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PROVERBS
EMMANUEL E IKEDIASHI THE VISION HOUSE
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Speech is silver, silence is gold.
Charity begins at home but should not end there. Sticks and bone may break my bone,
But words will never hurt me
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Section A
A penny for a thought.
A penny saved is a penny gained.
A pound of care won’t pay an ounce of dept.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A rose between two thorns.
A short cut is often a wrong cut.
A stitch in time saves nine.
A thing began is half done.
A wise man changes is mind sometimes, a fool never.
A wonder last nine days.
A word to the wise is enough.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Actions speaks louder than words.
Advice when needed is least headed.
After a storm comes a calm.
All covet, all lose.
All is not gold that glitters.
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
All play and no work makes jack a mere boy
All’s fair in love and war.
All’s fish that comes to his net.
All’s well that end well.
Among the blind the one -eyed man is a king.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
An army marches on its stomach.
An empty bag will not stand upright.
An idle brain is the devils workshop.
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An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Any port in a storm.
Appetite comes with eating.
As a man lives so shall he die.
As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
Ask much to get little.
Avoid evil and it will avoid thee.
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Section b
Back again like a Bad penny
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Be just before you are generous.
Be not the first to quarrel, nor the last to make up.
Be sure before you marry, of a house wherein to tarry.
Beggars must not be choosers.
Better be alone than an ill company.
Better be late than never.
Better be happy than wise.
Between the devil and the deep sea.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Blood is thicker than water.
Books and friends should be few and good.
Borrowing thrives but once.
Boys will be boys.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Bullies are generally cowards.
By others fault wise men correct their own.
By timely mending save much spending.
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Section c
Call a spade a spade.
Care killed the cat.
Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.
Catch the bear before you sell the skin.
Catch who catch can.
Charity begin at home but should not end there.
Cheapest is dearest.
Children are what you make them.
Christmas comes but once a year.
Comparison are odious.
Courtesy costs nothing.
Curses are like chickens they, come home to roost.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
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Section d
Dead men tell no tales.
Delays are dangerous
Devil take the hindmost.
Diligence is a great teacher.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Do as I say, not as I do
Do not cut off your nose to spite your face.
Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Do not spur a willing horse.
Do not tell tales out of school.
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Section e
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Easier Said than done.
Eat to live but do not live to eat.
Employment brings enjoyment.
Empty vessels make the most noise.
Enough is as good as feast, to one that’s not a beast.
Enough is better than too much.
Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Every dog has his day.
Every little helps.
Every man for himself and God for us all.
Every man must carry his own cross.
Every why has a wherefore.
Everyone can find fault; few can do better.
Everyone knows best where the shoe pinches.
Everyone thinks his own burden the heaviest.
Everything comes to those who wait.
Example is better than precept.
Exchange is no robbery.
Experience teachers.
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
Extremes are dangerous.
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Facts are stubborn things.
Failure teaches success.
Faint heart never won a fair lady.
Fall not out with a friend for a trifle.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Fancy kills and fancy cures.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Fingers were made before forks.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
First come first served.
Flattery brings friends, truth and enemies.
Flies are easier caught with honey than with vinegar.
Follow the river and you will find the sea.
Fools build houses and wise men buy them.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune favors fools.
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Section g
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
Give a fool rope enough and he will hang himself.
Give and spend and God will send.
Give everyone his due.
Give him an inch and he will take an ell.
Give the devil his due.
God help those who help themselves.
God never shuts one door but he opens another.
Good beginning makes good ending.
Good to begin well, better to end well.
Good wine needs no bush.
Grasp all, lose all.
Gratitude is the best of virtues,
Ingratitude the worse of vice.
Great haste makes great waste.
Great mind thinks alike.
Great profits, great risks.
Great talkers are little doers.
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Habit is second nature.
Hail fellow, well met.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
He gives twice that gives in a trice.
He is idle than might be better employed.
He is richest than has fewest wants.
He knows most who speaks least.
He knows which way the wind blows.
He laughs best than laugh last.
He runs with the hounds and hunts with the hare.
He that by the plough would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive.
He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he
will.
He that doth lend doth lose his friend.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
He that knows little soon repents it.
He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.
He that loves glass without G, takes away L, and
that he is.
He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
He that will not when he may, when he will he
shall have nay.
He that will thrive must rise at five,
he that hath thriven may lie till seven.
He who cease to pray cease to prosper.
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He who likes borrowing dislikes praying.
He’s no man who cannot say ‘‘NO’’.
His bark is worse than his bite.
His heart is in his boots.
Home is home though it may never be so homely.
Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all.
Honesty is the best policy.
Hope is the last thing that we lose, if at all.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Hunger is the best sauce.
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Section I
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if twice,
shame on me.
If fools went not to market bad wares would not
be sold.
If the cap fits, wear it.
If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet
must go to the mountain.
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
If you cannot make a man think as you do, make
him do as you think.
If you wish for peace, prepare for war.
Ill got, ill spent.
In for a penny, in for a pond.
It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good
wife that never grumbles.
