Bad news travels quickly.

A wise man is free from perplexities.

There is no smoke without free(where there is no smoke without free) is smoke,

there is fire)

To act as guide to a tiger.

To paint the lily.

A fantastic garb.

To put all one's eggs in one basket.

Honest advice is unpleasant to the ear.

To throw out a minnow to catch a whale.

To distinguish right from wrong.

Happy is he who is content.

He who feels contented is rich. contented is rich.

It's easy to know men's faces, but not their hearts.

Know your enemy and know yourself.

Castels in the air.

The golden rule.

Like bamboo shoots after a spring shower.

A brave man will not shrink from dangers.

To turn over a new leaf.

A fly in the ointment.

To run counter.

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To go through fire and water.

To have one foot in the grave.

To apprehend danger in every sound.

It's never too late to learn.

Remember the past and it will guide your future.

The Stars A single spark can start a prairie fire.

Black sheep.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Alternate weakness with severity.

The outsider sees the best of the game.

To have a bad time.

All roads lead to the same destination. lead

to Rome.

The return of a prodigal.

Offence is the best defence(the best defence is

offence.) < /p>

To share one's joys and sorrows.

To act according to circumstances.

More brave than wise.

Good watch prevents misfortune.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

It's easy to change the situation but hard to change the nature. child is father of the man.

Not a single miss in a hundred times.

To see is to believe.

< p>To shift for oneself.

To make a rod for one's own back

If you wish to be the best man, you must be prepared

to suffer the bitterest of the bitter.

overreach oneself; overshoot oneself; overshoot the

mark.

To be at the end of one's patience.

To kick down the ladder.

A flying visit.

Nip it in the bud. To nip a thing in the bud.

A scholar does not step outside his gate, yet he knows

the happenings under the sun.

Facts are most convincing.

Easy come, easy fo.

A word spoken is past recalling.

To fall in love at first sight.

kill two birds with one stone? (kill two birds with one stone) To kill two birds with one stone.

One inch of time, one inch of time. Time is money.

The error committed on impulse may turn out to be the

sorrow of a whole life.

One general What millions died that Caesar might be great.

Plan your year in spring and your day

at dawn.

To have a hair-breadth escape.

Life is but a dream.

No one has died since ancient times. Death comes to all men.

It is seldom that a man lives to be a hundred years old

Man can conquer nature.

Think twice before thinking Look before your leap.

To talk shop.

To hang by a hair thread.

He who cannot play the fool is not a wise man.

Rome was not built in a day.

At the end of one's resources.

To leave without saying goodbye To take French leave.

Every little makes a mickle.

Money can move even the gods.

Every little makes a mickle. In heaven Man proposes and God disposes.

The weakest goes to the wall.

To look one way and row another.

Popular In everyone's mouth.

To kick against the pricks.

To give the last measure of devotion.

To suffer for one's wisdom.

To harp on the same string.

What's done cannot be undone.

To convert defeat into victory.

Beyond one's grasp.

To be svere with oneself and lenient with others.

A heart of stone steel.

To be guided by destiny.

Pride goes before a fall.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without

fighting.

How can one obtain tiger-cabs without entering the

tiger's lair?

Crows are black all over the world.

To have an old head on young shoulders.

To recommand one's own person.

To practice what one practices.

To set a thief to catch a thief.

< p>To bite the hand that feeds one.

To render good for evil.

To wait at ease till the enemy is exhausted.

To fight against longer odds.

To turn a person's battery against himself.

All is vanity.

< p>All are brothers within the four seas.

To hit a person when he's down.

Strike while the iron is hot. < /p>

To save against a rainy day.

Not know A from B.

Failure is the mother of success.

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To bear hardship without complaint.

To give loose to one's fancy.

Union is strength.

To fish in troubled waters.

To cut one's coat according to one's cloth.

Ostensible obedience.

Two heads are better than one. < /p>

Take not a musket to kill a butterfly.

The monk may run away, but the temple can't run with

The monk may run away, but the temple can't run with

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him.

To enrich oneself at others' expense.

Put the troops in death ground and they will live.

< p>The lords of creation.

Everything is difficult at the start.

Not a single miss in a ten thousand times.

< p>To hit a person when he's down.

To live from hand to mouth.

While the priest climbs a foot, the devil climbs ten.

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Pitchers have ears; walls have ears.

Prevention is better than cure.

New brooms sweep clean. < /p>

Misfortune might be a blessing in disguise.

A distant journey tests the strength of a horse and

a long task proves the character of a man.

To die a natural death (to die in one's bed)

Outnumbered There is no contending against odds.

To cast pearls before swine.

Troubles never come singly.

A drop in the bucket.

Judge none blessed before his death.

To eat the bread of idleness.

To be free with other's money.

Distant kinsmen mean less than close neighbors.

You must reap what you have sown.

After joy comes sadness.

Practice makes perfect perfect.

A fabian policy.

To get water from a flint.

The survival of the fittest.