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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
  • Variant: "A beer a day keeps the germs away"
  • Variant: "An apple a day keeps Bill Gates away"

• A poor workman blames his tools.
• Possible interpretation: to blame the tools for bad workmanship is an attempt to excuse one’s lack of skill.

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
• Possible interpretation: What you have is worth more than what you dream about. (Bird is slang for a woman, so could apply to courtship)

• A burnt child dreads the fire.

• A night with Venus and a life with mercury.
  • Anti-promiscurity adage, alluding to a 18th-century mercury-based folk treatment for syphilis
  • Cited in Bartz, Diane, "Har, me hearties! Excavating Blackbeard’s ship", Reuters (via Yahoo! News), 30 October 2006. URL accessed on 2006-11-01.

• A cat may look at a king.
  • Possible interpretation: If a cat may look at the king - then I have a right to look where I please.

• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
  • Possible interpretation: The strength of any group depends on the individual strength of each of its members.

• A closed mouth catches no flies.
  • Meaning: It is often safer to keep one’s mouth shut.

• A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once.
  • From William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
  • Possible interpretation: A coward constantly and fearfully imagines his own demise, while the valiant give no thought to how they might be harmed. Also: Worrying about a forthcoming disaster may cause as much (or even more) pain as the disaster when it occurs (but does neither change it nor make it easier).

• A fool and his money are soon parted.

• A fox smells its own lair first. and A fox smells its own stink first.
  • Possible interpretation: the fault one notices in another is often a fault of the first person.

• A friend in need is a friend indeed.
  • Meaning: A genuine friend is with you even in time of trouble.

• A friend to all is a friend to none.

• A good beginning makes a good ending.

• A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

• A good surgeon has an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand.

• A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

• A jack of all trades is master of none.

• A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.
  • Charles Spurgeon. A great lie may be widely accepted before the truth comes to light.

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
  • A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing;
    Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
    There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
    And drinking largely sobers us again. ~ Alexander Pope

• A loaded wagon makes no noise.
  • People with real money don’t talk about it.

• A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile.
  • Briefer version: "A miss is as good as a mile"

• A paragraph should be like a lady’s skirt: long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep it interesting.

• A penny saved is a penny earned.
  • Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac

• A man is known by the company he keeps.

• A Pasoly in the eye is worth several in the shins.

• One picture is worth a thousand words.

• A pot of milk is ruined by a drop of poison.

• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
  • Interpretation: A person who is active will not grow stale.
  • Alternative interpretation: A person who does not stay in one place very long will not develop roots or meaningful connections with others.
  • Philip K. Dick in We Can Build You (1972) conceives a world where the latter interpretation has become the norm and the former indicative of a mental disorder.

• A stitch in time saves nine.
  • Fix the small problem now before it becomes larger and harder to fix.

• A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor man.

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
  • From Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly
  • Possible interpretation: We miss people when we are separated from them.

• Actions speak louder than words.

• Advice most needed is least heeded.

• After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

• All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet.

• All flowers are not in one garland.

• All frills and no knickers.
  • Possible interpretation: All style and no substance.

• All good things come to an end.

• All hat and no cattle.
  • Possible interpretation: All talk and appearance and little or no substance.

• All roads lead to Rome.

• All’s fair in love and war.

• All for one and one for all.
  • Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

• All’s well that ends well.
  • William Shakespeare

• All sizzle and no steak.
  • Possible interpretation: All style and no substance

• All that glitters is not gold.
  • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, scene 7
  • Possible interpretation: Not everything is what it appears to be.

• All things come to him who waits.

• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

• All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

• A man’s home is his castle.
  • Possible interpretation: A person is king in his home.

• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
  • Possible interpretation: retribution should be equitable, proportionate and "fit the crime". Biblical reference, modern usage often connotes support for capital punishment.

• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
  • Possible interpretation: Similar to that of A stitch in time saves nine. Preventing something in advance is better than fixing it later on.

