Here are some proverbs -2-

**2012-02-23, 05:27**

If the shoe fits, wear it.
If the truth hurts, you are not living right.

o From the television show "The Killing".

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
If you believe that dreams can come true be prepared for the occasional nightmare.
If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.

o Alternatively: You get what you pay for .

If you buy quality, you only cry once.
If you can't be good, be careful.
If you can't be good, be good at it.
If you can't beat them, join them.
If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
If you cross your bridges before you come to them, you will have to pay the toll twice.
If you don't buy a ticket, you can't win the raffle.
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all .
If you don't know where you're going, any train will get you there.
If you fake it, you can't make it.
If you fall off a cliff, you might as well try to fly. After all, you got nothing to lose.
If you keep your mouth shut, you won't put your foot in it.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
If you snooze you lose
If you sup with the devil, use a long spoon.

o Meaning: Someone who treats others badly will eventually turn on you.

If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die. - Divers Proverbs,
If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.
If you want a thing done right, do it yourself.
If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.
If you want to judge a man's character, give him power.
If you were born to be shot, you'll never be hanged.
If you're in a hole, stop digging.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

o . If you're prepared to be confused, be prepared for a sore bum

Ignorance is bliss.

o Common mal-shortening of "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

o Alternate version: In for a dime, in for a dollar.

In one ear and out the other.

o Cf. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: "One eare it heard, at the other out it went"

In order to get where you want to go, you first have to leave where you are.
In the end, a man's motives are second to his accomplishments.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
In the law there are no small cases, only small lawyers.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
In the mind of thieves the moon is always shining.
Infatuations are a plenty. Love is rare. - Pashi
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

o Alternatively "Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results"

Is the Pope a Catholic?

o Do bears shit in the woods? .

It's a blessing in disguise.
It's a cracked pitcher that goes longest to the well.
It's a good horse that never stumbles.
It's a long lane that has no turning.
It's a poor job that can't stand at least one supervisor.
It's always darkest before the dawn
It's always the baker's children who have no bread.
It's an ill wind that blows no good.
It's better to be safe than sorry.
It's better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt.
It is better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees.
It's better to give than to receive.
It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
It's better to have something you don't need than to need something you don't have.
It's better to want something you can't have than have something you don't want.
It's cheaper to keep her.
It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
It's easy to be wise after the event.
It's never too late to mend.
It's no use crying over spilt milk. .
It ain't over till it's over.

o Often attributed to sportscaster Dan Cook (1978)

o Meaning: No matter how the outlook is things can always turn back. In other words you should not celebrate until you are 100% sure there is a reason to do so.

It is not so much the gift that is given but the way in which the gift is driven.
It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion of the ocean.
It's often a person's mouth broke their nose.
It's the early bird that gets the worm. .
It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
It is through the small things we do that we learn, not the big things
It never rains, but it pours.

o Alternatively: When it rains, it pours.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

o Alternatively: It takes all sorts to make the world go round.

o Alternatively: It takes all kinds to make the world go round.

It takes both rain and sunshine to make rainbows
It takes two to lie — one to lie and one to listen.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
It takes two to tango.
Jack of all trades and master of none. (18th Century)

Joan is as good as my lady in the dark. (17th Century)
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Justice delayed is justice denied.(Legal Proverb, India)

Justice pleaseth few in their own house.

Keep some till more come.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. (18th Century)
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

o Meaning: It is best to gather as much information about your enemies as possible. This might give the false impression that your enemies are your friends.

Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
The key to all action lies in belief.
Kindness, like grain, increase by sowing.
A kingdom is lost for want of a shoe.
See: "For want of a nail the shoe is lost, ..."
Knaves and fools divide the world.
Knowledge creates mysteries.
Knowledge is power. (17th Century)
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry alone.

o Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and your mascara runs. - variation by advice columnist Ann Landers.

