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1000 Proverbs in English
1000 Proverbs in English
4. A bargain is a bargain.
34. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer
in seven years
35. A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot
pullout.
80. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
99. A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
114. After dinner sit (sleep) a while, after supper walk a mile.
118. All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
125. All cats are grey in the dark (in the night).
146. An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.
195. Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
197. Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
201. Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn
us.
1000 PROVERBS IN ENGLISH