• April showers bring May flowers.

• Ask me no questions, I’ll tell you no lies.
  • Alternative: Ask no questions and hear no lies.

• As fit as a fiddle.
  • Meaning: very fit and well]]

• As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

• A Smack in the mouth often offends
  • Seen in local cafes and shops: Before this line it will say something like "please don’t ask for credit as...". Meaning you will offend the proprieter should you ask for credit. Pay for your goods!

• A watched kettle never boils.
  • Possible interpretation: Worrying over something can make the task seem to take longer than it should.

• A woman’s work is never done.
  • From a folk rhyme - A man may work from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done, meaning that a man’s traditional role as breadwinner may keep him occupied from sunup to sundown, but the traditional roles of a woman demand even longer hours of work.

• A word spoken is past recalling.
  • Alternative: What’s done is done.

• Barking dogs seldom bite.
  • Meaning: People who are busy complaining rarely take more concrete hostile action.
• Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
  • Variant: When the gods want to punish us they answer our prayers.
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Meaning: Things greatly desired have unintended consequences.
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
  • Meaning: The idea of beauty is personal.
• Beauty is only skin deep.
  • Possible origin
• Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness goes straight to the bone.
• Beauty may open doors but only virtue enters.
• Before criticizing a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
  • Meaning: One should not criticize a person without understanding their situation.
• Beggars can’t be choosers.
  • Meaning: Those who are in need of help should not criticize the help they receive.
• Behind every good man is a woman.
• Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
  • Variant: Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
• Better late than never.
  • Meaning: It’s better to make an effort to keep an appointment than to give up altogether when you discover you will be late.
• Better safe than sorry.
  • Meaning: It is better to take precautions when its possible that something can go amiss then to regret doing nothing later if something should indeed go wrong.
• Better the devil you know (than the one you don’t).
• Beware of the Bear when he tucks in his shirt.
  • Meaning: Beware of Russia when it tries to become civilised.
• Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
  • A reference to the Trojan Horse
• Birds of a feather flock together.
  • Meaning: People who are similar to one another tend to stay together.
• Bitter pills may have blessed effects.
• Blood is thicker than water.
  • Meaning: Bonds between family members are stronger than other relationships.
• Blood will out.
  • Meaning: A person’s ancestry or upbringing will eventually show.
• Bloom where you are planted.
• Boys will be boys.
  • Meaning: Boys are traditionally expected to misbehave, while girls are not.
• Brain is better than brawn.
• Bread is the staff of life.

 C

• Chance favors the prepared mind.
• Clothes make the man.
• Cobbler, stick to thy last.
  • Possible interpretation: Tend to what you know.
• Common sense ain’t common.
• Curiosity killed the cat.
• Cut your coat according to your cloth.
• Cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it

 D

• Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
  • Meaning: Refers to a situation where both possibilities will lead to harm.
• Desperate times call for desperate measures.
• Different strokes for different folks.
  • Meaning: Different people have different preferences.
• Do unto others as you would have done to you.
• Doctors make the worst patients.
• Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
  • Meaning: Behave deferentially to those who provide for you.
• Don’t burn your bridges before they’re crossed.
  • Meaning: Do not act in such a way as to leave yourself no alternatives.
• Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.
• Don’t cry over spilt milk.
  • Meaning: Do not be excessively regretful of minor accidents.
• Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.
  • Interpretation: Do not act to spite someone else if it is damaging to yourself.
• Don’t eat yellow snow.
• Don’t fall before you’re pushed.
• Don’t have too many irons in the fire.
  • Possible interpretation: Do not take on more responsibility than you can handle at any one time.
• Don’t judge a book by its cover.
  • Meaning: Do not judge by appearances.
• Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
  • Possible interpretation: Do not look for faults in a gift.
    • Looking at a horse’s mouth is one classic way to judge its health.
• Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
  • Don’t exaggerate small things.
• Don’t mend what ain’t broken.
  • Alternately, If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
  • Meaning: Do not rest all your hopes on one eventuality; plan for several cases.
• Don’t put the cart before the horse.
  • Meaning: Do things in the correct order.
• Don’t shut the barn door after the horse is gone.
  • Possible interpretation: Prepare for things to go wrong rather than worrying about them after the fact.
• Don’t spit into the wind.
• Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out of it alive.
• Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
  • Possible interpretation: Do not, in an attempt to remove something undesireable, lose things that are valuable.
• Don’t cross a bridge before you come to it.
  • Meaning: Don’t fret unnecessarily about future problems.
• Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

