A bad tree does not yield good apples.
A bad workman blames his tools.
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
A big fish in a little pond.
A bird in hand is worth two in a bush.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A brave man or fortunate one is able to bear envy.
A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
A buddy from my old stomping grounds.
A burden of one's own choice is not felt.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A cat has nine lives.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
A change is as good as a rest.
A day after the fair. 박람회, 이미 늦었음을 뜻.
A deep distress hath humanized my soul.
A disease known, is half cured.
A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom.
A drop in the ocean.
A drowning man will catch at a straw.
A dry March, a wet April and a cool May fill barn and cellar and bring much
hay.
A fair face will get its praise, though the owner keep silent.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
A flower blooms more than once. 오늘만 날이냐
A flying crow always catches something.
A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan.
A fool and his money are soon (easily) parted.
A fool at forty is a fool forever.
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend is best found in adversity.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
A good beginning makes a good end.
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
A good example is the best sermon.
A good medicine tastes bitter.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. 한창 때는 먹어도 먹어도 배고프다
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. 도둑이 제발저린다
A hobby begun late in life.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
A leopard cannot change its spots.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
A light heart lives long.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
A little bite catches a large fish.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
A little neglect may breed mischief.
A loaded wagon makes no noise.
A loveless life is a living death.
A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
A man can die but once.
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
A man of many talents.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.
A monkey in silk is a monkey no less.
A new broom sweeps clean.
A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A rose is sweeter in the bud than full blown.
A rotten apple spoils the barrel.
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
A stitch in time saves nine
A stitch in time saves nine.
A straw shows which way the wind blows.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
A swallow does not make the summer.
A tree is known by its fruit.
A watched pot never boils
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affection.
A wonder lasts nine days, and the the puppy's are open.
A young idler, an old beggar.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Accidents will happen.
Actions speak louder than words.
Advice is cheap.
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
Advisers run no risks.
After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile.
Age, like distance, lends a double charm.
All cats are grey in the dark.
All cry and no wool.
All days are short to Industry and long to Idleness.
All good things come to those who wait.
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
All is fair in love and war
All is fair in love and war.
All is not gold that glitters.
All that glitters is not gold.
All the world's stage, and all the men and women merely players.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
All things grow with time - except grief.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All's well that ends well
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Among the blind, the one-eyed is king.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.*
An early bird catches the worm.
An empty purse frightens away friends.
An Englishman's home is his castle.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
An onion a day keeps everyone away.*
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Anger is the one thing made better by delay.
Any time means no time.
April showers bring May flowers.
Around the world thoughts shall fly in the twinkling of an eye.
Art is long, life is short.
As long as the language live the nation is not dead.
As soon as man is born he begins to die.
As you sow, so shall you reap
Ask me no questions, I'll tell? you no lies.
Bad news travels fast.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Be just before you're generous.
Be not the slave of Words.
Be so true to thy self, as thou be not false to others.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the
beauty of men.
Beauty's but skin deep.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Better be the head of a dog then the tail of a lion.
Better bend than break.
Better flatter a fool than fight him.
Better late than never.
Better lose the saddle than the horse.
Better safe than sorry
Better the devil you know than the devil you
Better untaught than ill-taught
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Birds of a feather flocks together.
Birds of a feather will gather together.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Blood is thicker than water??
Blood will out.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
Cast not your pearls before swine.
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
Charity begins at home.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Clear moon, frost soon.
Clothes don't make the man.
Constant occupation prevents temptation.
Conviction is worthless till it converts itself into conduct.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
Dead men tell no tales
Diamond cuts diamond.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Discretion is the better part of valour
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than
Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late.
Dogs of the same street bark alike.
Don't bark if you can't bite.
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
don't know
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Don't throw out(or empty out) the baby with bath water.
Don't whistle until you are out of the wood.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Easier said than done.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
Elbow grease is the best polish.
Empty vessels make the greatest noise.
Empty vessels make the most noise.
Eternity was in that moment.
Even the fortune-teller does not know his own destiny.
Every ass likes to hear himself bray.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Every cloud has a silver lining
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Every man for himself.
Every man has his price.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Every path has its puddle.
Every rose has its thorn.
Every why has a wherefore.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Everything in the garden is rosy.
Everything must have a beginning.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Experience is the father of wisdom.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Facts speak louder than words.
Failure teaches success.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
False friends are worse than open enemies.
Familiarity breeds contempt
Few people know how to be old.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
First come, first served.
Fool me once, shame on you;
fool me twice, shame on me.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Frailty, thy name is woman.
Friendship is love with understanding.
Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
Gather the rosebuds while you may.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Give me liberty or give me death!
Give someone an inch and they will take a mile (or yard).
Give someone enough rope and they will hang?themselves.