It’s a long lane that has no turning.
It is always time to do good.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
It is easier to get money than to keep it.
It is easier to pull down than to build.
It is folly to live in Rome, and strive with the pope.
It is never too late to mend.
It is no use crying over a split milk.
It never rains but it pours.
It takes two to tangle, mingle and quarrel.
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Section j
JACK OF ALL TRADE MASTER OF NONE
Section k
Kill not the goose that lay the golden egg.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Kind words are worth much and cost little.
Kindle not a fire that you cannot put out.
Kindness begets kindness.
Kissing goes by favor.
Knowledge is power
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Section l
Lazy people take the most pains.
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more
foolish.
Least said, soonest mended.
Lend only what you can afford to lose.
Let bygones be bygones.
Let sleeping dog lie.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Liars should have good memories.
Like father, like son. like mother, like daughter.
Little boats must keep the shore.
Larger boat may venture more.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Live and let live.
Live not to eat but eat to live.
Loans and depts. makes worries and fret.
Look before you leap.
Lost time is never found.
Love is blind.
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Section m
Make every bargain clear and plain,
That none may afterwards complain.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Make short the miles, with talk and smiles.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Manners market man.
Many find fault without an end,
And yet to do nothing at all to mend.
Many hands make light work.
Many straws may blind an elephant.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Master two, will not do.
Men are as old as they feel,
Woman are as old as they look.
Men make houses, women make homes.
Misfortunes never seldom come singly.
Money makes the mare to go.
More haste, less speed.
Much cry, little wool.
Great cry, little wool.
Murder will out.
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Section n
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Nearest is dearest.
Necessity has no law.
Necessity is the mother of invitation.
Needless and pins, needless and pins
When a man’s married his trouble begins.
Neither wise or fools can work without tools.
Never a rose without thorns.
Never cross the bridge until you come to it.
Never dam the bridge that you have crossed.
Never do things by halves.
Never hit a man when he’s down.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Never pull off till tomorrow what may be done
today.
Never say die! up man, and try.
Never spoil the ship for a ha ‘p’ Orth of tar.
Never too old to learn; never too late to turn.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
New brooms sweep clean.
No pain without gain.
No living man, all things can.
No man is indispensable.
No man is without enemies.
No news is good news.
No one knows where the shoe pinches but who
wears it.
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None so blind as those who will not see.
None so deaf as those who will not hear.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing venture, nothing have-win.
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Section o
Oaks fall when reeds stand.
Of two evils choose the the less.
Old age is a heavy burden.
Old birds are not caught with chaff.
Old wounds soon bleed.
On a long journey even a straw is heavy.
One can live on a little, but not on nothing.
One cannot die twice.
One fools make many.
One good turn deserves another.
One may lead a horse to water but twenty cannot
make him drink
One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
One may sooner fall than rise.
One swallow does not make a summer.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Other fish to fry.
Out of dept., out of danger.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Out of the frying pan into the fire
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Section p
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Pigs grow fat where lamb would starve.
Plaster thick, some will stick.
Practice makes perfect.
Practice thrift or else you will drift.
Praise make good men better
and bad men worse.
Presents keeps friendship worm.
Prevention is better than cure.
Pride and poverty are ill, yet often dwell together.
Pride must or will have a fall.
Pride goes before a fall.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Punctuality is the soul of business.
Punctuality is the politeness of princes.
Put not your trust in money,
put your money in trust.
Put your own shoulder to the wheel.
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Section q
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
Section r Reckless youth Makes rueful age.
Rome was not build in a day.
Rumor is a great traveler.
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Section s
Save me from my friends.
Saying is one thing, doing is another.
Scratch my back and I will scratch
Second thoughts are best.
See a pin and let it be,
You are sure to wants before it comes.
Seeing is believing.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Set not your loaf in till the oven is hot.
She’s is the cat’s mother.
Show me a liar and I will show you a thief.
Silence gives consent.
Sink or swim.
Six of one and half dozen of the other.
Skill is stronger than strength.
Sloth makes all things difficult,
but industry all ought.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Slow and sure.
Small beginning makes great ending.
Soft words break no bone.
Soft word win hard heart.
Some men are wise and some are otherwise.
Sometimes the best gain is too lose.
Soon hot, soon cold
Sooner said than done.
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Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Speak little but speak the truth.
Speak well of your friends,
and your enemies nothing.
Speaking without thinking is shooting without
aim.
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
Spilt salt is never all gathered.
Still water runs deep.
Strike while the iron’s hot.
Study the past if you want to divine the future.
Suspicion is the bane of friendship.
Sympathy without relief is like mustard without
beef.
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Section t
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take
care of themselves.
Talk of the devil and he’ll appear.
That which is evil is soon learnt.
That which proves too much proves nothing.
The best of friends must part.
The bitter bit.
The cat is fain the fish to eat, but hath no will to
wet her feet.
The child is father of the man.
The company makes the feast.
The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
The devil is not so black as he is painted.
The devil lurks behind the cross.
The early bird catches the worm.
The end justifies the means.