 E

• Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
• Ends justify the means.
• Even a dog can distinguish between being stumbled over and being kicked.
• Every dog has its day.
  • Variation on a quote from Hamlet "...whatever Hercules says, the cat will mew and dog will have its day."
• Every cloud has a silver lining.

 MEANING :- Every individual has own talent

• Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die.
• Empty vessels make most noise/sound.
• Even a broken/stopped clock is right twice a day.

 F

• Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.
• Familiarity breeds contempt.
  • Long experience of someone or something can make one so aware of the faults as to be scornful.
• Fine feathers make fine birds.
• Fine words butter no parsnips.
  • Alternative: Actions speak louder than words.
• First come, first served.
• First deserve, then desire.
• First things first.
  • Meaning: Do more important things before other things.
• Fit as a fiddle.
  • Meaning: very fit and well]]
• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
  • Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"
• For want of a nail the horseshoe was lost.
  • Complete version: for want of a nail the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the rider was lost, for want of a rider the battle was lost, for want of a battle the kingdom was lost, and all for want of a nail.
• Forewarned is forearmed.
• Fretting cares make grey hairs.
• There are no facts; only interpretations of facts.

 G

• Garbage in.
  • Sometimes abbreviated GIGO.
• Give and take is fair play.
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
• 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 ye shall receive.
  • Jesus
  • Variant: Ask, and ye shall receive.
• Give the Devil his due.
  • Meaning: Admit it when there is some good in an adversary.
• Going the whole nine yards.
• Going to Hell in a handbasket.
  • Meaning: Something or a situation is quickly taking a turn for the worse without effort or with great haste.
• God takes care of drunks.
• God cures and the physician takes the fee.
• God don’t like ugly and he ain’t stuck on pretty
• Good eating deserves good drinking.
• Good fences make good neighbors.
  • Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"
• Good men are hard to find.
• Good poon needs no bush.
  • Meaning: Something desirable of quality and substance need not be embellished. 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, once something establishes a good reputation for quality the advertisement is rendered superfluous.
• Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.
• Great oaks from little acorns grow.
• Green leaves and brown leaves fall from the same tree.
  • Many possible interpretations- Things change over time- If you are good at one aspect of a skill, you should be skilled at the other aspects, such as a painter who says he can’t draw, yet both painting and drawing are aspects of art.- No matter of the outside, we are all the same inside.
• Grow where you are planted.
• Give respect, take respect.

