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<blockquote data-quote="chathupatiya" data-source="post: 10336140" data-attributes="member: 48903"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">700. Pleasure has a sting in its tail.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">701. Plenty is no plague.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">702. Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">703. Poverty is no sin.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">704. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">705. Practise what you preach.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">706. Praise is not pudding.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">707. Pride goes before a fall.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">708. Procrastination is the thief of time.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">709. Promise is debt.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">710. Promise little, but do much.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">711. Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">712. Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">713. Rain at seven, fine at eleven.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">714. Rats desert a sinking ship.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">715. Repentance is good, but innocence is better.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">716. Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">717. Roll my log and I will roll yours.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">718. Rome was not built in a day.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">719. Salt water and absence wash away love.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">720. Saying and doing are two things.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">721. Score twice before you cut once.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">722. Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">723. Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">724. Self done is soon done.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">725. Self done is well done.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">726. Self is a bad counsellor.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">727. Self-praise is no recommendation.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">728. Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">729. Set a thief to catch a thief.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">730. Shallow streams make most din.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">731. Short debts (accounts) make long friends.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">732. Silence gives consent.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">733. Since Adam was a boy.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">734. Sink or swim!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">735. Six of one and half a dozen of the other.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">736. Slow and steady wins the race.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">737. Slow but sure.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">738. Small rain lays great dust.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">739. So many countries, so many customs.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">740. So many men, so many minds.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">741. Soft fire makes sweet malt.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">742. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">743. Soon learnt, soon forgotten.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">744. Soon ripe, soon rotten.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">745. Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear).</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">746. Speech is silver but silence is gold.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">747. Standers-by see more than gamesters.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">748. Still waters run deep.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">749. Stolen pleasures are sweetest.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">750. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">751. Stretch your legs according to the coverlet.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">752. Strike while the iron is hot.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">753. Stuff today and starve tomorrow.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">754. Success is never blamed.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">755. Such carpenters, such chips.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">756. Sweep before your own door.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">757. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">758. Take us as you find us.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">759. Tarred with the same brush.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">760. Tastes differ.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">761. Tell that to the marines.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">762. That cock won't fight.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">763. That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">764. That's a horse of another colour.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">765. That's where the shoe pinches!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">766. The beggar may sing before the thief (before a footpad).</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">767. The best fish smell when they are three days old.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">768. The best fish swim near the bottom.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">769. The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">770. The busiest man finds the most leisure.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">771. The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">772. The cap fits.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">773. The cask savours of the first fill.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">774. The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">775. The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">776. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">777. The cobbler should stick to his last.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">778. The cobbler's wife is the worst shod.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">779. The darkest hour is that before the dawn.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">780. The darkest place is under the candlestick.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">781. The devil is not so black as he is painted.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">782. The devil knows many things because he is old.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">783. The devil lurks behind the cross.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">784. The devil rebuking sin.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">785. The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">786. The Dutch have taken Holland !</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">787. The early bird catches the worm.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">788. The end crowns the work.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">789. The end justifies the means.