 A bad shearer never had a good sickle.

 A bad workman (always) blames his tools.

 A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

 A bad thing never dies.

 A bad workman finds fault with his tools.

 A bad workman always blames his tools.

 A bargain is a bargain.

 A barking dog never bites.

 A barking dog was never a good hunter.

 A beacon does not shine on its base.

 A beard well lathered, is half shaved.

 Well begun is half done.

 The beginning is half of the whole.

 A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself.

 A big fish in a little pond.

 A big fish must swim in deep waters.

 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

 A blindman may sometimes shoot a crow.

 A brave man or fortunate one is able to bear envy.

 A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.

 A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

 A buddy from my old stomping grounds.

 A burden of one's own choice is not felt.

 A burnt child dreads the fire. (Once bit, twice shy.)

 A burnt child dreads the fire.

 A cat has nine lives.

 A cat may look at a king.

 A celebrity is a who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

 A clear conscience is a good pillow.

 A clear stream is avoided by fish.

 A cock is bold on his own dunghill.

 A cold head and a warm heart.

 A contented man is always rich.

 A cornered stone meets the mason's chisel.

 A creaking gate hangs long.
Creaking doors hang the longest.

 A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

 A crow is never white though being washed several times.

 A crow is never whiter for washing herself often.

 A crust is better than no bread.

 A danger foreseen is half avoided.

 A day after the fair

 A deep distress hath humanized my soul.

 A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellow is one of the earliest as well as the keepest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

 A diamond daughter turns to glass as a wife.

 A disease known, is half cured.

 A dog in the Manger.

 A drop in the ocean.

 A dog is not considered good because of his barking, and a man is not considered clever because of his ability to talk.

 A door must either be shut or open.

 A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom.

 A drop in the ocean.

 A drowning man will catch at a straw.

 A drowning man plucks at a straw.

 A fact is like a sack which won't stand up when it is empty. In order that it may up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist.

 A fair face may hide a foul heart.

 A fair face will get its praise, though the owner keep silent.

 A falling drop at last will cave a stone.

 A false friend is worse than an open enemy.

 A fat chicken makes a lean will.

 A father maintains ten children better than ten children one father.

 A fault confessed is half redressed.

 A fierce dog's nose has no time to heal.

 A flying crow always catches something.

 A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan.

 A fool and his money are soon parted.

 A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

 A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

 A fool uttereth all his mind.

 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 A fool's bolt is soon shot.

 A forced kindness deserves no thanks.

 A fox is not taken twice in the same snare. (Good luck does not always repeat itself.)

 A friend in need is a friend indeed.

 A friend is best found in adversity.

 A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.

 A friend of everybody is a friend to nobody.

 A friend to all is a friend to none.

 A golden key opens every door.

 Money makes the mare go.

 Money talks.

 A good beginning makes a bad ending.

 A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

 A good husband makes a good wife.

 A good medicine tastes bitter.

 A good name is better than gold.

 A good neighbor is better than a brother far off.

 A good pilot is not knoen when the sea calm and the weather fair.

 A good wife is worth gold.

 A good writer is not per se a good book critic. No more than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

 A gossip is one who talks to you about others; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

 A great book should leave you with many experience, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

 A great city, a great solitude.

 A great fortune is a great slavery.

 A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

 A great talker is a great liar.

 A green Christmas [Yule] makes a fat churchyard.

 A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.

 A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

 A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

 A hateful worm that crowis sideways.

 A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them cowardice of the heart.

 A history is always written by the winning side.

 A hobby begun late in life.

 A home having no child is like as the earth having no sun.

 A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man.

 A honeyed tongue with a heart of gall.

 A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

 A hungry ass eats any straw.

 A Jack of all trades, and master of none.

 A journey of a thousand miles begines with a single step.

 Step by step one goes a long way.

 A lady's imagination is very rapid; it very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

 A large fire often comes from a small spark.

 A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

 A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

 A learned fool is sillier than an ignorant one.

 A leopard cannot change his spots.

 Can the leopard change his spots ?

 A liar should have a good memory.

 A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

 A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

 A light heart lives long.

 A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

 A little bite catches a large fish.

 A little is better than none.

 A little knowledge is dangerous.

 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

 A little learning is a dangerous thing.