The exception proves the rule.
The fountain is clearest at its source.
The game is not worth the candle.
The goat must browse where she is tied.
The habit does not make the monk.
The heart sees farther than the head.
The queen can do no wrong.
The queen never dies.
The last straw breaks the camel’s back.
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The less people think, the less they talk.
The love of a woman and a bottle of wine
Are sweet for a season but last for a time.
The master’s eye fattens the horse.
The morning sun never lasts the day.
The nearer the church the father from God.
The pot calls the kettle black.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The public pays with ingratitude.
The receiver is as bad as the thief.
The stone that Leith not in your way need not
offend you.
The strength of a chain is its weakest link.
The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.
The unexpected always happens.
The wise man jest and the fool repeats them.
The wise is father to the thought.
The world is a staircase,
Some are going up; some are coming down.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came
out of it.
There are more foolish buyers than foolish
sellers.
There are more ways in killing a dog than by
hanging him.
There are two sides to every question.
There could be no great ones if there were no
little.
There is a BUT in everything.
There is no true love without jealousy.
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There is no venom like that of a tongue.
There is a salve for every sore.
There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.
There’s safety in numbers.
They who only seek for faults find nothing else.
Those who do nothing generally take to shouting.
Those who live in glass house should not throw
stones.
Those who make the best use of their time as
none to spare.
Time and tide waits for no man.
Time cures more than a doctor.
Time flies.
Time is money.
Time is the best councilor.
Tit for tat is fair play.
To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth.
To err is human; to forgive is divine.
To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
To kill two birds with one stone.
To know the disease is half the cure.
To look for needle in a haystack.
To make one hole to stop another.
To make two bites at one cherry.
To put the cart before the horse.
To scare a bird is not the best way to catch it.
To stir up a hornet’s nest.
To take the chestnut out of the fire with the cat’s
paw.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
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Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
Train a tree when it is young.
Tread on a worm and it will turn.
True love never grows old.
Trust but not too much.
Trust dies because bad pays poisons him.
Turn over a new leaf.
Two blacks do not make a white.
Two eyes see more than one.
Two heads are better than one.
Two is company, three is none.
Two is company, three is crowd.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Throw a sprat to catch a while.
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Section u Undertake no more than you can perform.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Union is strength.
Section v
Vice is its own punishment,
Virtue its own reward.
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Section w
Walls have ears.
Wash your dirty linen at home,
Waste makes want.
Waste not want not.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
We can live without our friends,
But not without our neighbors.
Wedlock is like a place besieged;
Those within wish to go out, those without
wishes to go in.
Well begun is half done.
What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.
What can’t be endured must be cured.
What cost nothing is worth nothing.
What’s done can’t be undone.
What is learnt in the cradle last to the tomb.
What is one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander.
What is worth doing is worth doing well.
What man has done man can do.
Whatever you are be a man.
What the eyes does not admire the heart does
not desire.
What the eyes don’t see the heart does not grieve
for.
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What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
When a man is going down the hill,
Everyone will give him a push.
When in Rome do as the Romans do.
When money’s taken freedom is forsaken.
When poverty comes in at the door,
love flies out of the window.
When rogues fall out,
honest men come into their own.
When the cast is away the mice will play.
When the win is in, the wit is out.
When thine neighbors’ house doth burn,
Be careful of thine own.
When two friends have a common purse,
One sings and the other weeps.
When wits meet sparks fly out.
Where ignorance is bliss,
‘tis folly to be wise.
Where there is nothing to lose,
There is nothing to fear.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Where there is a will there’s a way.
While there is life there is hope.
While the grass grows the horse starves.
Who chatters to you will chatter of you.
Who judges others condemns himself.
Who knows most say least.
Who spend more than he should,
Shall not have to spend when he would.
Who will not hear must be made to feel.
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Who will bell the cat?
Whom the gods love die young.
Willful waste makes woeful want.
Wine and wenches’ empty men’s purses.
Words and wind, but blows unkind.
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Section y
You cannot eat your cake and have it.
You cannot get blood out of a stone.
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
You cannot see the wood for the trees.
You cannot shoe a running horse.
You cannot teach old dogs new trick.
You never know till you have tried.
Young men think old men fools,
Old men know young men to be so.
Youth and age will never agree.
Youth lives on hope,
Old age on remembrance.
Section z
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
A-Z proverbs is a book compiled to bring to our
memories the core values embedded in proverbs.
Also to help the younger generations to keep the
ancient landmark, to instigate core values
associated with Godly characters to becoming a
better world and fulfilling their purpose on earth,
thereby glorifying God.
ABOUT THE COMPILER
Emmanuel E Ikediashi is an undergraduate
(electrical –electronics engineering) student of
Olabisi Onobanjo university(OOU) formerly Ogun
state university, ago-iwoye, Ogun state, Nigeria.
He is also the president of The vision House(TVH),
A house where we use our mission to fulfil our
vision.
Its mission is to HELP someone and part of its HELP
agenda is this book and he believes it help you.
He can be reached through the following
08106347855,08155061319.
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