 H

• Hair of the dog that bit you.
• Half a loaf is better than none.
  • Alternative version: Be thankful for what you’ve got.
• Handsome is as handsome does.
• Hang a thief when he’s young, and he’ll no’ steal when he’s old.
• Happy wife, happy life.
• Hard cases make bad law.
• Hard words break no bones.
• Haste makes waste.
• Have not, want not.
• He who dares wins.
• He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail.
• Health is better than wealth.
• Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.
  • William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, act i, scene i
• Heaven protects children, sailors and drunks.
• Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, which is merely a spark compared to the Sun as a measure of the power of God’s wrath.
  • Paraphrase of William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, act i, scene i
• He who hesitates is lost.
• He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.
• He who laughs last laughs best.
  • Variation: He who laughs last laughs longest.
• He who lives too fast, goes to his grave too soon.
• He who stands for nothing will fall for everything.
• He who will steal an egg will steal an ox.
• He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
  • From the Christian New Testament
• He who pays the piper calls the tune.
  • To be able to contol the details of a situation by virtue of being the one who bears the cost or provides for others.
• He who sleeps forgets his hunger.
• Hindsight is 20/20.
  • Possible interpretation: It is always easy to see your mistakes after they occur.
• His bark is worse than his bite.
  • Possible interpretation: He will talk about consequences more than act.
• History repeats itself.
  • Mark Twain
• Home is where the heart is.
• Honesty is the best policy.
• Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
  • Possible interpretation: One can get more cooperation from others by being nice.
• Hope for the best, expect the worst.
  • Alternate version: Pray for the best, prepare for the worst.
• Hope is life.
• Hope springs eternal.
  • Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man"
• Hunger is the best spice.
  • Variation: Hunger is the best sauce.

 I

• It is better to die on one’s feet than die on one’s knees.
• Idle minds are the devil’s workshop.
• If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
• If if’s and but’s were pots and pans, there would be no tinklers.
• If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
  • Variation: If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.
• If something can go wrong, it will.
  • Murphy’s Law
• If the shoe fits, wear it.
• If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain..
  • See this page in Answers.com.
• If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
• If you buy quality, you only cry once.
• If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.
• If you can’t beat them, join them.
• If you can’t be good, be careful.
• If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
• If you catch the rabbit, you can fry the rabbit. Then put him in a stew.
• If you don’t buy a ticket, you can’t win the raffle.
• If you don’t have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all!
• If you keep your mouth shut, you won’t put your foot in it.
• If you want a thing done right, do it yourself.
• If you were born to be shot, you’ll never be hung.
• If you’re in a hole, stop digging.
• If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
• Ignorance is bliss.
• Improvement means deterioration (Hutber’s Law)
• In for a penny, in for a pound.
  • Alternate version: In for a dime, in for a dollar.
• In order to get where you want to go, you first have to leave where you are.
  • From Sandy Elsberg’s BREAD WINNER BREAD MAKER; Upline Press, Charlottesville, VA; 1977, p. 80.
• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
• In the end, a man’s motives are second to his accomplishments.
• Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

• It’s not over till it’s over.
  • Yogi Berra

• It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.
  • Variation: Church ain’t over until the fat lady sings.
  • Attributed as an old Southern saying in Smith & Smith, Southern Words and Sayings (1976), according to Quinion, Michael (21 August 1999). "It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Lady Sings". World Wide Words. Retrieved on 2007-01-23.
  • Often attributed to sportscaster Dan Cook (1978)

• It is not so much the gift that is given but the way in which the gift is driven.
• It is, what it is! (business term for the reality of the cost is what it is)
• It never rains, but it pours.
  • or when it rains, it pours.
• It pays to pay attention.
• It takes all sorts to make a world.
  • or, It takes all sorts to make the world go round.
  • also, It takes all kinds to make the world go round.
• It takes two to make a quarrel.
• It takes two to tango.
• It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen.
• It’s a cracked pitcher that goes longest to the well.
  • Interpretation: A flawed article will require a lot of work
• It’s a good horse that never stumbles.
• It’s a long lane that has no turning.
• It’s an ill wind that blows no good.
  • Spanish equivalent: No hay mal que por bien no venga.
• It’s a poor job that can’t stand at least one supervisor.
• It’s a blessing in disguise.
• It’s better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt.
• 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 Brass Monkey out there!
  • It’s very cold outside. Originates from there being three brass monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil). The full sentence would be "It’s as cold as a brass monkey’s balls).
• It’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
  • Grace Hopper
• It’s easy to be wise after the event.
• It’s never too late to mend.
• It’s not the size of the boat.
• It’s no use crying over spilt milk.
• 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’s the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
• 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"

 J

• Jack is as good as his master. His master’s name is Kevin.
• Jack of all trades; master of none.
  • Possible interpretation: Good at everything, excellent at nothing.
• Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today. (from Alice in Wonderland)
• Jove but laughs at lover’s perjury.
• Judge not, lest ye be judged.
• Just go with it.
• Jack of all master of none.

