to the top but it's character that will keep you there. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and enkindles the great. - Comte de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693) |
| Absence makes the heart grow fonder.- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) |
| Accidents will happen - George Colman (1732-1794) |
| Actions speak louder than words. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Adapt the remedy to the disease. - Chinese Proverb |
| Adversity is a gift. - unknown |
| Adversity makes strange bedfellows. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. - Danish (on advice) |
| Advise no one to go to war or marry. - Spanish (on advice) |
| After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile. - T. Cogan (1584) |
| After the war, aid. - Greek Proverb |
| Aim for the stars. - unknown |
| Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart. - Korean (on ambition) |
| Ain't no pot so crooked, you can't find a lid to fit. - unknown |
| All are not saints, who go to church.- Italian (on hypocrisy) |
| All cats are grey in the dark. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580) |
| All experience is education for the soul. - unknown |
| All food is fit to eat but not all words are fit to speak. - Haitian (on discretion) |
| All good things must come to an end. - H.H. Riley (1857) |
| All happiness is in the mind. - English (on attitude) |
| All in good time. - Horace (65-8 BC) |
| All of us, the great and the little have need of each other. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) |
| All roads lead to Rome. - unknown but thanks to Mamtasaransh |
| All that glitters is not gold. - Latin Proverb |
| All the world's a stage. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident. - unknown |
| All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy - unknown, courtesy of Leah Cummings |
| All's well that ends well. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580) |
| Almost only counts in horseshoes. - unknown |
| Always be prepared. - unknown |
| Always keep an open mind. - unknown |
| Ambition begets vexations. - Singhalese (on ambition) |
| Ambition destroys its possessor. - Hebrew (on ambition) |
| Ambition is a good servant but a bad master. - unknown |
| An apple a day keeps the doctor away. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| An army of a thousand is easy to find but ah how difficult to find a general. - Chinese Proverb
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| An empty barrel makes the most noise. - Russian Proverb |
| An hour may destroy what an age was building.- English (on permanence and change) |
| An ill weed grows apace. - George Chapman (c.1559-1634) |
| An old error has more friends than a new truth.- Danish (on habit) |
| An old ox makes a straight furrow. - Spanish (on experience) |
| An open foe may prove a curse but a pretended friend is worse. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - unknown |
| Anger is a short madness. - Horace (65-8 BC) |
| Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it. - English (on anger) |
| Anger is one letter short of danger. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Another day, another dollar. - unknown |
| Any plan is bad that cannot be changed. - Italian (on planning) |
| Any port in a storm. - unknown |
| Any water in the desert will do. - Arabic (on practicality) |
| Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus (c.42 B.C.) |
| Anyone can stand adversity but to test a person's character, give them power. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Anyone who will gossip to you, will gossip about you. - unknown |
| Anything with scales counts as a fish. - Malay (on appearance and reality) |
| Appearances are deceptive. - Italian Proverb |
| As long as you live, keep learning how to live. - Latin proverb (on the conduct of life) |
| As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens. - E. Pellham (1631) |
| As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life.- Sanskrit (on life and living) |
| As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth.- Afghan (on permanence and change) |
| As you shall sow, so shall you reap. - Bible |
| At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish.- Thai (on permanence and change) |
| At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.- Kanuri (West African) (on patience) |
| At the gate of patience there is no crowding.- Moroccan (on patience) |
| Avoid a cure that is worse than the disease. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) |
| Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
