PROVERBS |
The last drop makes the cup run over. |
The last straw breaks the camel's back. |
Laugh and grow fat. |
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. |
Learn to walk before you run. |
Lend your money and lose your friend. |
The leopard cannot change his spots. |
Let bygones be bygones. |
Let sleeping dogs lie. |
A liar is not believed when he tells the truth. |
Life is sweet. |
A light purse makes a heavy heart. |
Lightly come, lightly go. |
Like father, like son. |
A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse. |
Little by little and bit by bit. |
A little help is worth a deal of pity. |
A little learning is a dangerous thing. |
Little strokes fell great oaks. |
Live and learn. |
Live and let live. |
Live not to eat, but eat to live. |
The longest day must have an end. |
Look before you leap. |
Love is blind. |
Love will find a way. |
Make haste slowly. |
Make hay while the sun shines. |
Make the best of a bad job. |
A man is known by the company he keeps. |
Man proposes, God disposes. |
Many hands make light work. |
Marriages are made in heaven. |
Marriage is a lottery. |
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. |
Men are not to be measured in inches. |
Men leap over where the hedge is lowest. |
Men make houses, women make homes. |
Might is right. |
Money begets money. |
Money is the root of all evil. |
Money talks. |
More haste, less speed. |
More than enough is too much. |
Much would have more. |
The more you have, the more you want. |
The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken. |
The laborer is worthy of his hire. |
Least said, soonest mended. |
Let not the sun go down on your wrath. |
Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. |
Let not your wits go wool-gathering. |
Let the buyer beware. |
Let the cobbler stick to his last. |
Let the world wag. |
Liars should have good memories. |
Life is not all beer and skittles. |
Life is short and time is swift. |
Light not a candle to the sun. |
Like master, like man. |
Like will to like. |
Listeners hear no good of themselves. |
Little and often fills the purse. |
Little pitchers have long ears. |
Little things please little minds. |
The longest way round is the nearest way home. |
Lookers-on see most of the game. |
Love laughs at locksmiths. |
Love me little, love me long. |
Love me, love my dog. |
The love of money is the root of all evil. |
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your fence. |
Make the best of a bad bargain. |
Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you. |
A man can only die once. |
A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks. |
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. |
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. |
Manners make the man. |
Many a little makes a mickle. |
Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off. |
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. |
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. |
Men are blind in their own cause. |
Men strain at gnats and swallow camels. |
A mill cannot grind with the water that is past. |
The mills of God grind slowly. |
Misfortunes never come singly. |
A miss is as good as a mile. |
Moderation in all things. |
Money burns a hole in the pocket. |
More know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows. |
Muck and money go together. |
Murder will out. |