Laugh when you're happy, cry when you're sad, and do both when you're the happiest you've ever been.
Laughter is the best medicine for them who do not know how to laugh.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
The law is a jealous mistress. .
Law is the solemn expression of legislative will.
Lead by example
Lead to Success, Follow to Failure
Learn to walk before you run.

o Meaning: Learn the basics of any subject first.

Least said sooner mended.
Leave it alone and it will grow on its own.
Less is more.

o Campbell, Cimberly Hill (2007). Less is more: teaching literature with short texts, grades 6-12. Stenhouse Publishers. 157110710X.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.

o Meaning: Don't talk about things you don't know anything about.

Let us go hand in hand, not one before another.
A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.

o [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. A great lie may be widely accepted before the truth comes to light.

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
Life begins at forty.
Life does not come with any guarantees
Life imitates art
Life imitates chess - [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Life is a perception of your own reality.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

o Attributed to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.

o Quote from song sung by Zorba from the musical 'Zorba' by Kander and Ebb

Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.

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Life's battle don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Like cures like.
Like father, like son.
Like water off a duck's back.
Little bean comes around his little salary
Little by little and bit by bit.

o Meaning: Many incremental changes will after some time transform what is pathetic into something grand.

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

o A little Learning is a dangerous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. ~ [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

A little pot is easily hot.
Live and let live.

o Alternative: Live simply to let others simply live.

A loaded wagon makes no noise.
Long absent, soon forgotten.
The longest mile is the last mile home.
Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.
Look before you leap.
Look on the sunny side of life.
Loose lips sink ships.
Love is a bridge between two hearts.
Love is anger disappointed.
Love is blind.
Love is like war, Easy to start, Hard to end, Impossible to forget.
Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without.
Love is stronger than any addiction, baby. Hell, it is one. - [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Love laughs at locksmiths.
Luck favors the prepared - [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Luck is a mirror of hard work - Beslin

Make a Friend when you don't need One (from Urim)
Make hay while the sun shines.
Making a rod for your own back.
Make the best of a bad bargain.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Man is truly himself when he's alone.
Man wasn't born to suffer but to carry on.
A man's home is his castle.
And the law of England has so particular and tender a regard to the immunity of a man's house, that it stiles it his castle, and will never suffer it to be violated with immunity: agreeing herein with the sentiments of ancient Rome, as expressed in the works of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]; quid enim sanctius, quid omni religione munitius, quam domus unusquisque civium?
Translation: What more sacred, what more strongly guarded by every holy feeling, than a man's own home?
Manners maketh the man.

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Many a true word is spoken in jest
Many hands make light work
Many things are lost for want of asking.
Many words will not fill a bushel.

o This Proverb is a severe Taunt upon much Talking. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Marriage equals hell and bankruptcy.
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
Meaner than a junk-yard dog.
Meaning of life is not meaningful -- Allen Zimama
Measure twice, cut once.
Mind your P's and Q's.

o British: Mind your manners ([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.])

Mirrors do everything we do, but they cannot think for themselves.
Misery loves company.
Misfortunes never come singly.
A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile.

o Meaning: A miss is a miss regardless the distance

o "An inch o' a miss is as gude as a span." [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Missing the wood for the trees.

o Meaning: While tending to every detail you might miss out the big picture.

Money can't buy everything, but everything needs money
Money cannot buy happiness.
Money for old rope.

o In the days of wooden-hulled [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] ships, ropes that were worn could be sold for use as [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] or as filling for [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], and so the ship's owner was paid even for old rope.

The money is burning a hole in my pocket.
(love of) Money is the root of all evil.
Money makes the mare go.
Money makes the world go around.
Money talks; mine always says, "Good-bye!"
Money talks.

o Variant: Money talks, bullshit walks.

o Related: Talk is cheap.

o Related: Actions speak louder than words.

Monkey see, monkey do.
Morals are for others to follow.
More haste, less speed.

o Meaning: Hurry, but work slowly to make sure what you attend to gets done properly.

**2012-02-27, 06:16**

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