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">790. The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">791. The exception proves the rule.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">792. The face is the index of the mind.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">793.. The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">794. The fat is in the fire.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">795. The first blow is half the battle.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">796. The furthest way about is the nearest way home.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">797. The game is not worth the candle..</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">798. The heart that once truly loves never forgets.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">799. The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">800. The last drop makes the cup run over.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">801. The last straw breaks the camel's back.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">802. The leopard cannot change its spots.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">803. The longest day has an end.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">804. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">805. The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">806. The more haste, the less speed.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">807. The more the merrier.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">808. The morning sun never lasts a day.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">809. The mountain has brought forth a mouse.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">810. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">811. The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">812. The pot calls the kettle black.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">813. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">814. The receiver is as bad as the thief.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">815. The remedy is worse than the disease.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">816. The rotten apple injures its neighbours.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">817. The scalded dog fears cold water.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">818. The tailor makes the man.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">819. The tongue of idle persons is never idle.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">820. The voice of one man is the voice of no one.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">821. The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">822. The wind cannot be caught in a net.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">823. The work shows the workman.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">824. There are lees to every wine.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">825. There are more ways to the wood than one.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">826. There is a place for everything, and everything in its place.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">827. There is more than one way to kill a cat.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">828. There is no fire without smoke.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">829. There is no place like home.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">830. There is no rose without a thorn.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">831. There is no rule without an exception.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">832. There is no smoke without fire.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">833. There's many a slip 'tween (== between) the cup and the lip.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">834. There's no use crying over spilt milk.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">835. They are hand and glove.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">836. They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">837. Things past cannot be recalled.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">838. Think today and speak tomorrow.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">839. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">840. Time and tide wait for no man.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">841. Time cures all things.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">842. Time is money.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">843. Time is the great healer.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">844. Time works wonders.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">845. To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames).</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">846. To angle with a silver hook.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">847. To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">848. To be head over ears in debt.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">849. To be in one's birthday suit.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">850. To be up to the ears in love.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">851. To be wise behind the hand.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">852. To beat about the bush.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">853. To beat the air.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">854. To bring grist to somebody's mill.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">855. To build a fire under oneself.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">856. To buy a pig in a poke.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">857. To call a spade a spade.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">858. To call off the dogs.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">859. To carry coals to Newcastle.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">860. To cast pearls before swine.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">861. To cast prudence to the winds.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">862. To come away none the wiser.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">863. To come off cheap.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">864. To come off with a whole skin.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">865. To come off with flying colours.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">866. To come out dry.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">867. To come out with clean hands.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">868. To cook a hare before catching him.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">869. To cry with one eye and laugh with the other.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">870. To cut one's throat with a feather.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">871. To draw (pull) in one's horns.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">872. To drop a bucket into an empty well.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">873. To draw water in a sieve.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">874. To eat the calf in the cow's belly.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">875. To err is human.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">876. To fiddle while Rome is burning.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">877. To fight with one's own shadow.