الأمثال والحكم

Proverbs

• A bad excuse is better than none at all.
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• Add pence to pence for wealth.
• A friend in need is a friend indeed.
• A friend is more easily lost than found.
• After black clouds clear weather.
• A hungry man is an angry man.
• A hungry stomach has no ears.
• All truths are not to be told.
• A man is known by the company he keeps.
• A man's house is his castle.
• A penny saved is a penny earned.
• A stitch in time saves nine.
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
• Action speak louder than words.
• Adversity tries friends.
• All fair in love and war.
• All that glitters is not gold.
• All's well that ends well.
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
• As you sow, so shall you reap.
• Bad money drives out good.
• Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
• Beauty is skin deep.
• Beggars can't be choosers.
• Better alone than in bad company.
• Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
• Better late than never.
• Birds of a feather flock together.
• Blood is thicker than water.
• By others' faults wise men learn.
• Call a spade a spade.
• Carrying coals to Newcastle.
• Cast one's bread upon the waters.
• Charity begins at home.
• Constant dropping wears away a stone.
• Content is happiness.
• Curiosity killed the cat.
• Cut one's coat according to one's cloth.
• Death keeps no calendar.
• Do as you would be done by.
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
• Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
• Don't cross the bridge until you come to it.
• Don't flog a dead horse.
• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
• Don't put the cart before the horse.
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
• Even Homer sometimes nods.
• Every bird has its mate.
• Every cloud has a silver lining.
• Every dog is a lion at home.
• Every why has a wherefore.
• Failure teaches success.
• Familiarity breeds contempt.
• Fine feathers make fine birds.
• Forbidden fruit is sweet.
• Fortune favors the brave.
• Fortune is blind.
• Grasp all, lose all.
• Handsome is that handsome does.
• He has the tiger by the tail.
• He knows which side of his bread is buttered.
• He who fears God needs not fear the world.
• He who fights and runs away, will live to fight another day.
• He who laughs last, laughs longest.
• He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
• His bark is worse than his bite.
• History repeats itself.
• If you want peace, be prepared for war.
• Idleness is the key to beggary.
• Ill news travels fast.
• In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
• It's no use crying over spilt milk.
• Jack of all trades and master of none.
• Knowledge is power.
• Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.
• Let bygones be bygones.
• Let sleeping dogs lie.
• Like father like son.
• Live and let live.
• Look before you leap.
• Make a mountain out of a molehill.
• Make hay while the sun shines.
• Man proposes and God disposes.
• Misfortunes seldom come singly (or alone).
• Much coin much care.
• Necessity has no laws.
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
• No gains without pains.
• No news is good news.
• Novelty gives pleasure.
• Old habits die hard.
• One cannot draw blood from a stone.
• One good turn deserves another.
• One man's meat is another man's poison.
• Opportunity makes the thief.
• Out of sight, out of mind.
• Patience is bitter but bears sweet fruits.
• Patience is the best remedy.
• People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
• Practice makes perfect.
• Prevention is better than cure.
• Quick thoughts are slippery thoughts.
• Separate the wheat from the chaff.
• Silence gives consent.
• Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
• Spend and God will send.
• Still waters run deep.
• Strike while the iron is hot.
• Talk of the devil, and he is sure to appear.
• The burnt child dreads the fire.
• The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker.
• The child is the father of man.
• The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
• The early bird catches the worm.
• The end justifies the means.
• The grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
• The leopard cannot change its spots.
• The love of money is the root of all evil.
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
• The way to an Englishman's heart is through his stomach.
• There is no accounting for taste.
• There is no smoke without fire.
• There is safety in numbers.
• Time is money.
• Too many cooks spoil the broth.
• Variety is the spice of life.
• Walls have ears.
• What can't be cured must be endured.
• When ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
• When in Rome do as the Romans do.
• When the cat's away the mice will play.
• When there is a will, there a way.
• You can take a horse to the water but you can't make him drink.