Proverbs

English Proverbs (Letter O)

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Proverb: Oh the times! Oh the manners .
English Meaning: The old merry times are no more.

Proverb: Oil your own machine.
English Meaning: Mind your own business; don’t pole your nose into the affairs of others.

Proverb: Old habits due hard .
English Meaning: One cannot change one’s nature.

Proverb: Once unlucky, always unlucky.
English Meaning: An unlucky man always fails.

Proverb: One beats the bush, another catches the bird .
English Meaning: One sows, another reaps.

Proverb: One black sheep spoils the whole flock .
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Proverb: One cannot really, feel for another.
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Proverb: One does not know whether to laugh or weep.
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Proverb: One doth the scath and another hath the scorn.
English Meaning: One is punished for another’s sin.

Proverb: One is not so soon healed as hurt.
English Meaning: It takes more time to build up than to pull down.

Proverb: One lie makes many.
English Meaning: To hide one lie one is to tell many lies.

Proverb: One man’s meat is another man’s poison .
English Meaning: What is sport to the cat is death to the rat.

Proverb: One nail drives out another .
English Meaning: Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb: One raven will no pluck another’s eyes.
English Meaning: Dog does not eat a dog.

Proverb: One sows, another reaps .
English Meaning: One cannot enjoy his riches always.

Proverb: One step forward, two-steps backward.
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Proverb: One swallow does not makes a summer.
English Meaning: Nothing ends for ever.

Proverb:: one’s own things are the best.
English Meaning: eloquent writing persuades people better than military force.

Proverb: Opportunity knocks but once.
English Meaning: One will only have one chance to do something important or profitable.

Proverb: Opportunity makes the thief.
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Proverb: Our of sight, out of mind .
English Meaning: absence begets forgetfulness.

Proverb: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought .
English Meaning: Song of sad thought lasts long in our hearts.

Proverb: Out of debt, out of danger .
English Meaning: One having no debt is happy.

Proverb: Out of sight, out of mind.
English Meaning: Absence begets forgetfulness.

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