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">878. To find a mare's nest.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">879. To fish in troubled waters.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">880. To fit like a glove.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">881. To flog a dead horse.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">882. To get out of bed on the wrong side.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">883. To give a lark to catch a kite.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">884. To go for wool and come home shorn.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">885. To go through fire and water (through thick and thin).</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">886. To have a finger in the pie.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">887. To have rats in the attic.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">888. To hit the nail on the head.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">889. To kick against the pricks.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">890. To kill two birds with one stone.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">891. To know everything is to know nothing.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">892. To know on which side one's bread is buttered.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">893. To know what's what.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">894. To lay by for a rainy day.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">895. To live from hand to mouth.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">896. To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">897. To look for a needle in a haystack.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">898. To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">899. To make a mountain out of a molehill.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">900. To make both ends meet.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">901. To make the cup run over.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">902. To make (to turn) the air blue.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">903. To measure another man's foot by one's own last.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">904. To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">905. To pay one back in one's own coin.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">906. To plough the sand.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">907. To pour water into a sieve.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">908. To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">909. To pull the devil by the tail.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">910. To put a spoke in somebody's wheel.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">911. To put off till Doomsday.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">912. To put (set) the cart before the horse.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">913. To rob one's belly to cover one's back.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">914. To roll in money.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">915. To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">916. To save one's bacon.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">917. To send (carry) owls to Athens .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">918. To set the wolf to keep the sheep.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">919. To stick to somebody like a leech.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">920. To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">921. To take counsel of one's pillow.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">922. To take the bull by the horns.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">923. To teach the dog to bark.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">924. To tell tales out of school.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">925. To throw a stone in one's own garden.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">926. To throw dust in somebody's eyes.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">927. To throw straws against the wind.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">928. To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">929. To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">930. To wash one's dirty linen in public.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">931. To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">932. To weep over an onion.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">933. To work with the left hand.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">934. Tomorrow come never.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">935. Too many cooks spoil the broth.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">936. Too much knowledge makes the head bald.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">937. Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">938. Too much water drowned the miller .</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">939. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">940. True blue will never stain.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">941. True coral needs no painter's brush.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">942. Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">943. Truth is stranger than fiction.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">944. Truth lies at the bottom of a well.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">945. Two blacks do not make a white.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">946. Two heads are better than one.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">947. Two is company, but three is none.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">948. Velvet paws hide sharp claws.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">949. Virtue is its own reward.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">950. Wait for the cat to jump.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">951. Walls have ears.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">952. Wash your dirty linen at home.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">953. Waste not, want not.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">954. We know not what is good until we have lost it.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">955. We never know the value of water till the well is dry.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">956. We shall see what we shall see.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">957. We soon believe what we desire.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">958. Wealth is nothing without health.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">959. Well begun is half done.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">960. What can't be cured, must be endured.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">961. What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">962. What is done by night appears by day.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">963. What is done cannot be undone.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">964. What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">965. What is lost is lost.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">966. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">967. What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">968. What must be, must be.