Proverb: A bad penny always turns up.
English Meaning: A worthless person always comes back to the place he or she started out.
Proverb: A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
English Meaning: An inefficient man complains of circumstances.
Proverb: A barking dog never or seldom bites.
English Meaning: Someone who makes threats all the time seldom carries out the threats.
Proverb: A beggar cannot be a bankrupt.
English Meaning: Bachelors’ wives’ and maids’ children are always well taught.
Proverb: A beggar may sing before a pick-pocket.
English Meaning: A beggar has nothing to lose.
Proverb: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
English Meaning: Having something for certain is better than possibly getting something better; one today is worth two tomorrow.
Proverb: A bolt from the blue.
English Meaning: A sudden and unexpected event or piece of news.
Proverb: A bully is always a cow.
English Meaning: Bullies only intimidate people who are weaker than they are, because they are afraid of having to fight their equals
Proverb: A burnt child dreads the fire or Once bitten, twice shy.
English Meaning: Experience teaches us caution; if something has hurt you once, you avoid it after that.
Proverb: A cat has nine lives.
English Meaning: A cat is more tenacious of life than any animal.
Proverb: A cat in gloves catches no mice.
English Meaning: Sometimes you cannot get what you want by being careful and polite.
Proverb: A cock is always bold on its own dunghill .
English Meaning: Everyone fights well when surrounded by friends and admirers.
Proverb: A drawing man catches or clutches at a straw .
English Meaning: While there is life, there is hope.
Proverb: A fool and his money are soon parted .
English Meaning: Foolish people spend money easily without thinking.
Proverb: A friend in need is a friend in deed.
English Meaning: A true friend is one to depend upon in trouble.
Proverb: A full purse never lacks friends.
English Meaning: People crowd round a wealthy person.
Proverb: A golden key can open any door.
English Meaning: Sufficient money can accomplish anything.
Proverb: A good beginning is half the battle
English Meaning: A good start of war, a clear sing of victory
Proverb: A good husband makes a good wife.
English Meaning: : If a husband wants his wife to be respectful and loving to him, he should be respectful and loving to her.
Proverb: A good jack makes a good jill .
English Meaning: If a man treats his girlfriend or wife well, she will treat him well in return – figuratively, you must treat your subordinates well I you want them to treat you well inbr /> return.
Proverb: A Greek meeting a Greek.
English Meaning: To love/face/counter/fight an equal.
Proverb: A growing youth has a wolf in his belly .
English Meaning: Young people who are growing fast are hungry all the time and eat much.
Proverb: A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
English Meaning: If you have done something wrong and feel guilty about it, you will be uncomfortable and want to confess even if no one accuses you of wrongdoing.
Proverb: A guilty mind is always suspicious.
English Meaning: A criminal is always weak in mind though he tries to conceal this weakness.
Proverb: A heavy purse makes a light heart.
English Meaning: If you have plenty of money, you will feel happy and secure.
Proverb: A host in himself.
English Meaning: Having all qualities.
Proverb: A humble gift made by a poor man with a sincere heart .
English Meaning: Presentation from a poor friend.
Proverb: A hungry fox is an angry fox .
English Meaning: Necessity knows no law.
Proverb: A hungry kite sees a dead horse afar.
English Meaning: Shrewd people perceive at the slightest symptom.
Proverb: A jest driven hard, loses its point.
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Proverb: A king today is a beggar tomorrow.
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Proverb: A light purse is a heavy curse.
English Meaning: If you do not have enough money, you will worry and be unhappy.
Proverb: A light purse makes a heavy heart .
English Meaning: If you do not have enough money, you will worry and be unhappy.
Proverb: A little learning is a dangerous thing.
English Meaning: Shallow knowledge turns one’s head
Proverb: A mad man and a animal have no difference.
English Meaning: Don’t think over a mad man’s speech.
Proverb: A man is known by the company he keeps .
English Meaning: one can know the character of a person from his friends.
Proverb: A man’s home is his castle .
English Meaning: A man can do whatever he wants to in his own home.
Proverb: A miss is as good as a mile.
English Meaning: Almost having done something is the same as not having done it at all, since in both cases the thing done.
Proverb: A pauper has nothing to lose .
English Meaning: A destitute has no fear of losing anything.
Proverb: A penny saved is a penny earned .
English Meaning: Little savings make a mighty sum.
Proverb: A pet lamb, makes a cross ram.
English Meaning: Too much indulgence spoils a child.
Proverb: A poacher turned gamekeeper .
English Meaning: One who is savior also the destroyer
Proverb:A prophet is not without honor save in his own country
English Meaning: Everyone recognizes that a wise person is wise, except for the people close to him or her
Proverb: A rogue is deaf to all good .
English Meaning: The devil would not listen to the scripture
Proverb: A rolling stone gathers no mass.
English Meaning: A person who does not settle down is not attached to anything or anyone; continuity removes difficulty.
Proverb: A rotten sheep infects the flock .
English Meaning: A man is affected by the people he mix with.
Proverb: A scalded dog fears cold water.
English Meaning: A burnt child dreads the fire; experience teaches has caution.
Proverb: A serpent under the flower.
English Meaning: Treachery masked in friendship; an angel’s face with a devil’s mind.
Proverb: A severe punishment for a venial offence.
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Proverb: A sleeping fox catches no poultry .
English Meaning: An idle fellow can do nothing in life.
Proverb: A soft answer turneth away wrath .
English Meaning: If a man speaks meekly to someone who is angry to him, that person will come down
Proverb: A square peg in a round hole (An Impossibility).
