Here are some proverbs -1-

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• . English proverbs
  
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
  
• "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."
  

• Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.],
  

• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
  

• The ends justify the means..
  

• Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
  

• Even a dog can distinguish between being stumbled over and being kicked. Gill, Peter Edward
  
  
  
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• Every dog has its day. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]:
  
  
  
  • "...whatever Hercules says, the cat will mew and dog will have its day."
    
  
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• Everyone talks of changing the world, but no one talks of changing himself.[Leo Tolstoy]
  

• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth Justice, G. (2004.
  

o . A response, often attributed to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], is "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."

§ Bregman, Lucy (2009). Religion, Death, and Dying: Volume 3:

• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
  


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• For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.],
  

• From those to whom much is given, much is expected.
  

• Fortune favours the brave.
  
• . Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
  
• Meaning: Idle people will quickly be forgotten by history. .
  

• Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
  
• Give a dog a bad name and he'll live up to it. (or repay you for it)
  
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
  
• Give and take is fair play.
  
• Give, and ye shall receive.
  
• Give credit where credit is due.
  
• Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
  

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• Give respect, take respect
  
• God cures and the physician takes the fee.
  
• God don't like ugly and he ain't stuck on pretty.
  
• God takes care of drunks.
  
• A good beginning makes (for) a good ending.
  
• Chinese Version*: A good beginning is half a succession
  
• Good eating deserves good drinking.
  
• A good enemy is a better person than a false friend.
  
• Good fences make good neighbors[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
  
• Good men are hard to find.
  
• A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
  
• Good wine needs no bush.
  
  
  
  • It was customary since early times to hang a grapevine, ivy or other greenery over the door of a tavern or way stop to advertise the availability of drink within.
    
  
  
• The grass is always greener on the other side...
  
• Great cry little wool.
  
• Great events cast their shadows before them.
  
• Great minds think alike, or fools seldom differ.
  
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
  
• Green leaves and brown leaves fall from the same tree.
  
• Grow where you are planted.
  
• A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
  
• Guns for show, knives for a pro.
  
• A half truth is a whole lie.
  
• (You can't) Have your cake and eat it too
  
  
  
  • Cf. George Herbert The Sizz "Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it"
    
  
  
• The head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm.
  
• He laughs best who laughs last
  
• He who dares wins
  
• He who toots his horn the loudest is usually lost in the deepest fog.
  
• Health is wealth
  
• Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
  
• Heritage is invaluable
  
• Home is where the heart is
  
• Home sweet home
  
• Haste makes waste.
  

• Hung like a Horse.
  
• He who hesitates is lost.
  

• Handsome is what handsome does
  
• I complained I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.
  
• I have the whole world against me, I show my back and the whole world is following me.
  

I know I know nothing



. I think, therefore I am

I wants, don't gets.

An alternative used in the black British community is: "Ask it, Ask it don't get... Get it, get it don't want."

• I was born on a Friday, but not last Friday.
  

o Alternative: I wasn't born yesterday.

• Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
  

o Variation: The devil makes work for idle hands.

• If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
  

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• If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.
  
• If all else fails, try the obvious.
  
• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
  

o "Tis a lesson you should heed:
Try, try, try again.
If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try, try again"

• If God had wanted man to fly, he would have given him wings.
  
• If in doubt go left.
  
• If in doubt, pick "C"
  
• If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
  
• If it can't be cured, it must be endured.
  

o From Midnight's Children by [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

• If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
  

o Meaning: If something seems to be in a certain way, that is probably the case.

• If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
  

o Meaning: If you have had many bad experiences, make something good out of it.

[Akram.]

very nice
thanks a lot