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">969. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">970. What we do willingly is easy.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">971. When angry, count a hundred.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">972. When at Rome, do as the Romans do.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">973. When children stand quiet, they have done some harm.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">974. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">975. When guns speak it is too late to argue.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">976. When pigs fly.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">977. When Queen Anne was alive.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">978. When the cat is away, the mice will play.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">979. When the devil is blind.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">980. When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">981. When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">982. When three know it, alt know it.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">983. When wine is in wit is out.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">984. Where there's a will, there's a way.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">985. While the grass grows the horse starves.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">986. While there is life there is hope.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">987. Who breaks, pays.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">988. Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">989. Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">990. Wise after the event.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">991. With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">992. Words pay no debts.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">993. You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">994. You cannot eat your cake and have it.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">995. You cannot flay the same ox twice.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">996. You cannot judge a tree by it bark.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">997. You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">998. You cannot wash charcoal white.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">999. You made your bed, now lie in it.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">1000. Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chathupatiya, post: 10336140, member: 48903"] [SIZE="5"][COLOR="Blue"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]700. Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 701. Plenty is no plague. 702. Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much. 703. Poverty is no sin. 704. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. 705. Practise what you preach. 706. Praise is not pudding. 707. Pride goes before a fall. 708. Procrastination is the thief of time. 709. Promise is debt. 710. Promise little, but do much. 711. Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them. 712. Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 713. Rain at seven, fine at eleven. 714. Rats desert a sinking ship. 715. Repentance is good, but innocence is better. 716. Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you. 717. Roll my log and I will roll yours. 718. Rome was not built in a day. 719. Salt water and absence wash away love. 720. Saying and doing are two things. 721. Score twice before you cut once. 722. Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings. 723. Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. 724. Self done is soon done. 725. Self done is well done. 726. Self is a bad counsellor. 727. Self-praise is no recommendation. 728. Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil. 729. Set a thief to catch a thief. 730. Shallow streams make most din. 731. Short debts (accounts) make long friends. 732. Silence gives consent. 733. Since Adam was a boy. 734. Sink or swim! 735. Six of one and half a dozen of the other. 736. Slow and steady wins the race. 737. Slow but sure. 738. Small rain lays great dust. 739. So many countries, so many customs. 740. So many men, so many minds. 741. Soft fire makes sweet malt. 742. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark . 743. Soon learnt, soon forgotten. 744. Soon ripe, soon rotten. 745. Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear). 746. Speech is silver but silence is gold. 747. Standers-by see more than gamesters. 748. Still waters run deep. 749. Stolen pleasures are sweetest. 750. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach. 751. Stretch your legs according to the coverlet. 752. Strike while the iron is hot. 753. Stuff today and starve tomorrow. 754. Success is never blamed. 755. Such carpenters, such chips. 756. Sweep before your own door. 757. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. 758. Take us as you find us. 759. Tarred with the same brush. 760. Tastes differ. 761. Tell that to the marines. 762. That cock won't fight. 763. That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass. 764. That's a horse of another colour. 765. That's where the shoe pinches! 766. The beggar may sing before the thief (before a footpad). 767. The best fish smell when they are three days old. 768. The best fish swim near the bottom. 769. The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good. 770. The busiest man finds the most leisure. 771. The camel going to seek horns lost his ears. 772. The cap fits. 773. The cask savours of the first fill. 774. The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream. 775. The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws. 776. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link. 777. The cobbler should stick to his last. 778. The cobbler's wife is the worst shod. 779. The darkest hour is that before the dawn. 780. The darkest place is under the candlestick. 781. The devil is not so black as he is painted. 782. The devil knows many things because he is old. 783. The devil lurks behind the cross. 784. The devil rebuking sin. 785. The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on. 786. The Dutch have taken Holland ! 787. The early bird catches the worm. 788. The end crowns the work. 789. The end justifies the means. 790. The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear. 791. The exception proves the rule. 792. The face is the index of the mind. 793.. The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. 794. The fat is in the fire. 795. The first blow is half the battle. 796. The furthest way about is the nearest way home. 797. The game is not worth the candle.. 798. The heart that once truly loves never forgets. 799. The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail. 800. The last drop makes the cup run over. 801. The last straw breaks the camel's back. 802. The leopard cannot change its spots. 803. The longest day has an end. 804. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 805. The moon does not heed the barking of dogs. 806. The more haste, the less speed. 807. The more the merrier. 808. The morning sun never lasts a day. 809. The mountain has brought forth a mouse. 810. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh. 811. The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last. 812. The pot calls the kettle black. 813. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 814. The receiver is as bad as the thief. 