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
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
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)
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
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.
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) ”
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
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
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
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)