God and reason are identical.
God helps them that help themselves.
God helps those who help themselves.
God's mill grinds slow, but sure.
Good and quickly seldom meet.
Good luck does not always repeat itself.
Good management is better than good income.
Good medicine tastes bitter.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Great honours are great burden.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.
Great minds think alike.
Great oaks grow from little acorns.
Great souls suffer in silence.
Grief divided is made lighter
Half a loaf is better than none.
Handsome is that as handsome does.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Hard words break no bones.
Harmonious cooperation is everything in accomplishing something.
Haste makes waste.
Hatred is a blind as love.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
He cleaves the clouds.
He got what he bargained for.
He has enough who is content.
He is a good friend who applauds me behind.
He is building a bridge over the sea.
He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
He laughs best who laughs last.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
He must be pure who blames another.
He needs an extraordinary health who will succeed in a great work.
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
He that increases knowledge increases sorrows.
He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.
He that lends, gives.
He that travels far knows much.
He that travels much knows much.
He that would govern others, first should be master of himself.
He that's content hath enough.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
He who carries nothing, loses nothing.
He who conquers others is strong.
He who hesitates is lost.
He who is everywhere is nowhere.
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
He who makes no mistakes nothing.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
He who plays with fire gets burnt.
He who rebukes the world is rebuked by the world.
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
He who wills the end wills? the means.
Health is better than wealth.
healthy, wealthy and wise.
Heaven helps those who help themselves.
Home is where the heart is.
Honesty is the best policy.
Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
However long the night, the dawn will? break
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Hunger is a good sauce.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
I am sure the grapes are sour.
I think, therefore I am.
If a camel gets his nose in a tent, his body will follow.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
If in February there be no rain, 'tis neither good?for hay nor grain.
If two ride a horse, one must ride behind.
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.?Ignorance is bliss.
If you are idle, be not solitary, if you are solitary, be not idle.
If you are patient in one moment of anger,?you will avoid 100 days of
sorrow.
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
If you have nothing to do, go home early.
If you want a friend, be a friend.
If you want to lose your friend, grant him a loan.
If you wish succeed, consult three old people.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
In times of prosperity friends are plentiful.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
It is always darkest before the dawn
It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
It is too late to shut the stable door when the horse is stolen.
It matter not how long we live, but how.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
It never rains but it pours.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
It takes two to speak the truth; one to speak, and another to hear.
It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meaning.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Justice is truth in action.
Keep something for a rainy day.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Kill one to warn a hundred.
Kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Kind hearts are more than coronets.
Kindless in women, not their beautiful looks, shall win my love.
Kindness begets kindness.
Know thyself.
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge is scarce, wisdom is scarcer.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.
Learn to walk before you run.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Least said soonest mended.
Let bygones be bygones.
Let the chips fall where they may.
Liars need good memories.
Life has its sorrows, as every rose has its thorns.
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Life is an incurable disease.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Life is perfected by death.
Lightning never strikes in the same place twice
Like father, like son.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Look before you leap.
Loose lips sink ships.
Losers weepers, finders keepers.
Love is a sickness full of wees, all remedies refusing.
Love is blind.
Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.
Love me little, love me long.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
Make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Make haste slowly.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Man is a social animal.
Man is a voluntary agent.
Man is but a reed, the weaken in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Man is the head of the family;
Man is the paragon of animals.
Man learn to be wise by the folly of other.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Man should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Man will do many things to get himself loved.
Manners make the man.
Many countries so many customs.
Many hands make light work.
Many heads, many mind.
Many strokes fell great oaks.
Marriage are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage is not graduation, but beginning of a work.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Masters are mostly the greatest servant in the house.
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Memory is the treasure of the mind.
Men are but children of a larger growth.
Men are known by the company they keep.
Men are not to be measured by inches.
Men have no right to what is not reasonable.
Men make houses, women make homes.
Men of genius, for the most part, have been hardworking men.
Mere decay produces richer life.
Might as well be hanged for a sheep as (for) a lamb
Mingle your joys sometimes with your earnest occupation.
Misery loves company.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Money begets money.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Money is the root of all evil.
More haste, less speed.
Most people judge men only by their success or their good fortune.
Most things are easy to learn, but hard to master.
Much caution does no harm.
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.
Much will have more.
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.
My wrath shall far exceed the love I ever bore.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Nature is the best physician.
Nature is the glass reflecting God.
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Need teaches a plan.
never be sound.
Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man.
Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today
Never say die.
Never teach a child anything of which you are not yourself.
Never trouble till trouble troubles you.
No furniture so charming as books.
No man can serve two masters.
No man is an island.
No man is the wiser for his learning.
No matter how fair the sun shines, still it must set.
No news is good news.
No one can be more wise than destiny.
No rose without a thorn.