815. The remedy is worse than the disease. 816. The rotten apple injures its neighbours. 817. The scalded dog fears cold water. 818. The tailor makes the man. 819. The tongue of idle persons is never idle. 820. The voice of one man is the voice of no one. 821. The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions. 822. The wind cannot be caught in a net. 823. The work shows the workman. 824. There are lees to every wine. 825. There are more ways to the wood than one. 826. There is a place for everything, and everything in its place. 827. There is more than one way to kill a cat. 828. There is no fire without smoke. 829. There is no place like home. 830. There is no rose without a thorn. 831. There is no rule without an exception. 832. There is no smoke without fire. 833. There's many a slip 'tween (== between) the cup and the lip. 834. There's no use crying over spilt milk. 835. They are hand and glove. 836. They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer. 837. Things past cannot be recalled. 838. Think today and speak tomorrow. 839. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. 840. Time and tide wait for no man. 841. Time cures all things. 842. Time is money. 843. Time is the great healer. 844. Time works wonders. 845. To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames). 846. To angle with a silver hook. 847. To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth. 848. To be head over ears in debt. 849. To be in one's birthday suit. 850. To be up to the ears in love. 851. To be wise behind the hand. 852. To beat about the bush. 853. To beat the air. 854. To bring grist to somebody's mill. 855. To build a fire under oneself. 856. To buy a pig in a poke. 857. To call a spade a spade. 858. To call off the dogs. 859. To carry coals to Newcastle. 860. To cast pearls before swine. 861. To cast prudence to the winds. 862. To come away none the wiser. 863. To come off cheap. 864. To come off with a whole skin. 865. To come off with flying colours. 866. To come out dry. 867. To come out with clean hands. 868. To cook a hare before catching him. 869. To cry with one eye and laugh with the other. 870. To cut one's throat with a feather. 871. To draw (pull) in one's horns. 872. To drop a bucket into an empty well. 873. To draw water in a sieve. 874. To eat the calf in the cow's belly. 875. To err is human. 876. To fiddle while Rome is burning. 877. To fight with one's own shadow. 878. To find a mare's nest. 879. To fish in troubled waters. 880. To fit like a glove. 881. To flog a dead horse. 882. To get out of bed on the wrong side. 883. To give a lark to catch a kite. 884. To go for wool and come home shorn. 885. To go through fire and water (through thick and thin). 886. To have a finger in the pie. 887. To have rats in the attic. 888. To hit the nail on the head. 889. To kick against the pricks. 890. To kill two birds with one stone. 891. To know everything is to know nothing. 892. To know on which side one's bread is buttered. 893. To know what's what. 894. To lay by for a rainy day. 895. To live from hand to mouth. 896. To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen. 897. To look for a needle in a haystack. 898. To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water. 899. To make a mountain out of a molehill. 900. To make both ends meet. 901. To make the cup run over. 902. To make (to turn) the air blue. 903. To measure another man's foot by one's own last. 904. To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel. 905. To pay one back in one's own coin. 906. To plough the sand. 907. To pour water into a sieve. 908. To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody. 909. To pull the devil by the tail. 910. To put a spoke in somebody's wheel. 911. To put off till Doomsday. 912. To put (set) the cart before the horse. 913. To rob one's belly to cover one's back. 914. To roll in money. 915. To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. 916. To save one's bacon. 917. To send (carry) owls to Athens . 918. To set the wolf to keep the sheep. 919. To stick to somebody like a leech. 920. To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. 921. To take counsel of one's pillow. 922. To take the bull by the horns. 923. To teach the dog to bark. 924. To tell tales out of school. 925. To throw a stone in one's own garden. 926. To throw dust in somebody's eyes. 927. To throw straws against the wind. 928. To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine. 929. To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts. 930. To wash one's dirty linen in public. 931. To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve. 932. To weep over an onion. 933. To work with the left hand. 934. Tomorrow come never. 935. Too many cooks spoil the broth. 936. Too much knowledge makes the head bald. 937. Too much of a good thing is good for nothing. 938. Too much water drowned the miller . 939. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 940. True blue will never stain. 941. True coral needs no painter's brush. 942. Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. 943. Truth is stranger than fiction. 944. Truth lies at the bottom of a well. 945. Two blacks do not make a white. 946. Two heads are better than one. 947. Two is company, but three is none. 948. Velvet paws hide sharp claws. 949. Virtue is its own reward. 950. Wait for the cat to jump. 951. Walls have ears. 952. Wash your dirty linen at home. 953. Waste not, want not. 954. We know not what is good until we have lost it. 955. We never know the value of water till the well is dry. 956. We shall see what we shall see. 957. We soon believe what we desire. 958. Wealth is nothing without health. 959. Well begun is half done. 960. What can't be cured, must be endured. 961. What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh. 962. What is done by night appears by day. 963. What is done cannot be undone. 964. What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. 965. What is lost is lost. 966. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 967. What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well. 968. What must be, must be. 969. What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. 970. What we do willingly is easy. 971. When angry, count a hundred. 972. When at Rome, do as the Romans do. 973. When children stand quiet, they have done some harm. 974. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. 975. When guns speak it is too late to argue. 976. When pigs fly. 977. When Queen Anne was alive. 978. When the cat is away, the mice will play. 979. When the devil is blind. 980. When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. 981. When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe. 982. When three know it, alt know it. 983. When wine is in wit is out. 984. Where there's a will, there's a way. 985. While the grass grows the horse starves. 986. While there is life there is hope. 987. Who breaks, pays. 988. Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet. 989. Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl. 990. Wise after the event. 991. With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin. 992. Words pay no debts. 993. You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. 994. You cannot eat your cake and have it. 995. You cannot flay the same ox twice. 996. You cannot judge a tree by it bark. 997. You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. 998. You cannot wash charcoal white. 999. You made your bed, now lie in it. 1000. Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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