Good & Evil | |
![]() | Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. 9 likes |
![]() | See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. 4 likes |
Conscience | |
![]() | The guilty conscience is a secret enemy. — Indian proverb 5 likes |
Life | |
![]() | Life is like an onion, which one peels crying. 7 likes |
Death | |
![]() | Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way. — American Indian proverb ‐ Blackfoot 5 likes |
Religion | |
![]() | The nearer to the synagogue, the farther from God. 7 likes |
Right & Wrong | |
![]() | Two wrongs don't make a right. 6 likes |
![]() | Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. 6 likes |
Heaven | |
![]() | Even in paradise it is not good to be alone. 9 likes |
Transience | |
![]() | All pass, all fade, all break. Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse. 9 likes |
Timing | |
![]() | The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. 7 likes |
![]() | We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. 4 likes |
Duration | |
![]() | Fish and guests smell after three days. 6 likes |
Past | |
![]() | Let bygones be bygones. 3 likes |
Origin | |
![]() | Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. 4 likes |
Age | |
![]() | Youth is a mistake, middle age a struggle, and old age a regret. 11 likes |
![]() | Youth is getting drunk without wine and old age is wine without getting drunk. 6 likes |
![]() | If youth knew, if old age could. 5 likes |
Prophecy | |
![]() | The heart is something of a prophet. 3 likes |
Haste & Delay | |
![]() | Don't count your chickens before they hatch. 4 likes |
![]() | Don't cross the bridge till you come to it. 4 likes |
![]() | Better late than never. 3 likes |
![]() | Rome wasn't built in a day. 3 likes |
Ending | |
![]() | All is well that ends well. 4 likes |
![]() | All good things must come to an end. 3 likes |
Learning | |
![]() | You can't teach an old dog new tricks. 5 likes |
![]() | Practice makes perfect. 3 likes |
![]() | Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 3 likes |
Sleep | |
![]() | You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. — American Indian proverb ‐ Navajo 6 likes |
![]() | Sleep is the best doctor. 4 likes |
Proximity | |
![]() | Your elbow is close, yet you can't bite it. 3 likes |
Mirror | |
![]() | Eyes are the mirror of the soul. 3 likes |
Road | |
![]() | To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. 4 likes |
Absence | |
![]() | When the cat's away, the mice will play. 6 likes |
![]() | The absent are always in the wrong. 3 likes |
House | |
![]() | An Englishman’s home is his castle. 2 likes |
Beginning | |
![]() | There’s a first time for everything. 5 likes |
Difference | |
![]() | Long live the difference. Vive la différence! (between the sexes, or any other difference) 4 likes |
Similarity | |
![]() | At night all cats are grey. 5 likes |
![]() | Those who resemble each other, assemble together Qui se ressemble, s'assemble. 4 likes |
![]() | It takes one to know one. (first publ. Wash. Post, 7 Oct. 1951) 4 likes |
![]() | The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. 3 likes |
![]() | Like master, like man. Tel maître, tel valet. 2 likes |
![]() | Set a thief to catch a thief. 2 likes |
![]() | Birds of a feather flock together. 2 likes |
Injustice | |
![]() | Some cannot find a bridge to cross the water, while others cannot find water to drink. 5 likes |
Opposites | |
![]() | Loss and profit are brothers. 9 likes |
![]() | To estimate the sweet, you must taste the bitter. 3 likes |
![]() | The reverse side also has a reverse side. 3 likes |
![]() | Fire is a good servant but a bad master. 3 likes |
Adaptation | |
![]() | If the cap fits, wear it. 3 likes |
![]() | At war as at war. A la guerre comme a la guerre. 3 likes |
![]() | In the company of the blind, close your eyes. 2 likes |
Futility | |
![]() | All pass, all fade, all break. Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse. 9 likes |
![]() | Shrouds have no pockets. 3 likes |
Traps | |
![]() | Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself. 10 likes |
Inevitable | |
![]() | You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 5 likes |
Balance | |
![]() | You win some, you lose some. 7 likes |
Relativity | |
![]() | In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king. 2 likes |
Excess | |
![]() | Even the priest gets tired of many “Lord have mercy” chants. 3 likes |
![]() | To the great evils great remedies. 2 likes |
![]() | Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. 2 likes |
Rules | |
![]() | The exception which proves the rule. 3 likes |
![]() | The forbidden fruit is sweetest. 3 likes |
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