| Goals | |
 | The end justifies the means. 3 likes |
| Direction | |
 | To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. 4 likes |
| Necessity | |
 | Necessity is the mother of invention. 4 likes |
| A friend in need is a friend indeed. 4 likes |
 | The best horse needs a whip, the wisest man advice, and the most chaste woman a man. 3 likes |
| Planning | |
| Man plans and God laughs. 3 likes |
| Motives | |
| A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. 5 likes |
| Limits | |
| Good fences make good neighbours. 4 likes |
| Desire | |
| If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. 4 likes |
| Options | |
| The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. 7 likes |
| There's more than one way to skin a cat. 3 likes |
 | A door must be either shut or open. 2 likes |
 | Don’t burn your bridges behind you. (first publ. N.Y. Times, 6 Apr. 1913) 2 likes |
| Security | |
| Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. 9 likes |
| Better safe than sorry. 3 likes |
| A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 3 likes |
| Don't put all your eggs in one basket. 3 likes |
| A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 3 likes |
 | Don't throw away your old shoes until you have got new ones. 3 likes |
| Never leave the certain for the uncertain. 3 likes |
| Give the devil his due. 2 likes |
| Don't burn your bridges behind you. 2 likes |
| Choices | |
| A door must be either shut or open. 2 likes |
| Accomplishment | |
| What is done no longer needs to be done. 2 likes |
| Action | |
| Actions speak louder than words. 3 likes |
| Better wear out shoes than sheets. 3 likes |
| Being Busy | |
| Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 3 likes |
| Doing | |
| Do as I say, not as I do. 3 likes |
| Effort | |
| No pain, no gain. 4 likes |
| Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. 2 likes |
| Experience | |
 | From failure one becomes smart. 2 likes |
| Change | |
| Variety is the spice of life. 3 likes |
| Don't change horses in midstream. 2 likes |
| The more it changes, the more it stays the same. Plus ça change, plus c'est pareil. 2 likes |
| Persistence | |
| Starting is easy, to keep on going is an art. 4 likes |
| Multitasking | |
| To kill two birds with one stone. 3 likes |
| Who chases two hares at the same time, does not catch any. 3 likes |
| Opportunity | |
| A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. 8 likes |
| A rising tide lifts all boats. 3 likes |
| Strike while the iron is hot. 2 likes |
| Ways & Means | |
| The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. 7 likes |
| There's more than one way to skin a cat. 3 likes |
| The end justifies the means. 3 likes |
| He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 3 likes |
| Adversity | |
| Things may get worse before they get better. 4 likes |
| The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. 2 likes |
| Easiness | |
| Easy come, easy go. 4 likes |
| Easy come, easy go. 4 likes |
| Problems & Solutions | |
| Where there's a will, there's a way. 6 likes |
| A golden key can open any door. 6 likes |
 | Some cannot find a bridge to cross the water, while others cannot find water to drink. 5 likes |
| Necessity is the mother of invention. 4 likes |
| We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. 4 likes |
| If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 4 likes |
| Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. 3 likes |
| Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. 2 likes |
| A problem shared is a problem halved. 2 likes |
| Risk | |
| Nothing ventured, nothing gained. 3 likes |
 | Don’t open a door that you cannot close. 3 likes |
| Do not play with fire. 2 likes |
| He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon. 2 likes |
| Help | |
 | A man who cannot harm, cannot help either. 3 likes |
| Help yourself and heaven will help you. 2 likes |
| Who expects the bowl of others makes a poor dinner. 2 likes |
| Synergies | |
| A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. 4 likes |
| It takes two to tango. 3 likes |
| Teamwork | |
 | He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. — American Indian proverb ‐ Seneca 3 likes |
| There’s no ‘‘I’’ in team. (first publ. L.A. Times, 14 Aug. 1960) 2 likes |
| Work | |
| A woman's work is never done. 2 likes |
| Doctors | |
| An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 4 likes |
| Expertise | |
| Set a thief to catch a thief. 2 likes |
| Manipulation | |
| They call you “generous” to get your money, they call you “brave” to get you killed. 9 likes |
| Exploitation | |
 | Since the house is on fire, let’s keep ourselves warm. 5 likes |
