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- a bad carpenter blames his tools (in. a bad workman always blames his tools)
- a bad excuse is better than none
- a bad husband makes a bad wife (in. a good husband makes a good wife)
- a bad penny always turns up
- a bad thing never dies
- a bad workman always blames his tools
- a bad workman quarrels with his tools
- a barking dog never bites
- a bawling cow soon forgets its own calf (in. a bellowing cow soon forgets her calf)
- a bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end
- a believer is a songless bird in a cage
- a bellowing cow soon forgets her calf
- a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- a bird never flew on one wing
- a bleating sheep loses a bite
- a blind man's wife needs no paint
- a book is like a garden carried in the pocket
- a bribe will enter without knocking
- a bully is always a coward
- a burnt child dreads the fire
- a cat can look at the king (in. a cat may look at the king)
- a cat has nine lives
- a cat in gloves catches no mice
- a cat may look at the king
- a chain is no stronger than its weakest link
- a change is as good as a rest
- a child on agiant's shoulders sees further of the two (in. a dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees further of the two)
- a church is God between four walls
- a civil question deserves a civil answer
- a clear conscience can bear any trouble
- a closed mouth catches no flies (in. a shut mouth catches no flies)
- a cock is mighty in his own backyard (in. every cock will crow upon his own dunghill)
- a common danger causes common action
- a constant guest is never welcome
- a contented mind is a continual feast
- a creaking door hangs longest
- a creaking gate hangs long
- a crow doesn't pick out the eye of another crow (in. hawks will not pick out hawks' eyes)
- a dead dog tells no tales (in. dead men tell no tales)
- a deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
- a dog is man's best friend
- a dog that will fetch a bone will carry a bone
- a door must be either shut or open
- a dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine
- a dripping June sets all in tune
- a drowning man will catch at a straw
- a dry cough is the trumpeter of death
- a dry May and a dripping June bringeth all things in tune (in. a dripping June sets all in tune)
- a dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees further of the two
- a fair exchange is no robbery
- a fat kitchen makes a lean will
- a fault confessed is half redressed
- a fish stinks from the head
- a fool and his money are soon parted
- a fool at forty is a fool indeed
- a fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years (in. fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer)
- a fool may give a wise mam counsel
- a fool over forty is a fool indeed (in. a fool at forty is a fool indeed)
- a fool's bolt is soon shot
- a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
- a fox smells its own lair first
- a friend in need is a friend indeed
- a friend to all is a friend to none
- a gentleman's word is his bond (in. a man's word is as good as his bond)
- a golden key can open any door
- a good beginning is half the battle
- a good beginning makes a good ending
- a good dog deserves a good bone
- a good example is the best sermon
- a good face is a letter of recommendation
- a good horse cannot be of a bad colour
- a good husband makes a good wife
- a good Jack makes a good Jill
- a good leader is also a good follower
- a good name is better than precious ointment
- a good name is sooner lost than won
- a good reputation is is more valuable than money
- a good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand
- a good tale is not the worse for being told twice
- a goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw
- a great book is a great evil
- a great city, a great solitude
- a green winter makes a fat churchyard
- a growing youth has a wolf in his stomach
- a guilty conscience needs no accuser
- a heavy purse makes a light heart
- a hedge between keeps friendship green
- a horse can't pull while kicking
- a house divided against itself cannot stand
- a house without books is like a room without windows
- a hungry man is an angry man
- a hungry stomach has no ears
- a jack of all trades is master of none
- a jackass can kick a barn door down, but it takes a carpenter to build one
- a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step
- a leopard cannot change its spots
- a liar is not believed when he tells the truth
- a liar is worse than a thief
- a liar should have a good memory
- a lie can go around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots
- a lie has no legs
- a light purse makes a heavy heart
- a little absence does much good
- a little knowledge is a dangerous thing (in. a little learning is a dangerous thing)
- a little learning is a dangerous thing
- a little of what you fancy does you good
- a little pot is soon hot
- a live dog is better than a dead lion
- a living dog is better than a dead lion (in. a live dog is better than a dead lion)
- a man can only die once
- a man in debt is caught in a net
- a man is a lion in his own cause
- a man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks
- a man is innocent until proven guilty
- a man is known by the company he keeps
- a man's best reputation for the future is his record of the past
- a man's got to do what a man's got to do
- a man's home is his castle
- a man's word is as good as his bond
- a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
- a man without religion is a horse without a bridle
- a man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle
- a merry heart makes a cheerful coutenance
- a mind is a terrible thing to waste
- a miss is as good as a mile
- a merry heart makes a long life
- a miss is as good as a mile
- a mother can take take care of ten children, but sometimes ten children can't take care of one mother
- a mouse may help a lion
- a new broom sweeps clean
- a new day, a new dollar
- a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse
- a penny saved is a penny earned
- a person is known by the company he keeps
- a picture is worth a thousand words (in. one picture is worth ten thousand words)
- a place for everything and everything in its place
- a poor excuse is better than none (in. a bad excuse is better than none)
- a poor workman blames his tools (in. a bad workman always blames his tools)
- a postern door makes a thief
- a preacher's son is often bad (in. clergymen's sons always turn out badly)
- a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country
- a reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall
- a rich man's joke is always funny
- a rising tide lifts all boats
- a rolling stone gathers no moss
- a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
- a secret is either too good to keep or too bad not to tell
- a secret's a secret until it's told
- a short horse is soon curried
- a shut mouth catches no flies
- a slice off a cut loaf isn't missed