 K

• Keep a thing seven years and you will always find a use for it.
• Keep no more cats than catch mice.
• Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
• Keeping up with the Joneses.
• Kill not the goose that laid the golden egg.
• Kill two birds with one stone.
  • Possible interpretation: Accomplishing two things with a single action.
  • Possible interpretation: Refers to doing two things at once, or multi-tasking.
• Knock and the door will be opened unto you. --Matthew 7:7
• Knowledge is power.

 L

• Laughter is the best medicine.
• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
• Law is the solemn expression of legislative will. CODE NAPOLEON
• Lead to Success, Follow to Failure (Robert D)
• Learn to walk before you run.
  • Possible interpretation: Do not rush into what you do not know.
• Leave it alone and it will grow on its own.
• Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. -- Jesus Christ
• Let sleeping dogs lie. (Cf. Agatha Christie’s Sleeping Murder.)
• Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
• Life begins at forty.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

• Life’s like a box of chocolggates; you never know what you’re gonna get.
• Life’s what happens while you’re making other plans.
• Let us go hand in hand,not one before another.
• Like cures like.
  • Meaning: A person can better help another if they have something in common.
• Like father like son.
• Like water off a duck’s back.
• Little by little and bit by bit.
• Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
• Live and let Live
• Long absent, soon forgotten.
• Look after the pence and the pounds will look after themselves.
  • Possible interpretation: Take care of the details. (12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound.)
• Look before you leap.
• Look on the sunny side of life.
• Love is blind.
• Love laughs at locksmiths.

 M

• Make hay while the sun shines.
  • Possible interpretation: Do the task while it is possible.
• Making a rod for your own back.
  • I believe the phrase comes from the good old Victorians. In those years deportment was very important and a straight back fundamental. So a rod or board would be strapped to the back to encourage the miscreant suffer for his own doings.
• Man wasn’t Born to suffer but to carry on.
• Many a true word is spoken in jest
• Many hands make light work.
• Many things are lost for want of asking.
• Meaning of life is not meaningful -- Allen Zimama
• Meaner than a junk-yard dog.
• Measure twice, cut once.
• Mirrors do everything we do, but they cannot think for themselves.
• Misery loves company.
• Money for old rope.
  • In the days of wooden-hulled sailing ships, ropes that were worn could be sold for use as calking (pressed between the planks and often covered with tar to prevent seepage), or as filling for fenders, and so the ship’s owner was paid even for old rope.
• Money makes the mare go.
• Money makes the world go around.
• Money talks.
• Monkey see, Monkey do.
• More haste less speed.
• A son is a son ’til he takes him a wife; a daughter’s a daughter all her life.

• Nature abhors a vacuum.
• Nature, time, and patience are three great physicians.
• Necessity is the mother of all invention.
• Ne’er cast a clout till May be out. (Not known if ’May’ relates to the month of May or may blossom).
  • Don’t remove winter vests (undergarments) until summer arrives.
• Never judge the book by its cover.
• Never put off till (until) tomorrow what you can do today.
• Never let the right hand know what the left hand is doing.
• Never say die.
  • Possible interpretation: Never give up.
• Never say never.
• Never trouble trouble ’til trouble troubles you.
• New brooms sweep clean.
• Noblesse oblige.
  • French expression: To be a member of the nobility carries obligations to care for the lower classes.
• No man can serve two masters.
  • Christian New Testament
• No man is content with his lot.
• No man is an island
  • Possible interpretation: Everybody needs other people.
  • Alternate: Everyone’s actions impact others.
• No money, no justice.
• No news is good news.
• No pain, no gain.
• No time like the present.
• Not enough room to swing a cat
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
• Nothing succeeds like success.
  • Nothing to be feared in life, but understood.