| All is fish that comes to his net. 3 likes |
| What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 3 likes |
| At war as at war. A la guerre comme a la guerre. 3 likes |
| Leadership | |
| A good chief gives, he does not take. — American Indian proverb ‐ Mohawk 4 likes |
| Fish always stink from the head down. 2 likes |
| White men have too many chiefs. — American Indian proverb ‐ Nez Perce 2 likes |
| Business | |
| Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. 2 likes |
| Selling | |
| The customer is always right. 2 likes |
| Money | |
| A fool and his money are soon parted. 6 likes |
| God reigns in heaven and money on earth. 5 likes |
| Shrouds have no pockets. 3 likes |
| He who pays the piper calls the tune. 2 likes |
| The Rich | |
| The poor man’s enemies are few, the rich man’s friends are even fewer. 4 likes |
| Cost & Price | |
| You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 5 likes |
| If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. 4 likes |
| The best things in life are free. 3 likes |
| There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. 3 likes |
| The cheapest is always the most expensive. 2 likes |
| Profits & Gains | |
| Loss and profit are brothers. 9 likes |
| No pain, no gain. 4 likes |
| Nothing ventured, nothing gained. 3 likes |
| Measurements | |
| Words should be weighed and not counted. 5 likes |
| Don't count your chickens before they hatch. 4 likes |
| We will be measured with the same measure that we measure others. 3 likes |
| Corruption | |
| Every man has his price. 12 likes |
| A golden key can open any door. 6 likes |
| Food | |
 | Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. 5 likes |
| The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. 4 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 |
| Temptation | |
| The poor man’s temptation is a loaf of bread. 4 likes |
| Sports & Games | |
| After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. 9 likes |
| When two play a game, there must be a winner and a loser. 8 likes |
| Cooking | |
| The food is cooked in a pot and the plate gets the honor. 3 likes |
| Drinking | |
| Youth is getting drunk without wine and old age is wine without getting drunk. 6 likes |
| The bar owner loves the drunkard, but he wouldn’t give him his daughter in marriage. 4 likes |
| Cause & Effect | |
| They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. 4 likes |
| Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. 3 likes |
| You reap what you sow. 3 likes |
 | Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. 3 likes |
| As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it. 2 likes |
| What goes around comes around. 2 likes |
| Results | |
| All is well that ends well. 4 likes |
| You reap what you sow. 3 likes |
| To kill two birds with one stone. 3 likes |
| Success & Failure | |
| Failure is the mother of success. 3 likes |
| Win & Lose | |
| When two play a game, there must be a winner and a loser. 8 likes |
| You win some, you lose some. 7 likes |
| If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. 4 likes |
| Happiness | |
| Happy people have no history. 3 likes |
| Perfection | |
| Nobody is perfect. 4 likes |
| Tranquillity | |
| To live in peace, one must be blind, deaf and mute. 3 likes |
| After a storm comes a calm. 2 likes |
| Rise & Decline | |
| What goes up must come down. 3 likes |
| Victory & Defeat | |
| Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed. — American Indian proverb ‐ Plains 7 likes |
| Acknowledgment | |
| The food is cooked in a pot and the plate gets the honor. 3 likes |
| Give credit where credit is due. 2 likes |
| Mistakes | |
 | Even monkeys fall from trees. 5 likes |
| It's no use crying over spilt milk. 4 likes |
| Don't put the cart before the horse. 2 likes |
| Irreversible | |
| Don't cry over spilled milk 3 likes |
| Let bygones be bygones. 3 likes |
| Loss | |
| Easy come, easy go. 4 likes |
| Uncertainty | |
| Never leave the certain for the uncertain. 3 likes |
| Troubles | |
| One’s good luck is another’s misfortune. 6 likes |
| The troubles of a stranger aren’t worth an onion. 3 likes |
| Don't meet troubles half-way. 3 likes |
| Danger | |
| He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 3 likes |
| Poverty | |
| The heaviest burden is an empty pocket. 3 likes |
| When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. 3 likes |
| He who has no money in the purse must have honey in the mouth. 2 likes |
| Hunger | |
| When the stomach is empty, so is the brain. 4 likes |
| A hungry man is an angry man. 4 likes |
| Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood. 3 likes |
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