No smoke without fire.
No wind, no waves.
Nobody is perfect.
None are more taken in by flattery than by the proud.
Not until old age, but until death we learn.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Of the people, by the people, for the people.
Old age is an island surrounded by death.
Old friends and old wine are best.
Old habits die hard.
Old is, is good is.
Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit.
Old soldiers never die; they only fade away!
Once a beggar, always a beggar.
Once bitten, twice shy.
One cannot see the wood for the trees.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
One good turn deserves another.
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
One lives but once in the world.
One man's meat is another man's poison
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
One morning I awoke and found myself famous.
One must do one's best in whatever one undertakes.
One must make the best of things.
One of these days is none of these days.
One swallow doesn't make a summer.
One today is worth two tomorrow.
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Only real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
Other times, other manners.
Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
Over shoes, over boots.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasure are.
Paradise is where I am.
Patience is a virtue
Penny wise, pound foolish.
People are not always what they seem.
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
People who made no noise are dangerous.
Pity is akin to love.
Poetry is the mother tongue of mankind.
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Poverty waits at the gates of idleness.
Practice makes perfect.
Practise what you preach
Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.
Prevention is better than cure
Pride comes before a fall.
Procrastination is the thief of time
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Punctuality is the soul of business
Put all your eggs in one basket
Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.
Question is not answer.
Read not for others but for yourself.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble, prosperity is full of friends.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Restraint is the best medicine.
Revenge is sweet.
Rich are the diligent who can command Time - Nature's stock.
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
Rolling stone gathers no moss.
Rome was not built in a day.
Save me from my friends.
Saying is one thing, doing is another.
Short reckonings make long friends.
Sickness in the body brings sadness to the mind.
Silence gives consent.
Silence is the most perfect expression! of scorn.
Snug as a bug in a rug.
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
Step by step one goes a long way.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me
Still waters run deep.
Stolen fruit is the sweetest.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Style is the dress of thoughts.
Success doesn't come overnight.
Talk of the devil, and he will appear.
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
The beginning is half of the whole.
The best advice is found on the pillow.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
The darkest hour is just before dawn.
The devil looks after his own.
The devil makes work for idle hands
The die is cast.
The difficulty in life is the choice.
The early bird catches the worm.
The end justifies the means.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
The first step is the hardest.
The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
The more haste, the less speed.
The more she spurns my love, the more it grows.
The more you have, the more you want.
The most wasted day of all if that on which we have not laughed.
The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
The past one can know, but the future feel.
The pen is mightier than the sword
The perception of beauty is a moral rest.
The pot calls the kettle black.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The right people in the right jobs.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The sea refuses no rivers.
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.
The sole equality on earth is death.
The soul of man, too, is a universe.
The tongue wounds more than a lance.
The true begger is the true king.
The truth is in the wine.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
The wish is father to the thought.
The worst friend and enemy is but Death.
There are three faithful friends-an old wife, an old dog, and money.
There is a black sheep in every flock.
There is a trick in every trade.
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.
There is no fool like an old fool.
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
There is safety in numbers
They that govern the most make the least noise.
Things are always at their best in their beginning.
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
those of the body.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time has wings.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Time is flying never to return.
Time is money.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.
To be awake is to be alive.
To err is human, to forgive divine
To error is human, to forgive divine.
To say is one thing; to practise another.
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
Tomorrows is a new day.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Too much rest is rust.
Tread on a worm, and it will turn.
Trust not a horse's heel nor a dog's tooth.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Two wrongs don't make a right
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
Union is strength.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Unwillingness easily finds an excuse.
Use makes perfect.
Variety is the spice of life.
Variety's the very spice of life.
Veracity is the heart of morality.
Virtue is its own reward.
Virtue is no empty echo.
Virtue subdues power.
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
Walls have ears.
Waste not, want not.
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
We can see through others only when we see through ourselves.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.
We may give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.
Wealth brings with it many anxieties.
What a man says drunk, he thinks sober.
What is done is done.
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
What the heart thinks, the mouth speaks.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
When I had money everybody called me brother.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
When poverty come in the door, love goes out the window.
When poverty comes in at the door, loves flies out the window.
When the cat's away, the mice play.
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Where there's life there's hope.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Who makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolves.
Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
Wisdom is better than strength.
Without haste, but without rest.
woman is the neck that turns the head.
Women ought to be as glad to be women as men are to be men.
Wonders will never cease!
World history is the world's court.
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Years bring wisdom.
Years know more than books.
You are never too old to learn.
You are what you eat.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't ?make it drink.
You cannot see the wood for the trees.
You can't blame a person on mere suspicion.
You can't have your cake and eat it.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
You have to walk the talk.
You never know what you can do until you try.
You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Young in limbs, in judgment old.
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
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