 O

• Once bitten, twice shy
  • William Caxton, the first English printer, gave the earliest version of this saying in ’Aesope’ (1484), his translation of Aesop’s fables: ’He that hath ben ones begyled by somme other ought to kepe hym wel fro(m) the same.’ Centuries later, the English novelist Robert Surtees referred to the saying in ’Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour’ (1853) with ’(He) had been bit once, and he was not going to give Mr. Sponge a second chance.’ The exact wording of the saying was recorded later that century in ’Folk Phrases of Four Counties’ (1894) by G.G. Northall and was repeated by, among others, the English novelist Joseph Conrad (1920, ’The Rescue’), the novelist Aldous Huxley (1928, ’Point Counter Point’), and the novelist Wyndham Lewis (1930, ’The Apes of God’). ’Once bitten, twice shy’ has been a familiar saying in the twentieth century. From Wise Words and Wives’ Tales by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993).
  • A variation, once burned, twice shy, is also traced back to Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour. Once burned was First attested in the United States in ’Dead Sure’ (1949) by S. Sterling. The meaning of the saying is One who had an unpleasant experience is especially cautious. From the Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
• One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.
• One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. - Ronald Reagan
• One murder makes a villian, millions a hero.
• Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall. --Confucius
• Owt for nowt, and a penny change.
  • Northern English, Anything for nothing...
• Out of sight... Out of mind
• One mans meat, is another mans poison.

Meaning: What is beloved to a person is hated by someone else.

• Paddle your own canoe you lazy get.
• Pain is only weakness leaving the body. U.S. Marines proverb
• Patience is a virtue.
• Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can, often found in women, never in a man!
• Penny wise, pound foolish.
• (The) pen is mightier than the sword.
• People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
• Politics makes strange bedfellows.
• Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
• Practice makes perfect.
• Prior preparation prevents poor performance
• Put it in song, put it in drink; but never, ever put it in ink! Reportedly said by Earl K. Long, Governor of Louisiana.
• Put a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride to the devil
• Prevention is better than cure
• Procrastination is the thief of time.

 R

• Raining cats and dogs.

Meaning heavy rainfall

• Rather have a German army in front of me, then a French one behind me.
• Rats desert a sinking ship.
• Red sky at night: sailor’s delight. Red sky in the morning: sailor take warning.
  • Alternative: Red sky at night: shepherd’s delight. Red sky in the morning: shepherd’s warning.
• Red to black, venom lack. Red to yellow kills a fellow.
  • A fellow describing the distinction between coral and king snakes.
• Revenge is a dish best served cold.
• Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true.
• (like) Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
  • Referring to situations where you gain one debt to pay off another.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• Rome wasn’t built in a day.
  • Possible interpretation: Great achievements take time.
• Rules are made to be broken.

• Same meat, different gravy.
• Same sh*t, different day.- Truth !
  • Variation on the above.
• Same sh*t, different colour
• Seek and ye shall find.
  • Christian New Testament
• Self trust is the first secret of success.
• Set a thief to catch a thief.
• Simple minds think alike. (William Truong)
• Simple things please/amuse simple minds
• Six one, and half a dozen the other.
  • Meaning: Describes two actions with the same result, or two things that are essentially the same.
• Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone.
• Something worth doing is worth doing well.
  • Interpretation: If you are going to do something, do it right.
• Speak of the devil and he’s sure to appear.
  • Abbreviation: Speak of the devil.
• Starve a cold; feed a fever.
• Stolen fruit is the sweetest.
  • Possible interpretation: forbidden things are the most tempting
  • The Bible
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
• Still waters run deep.
  • Possible interpretation: Quiet people are often the most deep.
• Strike while the iron is hot.
  • Possible interpretation: Seize the moment. Take the opportunity now; don’t waste it.
• Success is a journey not a destination.
• Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.