 Too clever by half.

 A little more breaks a horse's back.

 = The last straw breaks the camel's back.

 A little neglect may breed mischief.

 A little pot is soon hot.

 A living ass is better than a dead doctor.

 A loaf of bread is better than song of many birds.

 A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.

 A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

 A loving teacher makes learning a joy.

 A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back upon his former life, and calls that only which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

 A man apt to promise is apt to forget.

 A man can die but once.

 A man can not be comfortable without his own approval.

 A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

 A man excite the world, but a woman excite the man.

 A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

 A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

 A man is known by the company he keeps.

 Men are known by the company they keep.

 A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

 A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

 A man is more or less what he looks.

 A man is not good or bad for one action.

 A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there si an invisible albour.

 A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

 A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

 A man of many talents.

 A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.

 A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

 A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

 A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

 A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

 A man who has on office to go to - I don't care who he is a trial of which you can no conception.

 A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

 A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

 A man without a wife is a house without a roof.

 A man without faults is a mountain without crevasses. He is of no interest to me.

 A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious his very thoughts are false. He thinks too slave and coward, till he have got fear under his feet.

 A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

 A merry wife makes all her life pleasant.

 A mess of pottage.
25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me ?
25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

 A mind conscious of guilt is its own accuser.

 A mind not to be chang'd by by place or time, The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.

 A miss is as good as a mile.

 A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

 A monkey sometimes falls from the tree.

 A new broom sweeps clean.

 A penny plain and two pence colored.

 A penny saved is a penny earned/gained.

 A person doesn't only love himself in others; he also hates himself in others.

 A picture is worth a thousand words.

 A pig's life short and sweet.

 A pity beyond all telling / Is in the heart of love.

 A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

 A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

 A promise is a promise.
A rule is a rule.

 A problem shared is a problem halved.

 A prophet is not without honor save in his own country.

 A prophet has no honor in his own country.

 A proverb is the child of experience.

 A rags to riches story.

 A rat in a trap.

 A rich wife is the source of the quarrel.

 A rich man's joke is always funny.

 A rolling stone gathers no moss.

 A rose is sweeter in the bud than full blown.

 A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.

 A saint's maid quotes Latin.

 A scalded cat dreads cold water.

 A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

 A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

 A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

 A small leak will sink a great ship.

 A soft answer is a specific cure for anger.

 A soft answer turneth away wrath.

 A sound mind in a sound body.

 A stitch in time saves nine.

 A storm in a teacup.

 A straw shows which way the wind blows.

 A successful man can not realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

 A tale never loses in the telling.

 A tall man is a fool.

 A taste for dirty stories may be said to be inherent in the human animal.

 A tear dries quickly, especially when it is shed for the troubles of others.

 A theorist without practice is a tree without fruit; and a devotee without learning is a house without an entrance.

 A thief has a bad conscience and is apt to give himself away.

 A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

 A tree is known by its fruit.

 A tree with beautiful blossoms does not always yield the best fruit.

 A trouble shared is a trouble split in half.

 A true friend will not think of his own interest.

 A vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

 A watched pot never boils.

 A whale is no more a fish than a horse is.

 A whale is not a fish any more than a horse is (a fish).

 A white wall is a fool's paper.

 A wife should always follow her husband.

 A willing burden is no burden.

 A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and have been precipitated by reckless haste.

 A wise men recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact.

 A wise person profits by/from his mistakes.

 A wolf in sheep's clothing.

 A wolf in a lamb's skin.

 A woman and a glass are ever in danger.

 Glass and a maid are ever in danger.

 A woman can be anything that the man who loves her would have her be.

 A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

 A woman of no birth may marry into the purple.

 A woman will doubt everything you say except it be complements to herself.

 A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

 A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

 A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

 A woman's tears and a dog's limping are not real.

 A wonder lasts but nine days.

 A word and a stone let go, can't be recalled.

 A word is enough to the wise.

 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

 Absolute freedom is inhuman.

 Accident will happen.

 Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

 Accurst be he that first invented war.

 Actions speak louder than words.

 Acts speak louder than words.

 Adding insult to injury.

 Adversity is the first path to Truth.

 Adversity makes men, but prosperity makes monsters.

 Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

 Adversity successfully overcome is the great glory.

 Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

 After a storm (comes) a calm.

 After a thrifty father, a prodigal son.

 After a typhoon there are pears to gather up.

 After death, to call the doctor.

 After pain comes joy.

 After rain comes fair weather.

 After the feast comes the reckoning.

 After us the deluge.

 Age before beauty.

 Age before honest.

 Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

 All are not friends that speak us fair.

 All are not thieves that dogs bark at.

 All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

 All art is quite useless.

 All arts grow out of necessity.

 All books are divisible into two classes; the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

 All cats are grey in the dark.

 All covet, all lose

 All cry and no wool.

 More cry than wool.

 Much cry and little wool.

 Many cry and little wool.

 All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.

 All fame is dangerous; good bringeth envy; bad, shame.

 All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts.They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

 All good things which exist are the fright of originality.

 All good things must come to an end.

 All great song has been sincere song.

 All his geese are swans.

 All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

 All immortal writers speak out of their hearts.

 All in good time.

 All is fair in love and war.

 All is fish that comes to his net.

 All (is) for the best.

 All is fish that comes to his net.

 All is for the best.

 All is grist that comes to his mill.

 All is not gold that glitters.

 All that glitters is not gold.

 Appearances are deceptive.

 Beauty is but skin deep.

 All is well that ends well.

 All new technology is rejected and then accepted.

 All or nothing.

 All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie light before us.

 All roads lead to Rome.

 All's fair in love and war.

 All that glitters is not gold.

 All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

 All the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

 All things are difficult before they are easy.

 All things are obedient to money.

 All truths are not to be told.

 All truth is not to be told at all times.

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

 All work of man is as the swimmer's; a waste [vast] ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

 Always shun whatever may make you angry.

 Always verify your reference.

 Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; I can; all of them make me laugh.

 An angry lover tells himself many lies.

 An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

 An apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

 An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter's head.

 An artist can not speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

 An eagle does not catch flies.

 An early bird catches the worm.

 An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

 An efficacious medicine tastes bitter.

 An egg of an hour.

 An empty purse, and a finished house, make a man wise, but too late.

 An Englishman's house is his castle.

 An eye for an eye, (and a tooth for a tooth.)

 An honest man's the noblest work of God.

 An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

 An ill workman always quarrels with his tools.

 An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

 An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

 An oak is not felled at one stroke.

 An oath and egg are soon broken.

 An old man is twice a boy.

 An ounce of practice is worth of a pound of theory.

 An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

 Anger men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a time takes flight and, in her absence, wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgement remains the prisoner of its own pride.

 Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

 Ants never bend their course to an empty granary.

 Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

 Any port in a storm.

 Anything for a change.

 Appearances can be deceiving.

 Appearances are deceptive.

 All is not gold that glitters.

 Beauty is but skin deep.

 April Showers bring My flowers.

 Art and knowledge bring bread and honor.

 Art is long and Life is short.

 Art holds fast when all else is lost.

 Art is long, life is short.

 As a jewel of gold in a swine' snout so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

 As a man sows, so he shall reap.

 As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's mind's more seriously than what they see.

 As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

 As easy as rolling off a log.

 As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

 As I grew richer, I grew more ambitious.

 The more you get, the more you want.

 As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

 As is the king, so are the people.

 As long as there is life, there is hope.

 As long as we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

 As luck would have it.

 That is purely coincidental.

 As ones sows, so shall he reap.

 As a man sows, so shall he reap.

 As you sow, so shall you reap.

 As poor as a church mouse.

 As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart.

 As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

 As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turned to the deadliest.

 As the boy, so the man.

 As the father, so the sons.

 Like father, like son.

 As the old cock crows, the young cock learns.

 As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

 As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

 Over shoe, over boots.

 As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.

 One must lie in/on the bed one has made.

 A soft answer turneth away wrath.

 As you sow, so shall you reap.

 You reap what you have sown.

 You reap what you sow.

 People reap as [what] they have sown.

 As the old cock crows, the young cock learns.

 As you sow, so shall you reap.

 Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

 Ask, and it shall be given (to) you.

 Atomic warfare is bad enough ; biological warfare would be worse ; but there is something that is worse than either. It is subjection to an alien oppressor.

 Attack is the best defence.

 Avoid such men as will do you harm.

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