- a slip of the lip will sink a ship (in. loose lips sink ships)
- a small gift usually gets small thanks
- a soft answer turns away wrath
- a son is a son till he gets him a wife, a daughter's a daughter all of her life
- a stern chase is a long chase
- a sound mind in a sound body
- a stiff tongue makes a wise head
- a stitch in time saves nine
- a stream cannot rise above its source
- a stumble may prevent a fall
- a tale never loses in its telling
- a thing of beauty is a joy forever
- a thing you don't want is dear at any price
- a traveler may lie with authority
- a trouble shared is a trouble halved
- a volunteer is worth ten pressed men (in. one volunteer is worth two pressed men)
- a watched pot never boils
- a wet May brings plenty of hay
- a whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men
- a white wall is the fool's writing paper
- a willful man must have his way
- a winner never quites, and a quitter never wins
- a wise lawyer never goes to law himself
- a wise man changes his mind, but a fool never does
- a wise man is never less alone than when alone
- a woman's work is never done
- a wonder lasts but nine days
- a word is enough to the wise (in. a word to the wise is sufficient)
- a word spoken is past recalling
- a word to the wise is sufficient
- a young barber and an old physician
- a young man married is a young man marred
- a young physician fattens the churchyard (in. a young barber and an old physician)
- absence is the mother of disillusion
- absence makes the heart grow fonder
- accidents will happen in the best-regulated families
- accusing the times is but excusing ourselves
- action is worry's worst enemy
- action without thought is like shooting without aim
- actions speak louder than words
- admiration is the daughter of ignorance
- adventures are to the adventurous
- adversity makes strange bedfellows
- after a storm comes a calm
- after death the doctor
- after dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile
- age before beauty
- agree, for the law is costly
- alcohol will preserve anything but a secret
- all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
- all arts are brothers, each is a light to the other
- all bad things come in threes (in. things come in threes)
- all cats are gray in the dark
- all chiefs and no Indians (in. too many chiefs and not enough Indians)
- all commend patience, but none can endure to suffer
- all fish are not caught with flies
- all flowers are not in one garland
- all good things come in threes (in. things come in threes)
- all good things come to an end
- all good things come to those who wait (in. all things come to him who waits)
- all good things must come to an end (in. all good things come to an end)
- all is fish that comes to the net
- all is grist that comes to the mill
- all is not gold that glitters (in. all that glitters is not gold)
- all lay loads on the willing horse (in. the willing horse carries the load)
- all men are created equal
- all roads lead to Rome
- all that glitters is not gold
- all the world's a stage
- all things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth
- all things are possible with God
- all things come to an end (in. everything has an end)
- all things come to him who waits
- all things come to those who wait (in. all things come to him who waits)
- all things will pass (in. this, too, shall pass)
- all words are pegs to hang ideas on
- all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- all's fair in love and war
- all's for the best in the best of possible worlds
- all's well that ends well
- always a bridesmaid, never a bride
- always in a hurry, always behind
- always look on the bright side
- always something new out of Africa
- always take the bitter with the better (in. you have to take the bitter with the sweet)
- America is a tune; it must be sung together
- among the blind one-eyed man is a king
- an ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- an army marches on its stomach
- an elephant never forgets
- an empty bag cannot stand (in. an empty sack cannot stand upright)
- an empty barrel makes the most noise (in. empty vessels make the most sound)
- an empty sack cannot stand upright
- an Englishman's home is his castle
- an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
- an honest look covereth many faults
- an honest man's word is as good as his bond (in. a man's word is as good as his bond)
- an hour in the morning is worth two in the evening
- an idle brain is the devil's workshop
- an idle youth, a needy age
- an ill agreement is better than a good judgment
- an ill beginning makes an ill ending
- an ill bird lays an ill egg
- an ill master makes an ill servant (in. like master, like man)
- an ill wind blows no good
- an inch is as good as a mile (in. give a man an inch and he'll take a mile)
- an old dog will learn no tricks (in. you can't teach an old dog new tricks)
- an old fool is the worst fool (in. there's no fool like an old fool)
- an old fox is not easily snared
- an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper
- an open door may tempt a saint
- an ounce of commons sense is worth a pound of theory
- an ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit
- an ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept
- an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
- anger improves nothing but the arch of a cat's back
- anger without power is folly
- another day, another dollar
- any port in a storm
- any publicity is good publicity
- any stick will serve to beat a dog with (in. it's easy to find a stick to beat a dog)
- anything worth doing is worth doing well (in. if a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well)
- appearances are deceiving (in. appearances are misleading)
- appearances are misleading
- appetite comes with eating
- April showers bring May flowers
- art consists in concealing art (in. the best art conceals art)
- art is long and life is short
- art is power
- as a tree falls, so shall it lie
- as good be an addled egg as an idle bird
- as is the father, so is the son (in. like father, like son)
- as is the mother, so is the daughter (in. like father, like son)
- as Maine goes, so goes the nation
- as the day lengthens, so the cold strengthens
- as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined
- as you bake, so shall you brew
- as you brew, so shall you drink
- as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
- as you sow, so shall you reap
- ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you
- ask a silly question and you get a silly answer
- ask advice, but use your common sense
- ask and you shall receive
- ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies (in. ask no questions and hear no lies)
- ask no questions and hear no lies
- at night all cats are gray (in. all cats are gray in the dark)
- attack is the best form of defense (in. the best defense is a good offense)
- avoidance is the best remedy
- away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him
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