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1] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive
2] Nature surpasses art
3] Do not kick against the pricks
4] Parents are patterns
5] There is nothing permanent except change
6] Long life has long misery
7] Nearest the heart comes out first
8] Penny and penny laid up will be many
9] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand
10] Self do, self have
11] Slow but sure wins the race
12] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.
13] As soon as man is born, he begins to die
14] What is a workman without his tools?
15] Great actions speak minds
16] Let not the sun do down on your wrath
17] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away
18] Beauty draws more than oxen
19] One volunteer is worth two pressed men
20] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
21] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit
22] A rich man can do nothing wrong
23] Men are blind in their own cause
24] There is nothing permanent except change
25] Time flees without a delay
26] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly
27] Virtue is a jewel of great price.
28] Good broth may be made in an old pot
29] Health and money go far
30] Money is power
31] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom
32] Hasty work, double work,
33] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine
34] Leave well alone
35] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
36] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
37] The Pen is mightier than the sword
38] Goods that are much on show lose their colour
39] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret
40] You cannot catch old birds with chaff
41] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.
42] No playing with a straw before an old cat.
43] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war
44] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead
45] God made the country ,and man made the town
46] First creep, then walk
47] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda
48] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well
49] A fool always rushes to the fore.
50] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head
51] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day
52] Better the last smile than the first laugh
53] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window
54] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing
55] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed
56] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it
57] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.
58] They brag most who can do least
59] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none
60] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts
61] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.
62] As you bake, so shall you eat.
63] Hunger is the best sauce
64] Beauty is only skin deep
65] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head
66] Opportunity makes the thief
67] He that pities another remembers himself
68] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand
69] Bad news travels fast
70] More have repented speech than silence
71] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war
72] When angry, count a hundred
73] His bark is worse than his bite
74] Pardon makes offenders
75] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again
76] The money you refuse will never do you good
77] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon
78] The borrower is servant to the lender
79] He that praises himself, spatters himself
80] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse
81] Don’t hide your light under a bushel
82] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears
83] A soft answer turns away wrath
84] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing
85] A good example is the best sermon
86] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string
87] There is no redemption from hell
88] III luck is good for something
89] Ill news comes unsent for.
90] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks
91] We live laws, not by examples
92] Money is the sinew of affairs
93] One good turn deserves another
94] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye
95] It is easy to be wise after the event
96] Lose a leg rather than a life
97] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.
98] The end crowns the work.
99] He that has no money needs no purse
100] The mean is the best