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Proverb: A still tongue makes a wise head.
English Meaning: A wise man does not talk very much.
Proverb: A stitch in time saves nine.
English Meaning: Remove a defect in time.
Proverb: A succession of festivities all the year round.
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Proverb: A tempest in a tea-pot.
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Proverb: A thing of beauty is a joy forever .
English Meaning: Beautiful things give pleasure that lasts even longer than the beautiful things themselves.
Proverb: A tree is known by its fruit .
English Meaning: A man’s actual character is known by his actions
Proverb: A trouble shared is a trouble halved .
English Meaning: If one tells someone about a problem he is having, or request someone’s help with a problem, the problem will not seem so daunting.
Proverb: A varice begets sin, sin begets death .
English Meaning: one sin is followed by another and leads to destruction.
Proverb: A watched pot never boils .
English Meaning: Seemingly long time it takes water to boil when you are waiting for it.
Proverb: A wish, gained or lost, leaves one unsatisfied in either case.
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Proverb: A wolf in sheep’s clothing .
English Meaning: A dangerous person pretending to be harmless; a serpent under flower.
Proverb: A woman’s weapon is her tongue.
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Proverb: A woman’s place is in the home.
English Meaning: women should remain in the home, cooking, clearing and raising children.
Proverb: A woman’s work is never done .
English Meaning: women should remain in the home, cooking, clearing and raising children.
Proverb: A word once spoken is past recalling.
English Meaning: Once you have said something, you cannot under the result of having said it.
Proverb: A word to the wise is sufficient .
English Meaning: Wise people do not need long explanation.
Proverb: Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
English Meaning: Sometimes people admire someone or something because they don’t have any idea about that.
Proverb: Adversity often leads to prosperity .
English Meaning: Misery has its sequel in happiness
Proverb: After a storm comes a calm.
English Meaning: Things are often clam after an upheaval
Proverb: After clouds comes fair weather.
English Meaning: Happiness follows misery
Proverb: After death comes the doctor .
English Meaning: To be wise after the event
Proverb: After meat comes mustard .
English Meaning: Hunger waits for no delicacy
Proverb: After sweet meat comes sour sauce .
English Meaning: If you laugh today, you may cry tomorrow.
Proverb: All are blaming “nobody”.
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Proverb: All are not saints that go to church.
English Meaning: Appearances may be deceptive.
Proverb: All covet, all lost .
English Meaning: Grasp all, lose all
Proverb: All feet tread not in one shoe .
English Meaning: As many men, so many minds
Proverb: All his geese are swans .
English Meaning: one’s own things are the best.
Proverb: All is fair in love and war.
English Meaning: A situation in which people do not follow the usual rules of behavior and do things that are normally considered unfair Sure, it was underhanded to steal his customers, but all’s fair in love and war.
Proverb: All our sweetest hours fly fastest .
English Meaning: man’s marry days are very transient.
Proverb: All seems yellow to the jaundiced eye .
English Meaning: To biased mind everything is in fault.
Proverb: All that glitters is not gold.
English Meaning: Trust not appearance, appearances are deceptive.
Proverb: All that is old is not bad.
English Meaning: Old age or experience has great value.
Proverb: All things come to him who waits .
English Meaning: Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
Proverb: All well that ends well .
English Meaning: It is all right if it turns on well in the end.
Proverb: All’s well that ends well.
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Proverb: An apple a day keeps the doctor away .
English Meaning: Apples are so nutritious that if one eats an apple everyday, he/she will be healthy and disease less.
Proverb: An ass that is a common property is always worst saddle .
English Meaning: Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
Proverb: An empty sack cannot stand upright.
English Meaning: A poor or hungry person cannot function properly.
Proverb: An eye for an eye.
English Meaning: A tooth for a tooth.
Proverb: An idle brain is the devil’s workshop .
English Meaning: People who have nothing worthwhile to think about will usually think of something bad to do.
Proverb: An interested witness is no witness.
English Meaning: An unwanted help has no importance.
Proverb: An old bird is not caught with chaff.
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Proverb: An old dog learns no trick.
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Proverb: An old poacher makes the best gamekeepers.
English Meaning: The best person to guard something is someone who knows all about to steal it.
Proverb: An ounce of common sense is worth a pound of theory .
English Meaning: Common sense will help you solve problems more than theory will.
Proverb: An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit .
English Meaning: Knowing when to refrain from making jokes is better than being able to make jokes all the time.
Proverb: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure .
English Meaning: Prevention is better than cure.
Proverb: Any food is good enough when there is a famine.
English Meaning: At the time of want any food available is good.
Proverb: Apple of sodom or Dead sea apple.
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Proverb: Art is long, life is short .
English Meaning: Life is too short for all that we have to learn.
Proverb: Arthur could not tame a woman’s tongue .
English Meaning: None can control a woman’s tongue.
Proverb: As is the evil, so is the remedy .
English Meaning: A drastic remedy is necessary when things get very bad; tit for tat.
Proverb: As is the tree, so is the fruit.
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Proverb: As long as fortune smiles on one.
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Proverb: As the wind blows, you must set your sail.
English Meaning: Make the best use of an opportunity, make hay while the sun shines.
Proverb: As you brew, so you drink.
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Proverb: As you make your bed, so you must lie on it .
English Meaning: You must pay for the evil you do.
Proverb: As you sow so you reap.
English Meaning: As you brew, so you drink.
Proverb: Avarice begets sin and sin begets death.
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